WPSA Conference Schedule 2025

A New Requiem for Politics? Racing Toward Catastrophe—or Transformation?
Seattle, WA, April 17th-19th


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Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, April 16th (No Times Assigned)
Room Panel
No Room Assigned 33.01 - Pre-Conference Workshop #1 : Environmental Political Theory
No Room Assigned 33.02 - Pre-Conference Workshop #2 : Feminist Theory
No Room Assigned 33.03 - Pre-Conference Workshop #3 : Latina/o/x Politics
Thursday, April 17th 8:00am-9:45am
Room Panel
407 1.01 - Populism, Radicalism, and Democracy
502 2.01 - Contemporary Challenges Confronting U.S. Higher Education
503 3.01 - Authors meets critics-Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life
504 3.13 - Critical Ecology
406 4.01 - Innovating ethnographic approaches to studying global environmental politics
408 4.11 - Climate Change, Environment, and Energy: Public Opinion and Political Behavior
508 5.01 - Looking Back and Looking Forward: Biden and the New President
501 6.01 - Building Intersectional and Transnational Movements
608 9.01 - Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
601 10.01 - Interpreting the Embodiment: exclusionary-inclusion, watery floats, sweaty bodies, and performing responsibility
509 11.01 - The Public Connection: The Judicial Role in Political Outcomes
409 12.01 - Who Runs for Legislative Office and Why?
505 14.02 - Intersectionality, Interest Group Activism and Political Mobilization
606 15.01 - Democracy, Science, and the Politics of Attention
402 16.01 - Thinking Polycrisis with and beyond Foucault
403 16.13 - Global Political Thought - Struggle, Ideology & Cosmology
404 16.25 - Ecological Economies: Materialism, Environmentalism & The Politics of Oil
405 16.37 - Emancipations, Assimilations and Collisions with Liberal Thought
506 17.01 - Racism, Colonialism, and Resistance
507 17.19 - 20th Century Political Theory
603 18.01 - Legitimacy and Law in the Ancient World
607 24.08 - Investigating Law Enforcement
605 24.13 - Ideology and Partisanship
604 24.15 - Political Fundraising and Polling
609 28.02 - Voting and Elections in Comparative Perspective
Thursday, April 17th 10:00am-11:45am
Room Panel
407 1.02 - Activism, Power, Protesting and Social Movements
406 1.03 - Civil-Military Conflict and Problems
502 2.02 - Global and Transformative Efforts in Higher Education
503 3.02 - Power and Balance: Re-thinking Hierarchies, Equality, and Freedoms with the More-Than-Human World
504 3.17 -Inter/Intra Species Communication and Deliberation
408 4.12 - Drivers of Environmental and Climate (In)action
508 5.02 - Author Meets Critics: Commander-In-Chief by Casey B.K. Dominguez
501 6.03 - Gender, Race, and Legislative Institutions in the US
608 9.02 - Government Repression and Human Rights
509 11.02 - The Courts Post-Dobbs: Sex, Gender, and Healthcare Rights
409 12.02 - U.S. Congress
505 14.01 - Parties, Interest Groups, Movements and Political Organizations in Latin America
606 15.02 - Capitalism, Reconciliation, and Federalism in Fragile Democracies
402 16.03 - Author-meets-critics: A Philosophical History of Police Power, by Melayna Kay Lamb
403 16.14 - Necropolitics: White Consumption, Complicity, and Constructions of the Human
404 16.27 - The Female Body: Object, Agent, Transcendence*
405 16.38 - Authors-Meet-Critics: Everyone’s Business What Companies Owe Society by Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer
506 17.02 - Revolutionary Political Spaces
507 17.13 - Theorizing Politics in China
603 18.02 - Race, Gender, and Indigeneity: Statebuilding in the South and West
604 24.01 - Globalizing and Classifying Ethnicity
605 24.02 - The Political Psychology of Race & Ethnicity
607 25.02 - The Demographics of Representation: Design, Performance, and Expectations
609 28.01 - The Causes and Consequences of Election Outcomes
601 32.01 - Abolition(s)
Thursday, April 17th 1:15pm-3:00pm
Room Panel
Willapa 5th Floor 0.01 - Reimagining Transformation in a Fragile World
401 1.12 - In Memoriam: The Political Vision of James Scott
503 3.03 - New Books in EPT
504 3.16 - Perspectives on the Planetary Emergency
407 4.02 - Challenging and Extending Environmental & Climate Justice
406 4.03 - Environmental & Climate Justice Policy Processes and Dynamics
501 6.02 - The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Political Behavior
408 7.01 - Immigrant Political Participation and Incorporation
602 8.01 - Methodological Pluralism in Indigenous Politics
