I am excited to serve you and ISPP this year as President. I have been a member of this interdisciplinary organization for nearly 25 years, and it has been one of the most important places for me to share work and meet others interested in the dynamic psychological processes underlying many of the great political challenges facing our world. Our current historical moment is a daunting one, and thus it is an exciting time for our ISPP. We must therefore invest more energy than ever in building intellectual and scholarly collaborations in political psychology to solve the puzzles that currently threaten human rights, democratic norms, environmental security and economic stability around the world.
This past July we met in Lisbon, Portugal for one of the largest annual gatherings of the ISPP in its storied history. Papers delivered there are still receiving media attention for the alarms they raised about threats to democracy that were once far more theoretical but today are very real. I was deeply struck by how many of you- from the most distinguished and award winning senior scholars to the first time graduate student researchers- gave impassioned presentations, urgent in your attempt to raise our sights to big theoretical challenges but deeply grounded in empirical evidence and scientific observation.
The Lisbon meeting was a fantastic reminder that our scholarly Society is special for its dedication to taking concrete steps to protect democratic and intellectual freedom around the world. Our past presidents David Redlawsk and Eva Green have focused a great deal of attention on threats to academic freedom in Turkey, a place where hundreds of scholars have been persecuted, and many have been prosecuted, simply for speaking out about the need for basic human rights and continued energy to secure peace in their country. Statements by our colleagues from Turkey during David’s Presidential Address profoundly moved the audience of hundreds.
We have much more work to do together, and I am very proud to be a part of it next July in Berlin. It is an exciting world city, full of history that reminds us what can happen when democracies fail. This is, therefore, a moment we all must seize. We are uniquely positioned to help explain the present and perhaps even affect the future using theoretical tools developed over several decades in Political Psychology. Please join us in Berlin!
Sincerely,
Nick Valentino
University of Michigan
Save the dates! ISPP's upcoming meetings
Our 2020 Annual Meeting will be held in Berlin, Germany | July 14-17, 2020 | The submission process is now open. Submit your proposals by December 1, 2019! Call for papers
Our 2021 Annual Meeting will be held in Montreal, Canada | July 14-17, 2021 If you are interested in hosting a future conference of ISPP, please contact the Central Office to obtain the necessary guidelines and materials.
Thank you for your service to ISPP!
We offer our thanks to Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Bristol, UK) and Angela Bos (The College of Wooster, USA) who were the Program Chairs for organizing and chairing the 2019 Annual Meeting in Lisbon.
We also offer our thanks to Eva G. T. Green (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) for serving as ISPP’s Past President, Jolanda van der Noll (Fern Universität, Germany) for serving as the Director of Communications, Bethany Albertson (University of Texas – Austin, USA), Frank Asbrock (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany), Angela Bos (College of Wooster, USA), Cengiz Erisen (Yeditepe University, Turkey), Hulda Thorisdottir (University of Iceland, Iceland) for serving as ISPP Governing Council members, Gary E. Smith (University of Central Florida, USA) for serving as Ex-officio Chair, Sumedh Rao (University of Birmingham, UK) and Lucas Czarnecki for serving as Early Career Committee Ex-officio Chair, Sandra Obradovic (London School of Economics) for serving as ECC Newsletter Editor and Chadly Stern (University of Illinois) for serving as ECC Mentorship Program Coordinator.
ISPP's Scholars under Threat Fund
ISPP is committed to keeping colleagues in Turkey connected to the international community of political psychologists. You can help by donating to the ISPP Scholars under Threat fund through this link.
It is possible to request funds for immediate emergency support for personal living needs. The funds may also be used to cover research costs to conduct research in Turkey, covering travel and living expenses to visit colleagues and universities outside Turkey to collaborate for research, and to organize for foreign scholars to travel to Turkey to conduct joint research to support applicant’s scholar activities (foreign scholars are expected to have their own research funds, but additional funds can be sought to keep local scholars research active or for capacity building). Applications from prior recipients are welcome.
CURRENTLY APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF ARE GIVEN PRIORITY.
Funding applications are capped at $1,000 USD for emergency relief.
ISPP's Executive Committee has designated the Scholars Under Threat Committee to assess applications and make the funding decisions. All applications will be kept confidential. Please click here for the application form.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Political Science/Political Communication at the University of Bergen
The University of Bergen, Norway, welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Political Science/Political Communication. The position is for a period of 4 years, 75% of which is dedicated to research and 25% of which is dedicated to project administrative tasks and/or teaching and supervision. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE) and with the Department of Comparative Politics | More information
Two research fellowships reserved to at-risk scholars, under the 'Temporary Protection Project Scholars at Risk (SAR)-UniTrento'
The call is open to several research areas, including Clinical psychology, Cognitive processes, Developmental psychology, Organizational and work psychology, Social psychology, Psychometrics. More information
USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract outstanding individuals who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | More information
Call for submissions
MPSA 2020
Please see the following call for submissions for the 2020 MPSA conference to be held in Chicago in April. | More information
Call for papers: Journal of Social Issues
Please see the following call for abstracts for a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues on Self-affirmation Theory in Educational Contexts. The deadline for abstracts is 18 October 2019. | More information
Member Spotlight
Our long term member Daniel Bar-Tal, Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, published the autobiographical story of his professional and intellectual development in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. You can read the article here.
The next ISPPNews will be published in November 2019.
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Benefits of your ISPP Membership
Six issues per year of the journal Political Psychology; online access to the journal of Political Psychology and Advances in Political Psychology; ten issues per year of ISPPNews; ISPP's Teacher's Corner; reduced registration fees at ISPP's Annual Scientific Meetings; discount on selected publications; access to ISPP's Members-only Portal; access to the online member directory; voting rights for ISPP leadership
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