This June I had the opportunity to attend “a planning conference”:http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=23390&id=130232720338287&ref=mf for establishing a new _European Political Science Association_, which will hold its inaugural conference next June in Dublin, Ireland. Here is the latest information on the EPSA, including information on a reception at APSA this Friday:
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Dear colleagues,
The newly formed European Political Science Association warmly invites you to attend its reception at this year’s American Political Science Association meeting.
Date: Friday September 3, 2010
Time: 19:30-21:00
Place: Mariott, Wilson C Room
The European Political Science Association is a professional association of individual political scientists. The European Political Science Association was founded in 2010, to pursue the following objectives:
bq. To represent and promote political science in Europe.
To foster development in postgraduate training of political scientists in Europe.
To promote undergraduate teaching of political scientists in Europe.
To facilitate networking by political scientists worldwide.
To host an annual general conference of political scientists, with the first to be held in June 2011 in Dublin (at the Guinness Storehouse Conference Centre).
To publish a general journal of political science that will have a profile, impact, and structure on a par with top general political science journals in the United States.
Please check our web page at “http://www.epsanet.org”:http://www.epsanet.org for more information. We also have a “Facebook page”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Political-Science-Association/130232720338287. Details on joining EPSA and on the 2011 General Conference can be found on the website (or will be very soon!).
Hope to see you in Washington! Best wishes,
Kenneth Benoit, ken.benoit@epsanet.org
Raymond Duch, ray.duch@epsanet.org
Thomas Plümper, thomas.pluemper@epsanet.org