Our Sapphire Series brings together featured speakers and roundtables on topics in International Relations. In addition to providing special events at the convention, the Series will also be filmed and listed in our Professional Resource Center for members!

See below to learn about the excited events this year! All events will take place on Friday in the Jefferson Ballroom at the Hilton Riverside.

Roundtable Discussion: Friday, 8:15am, Jefferson Ballroom

Cameron G. Thies

Arizona State University

Moderator

Fred Chernoff

Colgate University

Scott Gates

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Norwegian University of Science and Technoogy (NTNU)

Kelly M. Kadera

University of Iowa

Laura Sjoberg

University of Florida

The State of IR Theory: Questions Big & Small

Roundtable Discussion: Friday, 10:30am, Jefferson Ballroom

William R. Thompson

Indiana University

Moderator

Barry Buzan

London School of Economics and Political Science

Robert Keohane

Princeton University

Kathryn Sikkink

Harvard Kennedy School

J. Ann Tickner

American University

Stephen Walt

Harvard University

Topics in Teaching and Professional Development

Speaker Series: Friday, 1:45pm, Jefferson Ballroom

Igniting Student Passion for Learning

Vicki Golich Metropolitan State University of Denver

International Studies and the Future of Online Education

Mary Jane Parmentier Arizona State University

Developing Student Scholars

James Scott Texas Christian University

Commentary on Breaking Current Events

Speaker Series: Friday, 4:00pm, Jefferson Ballroom

Terrorism and the War on Terror

Martha Crenshaw Stanford University

The Ukraine Crisis

James Goldgeier American University

Ebola

Jeremy Youde University of Minnesota, Duluth

2015 Series

Our 2015 Sapphire Series consists of four events taking place in the normal slots throughout the day. The two morning sessions will be moderated roundtables, while the two afternoon sessions will have three individual talks each 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Update from ISA

Many of you have raised concern over ISA’s new Sapphire Series. Please see our post on this topic and feel free to contact us if you have any further questions or comments.

ISA 2015 Sapphire Series