IPSA Present at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting

IPSA was well represented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, USA, from 5-8 September 2024. The 2024 Annual Meeting was held under the theme Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination.

APSA Awards Reception 2024 
IPSA Past President Dianne Pinderhughes on 4 September participated in the APSA Award Reception, where she presented the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award to Rochelle Terman (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago) for her debut book, titled The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works - and When It Backfires, published by Princeton University Press in 2023. 

IPSA Panels
Chaired by IPSR Co-Editors Daniel Stockemer (University of Ottawa) and Annika M. Hinze (Fordham University), the two IPSA panels addressed the phenomenon of democratic backsliding and its consequences for academic freedom from a plurality of perspectives on 5 September. The first IPSA panel, Democratic Backsliding and Academic Freedom I: A Macro-Perspective, addressed the global decline in democratic freedoms and its impact on academic freedom from a macro perspective. The second panel, Democratic Backsliding and Academic Freedom II: Case Studies, explored specific case studies from various countries, focusing on the relationship between democratic backsliding and academic freedom. 

IPSR Reception
IPSA's flagship journal, the International Political Science Review (IPSR), held a cocktail reception on 6 September. This event provided a unique opportunity to meet IPSR Co-Editors Daniel Stockemer and Annika Hinze. APSA delegates asked various questions about the journal and its submission guidelines.