CALLS FOR PAPERS
CFP: Law and the History of Capitalism
June 27-28, 2016
American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago Law School
750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60611
Deadline for applications: February 15, 2016
In recent years, there has been an explosion of new scholarship on the historical relationship between law and capitalism. This new literature has examined a variety of topics including the connection between slavery and capitalism, new social and cultural perspectives on economic and business histories, and the role of the state in facilitating and frustrating economic development.
This infusion of interdisciplinary scholarship creates an opportunity for new work that puts law, legal institutions, and legal processes at the center of capitalist transformations. The aim of this conference is to provide junior scholars with a venue to share their unpublished research and to connect with senior scholars in the field. We thus invite junior scholars to submit proposals that offer original analyses of law in the history of capitalism.
Our goal is to host a conference with a variety of papers that range chronologically, geographically, and across disciplines. The conference will be held at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, from June 27-28, 2016. The “Law in the History of Capitalism” conference is co-sponsored by the American Bar Foundation, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Chicago Law School, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Minnesota Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Interested participants should submit a 300-word paper proposal and a cv of no more than 3 pages through the conference website. Questions should be addressed to Erin Watt at ewatt@abfn.org. All proposals are due by February 15, 2016. Applicants will be notified by email no later than March 30, 2016, whether their proposals have been accepted. No previously published work will be accepted, as the conference is designed to provide a forum for productive and supportive discussion of works in progress. Accepted participants will be required to submit a full paper of no more than 10,000 words by May 15, 2016. Papers will be pre-circulated on a password-protected website and read by all participants. Modest travel and accommodations support will be provided for presenters. For further information, see http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/Law_in_the_History_of_Capitalism__A_Conference.html
American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago Law School
750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60611
Deadline for applications: February 15, 2016
In recent years, there has been an explosion of new scholarship on the historical relationship between law and capitalism. This new literature has examined a variety of topics including the connection between slavery and capitalism, new social and cultural perspectives on economic and business histories, and the role of the state in facilitating and frustrating economic development.
This infusion of interdisciplinary scholarship creates an opportunity for new work that puts law, legal institutions, and legal processes at the center of capitalist transformations. The aim of this conference is to provide junior scholars with a venue to share their unpublished research and to connect with senior scholars in the field. We thus invite junior scholars to submit proposals that offer original analyses of law in the history of capitalism.
Our goal is to host a conference with a variety of papers that range chronologically, geographically, and across disciplines. The conference will be held at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, from June 27-28, 2016. The “Law in the History of Capitalism” conference is co-sponsored by the American Bar Foundation, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Chicago Law School, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Minnesota Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Interested participants should submit a 300-word paper proposal and a cv of no more than 3 pages through the conference website. Questions should be addressed to Erin Watt at ewatt@abfn.org. All proposals are due by February 15, 2016. Applicants will be notified by email no later than March 30, 2016, whether their proposals have been accepted. No previously published work will be accepted, as the conference is designed to provide a forum for productive and supportive discussion of works in progress. Accepted participants will be required to submit a full paper of no more than 10,000 words by May 15, 2016. Papers will be pre-circulated on a password-protected website and read by all participants. Modest travel and accommodations support will be provided for presenters. For further information, see http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/Law_in_the_History_of_Capitalism__A_Conference.html
CFP: Stanford Program in Law and Society Third Conference for Junior Researchers
The Stanford Program in Law and Society (SPLS) at Stanford Law School is pleased to announce its Third Conference for Junior Researchers. This two-day conference seeks to provide a stimulating platform where junior researchers from around the world can present their current research projects on law and society and receive input from faculty and other participants. It also seeks to build a community and network of young scholars in law and society. The conference will also feature a keynote address by an internationally renowned scholar, and an optional research methods workshop for conference participants.
The Third Conference for Junior Researchers invites the submission of papers that explore the impact of law on behavior. Numerous studies from different disciplines have shown the complexity of human behavior and the multifaceted ways in which behavior is influenced by external factors, including the legal system and its norms. We welcome submissions of research papers in all fields of law and from various disciplines that analyze, discuss, or reflect on the conference theme. The papers can make use of any relevant approach such as, but not limited to sociological, anthropological, psychological, historical, comparative, or economic. We encourage papers that involve one or more empirical methods of investigation (quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods).
We seek to investigate if, when, and how law affects people’s behavior. Assuming that traditionally law was created, and intended, to guide and shape behavior, we seek to understand to what extent it actually does so. What are the aspirational impacts of law on people’s behavior and what are the empirical facts of these impacts on the ground? How do people react or fail to react to law, the legal system, or legal actors? How are people’s behaviors transformed with the introduction of new laws? Are behaviors influenced by the enforcement or lack of enforcement of existing legal rules, or by the ways legal actors interpret and apply those rules? How do different social groups behave under similar legal rules?
