IPSA WORLD CONGRESS SANTIAGO 2009

Things are getting underway for the next IPSA World Congress, to be held in Santiago, Chile, July 12-16, 2009. In anticipation of the opening of the Call for Papers on January 15, 2008, please find below the procedures for the participation of IPSA Research Committees at the 21st IPSA World Congress.

1. All RCs have the obligation of organizing a minimum of two (2) panels. A maximum of four (4) panels may be organized by each RC, depending on the availability of rooms.
    
2. Non members of RCs are encouraged to participate in RC sessions. The names of the RCs and an invitation to non- members to submit paper proposals to the RC Chairs will be displayed on the IPSA Congress website as of January 2008. To facilitate the organization of panels, the RC chairs are invited to provide the proposed titles of their panels to be posted on the IPSA Congress Website.
    
3. The organization of RC the panel is the responsibility of the RC Chair. He or she may designate someone else to do this job. If this is done, the Program Chair (PC) and the Congress Coordinator should be duly informed, as should the RC Liaison officer.
    
4. When a panel is completed and ready to be incorporated in the Congress Program, it must be sent via the panel submission form. In addition, each paper presented in the panel needs to be submitted individually by the paper giver. Individuals submitting a paper will have the opportunity at that time to indicate that their paper has already been accepted for an RC panel.
    
5. Occasionally, papers which seem appropriate for an RC session arrive through the open call route used for special sessions. The PC may submit some of the proposals that have been received to the consideration of the RC chairs for inclusion in their panels. The RC chair may decide to incorporate such a proposal into an RC panel or return it to the PC for inclusion in special sessions.
    
6. All the RC panel submissions, appropriately completed, should be submitted by January 1, 2009.
    
7. Those who wish to propose panels for Research Committee 27 Structure and Organization of Government can do that to Joel Aberbach.
   
   Deadline for panel proposals is October 15 2008.
   
   Attachment: Information to the Chairs of IPSA’s Research Committees (word file)

If you have any questions about this process, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Isabel Brinck
Events and World Congress Coordinator
International Political Science Association