Submit Your Proposals for IPSA-Work- in-Progress Sessions (IPSA-WiPS)

IPSA-Work-in-Progress Sessions (IPSA-WiPS)

Online Conference, 4-5-6 December 2024

As part of the celebrations of its 75th anniversary in 2024, IPSA is organizing a new type of conference to offer IPSA individual members a unique global opportunity to present and discuss in depth their research in progress. Each paper (work-in-progress papers - not necessarily completed or finished) will be presented and discussed in depth (up to 90 minutes), receiving fruitful, thorough, and systematic feedback from the panel’s discussants, participants, and chairs. IPSA-WiPS aim at becoming the seed for special issues, books, specialized research networks, or specific research project proposals.

This conference will be held on three consecutive days, for four hours each day simultaneously, for all panels regardless of time zones. IPSA-WiPS will provide an opportunity to participate in a global conference for those who cannot or prefer not to travel abroad. Participants are expected to actively engage in online discussions during the three days (four hours each day), beyond presenting and discussing their respective papers. This active commitment during the three sessions (and after reading all the panel papers) will ensure that each author receives rich, thorough, and systematic feedback on her/his respective paper. Active participants will receive an official IPSA certificate of paper presentation in IPSA-2024WiPS.

Once the deadline for paper proposal submissions is over, the panel chairs will select the papers, participants will be informed, and -after they register in WiPS- they will get access privileges to the online three-day sessions. The Sessions will take place on the Zoom platform, on 4-5-6 December (four hours each day according to the schedule below) in panels with a wide variety of topics, suggested by IPSA Research Committees and Executive Committee members. Each paper is to be addressed specifically to one of the WiPS panels available at https://www.wips2024.ipsa.org/simposio/public.

Deadline to submit paper proposals: 25 October 2024, 14:00 (Montreal time [UCT -4]).

We extend an invitation for work-in-progress papers (not necessarily completed or finished), analyzing the aspects mentioned in the respective panel abstract, on individual case studies or with a comparative approach. Each paper author is allowed to submit just one proposal (as single author or as co-author). Paper co-authors are accepted, but they will not receive an additional link to the sessions (links to the sessions are individual and non-transferable).

Submit your proposal and join us in shaping the discourse on the challenges and prospects of political science in the contemporary world. To submit a paper, please visit the WiPS page link and paper proposal submission link at https://www.wips2024.ipsa.org/.

Registration Fee (conference only for IPSA Members who register in WiPS). Please note that non-IPSA members can submit a paper proposal, but they will have to become IPSA individual members before registering for WiPS.

Please note registration fees are non-refundable.

WiPS fee structure:

Countries*	Regular member (US$)	Student member (US$)**
A	$60	$30
B+C	$30	$15
D	Free	Free

* List of countries per category

https://www.ipsa.org/membership/individual/groups

** Postgraduate (Master's or PhD programs) students.

Registration for those whose paper was selected will open on 26 October until 3 November 2024. Note that members from country group D can register FREE OF CHARGE.

Important dates

Paper proposals submission: 16 October to 25 October (14:00 UTC-4).
Notification of selected papers for each panel: 29 October. NOTE that the selection of the paper by the respective panel chairs does not entail being registered and accepted as a WiPS participant. Authors whose paper is selected will have to register and pay the WiPS fee to participate in WiPS.
Registration in WiPS: From 26 October to 3 November 2024 (only for selected papers).
WiPS sessions: 4-5-6 December 2024 (see below for session schedules).

WiPS schedule in different time zones (4-5-6 December 2024)

We recommend using a time zone converter: https://savvytime.com/converter/spain-madrid-to-ny-new-york-city-brazil-sao-paulo-japan-tokyo.

Tokyo time: 21:00 to 01:00
Madrid time: 13:00 to 17:00
São Paulo time: 09:00 to 12:00
New York time: 07:00 to 11:00

If you wish to contact us or request any information regarding WiSP, please write to wips2024@sinteseeventos.com.br (note the WiPS are organized by IPSA together with Sintese Eventos).