JSISE

If you are interested in presenting your work at JSISE this semester, please fill out this submission (also below) form by the 25th of September, 10pm EST. We are happy to consider submissions ranging from early-stage research proposals, to well-developed manuscripts, and anything in between. As with the fall semester, we also provide the option for presenters to give a practice job talk. If your submission is for a practice job talk, please indicate this on the form, and we will do our best to accommodate.

Our selection process is guided by the dual objectives of fostering an intellectually engaging workshop for attendees, and correcting for systemic inequities in the discipline. Details on the selection process are as follows:

Authors interested in presenting will submit an abstract (up to 250 words), and fill out a form answering the following questions:

• Do you identify as a member of an underrepresented demographic group in political science?

• Have you had the opportunity to present your project at a workshop/seminar at your institution in the past year?

• Have you had the opportunity to present at APSA, ISA, or any major conference in the last two years?

Upon receiving submissions, we will remove author-identifying information (name and all answers to the above questions) from the abstracts. Each organizer will score the author-blinded abstracts according to the following criteria:

• Breadth of appeal and conduciveness to discussion: Does the paper pose a question that will be of interest to a broad cross-section of international security scholars, and that will prompt an engaging and productive conversation among participants?

• Originality and creativity: Does the paper pose a novel question, or does it make us think about a problem in a new light?

• Scope for improvement and “ripeness” for feedback: Is the paper at a stage of development where audience feedback will be most useful, and is there the potential for substantial improvement beyond where the paper currently stands?

Scores will be tabulated, and the highest-scoring submissions will advance to the second stage.

In the second stage, we will randomly select submissions using a weighted lottery. Weights will be a function of the representation- and need-based criteria outlined above. Specifically:

+1 point for all authors

+1 for member of an underrepresented demographic group.

+0.5 for not having had an opportunity to present at a departmental workshop.

+0.5 for not having had an opportunity to present at a major conference.

For practice job talks, we will aim to make time for as many presenters as possible.