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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear friends of DemocracyNet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: white;">We are inviting applications from early career scholars for a
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">research workshop on open constitutional democracy that will take place at the
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>University of Lausanne on Wednesday, August 26 and Thursday, August 27, 2026</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The workshop’s central theme is the compatibility of deliberative democratic innovations with existing constitutional
institutions. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our goal is to bring together a balanced mix of early career and senior scholars whose research is highly
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 24px;">A public roundtable with the invited senior scholars will take place on of Wednesday, August 26, 2026, after the workshop. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more details about the content and format of the workshop, as well as the eligibility criteria, please read the attached
call for papers or visit this webpage: <a href="https://www.unil.ch/news/fr/1762421717197" data-outlook-id="5d68b90f-010a-4fc5-8a9b-d45f6bd39dca" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.unil.ch/news/fr/1762421717197</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Interested early career scholars should submit the following documents
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<u><a href="mailto:chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch" title="mailto:chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch" data-outlook-id="1f968979-1806-4f84-bdea-549a95444ef1" style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch</a></u> by
December 19, 2025:</b></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;" role="presentation"><b>Extended abstract</b> (word limit: 1,000 words excl. footnotes and references); </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: black;" role="presentation"><b>Curriculum vitae.</b></span></li></ol>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For questions about the workshop or your application, you can contact
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch" class="ms-outlook-linkify" data-outlook-id="de7aec74-673a-426c-99be-20c3650a28fb" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch</a></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please feel free to forward this email within your department and to potentially interested early career colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We look forward to receiving your application!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chiara,
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on behalf of the Open Constitutional Democracy team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Chiara Valsangiacomo-Balmelli, Ph.D.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch" data-outlook-id="b61a9bc8-bbd2-4f61-8a57-a0a74cd08ec3" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch</a></u></span></p>
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