Call for papers

Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science

The SoWEPS-7 workshop organizers invite submissions of (1) completed papers, and (2) detailed research designs for an in-person one-day conference hosted at Emory University on November 1, 2024. Graduate students and faculty (esp. junior faculty) are both encouraged to submit their work. Priority will be given to graduate students on the job market. We anticipate having 4-5 papers presented during the plenary sessions, followed by a poster session during the happy hour. 

 

Paper submissions for SoWEPS-7 closed on September 13th. Please sign up here to register for the conference: https://forms.gle/G3EWoVGRqP2Xtu4K6

In line with the workshop's mission to support rigorous and creative empirically-focused research in the comparative politics and international relations fields, priority will be given to submissions that use or propose innovative methods or innovative types of data.  We are particularly interested in work that is pushing the frontier of both empirical causal work (field experiments, natural/quasi-experimental methods, etc.) as well as the frontier of empirical descriptive or predictive work (machine learning, text analysis, etc.). We also invite submissions utilizing new types of data (novel administrative data, remote-sensed data, historical data) and beyond. 

As a workshop that is feedback-focused, we prefer the submission of completed papers that have not already passed through review at a journal.  However, work that is having trouble finding a home in a journal, is still very welcome.  

Key SoWEPS-7 (Fall 2024) Dates:

SoWEPS-7 Conveners:  Shelley Liu (Duke University), Natalia Bueno (Emory University), Renard Sexton (Emory University), Clara Suong (Virginia Tech)