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About the International Society of Political Psychology:
The International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is a nonprofit scientific, educational, and non-partisan organization with the following purposes:
--To establish a community of scholars and concerned individuals in universities, government, the communications media, and elsewhere, who have scientific and practical interests in examining the relationship between political and psychological phenomena;
--To facilitate communication of scientific research, theory, and practice across disciplinary, national, and ideological boundaries, both among members of the
Society and those outside the Society;
--To increase the theoretical and practical significance of political psychology both inside and outside academia;
--To provide mutual support among members of their freedom to generate and disseminate their findings and ideas.
ISPP Annual Scientific Meeting:
The ISPP holds an annual scientific meeting generally in July, with the meeting potentially to be held anywhere in the world. Recent meetings have been held in Toronto, Barcelona, Portland, Oregon, Paris, and Dublin. The 2010 meeting will be in San Francisco, 2011 in Istanbul, 2012 in an as yet unspecified US city, and 2013 in Israel.
Current membership in the ISPP is about 950, with goals to increase it to above 1,000. Membership varies from year to year with some connection to the location of meetings. Meetings in North America generally bring in fewer attendees than meeting in Europe. The last two meetings (Paris and Dublin) each had about 600 attendees. The meeting in Portland had about 350. The ISPP desires to develop its meetings in both North American and other locations to attract on average 600-750 attendees.
ISPP generally uses one of two models for its meetings. Meetings are either held in a single hotel, with sessions taking place in that hotel (Portland and San Francisco meetings are example of this approach) or are held in conjunction with an academic institution with sessions taking place at that institution and housing provided by a mix of hotels and/or institutional housing (Paris and Dublin are recent examples). Meetings held in conjunction with academic institutions usually include a volunteer local organizing committee.
Meeting sites are recommended to the ISPP Governing Council by the three ISPP Vice Presidents in consultation with the professional conference planner. The meeting site selected is a product of several factors including the desirability of the location, cost, local membership, past conference locations. Typically conference sites follow one of two models:
1) the conference is held at a major hotel which provides free meeting space in exchange for the filling of a room block (usually a US location);
2) the conference is held at a university which subsidizes a portion of meeting costs (typically a European location).
Membership in the ISPP is international in scope, with about 50% of members coming from the United States. Members come from more than 25 countries. Members are predominantly researchers and faculty in the disciplines of psychology and political science, with some members in other disciplines, especially sociology. The ISPP encourages membership from graduate students, and has an extremely active Junior Scholars Committee that works to encourage participation in the annual meeting by graduate students and non-tenured faculty.
ISPP Meeting Planning:
Three entities currently work on aspects of ISPP meeting planning. The ISPP Central Office is the administrative arm of the Society, headed by an Executive Director, who is an academic volunteer. The office is currently staffed by one paid staff person. The ISPP Program Chair is an academic volunteer who oversees all aspects of the academic program for the conference, including issuing the Call for Papers, determining who is accepted onto the program, and organizing the academic schedule for the meeting. Administrative conference tasks are the responsibility of the professional conference planner. At meetings for which there is a local organizing committee, this fourth entity is involved in a wide range of local arrangements with the host institution.
See http://ispp.org