New subject: [gov2001-l] PolMeth XXV: Call for Applications to Participate (fwd)

19 Feb 2008

this is a great meeting.  highly interactive, very informal.  you'll meet 
everyone in the field and get good feedback on your work.  (I've been to 
all 24 previous meetings!) I encourage you all to attend, even if its not 
your field. the papers you're all about to write for this class in most 
cases would work for the poster sessons.  you should apply for funding, 
but IQSS will kick in to help too.
Gary

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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:38:22 -0600
From: franzese at umich.edu
To: king at harvard.edu
Subject: PolMeth XXV: Call for Applications to Participate

My apologies for dual-posting if you received this from another source.
   -- Rob

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

PolMeth XXV: The 25th Annual, Silver Edition
Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9 - 13 July 2008 (Core Program: 10-12 July 2008)

The 25th Annual, Silver Edition, Summer Methodology Conference will be
held 10-12 July 2008, on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Sponsors of these meetings are the Institute for Social Research of
the University of Michigan, the National Science Foundation, and the
Society for Political Methodology.

To apply to attend the meetings, complete the application form at the
Society's webpage by 20 March 2008:

   http://polmeth.wustl.edu/conferences/methods2008/register/

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20 March 2008.

All applicants will propose to present a poster or a paper, and/or to act
as a discussant, or simply to attend. Although graduate students may also
apply simply to attend, they are strongly encouraged to propose a poster
for the graduate-student poster-session, which is a venerated tradition
and outstanding professional opportunity offered by the conference.
Graduate students (and other eligible applicants) proposing and having
accepted a poster (or a paper) will receive priority consideration for
funding if they apply for it (see below).

To accommodate the continued growth of the conference in response to great
and strongly rising demand--we expect a further approximately 50% increase
in size from last year's expanded total of about 160 attendees--we have
made a number of small adjustments in the format of the conference,
requiring corresponding alterations of the application and registration
processes.

SUMMARY OF THE REVISED PROGRAM-FORMAT (much further information available
at the conference web-site:
http://polmeth.wustl.edu/conferences/methods2008/):

The conference program will consist of:
   One day (Thursday, 10 July) of plenary sessions (i.e., sessions of the
whole) of paper presentations, with discussant & open discussion.

   One day (Friday, 11 July) of split-sessions, split in two or possibly
three, of paper presentations with discussant & open discussion or of
poster session(s), but not both types simultaneously.

   One day (Saturday, 12 July) of split-sessions, split in two, of paper
presentations with discussant & open discussion or of poster session(s),
but not both types simultaneously.

     Also planned for Thursday: the traditional keynote lecture by a
prominent, non-political-science, methodologist from U of M, and our
business meeting, followed by a opening-evening reception.

     Also planned for Friday: the traditional graduate-student
poster-session, accompanied by an evening reception.

     Also planned for Saturday: a closing dinner-reception.

   A new tradition: NSF has funded also a dinner, reception, and/or other
event for Women in Political Methodology, tentatively scheduled for
Wednesday evening. (This will be the third such event.)

   An even newer tradition: An add-on mini-conference/workshop or two may
be held Wednesday PM and/or Sunday AM, on topics and of a format TBA.
Announcements as those develop will go to this email list and the
conference web site.

The core conference begins Thursday morning and ends Saturday evening, so
attendees should plan to arrive Wednesday the 9th and depart Sunday the
13th.

To accommodate the expanded size, we have increased the numbers of split
sessions, and, also partly in response to that increased size, we intend
to expand usage of the poster-session format. Poster presentations and
split-session paper-presentations will be scheduled and treated as full
equals in every regard with plenary paper-presentation sessions.
Applicants may propose a poster or a paper, but the program committee will
assign accepted paper-proposals to plenary-sessions, to split-session
paper-presentations, or to poster-session presentations entirely on their
own discretionary judgment regarding optimal conference design, balance,
and flow.

NOTABLE REGARDING THE REVISED APPLICATION & REGISTRATION PROCESSES:

Following acceptance and upon registration, all conference attendees will
pay or have paid for them the $200 conference registration fee. (This is
the same amount as the faculty-registration fee last year, but now all
attendees will pay it. This is also approximately equal to the variable
cost per person of the conference.) The fee is collected in the
registration process (via PayPal), and registration cannot be validly
completed without payment.

Newly expanded this year, the NSF will fund the attendance of 55 (total)
graduate students, women, minorities, and assistant professors. (Great &
sincere gratitude is hereby extended from us all to PI's Jan
Box-Steffensmeier & Phil Schrodt.) The acceptance committee will review
applications for funding (which, procedurally, amount to the applicant
indicating her/his wish to be considered for funding and then checking
boxes for the categories by which s/he is eligible), and winners of
funding will be notified along with their acceptance to the conference.
Also new this year, all graduate-student applicants will be required to
give the email address not only of a faculty recommender, which has long
been required, but also to give the email address of a "guarantor of
funding." The guarantor may be the same faculty member as the recommender,
a different faculty member, someone authorized to commit an institutional
source of funding, or even the graduate student her/himself. The guarantor
commits to paying or having paid the registration fee for the graduate
student in the case that student does not win funding. The option of the
student listing her/himself as guarantor allows students wishing (or able
and willing and needing) to pay their own registration to do so. The
options, purposefully listed first, of naming a faculty or institutional
guarantor are intended to emphasize heavily the strong and good norm that
faculty/departmental/institutional sponsors should pay for their students
to attend the conference.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACCEPTANCES & OF FUNDING SHOULD ARRIVE AROUND MID-APRIL.

Following that, LODGING _MUST_ BE BOOKED/CONFIRMED BY END OF MAY.

Technical questions regarding the application & registration web-site
should be directed to Stephen Haptonstahl (srhapton at wustl.edu).
Substantive questions or comments regarding the application process, the
conference, or the conference web-site should be directed to Rob Franzese
(franzese at umich.edu) or the graduate-student assistant for the conference
& conference web-site, Bryce Corrigan (becorrig at umich.edu).

We look forward to seeing you in Ann Arbor this summer!

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