There are still places available on the New Synagogue Tour (Joint Sessions 2013 Social Programme)
Rejoice, oh you PolSci nerds out there: Three of my favourite European blogs – Ballots & Bullets at Nottingham and the British Politics and European Politics blogs at the LSE – are launching a collaboration on euroscepticism, with a whole host of interesting stuff in the pipeline. What’s not to like?
I’ve just completed a review of Gideon Botsch’s history of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany after 1945 for Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie. The book is good, but obviously, I have few quibbles, mostly with the (lack of) theoretical underpinnings. I also think that it is a bit too short (I seem never to get enough of…
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