General Conference 2018: Local Organising team announced

Our people on the ground at the University of Hamburg

We're delighted to announce the committed team of scholars who'll be preparing the ground for our 12th General Conference in 2018.

Specialising in Research Methodology, Kai-Uwe Schnapp has been Professor of Political Science at Hamburg since 2008. Professor Schnapp graduated from the Freie Universität Berlin and previously held positions at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He publishes on research methodology, comparative parliamentary and administrative research as well as electoral research, and is principal investigator in the DFG Research Group 'Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures'. Professor Schnapp is Co-Editor of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift, the quarterly journal of the German Political Science Association.

Peter Niesen is Professor of Political Theory. From 2007 to 2013, he taught at TU Darmstadt and was a Principal Investigator in the Frankfurt-based Cluster of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders'. Niesen has held visiting appointments at UCL, Harvard, Southampton University, the University of Iceland, LSE and the Université de Montréal. He has published on Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant, on international political theory and on democratic theory. Niesen is co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on International Political Theory. Among his recent published work is 'Restitutive Justice in International and Cosmopolitan Law' in Kant and Colonialism, edited by K. Flikschuh & L. Ypi (Oxford 2014).

A postdoctoral research and teaching fellow, Katrin Praprotnik previously worked at the University of Vienna's Department of Government. Her research interests include political representation, political parties, Austrian politics, policy reforms, and voting behaviour. Katrin has published articles in West European Politics, Party Politics and the Austrian Journal of Political Science.

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