8th Annual Graduate Workshop on Environmental Politics and Governance

[Aseem Prakash]

 

8th Annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop in Environmental Politics and Governance
University of Washington, Seattle
May 18-20, 2022

On May 18-20, 2022, the University of Washington’s Center for Environmental Politics will organize the 8th annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop for doctoral students working in the area of environmental politics and governance (EPG). This follows on the successful workshops that the Center hosted in previous years (https://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CEP-Workshop-Schedule-2021.pdf). Our plan is to organize the workshop in person in Seattle. However, if the COVID-19 situation does not stabilize, we will work with the online format. 

Objective:
Why the workshop? Understanding the governance and political aspects of environmental issues is critical for addressing the gamut of environmental challenges. The politics of governance perhaps has become an even more critical factor in the changed political milieu. The multi-disciplinary nature of EPG research often makes it hard to share ideas, concepts, and research methods across relevant disciplines. We hope the annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop will help overcome these barriers and provide a multi-disciplinary venue for doctoral students to become active participants in the community of EPG scholars. It will also provide a venue for doctoral students to network with others working on similar issues.  

Expenses:

There are no workshop fees and the Center will pay for local expenses, namely each participant’s food and shared hotel lodging (with two participants per room) for three nights, May 18, 19, and 20.

Participants are responsible for travel expenses. The Center will, however, purchase (very credible) carbon offsets for all.


Application Logistics:
This workshop will be most useful for doctoral students who have made substantial progress in their graduate studies: that is, they are able to present a fully developed paper or a chapter from their dissertation. The students need to submit:

- an abstract (about 800 – 1,000 words) of a paper/dissertation chapter to be emailed to <envi...@uw.edu> (and copy Inhwan Ko, <inhwanko@uw.edu>).

- a letter of support from their graduate advisor to be emailed to <envi...@uw.edu> (and copy Inhwan Ko, <inhwanko@uw.edu>)

The deadline for submission is February 21, 2022.


Timeline:

·  February 21-28, 2022: Center faculty evaluate the proposals.

·  March 1, 2022: Participants are formally invited.

·  May 12, 2022: Participants email their papers to <envi...@uw.edu> (and copy Inhwan Ko, inhwanko@uw.edu), details to follow.

·  Wednesday, May 18, 2022: Participants arrive; Career and Job Market Panel (Walker-Ames Room) in the afternoon followed by the Welcome dinner.

·  Thursday, May 19, 2022: Full day Workshop in the Smith Room (Suzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle) followed by dinner.

·  Friday, May 20, 2022: Full day Workshop in the Smith Room (Suzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle) followed by dinner.

·  Saturday, May 21, 2022: Departure.

The Center for Environmental Politics is excited to organize this unique event focused on furthering graduate training and education. Should you have any questions, feel free to email Aseem Prakash; as...@uw.edu or Inhwan Ko (inhwanko@uw.edu).  

 

 

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ASEEM PRAKASH
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
aseemprakash.net

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