Description
• The duties of convenors are as follows: (i) To prepare proposals for their panel sessions and to undertake all necessary organisational initiatives to implement them; (ii) To consult with the co-convenor (if there is one) on all aspects of the organisation of panel sessions; (iii) To take responsibility for all correspondence and other contacts with participants, the Program Chair and the IPSA Secretariat; (iv) To designate a chair for any panel session that is not being chaired by the convenor; (v) To strive to obtain a balanced representation on the program of each panel session in terms of gender, region, and age and career stage, and other criteria arising from the plurality embodied in IPSA and the discipline; (vi) To ensure that there are adequate opportunities for participation by unsolicited paper givers, by not finalising panel session programs prematurely; (vii) To consider additional paper proposals from the Program Chair when these fall within the thematic scope of a particular panel session; (viii) To approve the program for their panel sessions by the deadline set by the Program Committee, (this should include: (1) panel session titles, (2) paper titles, and (3) names, addresses and email coordinates of chairs, paper givers and discussants and anyone else named in the program); (ix) To circulate to all participants in their panel sessions with (1) a list with names and addresses of paper givers and discussants and (2) a copy of guidelines for participation in the IPSA congresses; (x) To inform the Program Chair promptly of developments and problems in their panel sessions and to defer to a decision of the Program Chair in the case of any problem or dispute that the convenor cannot resolve; (xi) To make recommendations as to the award of travel grants; 56 (xii) To provide a report on the panel sessions to the Program Chair after the congress; (xiii) To designate the name of a candidate for the Francesco Kjellberg award for the best paper by a new scholar; (xiv) To designate the name of a candidate for the Wilma Rule award for the best research on gender and politics; (xv) To take such other steps as are necessary to ensure the success of their panel sessions.| Period | 2017 → … |
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| Held at | IPSA Research Committee on Asian and Pacific Studies |