PSA Conference 2010

SOLDIERING, PERFORMATIVITY AND IDENTITY: CONCEPTUALISING THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE EVERYDAY

Panel title	Chair	Discussant
1. Mapping the Terrain – Soldiering in a (Post)-Heroic Age	Victoria Basham
2. Performance Sites & Spaces	David Mutimer
3. Performing ‘the Soldier’, Performing Geopolitics	Jenny Mathers
4. Killing, Dying and (Bare) Living	Colleen Bell

ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE? THE RADICAL LEFT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Panel title	Chair	Discussant
1. Contesting neo-liberal Europe	Richard Dunphy
2. The Left in Southern Europe	Luke March
3. Constructing Another Europe	Gerassimos Moschonas
4. The Left Beyond Parties: Movements, Debates, Obstacles	Myrto Tsakatika

A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO ORGANIZED CRIME: THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF EU POLICIES AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME IN 2010

Panel title	Chair	Discussant
1. JHA and the challenge of organized crime	Helena Carrapiço	Bill Tupman
2. Fighting organized crime in a national, European and international arena	Francesca Longo	Panos A KOSTAKOS
3. Police and Judicial Cooperation in the context of EU anti- organized crime policies	Simon MACKENZIE	Bill Tupman
4. The way ahead. Debating best practices, techniques and methodologies to fight organized crime at local and European level.	Bill Tupman	Denis CLARK

CAN AND SHOULD POLITICAL SCIENCE TRY TO BE RELEVANT?

Panel title	Chair	Discussant
Can and should political science try to be relevant? (1)	Gerry Stoker	Gerry Stoker

CONTACTS
Conference Academic Convenor	Professor Charlie Jeffery
PSA Conference Organiser (Newcastle) - conference registration, publishers' exhibition, graduate access	Sue Forster
Conference Web Site - queries about submissions and proposals.	PSA Web Master