609 9.03 - Dynamics of Civilian Victimization
509 11.03 - Constitutionalism and Crisis in the Roberts Court
409 12.03 - OTC's: Other than Congress Legislative Politics
603 13.01 - Media Attention and Democracy
505 14.03 - "Between A Campaign and A Movement:" Race, Gender and the Intersectional Mobilizing of Joy in the Kamala Harris Campaign"
606 15.03 - Political Liminality, Utopian Thought, and Democratic Dissent
402 16.02 - Author-Meets-Critics: 'Politics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building,' by Lena Zuckerwise
403 16.15 - Indigeneity, Humanism & Settler Colonialism
404 16.26 - Expanding the Archive of Feminism and Theorizing Beyond Consent
506 17.03 - Alternative Sovereignties
507 17.14 - Death and the Politics of Mortality
502 19.01 - Examining Political Spectres
607 20.01 - Comparative Trans Politics: Evidence from India, Canada, and the United States
608 20.07 - Sexuality, Law, and Politics
405 22.01 - Identity Politics: Formation, Causation, and Discrimination
508 23.01 - Education and Public Policy in Comparative Contexts
604 24.09 - Political Implications of Policing
605 24.14 - Further Explorations of Ideology and Partisanship
601 32.02 - Archives of Violence
Thursday, April 17th 3:15pm-5:00pm
Room Panel
407 1.05 - The Politics of China
503 3.04 - Hope Springs Eternal: So Why Is Everybody Selling It?
504 3.14 - Populism and Democracy
406 4.04 - Environmental justice and power in public policy implementation
501 6.04 - Intersectional Policy Initiatives and the Limits of Executive Power
408 7.02 - Navigating Borders and Boundaries: Exploring the Impact of Policies and Community Initiatives on Migrant Experiences in the U.S.
602 8.02 - Addressing the Boundaries of Indigenous Identity
609 9.12 - Emerging Research on International Political Economy
509 11.04 - Public Law and The Courts: A Comparative Perspective
409 12.04 - A Decade of Research on Civil Discourse in State Legislatures: Post-COVID Update and Reaction Panel
603 13.02 - Affective Polarization and Media
505 14.04 - Gender, Democracy, and Interest Group Mobilization
606 15.04 - Meritocracy, Education, and the Future of Political Leadership
402 16.03 - Author-Meets-Critics: Subaltern Silence: A Postcolonial Genealogy, by Kevin Olson
403 16.16 - Decoloniality, Revolution and Worldmaking
404 16.28 - Political Economy, Capitalism & The Politics of Money
401 16.35 - On Politics, Power & Subaltern Strategies
507 17.15 - Governmentality: New Directions and Topics
506 17.17 - Author-meets-critics: Natasha Piano's Democracy and Elites: The Secret History of American Political Science
607 20.02 - Authors-Meet-Critics: The Politics of Perverts: The Political Attitudes and Actions of Non-Traditional Sexual Minorities
608 20.09 - LGBTQ Politics in Comparative Perspective
405 22.02 - Emerging Economic Issues in Public Opinion
508 23.02 - Policy Collaboration and Policy Conflict
604 24.04 - Immigrant Identities
605 24.16 - Politics of Identity: Religion, Education, and Sports
601 32.03 - Subjectification and Subjectivation
Friday, April 18th 8:00am-9:45am
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407 1.04 - The Military, Peace, and Trust
503 3.05 - Teaching Environmental Political Theory
504 3.15 - Ecological Challenges to the State
406 4.05 - Environmental & Climate Justice Social Movements
408 7.03 - Policies, Perceptions, and Paradoxes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics in Contemporary Societies
509 11.07 - The Judicial Role in Mobilization for Rights and Representation
603 13.03 - Information, Repression, and Participation
505 14.05 - Power, Authoritarianism and Comparative Political Movements
606 15.05 - Feminist Movements, Identity, and Authoritarian Backlash
402 16.05 - Gilles Deleuze at 100: Negotiating Political Traditions, Imagining Untimely Futures
403 16.17 - The Politics of Arendtian Thought: Citizenship, Judgement & Freedom
404 16.29 - Theorizing Structure, Justice and Domination
506 17.04 - Liminal and Neoteric Political Theory
507 17.16 - Political Theory After Wolin
607 20.03 - LGBTQ Identity
608 20.08 - Current Issues in LGBTQ Politics
Willapa 5th Floor 21.01 - Administrative Politics and Power in Comparative Perspective
508 23.03 - Health Policy and Health Inequities
604 24.05 - Racial-Ethnic Coalition Building
605 24.17 - Proposed Panel with 1 paper: Latino Worker and Community Politics
609 26.01 - Seeking Research Funding from Foundations: Grant and Fellowship Opportunities for Political Scientists
