2010 APSA Africa Workshop: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The 2010 APSA Africa Workshop on “Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender” will be held from July 19 to August 6, 2010, in partnership with the Gender Centre at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, APSA continues a four-year effort to organize political science workshops in various locations in sub-Saharan Africa.

The first workshop was held in Dakar, Senegal, in collaboration with the West African Research Center from July 6 to 27, 2008. The second workshop was offered in Accra, Ghana, in partnership with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, from June 21 to July 10, 2009.

These annual residential workshops are led by a joint U.S. and African organizing team and aimed at mid-and junior-level scholars residing in Africa. They enhance the capacities of political scientists and their resources in sub-Saharan Africa while also providing a forum for supporting their ongoing research.

Each three-week workshop brings together up to 30 scholars and covers substantive issues, methodologies, and reviews of research.

The 2010 workshop leaders include:

• • Gretchen Bauer (department of political science and international relations, University of Delaware, USA)

• • Shireen Abdool Aziz Hassim (department of political studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

• • Fenella Mukangara (Gender Centre, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

• • Aili Mari Tripp (department of political science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)

U.S. graduate students:

• • Kara Ellerby, University of Arizona

• • Alice Kang, University of Wisconsin–Madison

• • Ayuko Nimura, Northwestern University

• • Taylor Price, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Africa-based workshop participants:

• • Olajide Akanji, Nigeria

• • Agnes Apusigah, Ghana

• • Bonnie Ayodele, Nigeria

• • Naima Benlarabi, Morocco

• • Lotsmart N. Fonjong, Cameroon

• • Peace Medie, Ghana

• • Chiseche Salome Mibenge, Zambia

• • Sethunya Mosime, Botswana

• • Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Nigeria

• • Uchenna Idoko, Nigeria

• • Stella Nyanzi, Uganda

• • Oyeleye Oyelade Dairo, Nigeria

• • Daniel Kere, Burkina Faso

• • Anne Karanja, Kenya

• • Rasel Madaha, Tanzania

• • Lydia Apori-Nkansah, Ghana

• • Freedom Onuoha, Nigeria

• • Kehinde Olayode, Nigeria

• • Herman Touo, Cameroon

• • Alex Ng'Oma, Zambia

Please visit the APSA Africa Workshop Web site for more information: http://www.apsanet.org/~africaworkshops/.

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2010 Japanese-American Women Political Scientists Symposia to Be Held

The American Political Science Association will offer the third in a series of Japanese-American Women Political Scientists Symposia (JAWS) from August 29 to September 5. The project, funded by the Japan–United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC), brings together dozens of Japanese and American women scholars to discuss a wide range of topics.

The 2010 JAWS workshops will focus on the theme of “Gender, Politics, and Policy: Post-Elections.” The workshop will encourage and distribute policy-relevant, collaborative research on women and politics in the wake of two major national elections: the 2008 U.S. presidential and congressional elections and the 2009 Japanese parliamentary elections. The workshop will take place in Washington, DC, before and during the APSA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC; one day will be spent at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The workshop will enhance scholarly exchange and understanding between political scientists in the United States and Japan, provide expertise and policy-relevant research on pressing contemporary issues, build networks of scholars (and, particularly, bring together scholars who otherwise might not achieve the kind of comparative perspectives that these kinds of endeavors foster), encourage cooperative classrooms, and incorporate new comparative perspectives into teaching.

The Japanese participants include:

• • Misako Iwamoto, Mie University

• • Masako Aiuchi, Hokusho University

• • Tokuko Ogai, Ochanomizu University

• • Cheiko Otsuru Katagawa, Kansai University

• • Hiromi Tanaka-Naji, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

• • Shin Kiyoung, Ochanomizu University

• • Kiroko Takeda, Sheffield University

• • Eriko Hamada, Sophia University

• • Naoko Ohki, Ochanomizu University

• • Makio Hamazaki, Hokusho University

The U.S. participants include:

• • Melissa Deckman, Washington College

• • Marian Lief Palley, University of Delaware

• • Kathryn Pierson, University of Minnesota

• • Julia Dolan, Macalester College

• • Barbara Palmer, American University

• • Margaret Conway, University of Florida

• • Michele Swers, Georgetown University

• • Karen O'Connor, American University

• • Jennifer Lawless, American University

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