Call for Proposals: Women in Politics Symposium at University of Pittsburgh

 

The University of Pittsburgh Political Science Department and the Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program invites proposals for the Women in Politics Symposium to be held on April 1st, 2022. The deadline for proposals is February 25th, 2022. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students, as well as journalists and practitioners, are welcome. We encourage submissions from all social science, humanities, and policy disciplines.  We also welcome volunteers willing to serve as panel chairs and paper discussants. Descriptions of the opportunities to participate are as follows:

Paper Presentations. Proposals from any participants are welcome for traditional academic paper presentations. These sessions involve several participants presenting research papers with a common theme, a chair coordinating the session, and an expert discussant providing feedback for each presenter.

Graduate and Undergraduate Lightening Talks and Posters. Proposals from graduate and undergraduate are welcome for lightening talks and posters. These sessions involve several participants presenting projects with a common theme and an expert discussant providing feedback for each presenter.

Instructions for submitting a proposal

You will need to include your name, email, university affiliation, position, project title, and project abstract. Please using the following link to submit your proposal: https://forms.gle/5ydiewYX5wKUM1Ce9

If you have any questions, please contact the lead conference organizer Tessa Provins at kts33@pitt.edu.