2014 Call for Papers

2013 Program

Hotel Information

2013 WPSA Papers

Hollywood and Beyond Dining Guide

Meeting Schedule and Special Events at the 2013 WPSA Meetings

Other Special Events at the 2013 WPSA Meetings

2013 Section Chairs and Topics

Conference Fees

Childcare

Exhibitors/Sponsor

My First Conference? A Question and Answer Guide

Wednesday Pre-Conference Workshops

Role of Chair/Discussant

Instructions for Undergraduate Research Posters

Undergraduate Research Posters

Reduced Airline Rates to Hollywood Meetings

The WPSA has signed an agreement again this year with Alaska Airlines to provide members with reduced rates for our annual meeting. If you book your flight with Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air, you will receive a 7% discount off the lowest published fare (the deal excludes companion and other promotional fares). The discount applies for travel from March 25 to April 2, 2013, to the five nearby airports served by Alaska (Los Angeles, Orange County, Burbank, Long Beach, and Ontario).

To receive the discount, book your tickets online at http://www.alaskaair.com/ and input the Discount Code when searching for flights. You can also book your flight through the Alaska Airlines Group desk at 1-800-445-4435, though a $15.00 per person ticketing fee will apply. The discount code is: ECMU180.

The deal with Alaska not only provides benefits to our members, but is helpful to the association. For every 40 tickets our members purchase, the WPSA receives one free ticket. So your participation in this program will help the association’s bottom line. In addition, if you purchase an Alaska Airline ticket to attend the conference but do not use the code, please send a note to Richard Clucas (hprc@pdx.edu) letting him know. Include the names of the travelers and their ticket numbers in your note. The association can still use your travel to the conference toward the free ticket.

As with any deal, there is some small print. If you change or cancel your flight after ticketing, a service charge will likely apply. The discount is available from any U.S. or Canadian city served by Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air, excluding Hawaii and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

PGI: Politics, Groups and Identities

At the WPSA Executive Council meeting in September, the council appointed the first editorial team to lead in the development and publication of the journal. The team consists of Lisa García Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley; Rosalee Clawson, Purdue; Ange-Marie Hancock, USC; Kerry Haynie, Duke; James McCann, Purdue; Eric Waltenburg, Purdue; and Laurel Weldon, Purdue. Lead editorship for the journal will rotate among the four Purdue scholars, with Rosalee Clawson serving as the first editor. Purdue University is providing generous support for the editorial team in helping to get the journal off the ground.

PGI is to be launched in January 2013 and will concern questions and issues of identity politics. Questions of minority rights and minority identities are increasingly prominent both in the academy and the wider world. PGI will offer a new platform for work that focuses on the politics of social identity and religious, gender, ethnic and racial minority groups to which scholars in a range of sub-fields can submit articles -- theory, American politics, comparative politics, and international relations.

The new journal will be more than simply a new home for scholarship-it will also become an important vehicle for developing scholarship on the topic. It will encourage the search for overlapping themes and arguments and help to develop a comparative literature on these topics both across fields and, conceivably, across the social sciences.