Democracy Institute

Call for Conference Abstracts: The Politics of Uncertainty

Central European University's Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations invites paper proposals for its 17th Annual Doctoral Conference. The conference provides a professional, stimulating, and international environment for PhD students and early career researchers in political science to discuss their works in progress, establish informal networks, and initiate future collaborative research. We aim to assemble submissions that reflect the plurality of research projects and approaches in the field of political science.

The impact of the pandemic puts into question previous habits, assumptions, theoretical frameworks, methods, leaving a sense of dismay and disarray. But the awareness of such precariousness produces an open space for new practices and ideas. Times like this could be the most fertile for younger scholars working on theoretical, empirical, or methodological issues. CEU welcomes scientific contributions reflecting on individual, national, transnational, and global challenges driven by the loss of certainties and by unprecedented changes.

Contributions will be assigned to a thematic panel. Those panels include: comparative politics, democratization, energy transition and climate politics, higher education policy, international relations, memory politics, methodology, political economy, political theory, public policy, social movements.

Proposed papers will be assessed on the basis of merit. Proposals are expected to be stand-alone research papers. Proposals should discuss the general aim of the research; how the research fits into the scholarly literature; the conceptual/theoretical framework and/or methodological/empirical approaches used; and the(preliminary) results, if applicable.

Submit via the Call for Abstracts linked below.

For further details, contact the Organizing Committee.

Deadline to submit abstracts is January 28, 2022

Deadline to submit papers is March 17, 2022

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