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Theme Panel
- Thursday, September 11, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "The Disunited States": Why Red and Blue Secession Won’t Work in America
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Crisis, Credibility, and Control: The Politics of Expertise and Misinformation
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Democratic Backsliding and Opposition Resistance
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Migration in the Age of Illiberalism and Populism
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Agustina Paglayan's "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Perestroika at 25: The State of the Discipline Today
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Decolonizing Democracy: Lessons from the Global South
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Borders of Well-Being: Health Politics and Inequality across and within Nations
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Climate and Geopolitics: Power, Cooperation, and Social Change in the Anthropocene
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Democracy and the Populist Critique: Are We Too Concerned about Stability?
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable - Virtual Participation
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Division and Disorder: The Christian Right in the Trump Era
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Conceptual Change in the Anthropocene: New Directions in Environmental Political Theory
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Polarization and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from Asia and Beyond
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Digital Authoritarianism: Propaganda, Censorship, and Surveillance in China
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Politics in 60 Seconds: Short-Form Video, TikTok and Political Communication
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Depolarizing Politics and Saving Democracy" by Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Political Action in a Broken World
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Economic Security and the Shifting Politics of Trade
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Confronting Crime and Violence: Societal Responses and Democratic Implications
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 6:30pm PDT
6:30 to 7:30pm PDT (6:30 to 7:30pm PDT)
TBA
121st APSA Presidential Address: "Epistemic Institutions and the Populism Dilemma: Reimagining Political Science as a Vocation during Democratic Breakdown"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- Friday, September 12, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Contestations of the Liberal Script in a Global Perspective
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Reimagining Migration Politics through the Lens of Colonial History
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Worker as a Unifying Identity in an Age of Fragmentation
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Fishkin’s "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought I
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Exclusion, Representation, and Popular Resistance in Historical Perspective
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Courts in Crisis: Perceptions of Legitimacy in an Era of Distrust
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Drivers of Inter-Group Cooperation and Prejudice in Divided Societies
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Maneesh Arora's "Parties and Prejudice"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Leadership and Networks: Strategies Shaping Modern Terrorism and Radicalization
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Teaching Political Communication in Crisis Times
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Dynamic Black Political Identity in a Polarized Two-Party System
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
The Comparative Politics of Clean-Energy Siting
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Parties, Partisanship, and the People: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Politicization of Women’s Bodies
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Economic Sanctions in a Globalized World: Rethinking Strategy and Impact
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
The Political Ethics and Praxis of Liberation
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Making Your Own Network
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable - Virtual Participation
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Economic Structure, Focal Events, and Climate Change Politics
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- Saturday, September 13, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Understanding and Correcting Misperceptions
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and the "Nuclear Taboo"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Political Parties and Grassroots Democracy in India
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Experiments on Violence and Political Behavior
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Violence and the American Political Economy
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Religion and Responses to Democratic Uncertainty
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Fieldwork in Conflict Zones: Challenges, Innovations, and Ethics in Changing MENA
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Going Global with State Feminism: GEMs as Critical Actors in Crisis Times
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
What Went Right? How Federal Power Made Civil Rights in America
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Pathways to Women's Political Leadership
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Reimagining Trans Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in (Trans) Crisis Times
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Shaping Nations and Markets: Identity Capital, Trade, and the Populist Rage"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Why Citizens Uphold or Undermine Democracy
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Gender and the Global Rise of Right-Wing Populism
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Liberalism's Fascist Horizon
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Aristotle’s Afterlives: Receptions of the Philosopher during Political Crises
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Tamar Mitts's "Safe Havens for Hate"
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Woman, Life, Freedom: Rethinking the Politics of the Feminine across Borders
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Lived Experience and Democratic Renewal: Race, Gender, and Narrative
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel