In December 2010, the Kolleg-Forschergruppe, directed by Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, organizes an international conference on "The Diffusion of Regional Integration". The conference will have three major themes around which the panels will be organized:

1.     Comparing Regional Integration: Divergence or Convergence
2.     Exporting Regional Integration: The European Union as Promoter of Regional Integration
3.     Importing Regional Integration: Adoption, Translation, Resistance

For this academic conference, we invite papers from various disciplinary perspectives to each of these themes. Papers should explicitly address the diffusion of regional integration as outcome or process.

The 3-day international conference seeks to explore women-centered expressions of historical experience as fertile ground for cultural agency and social transformation in national and transnational socioeconomic and political arenas.

The European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Political Sociology announces its first mid-term conference, to be held at the university of Lille 2 in France. The aim of this mid-term conference will be to establish the evolutions of the links between members of political communities, the territories of authority, the evolving forms of democracy, and the ways in which the political is embedded in social, economic, and cultural contexts.

To encourage participation by a broad range of early career researchers and experience academics, there is no registration fee.

The Faculty of Political Sciences in Cluj-Napoca is inviting, academics, PhD students, professionals and researchers to submit research papers and studies as well as book reviews to its journal Studia Politica. The forthcoming issue welcomes papers on all topics that include: democratization, voting behavior, urban studies, migration, youth studies, political parties, comparative politics, European studies, international relations, cultural studies. Comparative papers are especially encouraged.

Eirene 2011 is conceived and developed to assist researchers at all levels – scientists, professors, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD students who are seeking publishing opportunities for their research papers on classical tradition in the Modern Greek Literature or Theatre or Philosophy.

The Paris organizing team invites abstract submissions for the 32nd International Association for Time Use Research conference Time-Budgets and Beyond: The Timing of Daily Life of the  International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) on these topics: Children, youth; Child and elder care; Communication and media; Family interaction (intra-household allocation, bargaining, division of labor, time together); Data collection & quality; Food and eating; Free time and leisure; Health; Housework/household production; Local time policy; Methods; The elderly; Parenting, family time, and childcare; Geography and travel; Theory; Time poverty and stress; Volunteering; Well-being; Work-life balance.

Papers with a cross-national or a gender perspective, or an emphasis on policy (esp. local time policies) are particularly welcome.

Vilnius, Lithuania
Scholarship / Financial aid: limited number of sponsored registration places available
Date: 31 May to 3 June 2010
Deadline: 30 November 2009
Open to: international students

Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) invite all young researchers (PhD candidates and PhD academics) to contribute to an exciting Europe-wide debate on the future of Europe, submitting papers on the trends, possible scenarios and the changing context of the values guiding these processes. The articles shall focus on one of the three following themes:
1. analysing demography and predicting the development of Europe society during the next decade;
2. social realities and political needs of European society during the next ten years;
3. evolution of values and culture of European society in the decade that follows.

BMW Center for German and European Studies (Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) is announcing the call for papers for the 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference on the topic European Dynamics in the Age of Globalization. In order to reflect Europe’s changing role in the international community, the conference is multidisciplinary in nature. Paper topics are open to all relevant fields and scholarly approaches. Abstracts might consider, but are not limited to historical, political, legal, economic, cultural, and social perspectives.

The conference has two tracks: Panels: This track holds panels on selected themes. Three papers will be presented in each panel, and participants will not be required to submit a paper in advance; Research workshop: This track holds thematic one-day or two-day research workshops. Participation in most workshops will be restricted to paper presenters (preferably doctoral students) and discussants (senior faculty members). Students of political phenomena who work in related fields are also welcomed to present their work in the conference (e.g. Political and Law, Political History, Political Economy, Political geography, political philosophy, political psychology, and political communication).