The world remembers Helmut Kohl as the (self-styled) Chancellor of Unity. The middle-aged, slightly left-leaning segment of the West German population remembers him as the greying giant that presided for 16 years over a place where nothing would ever change. Even unification, which happened in the middle of his reign, did not really interrupt the…
Have you already submitted your paper for the Joint Sessions 2013 at Mainz? We have updated the pages that provide local information on transport, accommodation, and the City of Mainz. There is even a neat GoogleMap (also accessible from your mobile) showing the conference hotels, airports and relevant railway stations. We will add further information…
Quite rightfully, most folks couldn’t care less about the woes of a bunch of Political Scientists (useless people at any rate) whose cunning plan to congregate in a prospective disaster area was foiled by – guess what – a hurricane. But while the world may dwell on Syria, Romney or Isaac’s s impact in the…
Thanks to our very capable Art Director, the Conference Poster for the 2013 Joint Sessions is ready for distribution and will be circulated shortly.
Excellent news: My bid for funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation was successful, meaning that the DFG will cover a sizable chunk of the administrative costs of the conference. So, to repeat myself, go and submit your paper proposals.
Our local website is now online. At the moment, it’s mostly a placeholder, but we will begin adding travel and accommodation information from September 2012. Stay tuned!
O tempora, o mores: to enhance its visibility and to promote communication amongst (prospective) participants, our conference has grown a fanpage on Facebook. So if you want to to join in the conversation (or just register your support), give us a Like.
The list of workshops that have been accepted for the 2013 Joints Sessions at the University of Mainz is now available on the new ECPR site. The call for papers should go out before August, with a deadline of November 1. In the meanwhile, we’re working on getting the local website up and running. Update:…
Yesterday, the BBC’s man in Berlin discovered that there are constitutional limits to Merkel’s ability to somehow save the Euro. Following a constitutional amendment in the 1990s, article 23 of the Basic Law stipulates that any further transfers of sovereignty to the EU require absolute two-thirds majorities in both the Bundestag and the Federal Council…
While you were busy watching the mostly shambolic performance that pass for the Euro 2012, I was unboxing my set of complementary “Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences” volumes (you know, the series of flimsy paperbacks whose sickly green sleeves conjure memories of psychiatric wards and man in lab coats). The latest addition to my…