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CFP: Political Violence and the Sacred

The organizers invite proposals for a conference on "Politics, Violence and the Sacred: Exploring René Girard’s thought in Security and International Studies" hosted by the University of Central Lancashire, UK from 23-24 May 2013. The aim of the Conference is bring together a range of scholars in international relations, security, social and political theory which may develop a multidisciplinary engagement with René Girard’s work and its relevance for contemporary International Studies. A Special Issue of a journal and/or an edited volume is also envisaged as an outcome of the event. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by e-mail (with “2013 Girard Conference”) to to Dr. Antonio Cerella (acerella@uclan.ac.uk) by February 15, 2013. Please see the conference blog for more information.

Conference: Regional Studies Association European Conference

The organizers announce the Regional Studies Association European Conference 2013. The conference will be held 5-8 May 2013 at the University of Tampere, Finland, the conference theme is: Shape and be Shaped: The Future Dynamics of Regional Development. The conference offers researchers and workers in local and regional development an opportunity to collectively explore and discuss key issues from a multitude of perspectives and with different theoretical stand points and with empirical observations from different parts of the world. Please see the conference website for more information.

New Overflow Hotel Added for Annual Convention

The Hotel Nikko San Francisco is now accepting room reservations for the ISA Annual Convention. The Nikko is a luxury AAA rated hotel located near Moscone & Union Square. The ISA Annual Convention will convene in San Francisco from 3-6 April 2013. Please see our convention hotel website for room rates and more information.

Conference: 40 Years since the First EU Enlargement

Registration is now open for a two-day conference examining the effects of 40 years of EU membership on Denmark, Ireland and the UK. Plenary speakers include Lord Douglas Hurd, Prof. Dame Helen Wallace, Prof. Drew Scott and Prof. Tim Bale. The conference takes place on 7-8 March 2013 in London. The deadline for registration is 28 February 2013. Please see the conference website for more information.

CFP: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces

The Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society will be held in downtown Chicago, Illinois, at the Palmer House Hilton on October 25-27, 2013. The Program Committee is currently soliciting proposals for individual papers and for panel sessions. Prospective participants may submit proposals on any topic within the broad intellectual scope of the IUS. Comparative and cross-national research is strongly encouraged. Authors may submit one or more separate and distinct papers, provided they understand that IUS Conference participation is limited to one (1) sole-authored paper and no more than two (2) appearances on the final program. The Program Committee will make decisions accordingly. Please e-mail all proposals to secretariat@iusafs.org by Wednesday, February 1, 2013. Please see the conference website for more information.

Call for Nominations: Sussex International Theory Prize

The Centre for Advanced International Theory invites nominations for the 2013 Sussex International Theory Prize for the best piece of research in International Relations published in book or article form in 2012.  The recipient will be invited to present their research in a Public Lecture at the University of Sussex and will also receive £150 worth of books from Cambridge University Press and a two-year print and online subscription to International Theory. Nominations by individuals, publishers and peers, should take the form of a statement of less than 200 words on why the work could be considered the best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations, from the previous year.  Nominations can be made by email submission through to April 2, 2013 to the CAIT Administrator, Joanna Wood: cait@sussex.ac.uk.  Nominated books must also arrive by this date. Please see the award website for more information.

ISA January Newsletter

ISA's E-Newsletter for January 2013 has been sent to members. In this edition we provide an update on the status of our hotel space for the upcoming Annual Convention in San Francisco. As you know, we offer discounted room rates at several hotels for our participants and we recently partnered with the Hyatt as an overflow option now that our two host-hotels are mostly full. This edition of the newsletter also provides an update from many of our ISA Sections offering timely reports on award winners, officer elections, and plans for Section meetings at the Annual Convention. Please see the newsletter website for more information.

CFP: EISA Conference in Warsaw

The European International Studies Association (EISA) has offered ISA 5 panels at the 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, to be held in Warsaw 18-21 September 2013. The organizers welcome paper and panel proposals on the conference theme "One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises." Panels will include five papers plus a panel chair and discussant. Proposals should be submitted to ISA International Program Chair Walter Mattli by e-mail (walter.mattli@sjc.ox.ac.uk) by February 15, 2013.

Holiday Closure

ISA HQ is closed for the federal MLK Day holiday. Our office will open again on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 9am MST.

CFP: The Politics of Indigenous Identity

The organizers invite paper proposals for the IPSA RC14 (Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity) Conference to be held July 11-14, 2013, at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Proposals on the conference theme The Politics of Indigenous Identity: National and Global Perspectives are invited in the form of an abstract of no more than 400 words to be sent to the chair of the local organizing committee, Professor Stephanie Lawson. The deadline for paper proposals and receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2013 but those received earlier may be given priority. The deadline for full papers (of no more than 8,000 words) is June 15th, 2013. Please see the full call for more information.