By EurekAlert
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Washington, DC—The 105th Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association (APSA) will convene from September
3-6 in Toronto, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the
InterContinental Toronto Centre, and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
This is the first time in its history that the meeting has been
held outside the United States. The APSA Annual Meeting is the
world's largest gathering of political scientists; almost 7,000
participants are expected to attend over 1,000 panel sessions and
events.
Contemporary public debates feature prominently in the meeting
program. Hundreds of sessions will be convened on questions such as
the 2008 U.S. elections, conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan,
immigration, terrorism, voting behavior, U.S. foreign and security
policy, religion, and political polarization. The full meeting
program is searchable by keyword and is online at http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/program_2009/.
The 2009 meeting, which has the theme of "Politics in Motion:
Change and Complexity in the Contemporary Era" asks political
scientists to think about knowledge in a context of change and
complexity as both a scholarly endeavor and for bringing that
knowledge to bear on the crucial policy challenges that shape our
contemporary era. This theme draws our attention to what is new,
different, and unusual in politics today and points to the constant
motion involved in the pursuit of knowledge.
Some featured speakers and highlights include:
- A plenary session on "Barack Obama: The Politics of Change"
featuring Larry Bartels (Princeton University), Glenn Loury (Brown
University), Theda Skocpol (Harvard University), and Rogers Smith
(University of Pennsylvania)
- The Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture by author Kevin Phillips on "Bad
Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of
American Capitalism"
- A plenary session Great Debate on "How Free Should Hate Speech
Be?" featuring Amy Gutmann (President, Univ. of Pennsylvania),
Robert Post (Dean, Yale Law School), Carissima Mathen (Univ. of New
Brunswick Law School), and Jeremy Waldron (NYU Law School)
- Presidential Address by Peter Katzenstein (Cornell
University)
- A series of sessions on U.S. Standing in the World
- A plenary session with Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus at
McGill University and Professor of Law and Philosophy at
Northeastern University, on "The Many Forms of Secularism."
- The New Political Science plenary address by noted author Tom
Hayden on "Movements Against Machiavellians, the Theory and
Practice of Social Change"
- The John Gaus Lecture recognizing scholarship in public
administration, by Prof. Larry O'Toole (University of Georgia)
- A panel on New Directions in Latino Politics Research
- A Roundtable on the 2008 National Asian American Survey
- Panels in honor of the late Samuel Huntington, Nelson Polsby,
and Charles Tilly
Interested members of the media may pre-register for
complimentary meeting credentials online at http://www.apsanet.org/section_77.cfm
until 5 PM EST, Friday, August 28. On-site registration at the
Metro Toronto Convention Center will also be available.
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