Ninth Annual New Faces! (Durham, NC 5th and 6th September 2008)
Applications for the Ninth Annual New Faces Conference welcome now.
Deadline April 16th.
To find out more about the New Faces Conference, click here: New Faces.
To apply for this year's event, click here: Application Form.
On Friday, September 5th and Saturday, September 6th, 2008, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) will hold its Ninth Annual New Faces Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. TISS has been holding these conferences since 1999 as part of an effort to foster and promote interdisciplinary scholarship in security studies.
At the conference the participants will be invited to present their research and give what may be seen as an off-Broadway preview of their job-talk. After each presentation, a faculty member and a graduate student from one of the universities in the TISS network will offer focused comments. One of these will be trained in a different discipline from the speaker. The audience will then be invited to pose questions and join the discussion.
The small size of the conference ensures that more sustained attention will be focused on the individual participant's project than would be the case at some of the larger conferences, such as the annual APSA or AHA meetings. The conference offers the participants an opportunity to gain experience in presenting their work, but in a less pressured context than they will face during a job interview. It also affords them a chance to forge new links with one another, with the faculty and graduate students in the Triangle, and with some attendees. All expenses will be paid for the invited participants.
We are seeking highly qualified students who will finish their degrees in the coming year and who are on, or about to go on, the job market. We will select participants on the basis of their individual excellence, though an effort will be made to ensure that we invite students from a variety of fields and disciplines. The conference will be organized around the interests of the chosen candidates as opposed to being organized around predetermined themes.
Applicants must be nominated by a professor. They should submit their vitae and a short abstract of their dissertation (one to three pages) and complete the enclosed application form. A letter of recommendation from their dissertation director will assist us in making our selection. Please send this material to Carolyn Pumphrey, the Coordinator for the Triangle Institute of Security Studies, at the address given above at your earliest opportunity. The final deadline for receipt of applications is April 16, 2008. Feel free to contact Carolyn (Tel. 919-613-9280/ e-mail pumphrey@duke.edu) if you have any questions.
Our first eight conferences proved to be useful and enjoyable. We are all looking forward to meeting this year’s cohort of new security studies scholars. Thank you for your help in identifying qualified participants.
