Here are the latest February updates for you:
- Call for Papers
- #PSA24: Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended
- Spotlight on Our Members
- Invitation to an Exhibition on Parliaments
- Entries for the APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award
- Editorial Announcements from Parliamentary Affairs
- Recent Publications
- Recently on the Blog
- Overview of Parliaments Map
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to our group, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Seán, Caroline, Diana, Ruxandra, and Jack.
1. Call for Papers
Sixteenth Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians, Wroxton College, 27-28 July 2024
Today is the last day to send a paper/panel proposal for the Sixteenth Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians, which will be held on Saturday 27 July and Sunday 28 July 2024 at Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, UK. The Workshop serves to bring together scholars and parliamentarians – from legislatures around the globe – to discuss research findings likely to be of practical interest to members of parliaments.
Paper proposals (no more than 300 words), should be sent to Professor The Lord Norton of Louth, via e-mail and should arrive no later than Monday 5 February 2024. Decisions will normally be made within a month of receipt.
2. #PSA24: Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended
The early bird registration for the PSA Annual Conference (25–27 March 2024), taking place in Glasgow, has now been extended until 9 February. This is your chance to take advantage of discounted rates. If your paper has been accepted on one of our panels, please take this opportunity to secure your spot.
3. Spotlight on Our Members
- Ruxandra Serban (UCL), discussed her research on how parliaments question Prime Ministers on the latest episode of the “Uncovering Politics” podcast by UCL.
- James Strong (QMUL), discussed the war powers of parliament on the Hansard Society’s Parliament Matters podcast last month.
4. Invitation to Exhibition on Parliaments
The Global Research Network on Parliaments and People would like to invite members of the SPG, PSA and IPEN to an exhibition on Parliaments on 15th February 6-8pm, hosted by Emma Crewe (SOAS) with Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira (Leeds) reflecting on a joint research programme Ethnographies of Parliaments and People – in Brazil, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, the UK and the US).
On the evening between 6-8pm guests will be offered a tour of the exhibition of photography, film, timelines and installations, with refreshments and networking in the Brunei lower gallery, SOAS University of London. Please sign up on Eventbrite.
For those able to come a little earlier, there is also the option of a film screening 5:30-6:50pm: “Elections in Paradise”. Directed by Tumeli Tuqota and Laisiasa Dave, this film is one of four in the exhibition, showing on 15th February in the central room of the exhibition.
5. Entries for the APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award
The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award honours those Political Studies academics engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement. The deadline for applications is 14 February 2024.
The award will be judged by a joint APSA and PSA panel and the winning entry will this year be announced at the APSA’s annual meeting in Philadelphia in September 2024 and will be awarded a cash prize worth £2,000. For entry requirements and submission process, please click here.
6. Editorial Announcements from Parliamentary Affairs
The editors of Parliamentary Affairs have issues a couple of announcements regarding a) aims and scope, hopefully clarifying the type of papers the journal is looking looking for, and b) authors’ guidelines have now been updated and submissions are now accepted in any format!
7. Recent Publications
- Caroline Bhattacharya & Stephen Holden Bates, “Why are MPs speaking more often but for less time? Five possible reasons”, Hansard Society blog, 16 January 2024.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Caroline with details.
8. Recently on the Blog
- Tal Elovits (University of Milan) contributed a piece on “Obstruction, Alternation, and Amendments: Evidence from Israel”.
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our new communications officer, Jack. We will be posting more blogs from those who presented at our Annual Conference last November, so watch this space!
9. Overview of Parliaments Map
We have two new contributions to our Overview of Parliaments Map.
- Lebanon by Meray Maddah – PhD candidate at University of Konstanz
- Peru by Milagros Campos and Ana Neyra – Professors at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and former head of parliamentary research at Peruvian Congress (Campos) and former Peruvian Minister of Justice (Neyra)
For anybody who wishes to cover any of the countries not yet covered in our map, contact our communications officer Jack.