Graduate students, post-graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, teaching fellows as well as recent graduates who are not faculty members are eligible to apply. As this is an interdisciplinary conference, we welcome applicants from law schools as well as other social science departments. Junior researchers are invited to submit an abstract of up to 400 words, together with their CV. All abstracts and CVs should be submitted to stanfordlawandsociety@gmail.com by January 17, 2016. We have a small amount of money to help some participants cover their travel expenses. Only participants from outside the San Francisco Bay area are eligible to receive such assistance, and only in those cases where they do not receive funding from their own institutions. Unfortunately, in no case will financial aid cover all the travel and lodging expenses and so we strongly encourage participants to seek financial support to attend the conference in their home countries and institutions.
More info here:
https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-program-in-law-and-society/2016-conference-the-impact-of-law-on-behavior/
The Third Conference for Junior Researchers invites the submission of papers that explore the impact of law on behavior. Numerous studies from different disciplines have shown the complexity of human behavior and the multifaceted ways in which behavior is influenced by external factors, including the legal system and its norms. We welcome submissions of research papers in all fields of law and from various disciplines that analyze, discuss, or reflect on the conference theme. The papers can make use of any relevant approach such as, but not limited to sociological, anthropological, psychological, historical, comparative, or economic. We encourage papers that involve one or more empirical methods of investigation (quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods).
We seek to investigate if, when, and how law affects people’s behavior. Assuming that traditionally law was created, and intended, to guide and shape behavior, we seek to understand to what extent it actually does so. What are the aspirational impacts of law on people’s behavior and what are the empirical facts of these impacts on the ground? How do people react or fail to react to law, the legal system, or legal actors? How are people’s behaviors transformed with the introduction of new laws? Are behaviors influenced by the enforcement or lack of enforcement of existing legal rules, or by the ways legal actors interpret and apply those rules? How do different social groups behave under similar legal rules?
Graduate students, post-graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, teaching fellows as well as recent graduates who are not faculty members are eligible to apply. As this is an interdisciplinary conference, we welcome applicants from law schools as well as other social science departments. Junior researchers are invited to submit an abstract of up to 400 words, together with their CV. All abstracts and CVs should be submitted to stanfordlawandsociety@gmail.com by January 17, 2016. We have a small amount of money to help some participants cover their travel expenses. Only participants from outside the San Francisco Bay area are eligible to receive such assistance, and only in those cases where they do not receive funding from their own institutions. Unfortunately, in no case will financial aid cover all the travel and lodging expenses and so we strongly encourage participants to seek financial support to attend the conference in their home countries and institutions.
More info here:
https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-program-in-law-and-society/2016-conference-the-impact-of-law-on-behavior/
CFP: Michigan Law School 2016 Young Scholars’ Conference
The Michigan Law School 2016 Young Scholars’ Conference – under the theme “Law on the Move” – will explore the evolution of law, and of subjects under the law. We encourage submissions engaging all disciplines of law and encompassing all legal systems. Selection will be based on the quality of the proposal, as well as its capacity to engage with other proposals towards a collaborative dialogue.
We welcome applications from current doctoral students, both in law and law-related disciplines, and from recentgraduates of doctoral programs. Applications by lecturers, fellows, or individuals in other academic capacities will be considered as well, provided they can be regarded as young scholars (for the conference purposes, an academic appointment of no more than 4 years).
http://www.legalscholarshipblog.com/2015/12/02/mich-young-scholars-conf-law-on-the-move-ann-arbor-mi/
We welcome applications from current doctoral students, both in law and law-related disciplines, and from recentgraduates of doctoral programs. Applications by lecturers, fellows, or individuals in other academic capacities will be considered as well, provided they can be regarded as young scholars (for the conference purposes, an academic appointment of no more than 4 years).
http://www.legalscholarshipblog.com/2015/12/02/mich-young-scholars-conf-law-on-the-move-ann-arbor-mi/
CFP: Service Panels for LSA
We are assembling CULJP-sponsored service panels for LSA and would like to solicit participation! One panel will examine the role of undergraduate legal studies education as it relates to law school; one will be a "teaching cafe" that highlights different ways we engage our undergraduates in legal studies education; and one will be "advice for job seekers" who want undergrad teaching positions within legal studies. If you want to contribute email renee.cramer@drake.edu
CFP: 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law School invite submissions for the twelfth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, to be held at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California, on June 6 and 7, 2016.
