WPSA Conference Schedule 2024
Political Backlash and Its Consequences
Vancouver BC, March 28th-30th
Please use our Panel Browsing Page if you would like more details on a specific panel.
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
| Room | Wednesday, March 27th 08:30pm-04:15pm |
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| Prince of Wales/Oxford | Environmental Political Theory |
| Room | Wednesday, March 27th 09:00pm-02:00pm |
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| Regency E | Latina/o politics |
| Room | Wednesday, March 27th 2:00pm-5:00pm |
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| Plaza A/B | Interpretive Methods |
| Room | Wednesday, March 27th 2:00pm-6:30pm |
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| Regency C | 35.01 - Feminist Theory |
| Room | Wednesday, March 27th 2:30pm-4:30pm |
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| Georgia A | Diversity and Inclusion in Social Movements |
| Room | Thursday, March 28th 8:00am-9:45am |
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| Tennyson | 1.01 - African Politics |
| Georgia A | 3.01 - Author-meets-critics: Sharon Krause's Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom |
| Georgia B | 3.13 - Ecofeminism, multispecies justice, technology |
| Balmoral | 4.01 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Oxford | 6.02 - Definition and Measurement in Studies of Voters and Representation |
| Stanley | 7.01 - Immigrant Political Participation |
| Prince of Wales | 8.01 - Economic Globalization |
| Cypress | 9.01 - New Frontiers in Interpretive Research: Autoethnography, Photovoice Research, Reproductive Justice and Posthuman Legalities |
| Brighton | 10.01 - Rights, Sovereignty & Administrative Law |
| Kensington | 13.01 - Civic Organizations and Civic Life amid Democratic Erosion and Political Backlash |
| Regency E | 14.01 - Antiracist Theory and Political Practice |
| Regency F | 14.14 - Intergenerational Trauma and Justice |
| Regency D | 14.21 - Violence, Migration, and Freedom in Contemporary Feminist Theory |
| Regency A | 15.01 - Violence, Migration, and Freedom in Contemporary Feminist Theory |
| Regency B | 15.14 - Epistemic Injustice, Violence, and the Law |
| Regency C | 15.37 - Author Meets Critics: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought, by Nazmul Sultan |
| English Bay | 15.40 - Global Decolonial Politics and Black Liberation |
| Plaza B | 16.01 - War, Conflict, and Historiography |
| Plaza C | 16.13 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Windsor | 19.01 - Book Panel: Zein Murib's |
| Dover | 21.01 - Political Communication and COVID-19 Public Opinion |
| Seymour | 24.01 - State Politics and Institutions |
| Constable | 27.01 - Public opinion & voter knowledge in elections |
| Cavendish | 28.01 - Marches and Movements |
| Plaza A | 32.01 - Ethnic Divides in Authoritarian Regimes |
| Room | Thursday, March 28th 10:00am-11:45am |
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| Tennyson | 1.02 - Political Economy |
| Georgia A | 3.02 - Author-meets-critics: Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital by James K. Rowe |
| Balmoral | 4.02 - Governing the Environment: Do Institutions Matter or Not? |
| Oxford | 6.03 - Locating and Conceptualizing Gendered Identities |
| Prince of Wales | 8.02 - American Power, Hegemony, etc. |
| Cypress | 9.02 - Critical Interpretive Methods: Rethinking Vulnerability, Interrogating Crisis, and Staging Playful Interruption |
| Brighton | 10.03 - Judicial & Legal Doctrine in a Polarized Era: Foundations & Current Trajectories |
| Kensington | 13.02 - Political Party influence |
| Regency E | 14.02 - Fascism and Anti-Fascisms |
| Regency F | 14.15 - Indigenous scholarship and Epistemic Domination in political science |
| Regency B | 14.26 - Beyond Westphalia and Liberalism: Struggles for Land, Relationality, and Fundamentalism |
| Regency A | 15.02 - Ecology and the Anthropocene |
| Regency C | 15.33 - New Directions in Democratic Theory |
| Regency D | 15.34 - Fascism and Anti-Fascism |
| Plaza B | 16.02 - Radical Visions of Democracy |
