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• DOI: 10.1177/10659129211038785
• Published date: 01 September 2021
• Date: 01 September 2021
• Subject Matter: Information for Readers

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Political Research Quarterly

2021, Vol. 74(3) 772 –773

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Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

The WPSA is Having a Birthday Celebration

and You Are Invited!

The Western Political Science Association is turning 75

years young in 2022! We are planning a major celebration

of this event and we invite you to participate.

For many of us, WPSA annual meetings are the most

enjoyable professional gatherings we have experienced.

As an association of teachers, students, scholars, and other

professionals, it seems to us unparalleled in the discipline

in its intellectual stimulation and collaboration, in its spirit

of inclusivity, and in its critical political consciousness

and intervention. We hope you share our appreciation for

this unique professional organization, and that you’re

excited to commemorate this amazing organization’s con-

tributions to political studies at next year’s annual meet-

ing. We’re planning multiple events and activities to

celebrate, and we hope you will join in. Here’s what’s

planned so far, and how you can participate:

Annual Conference

There will many special events associated with the anni-

versary at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the WPSA, which

is scheduled for March 10-12, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.

WPSA President Ricardo Ramirez, Program Chair Pei-te

Lien, and the 75th Anniversary Planning Committee are

putting together the program and special events at the

2022 Annual Meeting.

Call for papers. While we will be celebrating the anniver-

sary in Portland, the theme of the conference focuses on

both looking back and forward. The Call for Papers asks,

“what role can we political scientists play, as individuals

and as members of an association now reaching the

golden age of 75, to help chart paths to ‘rebuild, recon-

cile, and recover,’ a besieged and dangerously divided

nation? How can our research and teaching contribute to

light up the new dawn? What is the new dawn for WPSA?

Under what circumstances will it bloom?” For the full

Call for Papers, visit the WPSA’s website at: https://www.

wpsanet.org/meeting/call.php. The deadline for proposal

is mid-September, so look soon.

Anniversary panels. In addition to papers and panels

related to the Call for Papers, we will also have themed

panels in which members will write, present, and discuss

papers that tell the story of WPSA-related groups and

articulate each group’s contributions to the discipline of

political science – past, present and future. After the 2022

annual meeting we hope to collect, edit, and publish the

papers in either an edited book or in a special journal

issue that will serve as a permanent memorial to the

unique strengths and contributions of WPSA.

We invite and encourage you to collaborate with your

colleagues in your favorite section or other affiliated

group to propose a theme panel along these lines. And if

you participate in writing a paper, it could be a chance for

another publication.

Conference banquet and dance. To celebrate our associa-

tion’s 75th anniversary, we’re planning a banquet and

dance on Friday night (March 11) of the annual meeting.

Plan to attend! Have some fun!

Other conference events. We’re also planning other pos-

sible events to celebrate the anniversary, including a field

trip or two. Visit the WPSA’s website and watch your

email inbox for more information. Please try to attend!

WPSA 75th Anniversary Webpage

As this edition of Political Research Quarterly was going

to press, we hadn’t yet worked out all the details for the

association’s anniversary webpage. But our plan is to

have one central webpage with links to specific pages:

Graffiti wall. On this page we will ask you to post a short

message on what WPSA has meant to you and to your

career. Has WPSA made a difference in your professional

life? How?

Histories page. On this page we will post stories of the

beginnings, historical trajectories, and future plans of some

of WPSA’s most notable sections and affiliated groups. We

invite you to collaborate with colleagues in these groups to

write up an account or record a brief video narrative of

your group’s work in the WPSA and its contributions to the

teaching and/or learning of political science.

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