New Presentation Formats

Outside of the traditional paper panels and roundtables, APSA also has several new format options:

Official Program Short Courses / Workshops

Featured Paper Panels: 30 Minute Paper Presentation

Official Program Short Courses / Workshops
These programs allow for a deep dive in a focused environment. Workshops might be professional development focused or subfield specific, or thematically of the same spirit or accomplishing the same knowledge-sharing or learning goals. Workshops provide participants with hands-on experience and should embrace adult learning principles with clear, pre-determined learning objectives that would be included in the proposal description.

Fulbright Scholars – Global Teachers and Researchers
- Friday, September 1, 8:00-12:00pm
Toward a Realistic Perspective on Collaborative Design, Session One
- Saturday, September 2, 8:00-12:00pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.
Toward a Realistic Perspective on Collaborative Design, Session Two
- Saturday, September 2, 12:00-4:00pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.

Mini-Conferences
This format is a full day devoted to a theme. This format can be comprised of a variety of other formats. 2017 mini-conferences include:

Chinese Politics Mini-Conference
- Friday, September 1, 8:00-5:30pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.
Electoral Malpractice in East and Southeast Asia
- Saturday, September 2, 8:00-5:30pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.
Making Electoral Democracy Work
- Friday, September 1, 8:00-5:30pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.
The New Urban Politics: Changing Cities and Fresh Perspectives
- Saturday, September 2, 8:00-5:30pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.
WOLLAPALOOZA! Making the Wollstonecraftian Mind
- Thursday, August 31, 8:00-5:30pm
  Find the agenda for this event here.

Research Café
This format brings attendees together to discuss research processes, methodologies, ask questions, and brainstorm together around issues in the field.

Methods Cafe
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm

Teaching Cafés
This format creates a discussion forum for scholars to participate in the scholarship of teaching and learning, share pedagogical techniques, and discuss trends in political science education.

Activist, Teacher, Activist-Teacher
- Thursday, August 31, 12:99-1:30pm
Debate, Discourse, and Inclusion in the Political Science Classroom
- Friday, September 1, 2:00-3:30pm
Mentor Training Café
- Friday, September 1, 10:00-11:30am
Reacting to the Past: Playing Games in a Student-Centered Classroom
- Saturday, September 2, 10:00-11:30am

Featured Paper Panels: 30 Minute Paper Presentations
The conference chairs selected a group of 28 panels that feature three thirty minute paper presentations on it, allowing authors and audiences to delve into the topic and have ample time for discussion. The panels include:

An Experimental Look at Gender on the Campaign Trail and in the Newsroom
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Beyond the Hypothetical: Normative Political Theory Engaging with the World
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Credibility and Legitimacy in International Security Relations
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Cutting-Edge Research on Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Elections in a Changing World
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Evaluating the Right to Life, Human Security, and the Human Rights Regime
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Featured Papers in Information Technology and Politics
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Formal Theories of Democratic Politics
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Fostering Inter-Ethnic Cooperation
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
From Dispossession to Resistance: Place and Power
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
From Jim Crow to Barack Obama: Changes and Continuities in American Racial Order
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Guns, Laws, and Property: Early Modern Perspectives on Legitimacy
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Identity, Colonialism and International Order
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Information and Voter Choice
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
International Political Economy with Governments, Firms, and Individuals
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Labor and the Left
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Legislative Voting Unity: Ideology and Discipline
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Methodological Innovations in Refugee and Migration Research
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Motivations and Opportunities for Violent Conflict
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Natural Experiments in Africa
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
New Data and New Methods in State Politics Research
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
New Perspectives on American Political Development
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
New Work in Communist and Post Communist Politics and Political Economy
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
One Step Forwad, One Step Back? LGBT Rights Advances and Backlash
- Saturday, September 2, 4:00-5:30pm
Polarization, Politicization, and Judicial Decision Making
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Political History of Public and Mental Health Policy
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Political Institutions and Political Socialization in Immigrant Communities
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Racial Animus and the 2016 Election
- Saturday, September 2, 2:00-3:30pm
Revolutionary Development in American Political Thought
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Technological and Social Change in Canadian Politics and Governance
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
The Lives of the Marginal: Political Thinking Across Genres
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
The Modes and Limits of Presidential Influence
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
The Rise and Fall of Political Parties: Causes and Consequences
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
The Role of Place in the Local Policymaking Process
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
The Stakes of Democratic Politics: Foundings, Sovereignty, and Association
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Tradition, Place and “Things Divine”
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Understanding the Civic and Social Development of Students
- Friday, September 1, 12:00-1:30pm