Dear all, This year we at the Authoritarian Political System Group (APSG)<https://apsg.work/> have organized the 2° mini-conference on authoritarian politics the day before EPSA (3 July) in Cologne. However, that’s not all. We are beyond happy to announce that we teamed up with Josef Woldense<http://www.josefwoldense.com/> (University of Minnesota) to bring his workshop on job talk for the first time ever (!) to Europe. It will take place on 2 July in Cologne, and you are all invited to join! This is a rare occasion for any PhD student, postdocs, and early career researcher in general to get some great practice on how to craft the art of job talks (or any public talk really). The workshop is free of charge and you only have to sing up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnk-yuR0zCptQFK90WS0QEC7e7vLZNdndFGJCE9LwocMYh8w/viewform Below you can find a detailed description: What is a Job Talk? Simple, it is an oral presentation that displays your research. The problem is that you have spent all of your time thinking and expressing your research in a medium other than the oral form of communication. Although the underlying ideas you wish to convey are largely the same, the medium in which you are now asked to express them is profoundly different. The primary challenge in crafting a research talk, then, is this: How do I translate my research from one mode of communication to another? This is precisely the question this workshop seeks to answer, and it does so by drawing on storytelling as the central translating device. This workshop is designed to offer you, first and foremost, a general framework on how to think about the research presentation as storytelling. Our journey will take us through such questions as: What is storytelling? What makes storytelling so compelling? How can it be used in the context of research presentations? Alongside answering these deeper questions, the workshop will also walk through a portion of an actual presentation to demonstrate the principles of storytelling when applied to research. In the afternoon, participants will be afforded the opportunity to start crafting their own research presentation in the form of storytelling. While this workshop is primarily geared toward participants who work on their research projects, it can also benefit those who want to learn more about storytelling and hone their presentation and oral communication skills. We look forward to having you there on 2 July. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out! Best, Authoritarian Political Systems Group Fabio Angiolillo Emilia Simison Felix Wiebrecht _____________________ Felix Wiebrecht Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics Department of Politics University of Liverpool Personal Website<https://www.felixwiebrecht.com/>