| Plaza C | 16.14 - Translation and Comparison Across Contexts |
| Windsor | 19.03 - LGBTQ Identity, Survival, and Resistance |
| Stanley | 20.01 - Towards a More Perfect Union: Public Administration and The Pursuit of a Just Democracy |
| Dover | 21.02 - Public Opinion About Minority Groups in the US and in Comparative Perspective |
| Constable | 21.03 - New Innovations in Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior |
| Georgia B | 22.01 - Technology and Policymaking |
| Lord Byron | 24.02 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Cavendish | 28.03 - Women Candidates in American Politics |
| Plaza A | 32.02 - New Modes of Authoritarian Control |
| Room | Thursday, March 28th 1:15pm-3:00pm |
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| Tennyson | 1.03 - Authoritarianism and Democracy I |
| Georgia A | 3.03 - Author Meets Critic: Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat |
| Georgia B | 3.14 - Democracy & agency in the Anthropocene |
| Balmoral | 4.03 - Environmental Politics Abroad |
| Oxford | 6.04 - Intersectionality, Civil Society and the Economy |
| Stanley | 7.02 - Exploring Anti Immigrant Sentiment |
| Prince of Wales | 8.03 - China in IR |
| Brighton | 10.02 - Judicial Legitimacy, Polarization & Political Crisis: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives |
| Kensington | 13.03 - Anti-establishment Politics |
| Regency E | 14.03 - Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism, Author Meets Critics |
| Regency F | 14.13 - Theorizing with Literary Inspiration |
| Regency A | 15.03 - Author Meets Critics: The Other Side of Disappointment, on Martel's *Anarchist Prophets* and *JUJU* |
| Regency B | 15.15 - Affect |
| Regency D | 15.25 - Theorizing Authority |
| Plaza B | 16.03 - Extremism and Revolutionary Ideas |
| Plaza C | 16.15 - Individual, Community, and the Public Sphere |
| Windsor | 19.02 - LGBTQ Candidates, Parties, and Laws |
| Dover | 21.04 - Emotions, Populism, and Public Opinion |
| Grouse | 23.01 - Black Politics |
| Cypress | 23.03 - Changing political citizenship over time |
| Seymour | 24.03 - Federalism and Devolution |
| English Bay | 25.01 - Pedagogical Challenges and Solutions |
| Constable | 27.03 - Electoral systems & election administration |
| Cavendish | 28.02 - Patriarchy and the Health of Women |
| Plaza A | 32.03 - Repression |
| Room | Thursday, March 28th 3:15pm-5:00pm |
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| Tennyson | 1.04 - Authoritarianism and Democracy II |
| Georgia A | 3.04 - Relationality & care beyond the human |
| Balmoral | 4.05 - Environmental Justice & Equity |
| Kensington | 13.04 - Understanding Social Movements and Activism |
| Regency E | 14.04 - Author Meets Critics: Lisa Beard's If We Were Kin (OUP 2023) |
| Dover | 14.10 - Community Organizing and Political Praxis |
| Regency F | 14.16 - Against Structural Injustice: Reparation, Apology, and Reponsibility |
| Regency A | 15.04 - The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy, by Samuel Bagg - Author Meets Critics |
| Regency B | 15.16 - Americans Love Hierarchy and Domination |
| Regency C | 15.35 - New Approaches in Civic Republicanism, Historical and Analytic |
| Regency D | 15.36 - Authors Meet Critics: “The Two Faces of Democracy” by Mary F. Scudder and Stephen K. White |
| Plaza B | 16.06 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Plaza C | 16.16 - Resisting Racial Capitalism within and without the State |
| Windsor | 19.04 - Legislation Targeting the LBGTQ Community |
| Georgia B | 22.02 - Putting the Public in Policymaking |
| Grouse | 23.02 - CBOs, context and mobilization |
| Seymour | 24.04 - Elections in State, Local, and Urban Politics |
| Constable | 27.04 - Candidate quality & campaign effects |
| Cavendish | 28.04 - Women Candidates in Global Politics |
| Plaza A | 32.04 - Autocratic Elites |
| Room | Friday, March 29th 8:00am-9:45am |
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| Tennyson | 1.06 - Politics of China |
| Georgia A | 3.05 - Compost Politics: Deaths and New Directions in Eco-Materialism |
| Plaza B | 3.15 - Climate crises & environmental ethics |
