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Political and Civic Participation - 2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference

University of Surrey, UK, 16-17 April, 2012

Organised by the PIDOP Consortium in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Surrey, UK.

PIDOP is a multinational research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project is examining the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation in eight European states - Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and the UK. For more information see http://www.fahs.surrey.ac.uk/pidop/index.htm.

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The closing date for abstracts is 31st December 2011. Read more about the conference »

 

Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance

31 May – 1 June 2012, Berlin

Shaping innovation in governance? Inducements, opportunities and limitations for engaging with governance in the making.

The Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance is pivoted on the question of whether and how innovations in governance can be deliberately shaped. This suggests a focus on the relation between knowledge and politics in processes of advancing new forms of governance. More specifically, we are interested in discussing the relation between, on the one hand, a discourse of innovation in governance, theoretical models of change, the articulation of designs and strategies, and, on the other hand, the agency of innovation, actual practices of forging alliances, softening established orders, configuring and evaluating new arrangements, and linking up with broader transformation processes as they unfold.

The Forum will open with a public keynote dialogue between Frank Fischer (Rutgers University) and Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex) on challenges of innovating governance for sustainable development.

The closing date for abstracts is Friday 20 January 2012. Read more about the conference »