Joint Sessions Excursions Booking Update
A workshop director asks if she can book an excursion for her whole group via the online form. The short answer is no, but there are other options.
A workshop director asks if she can book an excursion for her whole group via the online form. The short answer is no, but there are other options.
One of my colleagues, who is head of the Israel Studies unit here at Mainz, has kindly agreed to organise a guided tour of the new synagogue for the participants of the ECPR Joint Sessions. If you are interested, drop us a line.
If you haven’t sorted out your accommodation by now, you have a problem. All the rooms we had pre-booked through the Mainz tourist board are gone. There seem to be a few rooms left in Wiesbaden, but they are going fast. On the local website, we have listed a some hotels which run their own…
Radical Right buffs out there, have you submitted your paper proposal for Bordeaux yet? As you may or may not know, Liz Carter and I have put together a six-panel-section on the New Right for the 7th ECPR General Conference in September. The deadline is February 1, i.e. in just four days – submit your…
Apparently, there was a glitch in the excursions booking system, but that should be ironed out by now. One audacious member of the team took the trouble to book an excursion for herself, so we can confirm that everything works just fine. If you have no plans for Thursday afternoon yet, why not book an…
It may look like a trivial matter, and that’s because it is an (almost) trivial matter: We have finally found a room for each and every of the 33 workshops, from “Interpreting Foreign Policy” to “What We Talk About When We Talk About Europe”. Go to our quasi-interactive list of rooms and buildings to find…
Every now and then, I spend a merry evening pulling half-forgotten manuscripts/preprints into this not-so-new website. Here is tonight’s potpourri
Liz Carter and I are organising a rather large section on the New Right (aka Radical Right, Populist Right, Extreme Right) for the 7th ECPR General Conference that will run from September 4 to September 7 this year. With six quality panels, we can accommodate up to 30 papers, which is obviously great. More specifically,…
With just two months to go until the 41st Joint Sessions of Workshops at Mainz, the local team is getting super-excited, if not slightly panicky. We have finally found funding for two drinks/finger-food receptions: a welcome bash at the university on Monday evening (5-7), and another reception on Wednesday night at Mainz City Hall following…
The NPD is Germany’s oldest surviving Extreme Right party. It has been around for about five decades. After merging with its long-time rival German People’s Union (DVU, the ruling mentioned in the post was finally squashed), it is also a serious contender for the coveted title of Germany’s daftest party (see exhibit number one). While…