| Balmoral | 4.04 - Environment, Climate, and the Golden State |
| Oxford | 6.05 - Academic Conferences, Violence, and Care Praxis |
| Stanley | 7.03 - Immigration Around the World |
| Prince of Wales | 8.04 - Alliances |
| Kensington | 13.05 - The Political Influence of Unions |
| Regency E | 14.05 - The Political Theory of Development: Dependency, Degrowth, and Decolonization |
| Regency D | 14.27 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Regency A | 15.05 - Marxisms |
| Brighton | 15.13 - Author Meets Critics: 'Hanging Together: Role-Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement' by Eric W. Cheng, Author Meets Critics |
| Regency B | 15.17 - Class and Community |
| English Bay | 15.26 - Author-meets-critics: Jonathan Havercroft's STANLEY CAVELL'S DEMOCRATIC PERFECTIONISM |
| Regency C | 15.27 - Kenough already! Rethinking feminist theories of patriarchy with Barbie |
| Constable | 16.04 - Reflecting on Racial Politics |
| Georgia B | 16.17 - Confucian Political Thought during Wartime, 1931-1945 |
| Windsor | 19.05 - LGBTQ Rights and Political Visibility |
| Dover | 21.05 - Public Opinion Formation Around the World |
| Cypress | 23.04 - Ethnicity and Race in Comparison |
| Seymour | 24.06 - The Politics of Major Metropolitan Areas and Cities |
| Grouse | 27.02 - Voting rights and discrimination in electoral politics |
| Cavendish | 28.05 - The Impact of Women as Leaders |
| Plaza C | 29.03 - Asian candidates and voters in the U.S. and Canada: race, ethnicity, and immigration generation |
| Regency F | 30.01 - Racial Attitudes in American Politics |
| Plaza A | 32.05 - Resistance against Authoritarianism |
| Room | Friday, March 29th 10:00am-11:45am |
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| Seymour | 0.03 - Beyond Cruelty: Envisioning Abundance in Dark Times |
| Tennyson | 1.05 - Conflict |
| Georgia A | 3.06 - Environmental Activism and State Repression |
| Balmoral | 4.06 - Seascape Stories: Envisioning Decolonial Water Relations |
| Oxford | 6.01 - What We Mean When We Talk about Women of Color |
| Prince of Wales | 8.05 - Terrorism |
| Brighton | 10.04 - Violence, Conflict & Legal Structures |
| Kensington | 13.06 - Exploring the Experiences of Political Activists |
| Regency E | 14.06 - The Public Sphere in the Digital Age |
| Cypress | 14.18 - War, Crisis, and Leadership: Jane Adams, Anne Duffourmantelle, and Conjunctural Analysis of Crisis |
| Regency A | 15.06 - Explorations in Critical Political Science |
| Regency B | 15.18 - Abolition and Freedom |
| Regency C | 15.21 - Reconsidering Refusal and Care |
| Regency D | 15.38 - Author Meets Critics: David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought |
| Constable | 16.07 - Democratic Dilemmas |
| Georgia B | 16.18 - Author Meets Critics: Dennis Dalton's Indian Ideas of Freedom |
| Windsor | 18.01 - Panel 1 _ Film |
| Dover | 21.06 - No Panel - Canceled |
| English Bay | 22.03 - Subnational Policymaking |
| Grouse | 24.05 - State and Local Public Policy |
| Cavendish | 28.06 - Women Candidates in Global Politics |
| Plaza C | 29.02 - Author Meets Critics: Claire Jean Kim's Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World |
| Regency F | 30.02 - The Importance of Group Consciousness in American Politics |
| Plaza A | 32.06 - Support for Authoritarianism |
| Room | Friday, March 29th 1:15pm-3:00pm |
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| Seymour | 0.01 - Native American Politics and Perceptions |
| Plaza A | 1.07 - Political Parties and Elections |
| Georgia A | 3.07 - Technology and Environmental Philosophy |
| Kensington | 4.07 - Protecting the Environment or Industry?: The Consequence of Policies |
| Oxford | 6.06 - Intersectionality and the Politics of Crises |
| Stanley | 7.04 - Immigration Organizations and the State |
| English Bay | 8.06 - Domestic Politics and IR |
| Brighton | 14.07 - Spatial Theorizing: Agency and Temporality in Urban Contexts |
| Tennyson | 14.19 - Workers' Politics: Democracy, Mindfulness, and the Search for Freedom |
| Regency D | 14.28 - Radicalism as Anarchy, Abolition, and (Good) Apologies |
| Regency A | 15.07 - The Self and Self-Interest |
