PSA     PSA 2009

59th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era
7 - 9 April 2009
The University of Manchester, Renold Building

 

Conference Programme
Graduate Conference
Monday 6 April
09:30 - 10:30   Registration and coffee
10:30 - 11:00   Welcome and Postgraduate Network Information Session
11:00 - 12:30  

How To Get Published

Dr Alasdair Young (Co-Editor: Politics)
Caroline Wintersgill (Commissioning Editor: Bloomsbury Academic)
Dr Thom Brooks (Editor: Journal of Moral Philosophy)

12:30 - 13:30   lunch
13:30 - 15:00  

Surviving Your Viva

Professor Jonathon Tonge
Dr Lyndsey Harris

15:30 - 17:00   Teaching Advice Panel
17:00 - 18:00   PGN Annual General Meeting
18:00   drinks Reception sponsored on behalf of POLITICS by Wiley-Blackwell
Main Conference
Tuesday 7 April
10:00 - 18:00   Registration
10:00 - 12:00 C-SAP Politics Reference Group meeting
10:45 - 12:00   Empowering local communities to influence decision-making (De Montfort & Southampton Universities)
12:30 - 14:00 Session 1 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
13:00 - 14:30   PSA Specialist Group meetings
14:00 - 14:30   coffee/tea
14:30 - 16:00 Session 2 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
16:30 - 18:00  

Plenary: Liberalism and Race

Professor Charles Mills (John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University)

Chair: Professor Keith Dowding (Australian National University)

18:00 - 19:00   Break
    Journals and Reviewers Session (BJPIR, Political Studies, Politics)
19:00 - 20:30  

Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture: The Legacies of Cold War: Lessons and Consequences

Professor Fred Halliday (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)

Chair: Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge)

20:30   drinks reception sponsored on behalf of Government and Opposition by Wiley-Blackwell
21:00 -   PSA annual quiz - late bar
Wednesday 8 April
08:30 - 18:00   Registration
09:30 - 11:00 Session 3 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
11:00 - 11:30   coffee
11:30 - 13:00 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
12:00 - 14:00   PSA Specialist Group meetings
13:00 - 14:00   lunch
14:00 - 15:30  

Plenary Session: Cosmopolitanism After 9/11

David Held (LSE), Kimberly Hutchings (LSE) and James Brassett (University of Warwick)

Chair: Dr Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)

15:30 - 16:00   tea and coffee break sponsored on behalf of Global Policy, an exciting new LSE and Wiley-Blackwell journal launching in 2010
16:00 - 17:30 Session 5 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
17:30 - 18:30   PSA Annual General Meeting
    drinks reception
18:30 - 19:30   Lord Mayor's Civic Reception in Town Hall
19:30 - 22:00   Annual Dinner in Hilton Hotel (served 20:15)
    Drinks reception sponsored by C-SAP
Thursday 9 April
08:30 - 12:00   Registration
09:30 - 11:00 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels
11:00 - 11:30   coffee
11:30 - 13:00 Session 7 click on individual Sessions for details of Panels


CONTACTS

 
Conference Academic Convenors Moya Lloyd and Ruth Kinna
PSA Conference Organiser (Newcastle)
Sue Forster
Media enquiries Marjorie Ellis Thompson (Tel: 00 44 (0) 788 078 1596)
Conference Web Master PSA Web Master