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself.
Papers must be works-in-progress that do not exceed 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/endnotes); most papers selected for inclusion in recent years have been at least 10,000 words long. An abstract of no more than 200 words must also be included with the paper submission. A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment. The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses up to a maximum of $1000.
Submissions (in Word, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 4, 2016, and should be sent by e-mail to: Center for the Study of Law and Culture, culture@law.columbia.edu. Please be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone and e-mail contact information.
For more information, please send an email inquiry to culture@law.columbia.edu, and, to see selected papers from previous years, go to: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself.
Papers must be works-in-progress that do not exceed 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/endnotes); most papers selected for inclusion in recent years have been at least 10,000 words long. An abstract of no more than 200 words must also be included with the paper submission. A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment. The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses up to a maximum of $1000.
Submissions (in Word, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 4, 2016, and should be sent by e-mail to: Center for the Study of Law and Culture, culture@law.columbia.edu. Please be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone and e-mail contact information.
For more information, please send an email inquiry to culture@law.columbia.edu, and, to see selected papers from previous years, go to: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.
CFP: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
We are pleased to announce that the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at the University of Connecticut Law School, in Hartford, CT on April 1-2nd, 2016. We invite your participation. Please note, panel and paper proposals are due Thursday, October 15th, 2015.
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities.
If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to ask me at jmartel@sfsu.edu. For matters related to the program or its organization, please write to Simon Stern simon.stern@utoronto.ca. I want to thank the members of the program committee, chaired by Simon Stern for all their hard work on the Call for Papers.
This year’s conference theme is Reading Race, Writing Race and Living Race
“Within the text of the law there is an afterlife of slavery … as matters of aesthetic and legal representation … as an aesthetics of legal representation”
–Stephen Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, 14
The question of race is central to historical and contemporary violence, to material conditions, reproduction and global politics. In the US, recent police violence against African Americans has again raised the ongoing question of the significance of lawful violence, of law’s complicity, in upholding the state. Penal law is implicated in the incarceration of African-Americans in the US, Aboriginal communities in Australia, and Indigenous peoples in Canada, demonstrating a settler-colonial preoccupation for using race and racial profiling to mask and further colonial ends. In the context of securitised responses to migration, the onshore refugee applicant speaks as an already criminalised subject, as ‘an illegal immigrant’ or as an ‘undocumented migrant’. Under the conditions of continuing colonization, statutory schemes such as Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention target Aboriginal populations and make such populations subject to state violence. These examples raise the urgent question of law’s relation to, and production of, violence through race. From transitional justice to human rights processes, race is foregrounded at scenes and struggles in which law seeks to respond to and adjudicate violence, and assert its own authority.
This conference seeks research drawn from multiple disciplines and jurisdictions that addresses the following questions: How might we think of the relations among law, culture, history, and the shaping of racial imaginaries? How is law complicit and productive of violence? How should we read the legal and cultural forms that produce the conditions of this violence? What kinds of legal, critical, and cultural practices can intervene in both this violence, and the conditions that are complicit with it? How might legal, critical, and cultural projects provide counter-narratives and counter-archives to the juridical imaginary of responsibility for historical and contemporary violence? How do historical and contemporary readings of race relate? Are anti-racist forms of law and state possible, and what would they look like? How might law be enlisted in the development of new racial formations? How should we re-think critical legal feminisms, and Marxism, through the category of race? How can we devise legal, critical and cultural forms that are attentive to race, and make visible this legal violence? What is the significance of ‘reading’ race—what is the materiality in the metaphor?
This conference seeks to develop conversations regarding the roles of representation, affect and imagination in the ongoing relationship of law to concepts of race, justice, sovereignty, captivity, history. We seek to examine legal and cultural practices of representation for their juridical, as well as cultural, effects. Questions of genre, narrative, and aesthetics are not only sites of critique, but also become potential sites of theoretical intervention, and intervention into projects of social justice.
In addition to sessions that connect to the conference theme, examples of other types of sessions we expect people to organize include:
History, Memory and Law; Law and Literature; Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism; Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law; Judgment, Justice, and Law; Beyond Identity; The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought; Metaphor and Meaning; Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media; Anarchy, Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics, Religion, and Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post-Colonial in Literary and Legal Study; Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching.
We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats-roundtables, sessions at which everyone reads the papers in advance, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper. We invite proposals for session in which the focus is on pedagogy or methodology, for author-meets-readers sessions organized around important books in the field, or for sessions in which participants focus on performance (theatrical, filmic, musical, poetic).
