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ISA-West 2010 Proposal Deadline Extended

The ISA-West paper submission has been extended until July 15th! The conference will be held this year at the Westin, Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles, September 24-25.  More information can be found at isawest.org. In addition to a program focused upon ethics, we have lined up two excellent speakers; on Friday night, September 24, ISA President David Lake will give an address and the Saturday luncheon speaker is Peter W. Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institute. This is a great opportunity for graduate students to submit papers to a conference that has always emphasized teaching and mentoring.  Additionally, on the Thursday before the conference, September 23rd, we are offering a Teaching Training Workshop hosted at the University of Southern California.

ISA-Midwest 2010 Call for Papers

The program chair invites proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables to be presented at the ISA Midwest Conference. The 2010 ISA Midwest conference will be held in St. Louis, November 4-7 at The Hilton at the Ballpark. The call for papers is available on-line on the conference website. The pre-registration rate is $40 for faculty and $25 for students. The pre-registration deadline is Oct. 16, 2010. Please see the conference website for more information. Paper and panel proposals should be received by August 31, 2010. ISA-Midwest is a regional grouping of international studies scholars created for the purpose of academic collaboration and networking within the region.

ISA-NE 2010 Call for Papers

ISA-NE invites paper and panel proposals on any subject related to international studies, broadly defined, for the 2010 annual conference to be held 4-6 November 2010 at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. Topics might include (but are not limited to) international relations theory, international law and organizations, foreign policy, globalization, human rights, international development, conflict resolution, military/strategic studies, the environment, feminist theory/gender studies, and international political economy. ISA-NE expressly welcomes research on critical constructivism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism and/or undertaken through these lenses.  Conference participation is open to all scholars and graduate students. Panel, roundtable, and individual paper proposals can be submitted via the MyISA system. Deadline for paper/panel submissions is Friday, 4 June 2010. The full call for papers has been posted here.

ISA-Midwest Annual Conference

The program chair invites proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables to be presented at the ISA Midwest Conference. The 2010 ISA Midwest conference will be held in St. Louis, November 4-7 at The Hilton at the Ballpark.  The call for papers is available on-line on the conference website. The pre-registration rate is $40 for faculty and $25 for students. The pre-registration deadline is Oct. 16, 2010. Please see the conference website for more information. Paper and panel proposals should be received by August 31, 2010. ISA-Midwest is a regional grouping of international studies scholars created for the purpose of academic collaboration and networking within the region.

ISA-South Annual Conference

Tennessee State University invites you to attend the annual conference of the International Studies Association-South (ISA-South). The conference will be held October 16-17, 2009 in Nashville, TN. Panels will focus on change in the theories and approaches of International Relations. The early registration period is now open until Sept. 14th (late fees apply after that).

ISA-Midwest Call for Papers

The 2009 ISA Midwest conference will be held in St. Louis, November 6-8, 2009.  The call for papers is available on-line at http://isa-m.missouri.edu/. Proposals should be received by August 31, 2009.

This year’s ISA Midwest conference will feature a roundtable reviewing a project assessing global nuclear stability. The project produced by the United States Strategic Command's Global Innovation and Strategy Center (GISC) reviewed tools and methodologies for assessing global nuclear stability in a multipolar world. As America prepares to review its defense and nuclear posture, the Department of Defense customer told GISC leaders it is more vital than ever to understand how both friends and potential adversaries look at the acquisition, proliferation and use of nuclear weapons. A team of senior policy and analytical experts engaged in two workshops held in February and April 2009 to identify and define relevant nuclear stability indicators in the diplomatic, information, military, economic, and other realms existing within nation-states. A resulting set of tools and methodologies now exists for assessing how both America's friends and competitors view nuclear stability. The project has been briefed and has already been called a significant step in building the nation's understanding of how friends and potential adversaries look at nuclear weapons.

Following a presentation of the project, Paul Diehl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University, and Mary Habeck, SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University will offer observations.

CfP: ISA-Midwest Annual Conference

The ISA-Midwest Region invites paper and panel proposals for its annual conference, to be held this year at the St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark, St. Louis, MO, November 6-8, 2009. Proposals should include titles of papers and a short abstract of approximately 150 words, to include contact information (name, affiliation, address, phone, fax, and email) of all participants and should be submitted to Terry Clark at tclark@creighton.edu by August 31, 2009.

CfP: ISA-West Annual Conference

ISA-West 2009 will be held in San Francisco, California on September 25-26, 2009. The conference theme this year is: The Human Consequences of State Political Action. The 2009 conference will continue ISA-West’s work with the International Ethics Section of the ISA, the Active Learning in International Studies Section of the ISA, and Women in International Security to bring in exciting roundtables, knowledgeable speakers, and practical applications of International Relations scholarship. As always, ISA-West welcomes submissions from all areas within international relations and comparative politics across disciplines. ISA-West also welcomes pedagogical proposals, roundtables, and full panel proposals.  Panel proposals should have 3-4 papers, a chair and a discussant. The 2009 conference will also continue ISA-West’s scholarly and activist exploration of questions of ethics in International Relations. Please email your proposals to isawest@gmail.com. When you do, please include your name, contact information, institutional affiliation, a title, an abstract, and whether you are faculty, a graduate student, an undergraduate student, or none of the above. The deadline for the conference is May 1, 2009. For more information, please see the conference website.

CfP: ISA-South Annual Conference

The program chair invites paper and panel proposals for the ISA-South Annual Conference, on the theme Change in International Studies, to be held October 16-17, 2009, Preston Hotel, Nashville Tennessee. Individual proposals and panels can focus on change in the theories and approaches of International Relations. We welcome proposals that deal with International Studies in general or a particular geographical region. In addition we also encourage papers that analyze recent electoral changes that have taken place and their potential or actual implications for international relations. Proposals and panels on change in the teaching of International Studies are also welcomed. These can emphasis innovations regarding study abroad, service learning, and simulations such as Model UN. Proposal deadline: July 14, 2009.

CfP: ISA-APR Inaugural Conference

The ISA-Asia Pacific Region (ISA-APR) of ISA invites paper and panel proposals for our inaugural conference to be held July 1-2, 2009, in Brisbane, Australia. The conference theme is: Regions, States, Peoples, and People in a World of Different Worlds. Proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers should be submitted by close of business on Friday, Feb. 27th. General inquiries may be directed at ISAAPRinquiries@uq.edu.au. The full text of the call for papers can be found here.

UPDATE 3/18/09: This conference has been cancelld by the program chairs.