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The annual APSA Africa Workshop, Representation Reconsidered: Ethnic Politics and Africa's Governance Institutions in Comparative Perspective was held in partnership with the Institute for Development Studies at University of Nairobi in Kenya, from July 23 to August 6. It was the fourth residential workshop of a multi-year initiative that APSA will convene in sub-Saharan Africa from 2008 though 2014 (previous workshops were held in Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania).

For a decade, dozens of political scientists who study gender and politics in Japan and the United States have been sharing their research on women in politics. With support from the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission and Washington College, APSA's Japan–America Women Political Scientists Symposium (JAWS) held its sixth symposium in Washington, DC, and Chestertown, Maryland, from August 28 to September 4, 2010. The program was organized by Melissa Deckman of Washington College. Ten Japanese scholars and nine U.S. scholars participated in the workshop, which was the largest gathering of JAWS to date.