Past ISA Conferences and Programs

Check out below for a listing of our previous conventions and conferences. You can access the conference call, program and paper archive (where applicable) from each conference link below.

Recent Annual Conventions

ISA Annual Convention 2026

Back to the Fundamentals: Rethinking Knowledges, Practices, and Imaginaries of the World
March 4th - 6th: Online
March 22nd - 25th: Columbus, Ohio, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2025

Reconnecting International Studies
March 2nd - 5th: Chicago, Illinois, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2024

Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies
April 3rd - 6th: San Francisco, California, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2023

Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity
March 15th - 18th, 2023 - Montréal, Québec, Canada

ISA Annual Convention 2022

A Wider Discipline For A Smaller World
March 28th - April 2nd, 2022 - Nashville, Tennessee, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2021

Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics
April 6th - 9th: VIRTUAL

ISA Annual Convention 2020, Honolulu [cancelled]

Multiple Identities and Scholarship in a Global IR: One Profession, Many Voices
March 25th - 28th, 2020 - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2019, Toronto

Re-visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress
March 27th - 30th, 2019, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ISA Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco

Power of Rules and Rule of Power
April 4th - 7th, 2018, San Francisco, California, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore

Understanding Change in World Politics
February 22nd - 25th, 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2016, Atlanta

Exploring Peace
March 16th - 19th, 2016: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2015, New Orleans

Global IR and Regional Worlds: A New Agenda for International Studies
February 18th - 21st, 2015: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2014, Toronto

Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization
March 26th - 29th, 2014: Toronto, CANADA

2026: Conferences and Conventions

2025: Conferences and Conventions

2024: Conferences and Conventions

2023: Conferences and Conventions

ISA International Conference 2023, Ifrane

Africa, the Middle East and the Maghreb: Society, the State, and Solidarities
June 21st - 23rd

ISA 2023 Virtual Conference

Spaces of Influence, Spaces of Inclusion - Challenging Boundaries in the Context of Unbounded Challenges
August 1st - 4th

ISA Asia-Pacific Region Conference, 2023

Global Role of Asia-Indo Pacific in International Relations: Anthropocene, Peace and Security
August 8th - 10th

ISA Latin America and Caribbean Region 2023, Colombia

The Worlds of Latin America: Global Turbulences and Local Transformation
September 13th - 15th

ISA West Annual Conference 2023

Technological Innovations & Global Transformations
September 22nd - 23rd

ISA South Annual Conference 2023, Atlanta, Georgia

Humanity and Numbers: The Impact of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on International Relations
October 6th - 7th

IS-ISSS Annual Conference 2023, Colorado Springs

Identities, Institutions, and Adaptation in an Era of Increasing Security Competition
October 19th - 21st

ISA Northeast Annual Conference 2023, Providence, Rhode Island

Specters of International Relations: Emotions, Aesthetics, and Memory in the Past, Present, and Future of IR
November 3rd - 4th & 10th (virtual)

ISA Midwest Annual Conference 2023, St. Louis, Missouri

November 17th - 19th

ISA-GSCIS Conference 2023, Bangkok, Thailand

The Global South in International Organizations and Beyond: Transformation, Influence, and Empowerment in an Evolving World Politics
December 15th (virtual) & 18th - 20th (in-person)

2022: Conferences and Conventions

2021: Conferences and Conventions

2020: Conferences and Conventions

2019: Conferences and Conventions

2018: Conferences and Conventions

2017: Conferences and Conventions

2016: Conferences and Conventions

2015: Conferences and Conventions

2014: Conferences and Conventions

2013: Conferences and Conventions

2006-2012: Conferences and Conventions

2005 & Earlier: Conferences and Conventions

ISA Annual Convention 2005, Honolulu

Dynamics of World Politics: Capacity, Preference, and Leadership
March 1st - 5th, 2005: Hololulu, Hawaii, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2004, Montreal

Hegemony and its Discontents: Power, Ideology, and Knowledge in the Study and Practice of International Relations
March 17th - 20th, 2004: Montreal, Quebec, CANADA

ISA Annual Convention 2003, Portland

The Construction and Cumulation of Knowledge
February 25th - March 1st, 2003: Portland, Oregon, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2002, New Orleans

Dissolving Boundaries: The Nexus Between Comparative Politics and International Relations
March 24th - 27th, 2002: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2001, Chicago

International Relations and the New Inequality: Power, Wealth, and the Transformation of Global Society at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
February 20th - 24th, 2001: Chicago, Illinois, USA

ISA Annual Convention 2000, Los Angeles

Reflection, Integration, Cumulation: International Studies Past and Future
March 14th - 18th, 2000: Los Angeles, California, USA

ISA Annual Convention 1999, Washington, D.C.

One Field, Many Perspectives: Building the Foundations for Dialogue
February 16th - 20th, 1999: Washington, D.C., USA

ISA Annual Convention 1998, Minneapolis

The Westphalian System in Global and Historical Perspective
March 17th - 21st, 1998: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

ISA Annual Convention 1997, Toronto

Coping with Insecurity: Threats More Than Enemies
Match 18th - 22nd, 1997: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

ISA Annual Convention 1996, San Diego

Where to Next in International Studies?
April 16th - 20th, 1996: San Diego, California, USA
 
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