About the APSA Africa Workshops
The 2010 APSA Africa Workshop will take place from July 19 to August 6, 2010. The residential workshop will be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The workshop leaders are Dr. Gretchen Bauer (Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA), Dr. Aili Mari Tripp (Department of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA), and Dr. Shireen Hassim (Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).
With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, APSA has carried on a three-year effort to organize political science workshops in various locations in Africa. The first workshop was convened in Dakar, Senegal, in partnership with the West African Research Center from July 6 to July 27, 2008. The second workshop was held in Accra, Ghana, in partnership with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, from June 21 to July 10, 2009.
The annual residential workshops are targeted principally at university and college faculty in the social sciences residing in Africa, who have completed their Ph.D. and are in the early stages of their academic career. All workshop fellows must be engaged actively in an empirical research project in political science or an area of inquiry related to politics. Fellows should be working on a manuscript, paper, book chapter, or article that can be developed during the workshop into an eventual article-length publication.
Each three-week workshop brings together up to 30 scholars and covers substantive issues, methodologies, and reviews of research. The topic of the Dakar workshop was political participation. The Accra workshop focused on elections and democracy.
The 2010 workshop in Dar es Salaam will concentrate on the theme of Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender. The workshop will attempt to situate the recent fast-paced changes in Africa regarding women, gender, and politics within a broad comparative context. The workshop will explore six subthemes, two during each week of the workshop, as follows:
Women and Citizenship: women's rights as human rights, human capabilities approaches, formal vs. substantive rights, sameness vs. difference approaches to equality, tension between cultural rights and women's rights, debates on state responsibility to citizens, feminist critiques of citizenship theory, motherhood and citizenship.
Engendering Institutions: women and political representation in legislatures and executives, women's rights in constitutional and legal reform, women in local government and decentralization, the state and gender mainstreaming.
Women's Collective Mobilization: women's movements as social movements in global perspective; African women's movements in historical perspective; African feminisms, transnational feminisms, and related topics.
Gender and Conflict: women and war and peacemaking, women in reconstruction and rebuilding, women as refugees and internally displaced people, women and gender-based violence and rape.
Gender and Democratization: the role of women's movements in democratic transition and consolidation, why nondemocratic regimes may advance women's rights, the impact of democracy on women's rights.
Gender and Identity: intersectionality; ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation; women, gender, and sexualities as contested categories.
For more information regarding the APSA Africa Workshops, please contact APSA via e-mail at [email protected] or call Helena Saele at (202) 483-2512.
APSA International Membership
2010 Japanese-American Women Political Scientists Symposia to Be Held
The American Political Science Association will offer the third in a series of Japanese-American Women Political Scientists Symposia (JAWS) and Open Boundaries Workshops. The projects, funded by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC), have brought together dozens of Japanese and American women scholars to discuss a wide range of topics.
The 2010 JAWS workshops will focus on the theme of “Gender, Politics, and Policy: Post-Elections,” from August 30 to September 5, 2010. The workshop will encourage and distribute policy-relevant, collaborative research on women and politics in the wake of two major national elections: the 2008 U.S. presidential and congressional elections and the 2009 Japanese parliamentary elections. The workshop will take place in Washington, DC, before and during the APSA Annual Meeting, also in Washington, DC; one day will be spent at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
The workshop will enhance scholarly exchange and understanding among 17 political scientists in the United States and Japan, provide expertise and policy-relevant research on pressing contemporary issues, build networks of scholars (and, particularly, bring together scholars who otherwise might not achieve the kind of comparative perspectives that these kinds of endeavors foster), encourage cooperative classrooms, and help incorporate new comparative perspectives into the scholars' teaching.
Upcoming International Events
2010
Apr 30–May 2: 7th Global Conference War and Peace, Prague, Czech Republic, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-vio-lence/war-virtual-war-human-security/call-for-papers/.
May 3–5: 2nd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine, Prague, Czech Republic, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/.
May 7–10: The Social Capital Foundation 2010 Conference: Social Capital in Practice, Mellieha, Malta, http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/confer-ences/2010/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202010.htm.
June 1–2: Identity and Affiliation in a Volatile International Landscape: American Graduate School in Paris 2010 Graduate Student Conference, Paris, France, http://www.ags.edu.
June 3–5: Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society, York University, Toronto, Canada, http://www.veiledconstel-lations.com/callforpapers.html.
June 14–15: International Conference on the Political Economy of Liberalizing Trade in Services, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, http://davis.huji.ac.il/eng/activity.asp?cat=128&in=0.
June 17–20: Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions, Cluj, Romania, http://ispmn.gov.ro/en/mineureg/.
June 17–18: 10th European Conference on e-Government 2010, Limerick, Ireland, http://academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2010/eceg10-call-papers.htm.
June 18–19: Uncovering the Sources of Nuclear Behavior: Historical Dimensions of Nuclear Proliferation, Zurich, Germany, http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/documents/090715-CfP_Nuclear_Behavior-2.pdf.
June 18–20: International Political Science Association Research Committee on Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 2010 Conference: Capitalist Crisis and Socialist Revival, Vienna, Austria, http://rc49.ipsa.org/.
June 18–21: East Meets West in Pursuit of a Sustainable World: 2010 Asian Conference on the Social Sciences, Osaka, Japan, http://acss.iafor.org/.
June 23–25: 5th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discourse and Policy Practices: Politics—Legitimacy—Power, Grenoble, France, http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/.
June 24–26: 5th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto, Portugal, http://www.jhubc.it/ecpr-porto/.
June 30–July 2: Fourth Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Auckland, New Zealand, http://www.ocis.org.nz.
