Postgraduate Conference About Trust in International Relations, Birmingham, UK

Deadline: 1 February 2013
Open to: Postgraduate students from all over the world
Venue: Birmingham, 19 June 2013

Description

The Postgraduate Network of the British International Studies Association welcomes papers for its first annual Postgraduate Conference held in Birmingham on 19 June 2013.  The conference is organised around the theme of trust in International Relations, which is a flourishing theme in recent IR scholarship. How do we conceptualise trust in our own research? Is it an explicit or implicit concept? Furthermore, does it invoke cognitive mechanisms or is it more a rhetorical device? How can it be approached from realist, constructivist, liberal or poststructuralist perspectives? 

Eligibility

We invite paper proposals on any topic related to the conference theme, as well as on other topics within the discipline. Papers can have a theoretical or empirical focus. We are open to interdisciplinary, international, comparative, and cultural perspectives. In addition to thematic panels, there will be open research skills sessions on innovative teaching and PhD advice as well as open and closed sessions with leading journal editors.

Costs

Only a limited number of papers can be accommodated in the closed sessions, so if you would like your paper to be considered for a closed session with journal editors, please indicate this in your proposal. This is a rare opportunity to have your paper reviewed and commented by an established figure in academic publishing. There will be a limited number of travel stipends available to presenters. There is a prize for the best conference paper.

Application procedure

Please email your paper abstract of no more than 300 words together with a short bio and an indication whether you would like to have your paper considered for the journal editor workshop to Johanna Nykänen: J.T.Nykanen@warwick.ac.uk by 1 February 2013. Presenters will be notified by the end of February 2013.

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