The 2023 New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference

The 2023 New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Annual Conference will be held in person at the University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau between the 15th and 17th of February 2024. The theme for the Conference is: The Rising Pacific.

While the conference will welcome a broad range of Political Studies scholars and their works, we particularly encourage papers, panels, and roundtables that speak broadly to the theme.

Participants may wish to explore:

• How centring the Pacific as a region of study, or the Pacific as a collective of unique knowledges and histories, help us to better understand contemporary politics?
• What is “the Pacific”, and do distinctions between Oceania, the Indo-Pacific, Polynesia, and Australasia, limit or enhance our theories and politics?
• What unique challenges confront the Pacific that suspend, obscure, generate, or stymie our existing ways of thinking and theorising about politics?
• What roles do Aotearoa New Zealand, and other Pacific nations, play in international politics in the Pacific and beyond?

The conference organisation team will welcome a diverse range of participatory formats. We encourage submissions of whole panels, author-meets-critic book roundtables, network-specific themed panels (e.g. local government, gender and politics, political theory, etc.) and professional development themed discussions. 

For further questions, enquiries, or proposals, please contact NZPSA2024@gmail.com by 6 October 2023.