409 29.01 - Gendered Political Leadershipl
501 30.01 - Asian Americans and racial discrimination
401 31.01 - AI Roundtable: Reimagining Education
601 32.04 - On Oddities and Ontologies of Violence
405 35.01 - Party and State Building Under Authoritarian Rule
Friday, April 18th 10:00am-11:45am
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407 1.07 - Business, Economics, and Resources in Politics
503 3.06 - Environmental Feminism as Politics of Possibility
504 3.18 - The Rights of Nature
408 7.04 - Integration, Identity, and Ideology: Reevaluating Immigration and Nationalism in Contemporary Societies
602 8.04 - Continuity and Transformation in Indigenous Political Scholarship
509 11.05 - Capitalism and Public Law: A Critical Perspective
603 13.04 - Organizations, Media, and Participation
505 14.06 - Generational Change and Political Parties
606 15.06 - Polarization, Social Trust, and Democratic Resilience
409 16.01 - Thinking Polycrisis with and beyond Foucault
402 16.06 - Pleasure, Excess, Aliveness: Thinking Justice Anew
403 16.18 - Disability, Dignity and Affect
404 16.30 - Morality, Value and Realism in Politics
406 16.39 - Lies, Denial, and Hate: Assessing Right-Wing and Authoritarian Rhetorical Strategiesy
506 17.05 - New Answers to Old Questions
507 17.18 - Author-meets-critics: Bonnie Honig's Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (30th Anniversary Edition)
607 20.04 - Roundtable: Why does WPSA need a Queer Caucus?
508 23.04 - Governance and Representation
604 24.06 - RLabor and Community Politics
605 24.18 - Roundtable: Latino Social Movements & the Politics of Election
609 26.02 - Strategies for Successful Undergraduate Research Collaborations
608 28.05 - Race, Ethnicity, Age, and Indigeneity, in the Study of Voting and elections
501 30.02 - Asian American professionalization roundtable
401 31.02 - Amplifying Our Voices: Empowering Community College Students to Vote
601 32.05 - Burning it Down
405 35.02 - Institutions and Personalization of Power Under Authoritarian Rule
Friday, April 18th 1:15pm-3:00pm
Room Panel
407 1.06 - Policy and the Public in Autocracies
503 3.07 - New Approaches to Green Republicanism: Addressing the Climate Crisis and Contemporary Domination
504 3.19 - Interspecies Justice
502 6.05 - Gender, Race, and Sexuality as Sites of Struggle with the State
408 7.05 - Transience, Identity, and Transition: Navigating the Complex Dynamics of Diaspora and Migration in Crisis Situations
602 8.05 - Futurity in Indigenous Politics, Governance and Sovereignty
608 9.04 - The Onset and Resolution of Civil Conflicts
603 13.06 - Author Meets Critics: The Politics of Hate
505 14.07 - Author Meets Audience: Refounding Democracy Through Intersectional Activism by Wendy Sarvasy
606 15.07 - The Future of Work, Oligarchy, and Economic Restructuring
402 16.07 - Author Meets Critics: Kevin Pham's
403 16.19 - Technological Crisis in Democracy: Misinformation, Hacking & Artificial Intelligence
404 16.31 - (Re)Framing the Discipline: Science, Empiricism & The Non-Human
406 16.40 - milo
507 17.11 - Literature, Poetry, and Political Speech
506 17.12 - Populist Democracy: Contradictions and Challenges
607 20.05 - LGBTQ Identity and Public Opinion
604 20.10 - Borders, Homophobia, and Homonationalism
Willapa 5th Floor 23.05 - Capitalism, Governance, and Economic Policy
605 24.19 - Roundtable: Afro-Latinidades: Black Identity Politics in the Americas
609 26.03 - Exploring Innovations in Pedagogical Tools and Practices
Quinault 5th Floor 27.01 - Poster Session
409 29.03 - American Political Candidates
501 30.03 - Asian American political participation
401 31.03 - Beyond the Classroom: Collaborating for Success
601 32.06 - Discipline and Punish: 50 Years After
405 35.03 - Public Support for Authoritarian Rule
Friday, April 18th 3:15pm-5:00pm
Room Panel
407 1.08 - European Political Issues
503 3.08 - Speed and sacrifice: Eco-managing at terminal velocity
406 4.06 - Environmental Violence and Knowledge
509 5.03 - The Impact of Conservative Movement Politics on the Executive Branch
502 6.06 - Author Meets Readers: “Fatal Denial: The Political Life of Black Infant Mortality,” by Annie Menzel
608 9.05 - Diplomacy and Alliances
603 13.05 - The far-right media ecosystem as a multilayered space for contesting liberal democracy and its epistemic foundations
  15.08 - Narratives of Crisis: Democracy, Climate Change, and Media Spectacles
402 16.08 - Black Materialities: Unworking the Grammars of Racialized Capital
