ISA Annual Convention 2008 Blog

Presidential Address

On Thursday 27 March 2008, ISA President-Elect Nils Petter Gleditsch gave his keynote address "The Liberal Moment - 15 Years on" at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in San Francisco, California. Dr. Gleditsch now takes over as ISA President, and will be responsible for organizing the 50th convention in New York City, 15-18 February 2009. The presidential address has been archived on the ISA website at the following URLs:

MS Word:
http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/sanfran2008/PA_ISA_2008_oral_final.doc

Power Point:
http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/sanfran2008/PA_slideshow_final.pptx*

*This is a zip file, the .pptx files requires MS Office 2007 for viewing.

Celebrating the Life of Debby Green

Debby Green, former administrator of the Pew Faculty Fellowship in Case Teaching and Writing at the Kennedy School, passed away suddenly in January 2008. The Pew Fellows are getting together at the International Studies Association meetings to celebrate her life and contribution to the Pew Fellowship (ALIAS, the Active Learning in International Affairs section of ISA, was started by several Pew Fellows after the KGS program ended, with the goal of continuing the work started by the Fellowship).

If you were a friend of Debby Green's and would like to join us, we are meeting on Thursday, March 27, at 9 pm in the Piazza Lounge on the second floor of the Parc55 Hotel, across from the San Francisco Hilton. Address: 55 Cyril Magnin Street. John Boehrer, Director of the Pew Fellowship, will be there along with at least a dozen Pew Fellows. We hope in some small way, through laughter and friendship, to commemorate the life of this beautiful and much loved person. For more information, please contact Lorraine Eden (leden@tamu.edu or call 979-777-3489).

IPE Events at Annual Convention

The IPE section invites you to two events featuring this year's Outstanding Public Scholar Awardee, Filipino academic and activist Walden Bello.

1) Panel #TD02 honoring Outstanding Public Scholar Walden Bello
Date: Thursday March 27th 2008
Time: 3:45pm – 5:30pm
Location: Continental 4 (Hilton)
Chair: Barry Gills, University of Newcastle

2) Public forum and book party on "The Future of the Global Justice Movement"
Co-sponsored by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Press
Speakers: Walden Bello (Focus on the Global South), Kevin Danaher (Global Exchange), and Susan George (Transnational Institute & ATTAC)
Authors in Barry Gill's edited series Rethinking Globalization will also be on hand
Date: Friday March 28th 2008
Time: 8-10:30 pm
Location: City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
This event is free and open to the public

Further information:  Contact Ruth Reitan at r.reitan@miami.edu, or Sian Askew at sian.askew@tandf.co.uk

Meetings & Receptions Schedule

The preliminary schedule of all non-panel activities and events has been updated by  Jeanne White, Director of Conventions & Meetings. The preliminary schedule of meetings and receptions is archived here in PDF.

Meeting & Reception Forms

We have posted some forms on the Convention website for those planning meetings and receptions. In our effort to make the process and painless as possible, we are using interactive PDF application forms that will allow you to easily fill out the forms on your computer and send them back to us. We have since learned that some Mac users may have difficulty with the interactive forms and so we have posted the standard PDF forms as well. If you are having difficulty, first make sure you are using the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freely available from the Adobe website, and then if you are still experiencing problems, you may use the standard PDF files to submit your application. Than you.