| Regency B | 15.19 - Building A We Differently |
| Regency C | 15.28 - Author Meets Critics, Inés Valdez's Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature and the Reproduction of Capital |
| Constable | 16.05 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Georgia B | 16.19 - Traveling With Traveling Theory |
| Oxford | 16.22 - Problems of Political Founding |
| Cavendish | 17.01 - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Political Development in the Unites States |
| Windsor | 18.02 - Panel 2 _ Lit |
| Cypress | 20.02 - How Government Design Affects Public Administration |
| Dover | 21.07 - New Pathways to Contemporary Public Opinion |
| Georgia B | 22.07 - Social Policies: Health, Education, and Welfare |
| Regency F | 24.07 - Budgeting in the Western States - Part 1 |
| Regency Foyer | 26.01 - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER |
| Plaza C | 29.01 - Confronting challenges and the need for political action and solidarity |
| Regency F | 30.03 - Public Opinion and Political Behavior in REP Research |
| Room | Friday, March 29th 3:15pm-5:00pm |
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| Plaza A | 1.08 - Identity Politics |
| Lord Byron | 2.01 - Crisis! What Crisis: Stasis and Transformation in Higher Ed. |
| Georgia A | 3.08 - Misinformation and the Politics of Climate Denial |
| Kensington | 4.08 - Public Opinion and the Environment |
| Oxford | 8.07 - Norms |
| Regency D | 12.01 - Weaponized Rhetoric |
| Brighton | 14.08 - No Panel - Merged with and moved to Panel 14.10 |
| Tennyson | 14.20 - Democratic Crisis: Fatigue, Resilience, and Empathy |
| Regency A | 15.08 - Theorizing Structure |
| Regency B | 15.20 - Methodology: Histories, Stakes, Approaches |
| Dover | 15.22 - Reimagining the Competence of Ordinary Citizens |
| Regency C | 15.39 - Backlash, Ethics, and Power |
| Constable | 16.08 - The Economy in Political Thought |
| Georgia B | 16.20 - Insurgency, Solidarity, and Left Internationalism: 1950-1975 |
| Cavendish | 17.02 - Race, Ethnicity, and Resistance in American Political Development |
| Windsor | 18.03 - Politics, Aesthetics, and Difference |
| Regency E | 24.08 - Budgeting in the Western States - Part 2 |
| Constable | 29.04 - Bridging local community activism and APA politics scholarship |
| Regency F | 30.04 - The Role of Group Identity in Shaping Political Behavior and Attitudes |
| Balmoral | 34.13 - Methods Cafe |
| Room | Saturday, March 30th 8:00am-9:45am |
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| Plaza A | 1.09 - Media and Politics |
| Oxford | 2.02 - Re-valuing the Role of the Academy |
| Georgia A | 3.10 - Bicycles, gentrification, environmental activism |
| Dover | 5.02 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Prince of Wales | 8.08 - Conflict |
| Regency B | 9.03 - If a poem we could read ... |
| Regency E | 14.09 - Theories of Perspectivism and Their Uses in Political Theory |
| Regency B | 14.11 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Regency D | 14.29 - Is there a Critical Tradition of Latinx Political Theory? |
| Regency F | 14.31 - Resistance Practices in Political, Religious, and Cultural Frames |
| Regency A | 15.09 - The Victim, the Subject, the Power of the State |
| Regency C | 15.29 - The Democratic Urgencies of Black/queer/feminist life |
| Plaza B | 16.09 - Understanding Political Backlash |
| Plaza C | 16.21 - Fundamental Concepts in Ancient Greek Political Theory |
| Cavendish | 17.03 - Trumpism in Historical Context |
| Georgia B | 22.04 - Social Policies: Health, Education, and Welfare |
| Cypress | 23.05 - Politics, Opinions and Race |
| Stanley | 23.09 - Race and Ethnicity in a changing world |
| Balmoral | 31.01 - What Does Innovative Pedagogy Look Like to Engage Students in Times of Social-Political Turbulences. |
| Room | Saturday, March 30th 10:00am-11:45am |
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| English Bay | 0.02 - A Global Approach to the Intersections of Migration and Race |
| Plaza A | 1.10 - Policy and Politics |
| Georgia A | 3.09 - Colonialism, ecology, livable futures |
