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Looking Forward to the Annual Convention

ISA is looking forward to our Annual Convention next week in San Francisco. We will welcome 5,566 program participants and 78 exhibitors to our events held at the Hilton Union Square and the Parc 55. Please see our convention website for more information about our convention program, meetings, receptions, and the exhibition hall. See you in San Francisco!

CFP: ISA West Annual Conference 2013

The program chairs invite proposals for the ISA West Annual Conference, September 27-28, 2013, at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel. ISA-West seeks paper and panel submissions related to all areas of international studies and world politics.  Particularly welcome are submissions related to our 2013 conference theme, Disruptions in World Politics: Policy Challenges, Normative Responses. We invite submissions of papers and panels that explore the questions and difficulties raised by the disruptions of the twenty-first century.  Please submit your proposals through the ISA website. The deadline for the submission of proposals is July 26, 2013. Questions concerning the Conference should be directed to Amy Eckert at isawest2013@isanet.org.

Online Registration at the Annual Convention

We will reopen online registration in MyISA during the Annual Convention in San Francisco. If you register online during the Convention, please visit the On-Site Registration Desk in the Hilton (East Lounge, Ballroom Level) to have your name badge printed. It is our hope that allowing participants to register online will expedite the process, as they won't have to provide their payment details at the Reg Desk. Our registration area will be divided between the Pre-Registration Desk (for those who registered during the early and late registration periods) and the On-Site Registration Desk for those who register during the Convention. Please see our Convention website for a full list of our registration rates.

Call for Nominations: IPS Paper Award

The International Political Sociology Section of ISA announces a call for nominations for the Best Paper Award. Instituted in 2012, this award is designed to recognize “best graduate student paper” presented at the previous year’s convention in an IPS (co-)sponsored panel. If you would like to nominate a paper, please visit the IPS website.

Internet Options At ISA Annual Convention

We know you like to stay connected when you travel so here is a brief overview of our internet options. The Hilton San Francisco Union Square ISA group rate includes free guestroom internet for those staying at the hotel. Contact the hotel front desk to purchase guestroom internet (if not in an ISA-rate room bloc) or rent a workstation at the Business Center (Union Square, Lobby Level). The Cyber Café and the Exhibition Hall WiFi Lounge will offer attendees the opportunity to briefly check their email and access the internet, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Keesing's and Routledge. Here is the floorplan (PDF) for the Exhibition Hall with the cafe and lounge displayed. The Hilton and Parc55 also offer internet access in panel rooms as a paid service for $50 per device for wireless and $100 per device for wired. Panelist must PRE-ORDER and pay on their own. Please see our convention A/V website for more information.

CFP: Belgrade Security Forum

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum have the pleasure of inviting scholars and researchers to submit their proposal papers for the academic portion of the third Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) to be held on 19-21 September 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Belgrade, Serbia. The topic of this year’s academic event is Transformation of State and Professional Practices in International Security. Drawing on insights from International Relations, Security Studies and Sociology of Professions, this conference wishes to raise the following questions: What are the consequences of state transformation on professional international security practices such as the military, the police and diplomacy? What is the impact of privatization of international security on those professions? Is the social standing and autonomy of these professions intact or are they being challenged by the deep transformation of the field of international security? How are their professional culture and ethos affected by new technological and political transformations? All submissions must include the applicant’s CV (two pages at most) attached to his/her paper proposal (up to 400 words). Submissions should be made electronically to jrs@fpn.bg.ac.rs, and titled “Call for paper proposals for BSF 2013”. Deadline for submissions is 1 May 2013. Please see the conference website for more information.