If you are inclined to register sooner here is the link:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-16184614618
As you’ll see, we have a new system for registration. For the first round of registration our membership fee has gone up very slightly to $37.74. For the second round of registration, we will give you a code with which to register sometime around the new year.
We hope to see as many of you as possible in 2016 in Hartford!
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities.
If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to ask me at jmartel@sfsu.edu. For matters related to the program or its organization, please write to Simon Stern simon.stern@utoronto.ca. I want to thank the members of the program committee, chaired by Simon Stern for all their hard work on the Call for Papers.
This year’s conference theme is Reading Race, Writing Race and Living Race
“Within the text of the law there is an afterlife of slavery … as matters of aesthetic and legal representation … as an aesthetics of legal representation”
–Stephen Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, 14
The question of race is central to historical and contemporary violence, to material conditions, reproduction and global politics. In the US, recent police violence against African Americans has again raised the ongoing question of the significance of lawful violence, of law’s complicity, in upholding the state. Penal law is implicated in the incarceration of African-Americans in the US, Aboriginal communities in Australia, and Indigenous peoples in Canada, demonstrating a settler-colonial preoccupation for using race and racial profiling to mask and further colonial ends. In the context of securitised responses to migration, the onshore refugee applicant speaks as an already criminalised subject, as ‘an illegal immigrant’ or as an ‘undocumented migrant’. Under the conditions of continuing colonization, statutory schemes such as Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention target Aboriginal populations and make such populations subject to state violence. These examples raise the urgent question of law’s relation to, and production of, violence through race. From transitional justice to human rights processes, race is foregrounded at scenes and struggles in which law seeks to respond to and adjudicate violence, and assert its own authority.
This conference seeks research drawn from multiple disciplines and jurisdictions that addresses the following questions: How might we think of the relations among law, culture, history, and the shaping of racial imaginaries? How is law complicit and productive of violence? How should we read the legal and cultural forms that produce the conditions of this violence? What kinds of legal, critical, and cultural practices can intervene in both this violence, and the conditions that are complicit with it? How might legal, critical, and cultural projects provide counter-narratives and counter-archives to the juridical imaginary of responsibility for historical and contemporary violence? How do historical and contemporary readings of race relate? Are anti-racist forms of law and state possible, and what would they look like? How might law be enlisted in the development of new racial formations? How should we re-think critical legal feminisms, and Marxism, through the category of race? How can we devise legal, critical and cultural forms that are attentive to race, and make visible this legal violence? What is the significance of ‘reading’ race—what is the materiality in the metaphor?
This conference seeks to develop conversations regarding the roles of representation, affect and imagination in the ongoing relationship of law to concepts of race, justice, sovereignty, captivity, history. We seek to examine legal and cultural practices of representation for their juridical, as well as cultural, effects. Questions of genre, narrative, and aesthetics are not only sites of critique, but also become potential sites of theoretical intervention, and intervention into projects of social justice.
In addition to sessions that connect to the conference theme, examples of other types of sessions we expect people to organize include:
History, Memory and Law; Law and Literature; Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism; Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law; Judgment, Justice, and Law; Beyond Identity; The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought; Metaphor and Meaning; Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media; Anarchy, Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics, Religion, and Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post-Colonial in Literary and Legal Study; Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching.
We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats-roundtables, sessions at which everyone reads the papers in advance, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper. We invite proposals for session in which the focus is on pedagogy or methodology, for author-meets-readers sessions organized around important books in the field, or for sessions in which participants focus on performance (theatrical, filmic, musical, poetic).
If you are inclined to register sooner here is the link:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-16184614618
As you’ll see, we have a new system for registration. For the first round of registration our membership fee has gone up very slightly to $37.74. For the second round of registration, we will give you a code with which to register sometime around the new year.
We hope to see as many of you as possible in 2016 in Hartford!
CFP: Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association
The Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association (MALSA) will host its third conference at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City on October 10, 2015. We hope you will join us in our efforts to build a vibrant regional network of sociolegal scholars.
We seek papers, panels, roundtables, and pedagogy workshops aimed at stimulating conversations across the range of law and society topics and disciplines. Proposals for individual papers and fully formed sessions are welcome, as are proposals for pedagogy workshops on activities and assignments you use in your law and society teaching. We also invite scholars new to law and society research to submit their ideas-in-progress for Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) sessions, where they can receive individualized feedback on substance and/or methods from an experienced law & society scholar about how to turn an idea into a research project (subject to availability of senior mentors with relevant expertise).
