The 35th Annual Meetings

ISPP 2012 in Chicago

'Identity Politics and Politicized Identities. Political Psychology in Times of Contention'

The 2012 meeting will take place in the Mart Plaza Hotel in Chicago, a city with a rich contentious history. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Nicholas Valentino will be the program chairs for that conference. Jacquelien, Nick and I will work together in building the theme into the program of the conference. It will serve as a lead for keynotes and special sessions. Anca Minescu will program a chain of thematic sessions throughout the conference. Proposals for such thematic sessions on group conflict are welcomed, as are proposals for individual papers related to the theme. The program chairs are interested in bringing together new findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy, political science, and psychology to create an exciting intellectual forum in which scholars can exchange views and work towards the contribution of political psychology to the understanding of our contentious times.