403 16.20 - The Aesthetic Turn: Art, Imagination, and Political Transformation
404 16.32 - On the State of the Discipline: Locating the Political
506 17.06 - Issues in Liberal Theory
602 18.03 - Splintering and Reconstituting the State and Society
507 19.02 - Exploring Political (Im)Possibilities
607 20.06 - LGBTQ Candidates and Elections
408 22.03 - Gender, Sexuality, and Public Opinion
604 24.07 - Influence and Decision Making in Public Policy Realms
605 25.03 - Comparing State Responses to Emerging Challenges
505 25.07 - Democratizing Campaign Contributions: Insights from Seattle's Voucher System
609 26.04 - (Re)conceiving Political Science Education: Creativity, Emotions, Depolarization in Curricula and Impacts of Major Names
409 29.02 - Gender and Public Policy
501 30.04 - Local community activists panel
401 31.04 - Beyond Lectures: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Political Science in Community Colleges
601 32.07 - Gendered Violence and Resistance
405 35.04 - Authoritarian Stability and Democratic Backsliding
Saturday, April 19th 8:00am-9:45am
Room Panel
407 1.09 - Radicalism and the Far-Right
503 3.09 - Author Meets Critics Panel on the book: Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States
406 4.08 - Advances in Environmental Politics Methodology: Data, Network Analysis, and Machine Learning
502 6.07 - Roundtable: Of, With, and For the Movement: The Task of Researching Racial Justice Organizing
608 9.06 - Strategic Signaling and Gray Zone Tactics: Unpacking China's Coercive Diplomacy in the Taiwan Strait
508 10.02 - Interpreting Resistance Narratives: memory activist, US-Afghanistan context, peacebuilding, civic activism
509 11.06 - Religion, Rights, and the Law
505 14.08 - Human Rights and the Politics of Care for Neuro-Divergent Children
606 15.11 - Not Knowing: The Democratic Power of Oblivion, Ignorance, and Silence
607 15.13 - Precarity, Culture, and Catastrophe
402 16.10 - Pessimism and Political Theory
403 16.21 - Critiques of State Power: Incarceration, Policing, and Biopolitics
404 16.34 - Theorizing Harm: Heteroromanticism, Relational Violence, and Grievance
506 17.07 - Revisiting Modern Political Theory
602 18.04 - Religious and Political Faiths: Transformations in the Polity
507 19.03 - Popular Culture and Politics
604 24.03 - Investigating Political Behavior
609 25.01 - Evolving Local Democracy: Citizen engagement and Electoral Reforms
605 25.04 - Policing in Transition: Technology, Race, and Reform
603 28.03 - Electoral Dynamics in Canadian Politics
401 29.04 - Backlash and Bigotry: The Rise of Anti-Gender, Anti-Feminist, and Anti-LGBTQ Policy
409 29.05 - Gender Violence, Human Rights, and Contentious Politics
501 30.05 - Asian American political attitudes
601 32.08 - Revisiting Canonical Thinkers and Concepts
405 35.05 - Propaganda and Public Support Under Authoritarian Rule
Saturday, April 19th 10:00am-11:45am
Room Panel
407 1.11 - Democracy, Illiberalism, Transitions, and Survival
503 3.10 - Environmental Epistemologies
406 4.07 - Energy Justice
502 6.08 - Roundtable: The Fight for Ethnic Studies in California & Washington State
608 9.07 - Technology and International Relations
509 11.08 - Author-meets-critics: The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood by Grace E. Howard
606 15.09 - Religion, Violence, and Imperial Legacies
607 15.16 - Resentment, Markets, and the Borders of Privacy
402 16.09 - Author Meets Readers:
403 16.22 - Care and Warfare: Trans, Queer, and Feminist Strategies of Possibility
404 16.33 - Anarchism, Revolt and Revolution
506 17.08 - Challenging Received Theorizations of Race, Gender, and Sex
408 22.04 - Democratic Difficulties I: Polarization, Political Violence, and Declining Support for Democracy
508 23.06 - Justice, Policy, and Advocacy in U.S. Food Systems and Communities: Rethinking Federalism, Financing, and Social Movements
604 24.10 - Media and Political Representation
605 25.05 - Housing Battlegrounds: Unpacking Zoning, Race, and Community in Development Policy
609 26.05 - Building Interdisciplinary Classrooms
603 28.04 - The Political Consequences of Voting Regulations and Election Administration
409 29.06 - Comparative Gender Politics
601 32.09 - Disembodiment
405 35.06 - Elections Under Authoritarian Rule
Saturday, April 19th 1:15pm-3:00pm
Room Panel
407 1.10 - Causes and Outcomes of Political Participation
503 3.12 - Place and Space
406 4.09 - Scale and Climate Governance
508 5.04 - Challenge face to democracy
502 6.10 - Roundtable: WOC strategies and what's next?