Accepted papers will draw on theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical sociolegal scholarship. Papers focused solely on doctrinal analysis are unlikely to be invited. Though presentations on any topic are welcome, we are especially interested in panels that focus on areas of current interest and controversy in the region, such as fracking, policing and race, political corruption. We also welcome panels that bring together practitioners and scholars.
The deadline for all proposals is August 21, 2015. Proposals should include an abstract of approximately 250 words; panel proposals should include a list of participants. You may also use the link below to volunteer to serve as a panel chair/discussant or to serve as a SLIM senior scholar for a colleague seeking to develop a sociolegal research project. Accepted presenters will be notified by September 7
To submit a proposal or volunteer, please complete this form: https://midatlanticlsa.wordpress.com/call-for-participation/
Please direct inquiries (but not proposal submissions!) to: malsa2015jj@gmail.com
We seek papers, panels, roundtables, and pedagogy workshops aimed at stimulating conversations across the range of law and society topics and disciplines. Proposals for individual papers and fully formed sessions are welcome, as are proposals for pedagogy workshops on activities and assignments you use in your law and society teaching. We also invite scholars new to law and society research to submit their ideas-in-progress for Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) sessions, where they can receive individualized feedback on substance and/or methods from an experienced law & society scholar about how to turn an idea into a research project (subject to availability of senior mentors with relevant expertise).
Accepted papers will draw on theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical sociolegal scholarship. Papers focused solely on doctrinal analysis are unlikely to be invited. Though presentations on any topic are welcome, we are especially interested in panels that focus on areas of current interest and controversy in the region, such as fracking, policing and race, political corruption. We also welcome panels that bring together practitioners and scholars.
The deadline for all proposals is August 21, 2015. Proposals should include an abstract of approximately 250 words; panel proposals should include a list of participants. You may also use the link below to volunteer to serve as a panel chair/discussant or to serve as a SLIM senior scholar for a colleague seeking to develop a sociolegal research project. Accepted presenters will be notified by September 7
To submit a proposal or volunteer, please complete this form: https://midatlanticlsa.wordpress.com/call-for-participation/
Please direct inquiries (but not proposal submissions!) to: malsa2015jj@gmail.com
CFP: 2016 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference
Conference Theme: Rethinking the Way We Teach: High-Impact Methods In the Classroom
February 12-14, 2016
Portland, Oregon | Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront
Join us for a unique meeting to promote greater understanding of high-impact practices and innovative methodologies for the political science classroom. The conference provides a forum for scholars to participate in the scholarship of teaching and learning, share pedagogical techniques, and discuss trends in political science education. We welcome proposals from educators at all levels who teach political science and related subjects—university faculty and administrators, high school teachers, graduate students, research scholars, and others.
We invite proposals for paper presentations and interactive workshops. Papers are presented in a collaborative working group environment, in which the participants in a theme learn about and discuss each other’s research for the duration of the conference. This working group model has proven to be highly effective at enhancing the instructional effectiveness and scholarly productivity of conference attendees.
Workshops provide participants with hands-on experience in the use of practical instructional methods that they can take with them to their home institutions. Examples of workshops at previous Teaching and Learning Conferences include using mapping software to teach students how to visualize political information, using games to teach theories of political violence, and how to assess curricula on the basis of students’ knowledge of and skills in environmental sustainability. At this year’s conference, we are particularly interested in having a workshop on teaching about the 2016 elections and cutting edge election techniques.
More information here. Questions? Contact meeting@apsanet.org.
February 12-14, 2016
Portland, Oregon | Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront
Join us for a unique meeting to promote greater understanding of high-impact practices and innovative methodologies for the political science classroom. The conference provides a forum for scholars to participate in the scholarship of teaching and learning, share pedagogical techniques, and discuss trends in political science education. We welcome proposals from educators at all levels who teach political science and related subjects—university faculty and administrators, high school teachers, graduate students, research scholars, and others.
We invite proposals for paper presentations and interactive workshops. Papers are presented in a collaborative working group environment, in which the participants in a theme learn about and discuss each other’s research for the duration of the conference. This working group model has proven to be highly effective at enhancing the instructional effectiveness and scholarly productivity of conference attendees.
Workshops provide participants with hands-on experience in the use of practical instructional methods that they can take with them to their home institutions. Examples of workshops at previous Teaching and Learning Conferences include using mapping software to teach students how to visualize political information, using games to teach theories of political violence, and how to assess curricula on the basis of students’ knowledge of and skills in environmental sustainability. At this year’s conference, we are particularly interested in having a workshop on teaching about the 2016 elections and cutting edge election techniques.
More information here. Questions? Contact meeting@apsanet.org.
