The Association's annual convention is a major international scholarly event, including over 800 panel sessions and involving participants from more than fifty countries. Our conventions and conferences are held at sites in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and overseas. ISA's site selection policy is detailed in this PDF file. The next annual convention will be held in Montreal, Canada, in March of 2011.
ISA also cosponsors international conferences with our cooperating organizations around the world. Recent examples of such conferences include the joint convention in Hong Kong between Hong Kong University and ISA in July of 2001, the joint conference in Budapest between Central European University and ISA in June of 2003, and the joint conference in Istanbul between the World International Studies Committee and ISA in August of 2005. Our most recent international conference was the ABRI-ISA Joint Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 22-24, 2009. A list of our past conferences can be found here.