608 9.09 - Power Politics in the International System
609 9.10 - State-Making, Statelessness, and Sovereignty
606 15.10 - Author-meets-critics: Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation, by Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy and Craig Borowiak (Minnesota 2024)
607 15.15 - Issues in Global Justice
402 16.11 - Complicating Friendship and Relationality
403 16.23 - State of Mind: Traumacracy, Psychoanalysis & Political Psychology
506 17.09 - Dirty Hands and the Ethics of Political Action
408 22.05 - Airwaves, Algorithms, and Attitudes: Politics in the Current Media Environment
604 24.11 - Media and Political Representation #2
605 25.06 - Opportunities and Challenges in Multi-level Governance
409 29.07 - Gender and Political Psychology
601 32.10 - Reproductive Domination
Saturday, April 19th 3:15pm-5:00pm
Room Panel
503 3.11 - Geoengineering and New Planetary Perspectives
406 4.10 - Collaborative Governance and Policy Adoption
508 5.05 - Authors-Meet-Critics: The Presidents and the People: Five Presidents who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens who Fought to Defend It, by Corey Brettschneider AND Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War, by Stuart Streichler
502 6.09 - Roundtable: The State of Intersectionality Research in Political Science
603 8.03 - American Indians and American Governance
608 9.08 - International Environmental Politics
609 9.11 - International Politics in the Pacific
509 11.09 - Author-meets-critics: Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime
606 15.12 - Author meets Critics: Ira Allen's
607 15.14 - Representation and the Boundaries of Democracy
402 16.12 - Psychoanalysis and Political Theory: A Renewed Method?
403 16.24 - Theorizing Democratic Conditions: Modernity, Militarism & Radicalism
404 16.36 - Labor Politics
506 17.10 - Theories of Race and Ethnicity: New Directions
408 22.06 - Democratic Difficulties II: Election Controversies and Democratic Decline in US and Around the Globe
604 24.12 - Theorizing Race and Ethnicity
409 29.08 - A Thirty Year Retrospective on At Women's Expense: Reproductive Politics in the US Post-Dobbs
601 32.11 - Critical Medeas: Violence and Politics Between Myth and Reality
Special Meetings and Events
Room Thursday, April 17th 3:15pm-5:00pm
502 34.01 - Roundtable: First Generation Scholars Committee: Contemporary Challenges in the Discipline
Room Thursday, April 17th 8:00am-12:00pm
None 34.02 - WPSA Executive Council Meeting
Room Thursday, April 17th 5:15pm-6:15pm
None 34.08 - Graduate Student Reception
Room Thursday, April 17th 6:30pm-9:00pm
None 34.09 - WPSA Awards Reception
Room Thursday, April 17th 12:00pm-1:00pm
402 34.11 - APSA President
Room Thursday, April 17th 12:00pm-1:00pm
None 34.13 - Navigating the Academic Job Market
Room Friday, April 18th 5:00pm-6:00pm
None 34.03 - Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans
Room Friday, April 18th 12:00pm-1:00pm
None 34.04 - Gender Justice Caucus
Room Friday, April 18th 5:15pm-5:45pm
None 34.05 - WPSA Business Meeting
Room Friday, April 18th 6:30pm-9:00pm
None 34.07 - WPSA Welcome Reception
Room Saturday, April 19th 12:00pm-2:00pm
None 34.06 - Section Chair Lunch
Room Date and Time TBD
None 34.10 - Methods Café
None 34.12 - Meet the Editors