| Dover | 5.01 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Prince of Wales | 8.09 - International System |
| Plaza C | 11.01 - Diverse Candidates and Elections |
| Oxford | 13.07 - RM-Panel-Addon |
| Regency B | 14.17 - Anti-Democratic Rhetoric and Surprising Formations of Political Identity |
| Regency F | 14.22 - Varieties of Democratic Theory |
| Regency D | 14.30 - Justifying and Defending Democracy amidst both Possibility and Failure |
| Regency A | 15.10 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Regency C | 15.30 - Relationality Beyond/Against Borders |
| Plaza B | 16.10 - Rethinking the Political Subject |
| Cavendish | 17.04 - Federalism, State Politics, and Public Policy in the United States |
| Cypress | 23.06 - Reaching Marginalized Communities |
| Stanley | 23.10 - Author Meets Critics: Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics by Yalidy Matos |
| Georgia B | 22.05 - International and Comparative Policymaking |
| Balmoral | 31.02 - What Does Faculty Professional Development Look Like in Times of Political and Social Turbulences? |
| Room | Saturday, March 30th 1:15pm-3:00pm |
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| Plaza A | 1.11 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Georgia A | 3.11 - Environmental justice |
| Cavendish | 5.03 - Assessing President Biden's First Term |
| Prince of Wales | 8.10 - Regime Type |
| Plaza C | 11.02 - Constituency Considerations and Elite Behavior |
| Regency D | 12.02 - Political Elite's Messaging and the Role of Identity |
| Regency F | 14.23 - The Political Theory of Crisis: Existentialism, Affective Algorithms, and Utopia |
| Regency E | 14.25 - Sitting with Loss, Imagining Freedom: Roundtable on New Books by Juliet Hooker and Lawrie Balfour |
| Regency A | 15.11 - The Politics of Property, Finance, and Money |
| Regency B | 15.23 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Regency C | 15.31 - Theorizing Public Policies and Institutions |
| Plaza B | 16.11 - Land, Territory, and Property |
| Balmoral | 31.03 - Poli Sigh: Navigating the Challenging Environment of Community Colleges During an Era of Political Backlash. |
| Cypress | 23.07 - Institutions, socialization and learning |
| Room | Saturday, March 30th 3:15pm-5:00pm |
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| Georgia A | 3.12 - Liberalism, humanism, anthropocentrism |
| Plaza C | 11.03 - Legislative Process |
| Regency D | 12.03 - The Influence of Media, Technology, and Communication on Democratic Outcomes |
| Regency E | 14.12 - No Panel - Canceled |
| Regency F | 14.24 - Author Meets Critic: Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States |
| Regency A | 15.12 - The Demos and the Boundary Problem |
| Regency B | 15.24 - Grief, (In)Gratitude and Suffering: Emotional Responses to a Neoliberal World |
| Regency C | 15.32 - Social Transformation: Rights, Revolution, and Repair |
| Plaza B | 16.12 - Law, Sovereignty, and Nationhood |
| Cypress | 23.08 - Identity in Politics |
| Room | Special Meetings and Events |
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| Thursday, March 28th 8:00pm-12:00pm | |
| Grouse | 34.01 - WPSA Executive Council Meeting |
| Thursday, March 28th 12:00pm-1:00pm | |
| English Bay | 34.11 - Guest Speaker - APSA President Mark Warren |
| Thursday, March 28th 5:15pm-6:45pm | |
| Oxford/Windosr | 34.09 - Graduate Student Reception |
| Thursday, March 28th 6:00pm-9:00pm | |
| EnglishBay/Cypress | 34.10 - WPSA Awards Reception |
| Friday, March 29th 3:15pm-5:00pm | |
| Prince of Wales | 34.12 - Meet the Editors - Welcomes |
| Georgia B | 34.13 - Methods Cafe |
| Friday, March 29th 5:15pm-5:45pm | |
| Oxford | 34.05 - WPSA Business Meeting |
| Friday, March 29th 6:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Perspectives | 34.08 - WPSA Welcome Reception |
| Saturday, March 30th 12:00pm-2:00pm | |
| Grouse/Seymour | 34.06 - Section Chair Lunch |
| Date and Time TBD | |
| TBD | 34.02 - PGI Business Meeting |
| TBD | 34.03 - Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans |
| TBD | 34.04 - Gender Justice Caucus |
| TBD | 34.07 - Latina/o Business Meeting |
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