call for papers

(source : H-net)

PERSPECTIVES ON INTELLIGENCE GOVERNANCE call for papers deadline : 2007-02-15 The fourth General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will host a section devoted to the study of intelligence governance. It invites social scientists to explain the growing range of activities and network of actors as well as to elaborate on the numerous consequences of modern intelligence governance for democratic societies. Aiming for a multi-disciplinary exchange of research perspectives, it encourages paper proposals on Intelligence reform and control / intelligence accountability; Regional / international intelligence cooperation; Renditions, illegal detention, and torture vs. intelligence ethics; Methods for intelligence research; Privatisation of intelligence; HUMINT and TECHINT: issues of effectiveness and rights in counterterrorism; The potential for abuse at the Intelligence – Policy interface National approaches to intelligence democratisation

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/pisa/index.aspx



History of politics network. European Social Science History Conference, Feb. 27 until March 1, 2008

Location:	Portugal
Call for Papers Deadline:	2007-02-27
Date Submitted:	2006-12-21
Announcement ID:	154291

From Wednesday 27 February up to and including Saturday 1 March 2008 the European Social Sciences History Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. We plan to organize a panel on new ways to research anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism and herewith invite researchers to participate. Traditionally, the historiography of anarchism has focused on the history of ideas, indi-vidual protagonists, and organizations. The class composition of anarchism and syndical-ism has occupied a central place, as has the geography of the movement. Some authors have paid attention to gender and race, or to a cultural analysis of the movement. Much of the research has been sympathetic, many stressing the importance of movements in the past, and/or their relevance for the present. Nonetheless, methodological issues have re-ceived limited explicit attention. Of particular interest are the following issues: linking socio-economic, political, ideological, and cultural approaches; the role of local, regional and transnational factors; social and economic factors that facilitate or constrain anarchist and syndicalist movements; and, finally, the relevance of other literatures, such as social movement theory, network analysis and discourse analysis. The proposed panel will look at these issues, focusing less on accounts of anarchist and syndicalist movements, than on the means to study them. Before February 27, 2007 synopses of papers should be sent to: email to altena@fhk.eur.nl