Annual Conference
October 2-3, 2009
Holiday Inn Inner Harbor,
Baltimore, MD USA
Submission deadline: May 15, 2009
The annual conference of the International Studies Association-Northeast (ISA-NE) will be held October 2-3, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. ISA-NE invites paper and panel proposals on any subject related to international studies, broadly defined.
Topics might include (but are not limited to) international relations theory, international law and organizations, foreign policy, globalization, human rights, international development, conflict resolution, military/strategic studies, the environment, feminist theory/gender studies, and international political economy. ISA-NE expressly welcomes research on critical constructivism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism and/or undertaken through these lenses.
We also encourage paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on subjects related to this the this year’s
conference theme, “Order and Disorder in Global Politics,” broadly conceived. Possible topics include: but are not limited to:
- Conceptual and theoretical analyses of the ordering of global politics, including but not limited to international law, international organizations, interstate power relations, and non-state actors;
- Work dealing with issues of disorder in global politics, including military conflict, state failure,
- human trafficking, migration and refugee flows, natural disasters, health problems, and economic crisis;
- The relationship between order and disorder in global politics, including questions of agent and structure, social construction, race, gender, and class hierarchy, and embodiment;
- Order and disorder in the discipline/study of global politics.
Conference participation is open to all scholars and graduate students. We especially encourage
proposals from varied disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and from graduate students. We
seek to showcase the work of advanced graduate students and junior as well as senior scholars.
Papers delivered at ISA-NE are eligible for consideration for the Fred Hartmann Award (graduate
students/ABD) or the Lee Bennett Award (non-graduate students). Graduate students whose papers are
accepted for presentation and who do not receive support from their departments are eligible to apply for travel support from ISA-NE.
Paper proposals should include: title, name of presenter(s), institutional affiliation, one-paragraph
abstract, and complete contact information (email address, mailing address, telephone, and fax
numbers) for SUMMER and FALL 2008. Panel proposals should include all the above information for
each presenter and for the chair/discussant, plus an abstract of the panel as a whole.
Scholars willing to serve as panel chairs/discussants or roundtable participants should send full contact
information and a brief summary of your areas of expertise.
Deadline for paper/panel submissions is Friday, May 15, 2009. Submissions and Questions should be
directed to the Program Chair, Laura Sjoberg. Submissions should be made by email to sjoberg@vt.edu.
Potential participants with questions may call Dr. Sjoberg at 617.875.6653.
You will be informed of the status of your proposal by June 15, 2009. The preliminary program will be
posted by July 18th at the International Studies Association website www.isanet.org under “Regions &
Sections” and on the ISA-NE website www.isa-ne.org.
