Call for Papers | Midwest Political Science Association

Call for Papers for the 67th MPSA Conference,  April 2-5, 2009,  Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Submission Deadline: October 10, 2008.   www.mpsanet.org Please forward this Call for Proposals to faculty or graduate students you think may be interested. Please remember to submit a proposal to present at the 2009, MPSA National Conference. With over 900 sessions and over 3,000 papers, it is one of the largest in the discipline; all subfields within Political Science are represented. We are always interested in offers from experienced researchers who are willing to serve as a discussant or chair. If you are looking for textbooks, new books, or you have a manuscript for a book,  the 50,000 square feet exhibit hall will have plenty of publishers and acquisition editors for you.  We also offer a free job placement service for attendees. To submit a proposal, and for travel and hotel information, please go to www.mpsanet.org Editorial Search,  American Journal of Political Science,  2010 through 2013 http://www.mpsanet.org/~mpsa/Resources/editorsearch.html Forward nominations to the Chair of the Editorial Search Committee, Micheal Giles (mgiles@emory.edu) The MPSA invites applications from individuals, pairs, or teams for the Editorship of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) for the years 2010 through 2013. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Interested applicants for Editor should be full professors in Political Science doctoral degree-granting programs.  Applicants are expected to have records of significant research accomplishment, intellectual breadth and depth, and administrative, organizational and interpersonal skills. Midwest Political Science Association      320 W 8th Street, #218      Bloomington, IN 47404      www.mpsanet.org

The journal Making

The journal Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity welcomes submissions for our Fall 2009 issue. The theme for this issue is “Constructing Identity in [Post-] Racial America.” We welcome academic articles of 5000 words or less that approach this theme from any disciplinary perspective, as well as relevant book reviews, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction submissions. Send electronic submissions as attachments in Word format to connect@bloomu.edu by March 31, 2009. Author’s name and contact information should appear only in the body of the email and on the cover page of the submission (not on subsequent pages of the submission). Please submit essays in MLA format.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Is Obama’s America a Post-Racial America?
Obama’s Presidency: Global Implications
Frederick Douglass’s Legacy in a Post-Racial America
Diversity Issues as reflected in Contemporary American Literature and/or cinema
Diversity Issues as reflected in Contemporary American Art
Diversity Issues in Contemporary American Education
Comparison of this historical moment to the past
Comparison of this historical moment in America to this historical moment in other countries