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The morning session on the politics of the Middle East was excellent. Two of UWA's contingent, Kate Riddell and Samina Yasmeen, started off the session by looking at 'Letters to the Editor as a site of Muslim exclusion'. I found the argument about letters to the editor as a genuine and unsolicited public narrative very interesting. I'd love to see ...

I've just got back from the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, and want to put down a few notes about the presentations I attended and some of my favourite papers. It would have much more convenient to liveblog the conference, but for some unaccountable reason there was no wireless network available. Perhaps I'm being a ...

Earlier this month I went to a masterclass and colloquium at ECU on 'media participatory activism' with Geert Lovink from the Institute for Network Cultures. The holiday rush and preparing for travels preclude too extensive a post, but I wanted to at least post a few thoughts and questions. Some of these came from Geert, many from other ...

Despite having presented at a conference before, and having given several lectures, I was rather nervous about my presentation. Presenting seems to be something of a hit-and-miss affair at the best of times, and several papers I saw were given to an audience of two or three, or received quite antagonistic and unconstructive questions. That said, ...

I'm just back from a couple of political science and international relations conferences, OCIS and APSA, wading through my inbox and keen to get on with my thesis. Looming deadlines mean that I don't feel I can do justice to the papers I went to, although I will mention a couple of my favourites. Ever since I read Freakonomics, I've been bothered ...

I'm brilliant at finding conferences that are tremendously relevant and useful, attended by people whose work I respect and admire. Unfortunately, my forte is finding these conferences a week or a month after they've already happened. I'm getting better - the latest one I've discovered is on in about a month. It's probably too late to go, although ...

Up and running. Just a short one to start with, but I hope to be able to add more stuff at a later stage.If you have an interest in civil society and its organisation, an opportunity would be to come to the 23rd EGOS conference, this year held in Vienna in July (5th-7th), where we for the first time ever have designed and launched a special ...