* Sorry for cross-posting * Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the *call for papers* of the 2023 Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP, Genova, 14-16 September 2023), which will be open *until 31 May*. The *Government, Parliament and Representation section* hosts the following six panels: - Panel 3.1 New parties in office: Parliamentary and governmental challenges - Panel 3.2 Government, parties and legislators after the 2022 general election - Panel 3.3 Parliaments in times of multiple crises - Panel 3.4 Emergency, disaster, dilemma, impasse, turning point, reversal. A thousand ways to say (poly)crisis. - Panel 3.5 Reassessing ministers' profiles - Panel 3.6 Representative institutions and democratic innovations More information on the conference and the submission process can be found here: https://www.sisp.it/en/conference2023/call-for-papers-conference-2023 https://www.sisp.it/convegno2023/?pagename=cms&name=sessiontracks&trackname=governo--parlamento-e-rappresentanza The SISP Standing Group on Government, Parliament and Representation has organized a *pre-conference crash course in quantitative text analysis “Automated Text Analysis for the Social Sciences. A Gentle Introduction”*. The course will consist of two 3-hour sessions and will take place on 13 September (afternoon) and 14 September 2023 (morning), just before the start of the SISP conference. Scholars at all stages are invited to apply. The course is free for PhD students. The fee is 40€ for post-doc fellows and 60€ for researchers and professors. Please apply here: https://www.sisp.it/login?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sisp.it%2Fconvegno2023%2F%3Fpagename%3Dconfquest%26idquest%3D1 *The deadline is 31 May 2023.* The full call is here: https://standinggroups.sisp.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/05/SISP_2023_TextAnalysis_call.pdf Access the course syllabus here: https://sisp.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb28a431d5359a38acb654aed&id=7aa507ae4b&e=86d0f83018 Join us in beautiful Genova! We look forward to receiving your submissions. Best, Andrea Pedrazzani and Elisabetta De Giorgi ___ Andrea Pedrazzani Associate Professor Department of Social and Political Sciences Università degli Studi di Milano https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/andrea-pedrazzani