From the Chair EUSA Review Forum

the executive committee had its annual meeting in April. This newsletter contains important information on a slew of decisions, to which we ask you to respond: a call for conference proposals, a call for election nominations to the EUSA executive committee, Prize committees, membership renewal, and your input on new online initiatives. Forms are available online as well as in this Review. Let me take these in turn. Conference. The upcoming conference in Marina del Rey, near LA, on April 23-25, 2009, will introduce several innovations. First, EUSA is moving to a decentralized program committee. The program, under the stewardship of program chair Frank Schimmelfennig, is divided into six thematic streams: integration theory, institutions, economics and political economy, political sociology, law and public policy, and external relations. Each stream will be handled by a person appointed by the excom; names are listed on the online call for proposals. You will be asked to select a stream. There is no pre-set number of panels by stream, so your choice merely helps in channeling proposals to particular committee members and in organizing the program. If your proposal is not selected by 'your' stream representative, it goes into a common pool available for selection until the program is finalized. The program committee welcomes the broadest possible range of proposals engaging Europe or the European Union—alone or in a comparative frame. Second, EUSA is introducing workshops as an attractive substitute for poster sessions. In two central time slots (Friday morning and Saturday morning) papers will be grouped in thematic workshops. Presenters will give very brief statements (not full presentations) and then move straight to discussion facilitated by the chair. Multiple workshops will run concurrently in a large room, so that visitors can move around. Our hope is that this format will promote more substantive interaction than standard panels. It is also an excel(continued on p. 23) Revisiting Landmark Contributions to EU Studies