Rules
- Regular seminars will be open to the public and last one hour.
- We will recruit two discussants to read each paper and provide feedback. Please provide us with the names of 5 suitable discussants.
- You will be asked to share the working paper with us at least 14 days before the presentation date to give the discussants sufficient time to read it.
- The authors will introduce their work in a 15-minute presentation at the beginning of each session.
- The discussants then have 10 minutes each to share their comments about the paper. After that, we will open the floor to the audience to participate.
- We also encourage the discussants to provide additional feedback to the presenters via email after the seminar.
Tips & best practices for applicants
- Do not submit already published work.
- We suggest to submit stand-alone papers rather than book chapters.
- When submitting your abstract, be explicit about your methodology & data.
- You will be asked to suggest 5 scholars you would like as discussant. Write five names taking into consideration gender balance.
- You will have the opportunity to opt-in to share your work with our newsletter. We noticed that papers circulated among our newsletter tend to receive more questions from the public.
Selection process
- Every call for online or in-person events lasts one month. We do not accept late submissions.
- The selection is blinded and performed in two steps:
- a. At least three coders score each application based on the abstract
- b. There is a group discussion on the abstracts selected in a long-list
- We select eight participants, which will be contacted and given seven days to formally accept their participation. We do not accept late acceptances. Any acceptance after the set deadline will be considered null. We already offered the spot to another candidate.
- We provide the opportunity to participants to choose their preferred day for presenting their work. This is on a first-come-first-served basis.
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