PhD positions at the University of Aberdeen

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions at the University of Aberdeen Political Concepts in the World The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer 6 Early Stage Researcher (PhD) positions, lasting 3 years starting in September 2019, for ground-breaking research on how political concepts, such as nation, citizenship, civil society and rule … PhD positions at the University of Aberdeen

Call for Papers: AFSP & COSPOF Congress 2-4 July 2019 – Bordeaux

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This is a call for contributions for a thematic section at the 2019 Congress of the French Political Science Association (AFSP), that will be held in the city of Bordeaux on July 2-4, 2019. The section titled “Articulating theoretical “models” and empirical “data”: toolboxes and investigation feedbacks” provides a space for researchers working on political concepts to present … Call for Papers: AFSP & COSPOF Congress 2-4 July 2019 – Bordeaux

Call for Panels for our 2019 Section Proposal

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Call for Panel Proposals for our Section at the 2019 ECPR General Conference in Wroclaw. Section Title: “Hybrid concepts and the concept of hybridity“. Please submit your short panel abstract (max. 200 words) to both Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach (ch.mohamad@uni-wuerzburg.de) and Claudia Wiesner (claudia.wiesner@sk.hs-fulda.de). Deadline: 16.11.2018. For more info, please read below.   Proposal Section for ECPR … Call for Panels for our 2019 Section Proposal

We are now on Facebook and Twitter!

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We are very glad to announce that both our official Facebook page and Twitter account are now launched! You can follow us @EcprG on Twitter and check our Facebook page at fb.me/EcprPoliticalConcepts. Both accounts are open to members of the Standing Group to promote their works and announce any upcoming events. Just drop in a … We are now on Facebook and Twitter!

CfP Rethinking Compulsory Voting

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Are you working on the political theory of compulsory voting? Do you know someone who does? Then this Call for Abstracts is for you! International workshop “Rethinking Compulsory Voting”. 8 December 2018, Geneva, Département de science politique et relations internationals, Université de Genève. Speakers: Matteo Bonotti (Monash University, Melbourne), Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po, Paris), Anthoula Malkopoulou (Uppsala Universitet). Organizer: Nenad … CfP Rethinking Compulsory Voting

Successful presence in Hamburg!

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The ECPR General Conference 2018, held in 22-25 August, was a great success for the members of the Political Concepts Standing Group. We had a strong presence with nine panels in our own Section. The Section was organized by Rieke Trimcev (Greifswald) and Rosario Lopez (Malaga) and numerous papers were presented on a wide range … Successful presence in Hamburg!

Standing Group’s first ECPR JS Workshop a great success!

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Last week, under the Cypriot sun, the first ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop on behalf of the Standing Group on Political Concepts was successfully concluded at the University of Nicosia! The Workshop titled “Should the People Rule? Conceptualizing Democratic Institutions” was chaired by Anthoula Malkopoulou (Uppsala) and Lisa Hill (Adelaide) and brought together a mix of … Standing Group’s first ECPR JS Workshop a great success!

Call for papers: Parliaments and the Politicization of the EU

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13th Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History 4th TRACE Symposium www.jyu.fi/trace May 31st-June 1st, 2018 University of Jyväskylä, Finland Abstracts due: April 1st, 2018   Parliaments and the Politicization of the EU EU scholarship has tended to underplay the role of national and European parliaments in European politics. Specialists in parliamentary studies have … Call for papers: Parliaments and the Politicization of the EU