The Summer Conference consists of two days of virtual research panels, poster sessions, and Professional Development Workshops. Panels are organized as Research Workshops, where all participants serve as both paper presenters and discussants, and are scheduled for 1 hour and 50 minutes. All activities take place online, and participants will be sent instructions for logging into the conference before events begin.
To submit your proposal, please submit your abstract via our submission system HERE.
Deadline for proposals is May 1st, 2025.
If you attended the SPSA Annual Meeting last January in San Juan, you do NOT have to register for the Summer Conference separately. Registration for the summer meeting was included in your January meeting registration fees. All attendees of the 2025 Annual Meeting who submit a proposal for the Summer Conference will be automatically registered. Those who attended the 2025 Annual Meeting and who wish to attend the Summer Conference without presenting should email spsa.conference@spsa.net for complimentary registration.
If you did not participate in the in-person meeting in January, you can join the Southern Political Science Association HERE and register for the virtual conference HERE:
Please click on the “2025 SPSA Virtual Summer Meeting” tile to begin the registration process.
The Summer Virtual Meeting will host two SPSA/KiND Professional Development Workshops. If you wish to participate, you can learn more about them at this website.
You must register with the KiND Institute at the link above to participate in the workshops, but all workshop fees are included with your registration.
If you did not attend the January SPSA meeting, then you must pay a registration fee in order to participate in the Virtual Summer Meeting: $85 for professional members, $65 for retiree/student members, or $175 for nonmembers.
Our Virtual Meeting offers an opportunity to reconvene 2025 in-person conference panels. Panels interested in meeting again can reconnect with one another and discuss how paper revisions are going, report on journal responses to submissions, etc. Many “Conference Within a Conference” panels find it beneficial to extend their discussions into the Summer Virtual Meeting. Anyone wishing to organize a complete panel or series of panels during our Virtual Meeting should contact spsa.conference@spsa.net.
