NoPSA 2024 XX Nordic Political Science Congress

Information about the conference format

The Nordic Political Science Congress is a conference based on workshops (usually 25-30 in number). Each workshop is coordinated by two or three workshop leaders, who are responsible for the practical matters, such as setting up the workshop schedule and allocating discussants to each paper. Participants attend all sessions of their respective workshops.

Workshop leaders are responsible for promoting the workshop and for selecting workshop participants based on submitted abstracts, following a call for papers/abstracts. Paper proposals are sent directly to the workshop leaders. Workshop leaders are also responsible for arranging the circulation of final papers to all workshop participants after the paper submission deadline.

Workshop guidelines

Workshop directors

• Each workshop should have two directors (chair and vice-chair). They select participants, plan the daily activities of the workshop and are responsible for ensuring that papers are circulated within the group well before the Congress starts.

• Workshops with leaders from different Nordic countries are prioritized when the NoPSA board approves workshops. Only under exceptional circumstances will workshops with leaders from the same university department or research institute be accepted.

• The NoPSA board may combine thematically related workshops whose number of participants is small. Workshops with 7 or fewer participants will normally not be allowed. An appropriate number of papers in each workshop would be on average 13-15, which gives an average of 45-60 minutes per paper.

Participation and languages

• Participants are urged to attend every session of their workshop. Only exceptionally, and with the permission of the workshop leaders, may participants split time between different groups.

• As a rule, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish should be spoken during workshop sessions. If any of the participants wish to present their paper and receive comments in English, it should be possible. English speaking workshops are also allowed. Please indicate in your proposal if you intend your workshop to be exclusively English speaking.