Conferences and Workshops
The Department of Political Science at the University of Florida has hosted numerous conferences and workshops across a variety of sub-fields. These events provide students and faculty with opportunities to present their research to fellow scholars from UF and distinguished programs from around the world. For more information on upcoming events, please see our department calendar.
Ongoing Conferences and Workshops
- Department Colloquium
- Comparative Politics Colloquium
Political Science Conferences and Events
- Institutions, Narratives, and
Identities: A Graduate Student Workshop in Comparative Politics and
Political Theory
February 18-19, 2012
The separate but parallel attempts to grapple with the issue of identity within both comparative politics and political theory offer tantalizing possibilities for collaboration. Comparative politics has been productive in uncovering those empirical markers emblematic of identity that are crucial for the patterning of political phenomena. As an antidote to univocal assertions, political theory offers pluralized narratives of identity formation. This workshop uses identity as a thematic focus to demonstrate the potential of collaboration between these subfields.
- Study of the United States
Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy
Summer 2011
The Institute is an exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Its theme, "The United States from the Inside Out" is incorporated into a four-week academic residency program in Gainesville, FL, and two weeks of study tours of three economically, demographically, and geographically-diverse loci of foreign policy-making: Miami, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Additionally, the Institute program includes daylong visits to Tampa, Orlando, Tallahassee, and historic St. Augustine.
Past Conferences and Events
- Twenty Years
After: 1989 and the Politics of Memory
February 4-5, 2011
This conference was organized under the auspices of the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair and was co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Papers were presented by Michael Bernhard (Florida), Jan Kubik (Rutgers), Aida Hozic (Florida), Conor O’Dwyer (Florida), Kevin Deegan-Krause (Wayne State), Carol Leff (Illinois), Anna Seleny (Tufts), Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton), Venelin Ganev (Miami University of Ohio), David Art (Tufts), Yitzhak Brudny (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Daina Eglitis (George Washington University), and Laura Ardava (University Latvia). Several members of the UF faculty and political science graduate student community took active part in the discussion.
- The Election Landscape '10-'12:
Reflections and Projections
February 4, 2011
Hosted by the University of Florida Graduate Program in Political Campaigning
- Epistemology
and Method in
International Relations
March 26-27, 2010
This workshop asked participants to think about theorizing relationships of epistemology and method. What are the knowledge potentialites of the methods that the discipline uses? Which ones are under-exploited or over-exploited? What do our traditional dichotomies (between quantitative and qualitative research, positivist and post-positivist epistemologies, and even method and epistemology) illuminate, and what do they hide? How might an examination of the directional relationship between epistemology and method both illuminate current practices in the field and provide directions forward?
- Research Frontiers in
African Politics
January 30-31, 2010
This workshop brought together Ph.D. students from Cornell University, New York University, the University of California-Davis, the University of California-Los Angeles, and the University of Florida to discuss working papers that represent cutting-edge research on the politics of sub-Saharan Africa.
- The Election Landscape '08-'10:
Reflections and Projections
January 30, 2009
Hosted by the University of Florida Graduate Program in Political Campaigning
- Democratization
by Elections?
November 30 - December 2, 2007
This workshop explored the prospect of elections not only as indicators of democratization, but also as a "mode of transition" by which the practice of holding elections can foster democratization. The workshop was organized by Professor Staffan Lindberg.
