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25 February 2008

Second Call for Papers / Funding for doctoral student training for Harvard conference on networks

Second Call for Papers / Funding for doctoral student training:

Conference at Harvard on Networks in Political Science (deadline MARCH 1ST)

The study of networks has exploded over the last decade, both in the
social and hard sciences. From sociology to biology, there has been a
paradigm shift from a focus on the units of the system to the
relationships among those units. Despite a tradition incorporating
network ideas dating back at least 70 years, political science has been
largely left out of this recent creative surge. This has begun to change,
as witnessed, for example, by an exponential increase in network-related
research presented at the major disciplinary conferences.

We therefore announce an open call for paper proposals for presentation
at a conference on "Networks in Political Science" (NIPS). We are
soliciting papers that apply network ideas in the fields of
American Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics,
Political Theory, Public Administration, and Political Methodology.

The conference will take place June 13-14. Preceding the conference on
June 11-12 we will also provide a series of workshops introducing existing
substantive areas of research, statistical methods (and software packages)
for dealing with the distinctive dependencies of network data, and network
visualization. There will be workshops covering UCINET, Netdraw,
exponential random graph models, SIENA, P*, and potentially other
topics as well.

There will be a $50 conference fee, as well as a $20 fee per workshop.

FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO DEFRAY THE COSTS OF ATTENDANCE FOR DOCTORAL
STUDENTS AND RECENT (post 2005) PhD.'s. Funding may also be available for
graduate students not presenting papers, but preference will be given to
students using network analysis in their dissertations. Women and
minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

The deadline for submitting a paper proposal is March 1, 2008. Proposals
should include a title and a one-paragraph abstract. Graduate students
and recent Ph.D.'s applying for funding should also include their CV, a
letter of support from their advisor, and a brief statement about their
intended use of network analysis. Send them to

networked_governance@ksg.harvard.edu.

NIPS is supported by the National Science Foundation, and sponsored by the
Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University. The final program
will be available at www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov.

Program Committee: Christopher Ansell (UCBerkeley), James Fowler (UCSD),
Michael Heaney (Florida), David Lazer (Harvard), Scott McClurg (Southern
Illinois), John Padgett (Chicago), John Scholz (Florida State), Sarah
Reckhow (UCBerkeley), Paul Thurner (Mannheim), and Michael Ward
(University of Washington).

Posted by David Lazer at February 25, 2008 9:42 AM

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