The next Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity (SPIRE) will be held on Friday, September 20, 2024 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The local hosts are Taeku Lee and Marcel Roman. 

August 9, 2024: Deadline for abstract submission

August 16, 2024: Submission decisions will be sent out

August 25, 2024: Program announced

September 4, 2024: Registration closes

The papers for the conference will be uploaded here. 

Call for abstracts

We welcome proposals to present research on these topics from all disciplines, subfields, and methodological approaches, including but not limited to topics such as: race and representation, the politics of racial inequality; race and political development; gender and politics; political behavior; social movements; and opinion; immigration politics and policy; racial capitalism; and immigrant socialization and participation.  We welcome especially work that examines immigration, race, and ethnicity as they intersect with the politics of, e.g., indigeneity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability.

If you are interested in presenting a research paper or research design, please submit an abstract by July 31st. We will notify applicants about decisions by August 10th.

Submit an Abstract

Participation

If you would like to attend SPIRE but do not wish to present a paper, please RSVP by September 1st, 2023. We ask that you do so no later than this date so that we can plan accordingly.

RSVP

Format

In order to have a productive, engaged, and constructive group discussion, all attendees are expected to read at least a few of the papers.

SPIRE presentations are typically brief, with authors speaking for about 10 minutes followed by feedback from the audience.   

Presented work should still be sufficiently in-progress so that authors will be able to revise it based on audience feedback but nearing being ready for submission for review.  It can be an article-length manuscript or a chapter of an almost completed book-length manuscript.

Venue

The meeting will take place in the basement of CGIS-South in S020, the Belfer Case Study Room. 

Lodging

We have secured a block of hotel rooms from September 19th to 20th at the Charles Hotel, Harvard Square (link here). The cutoff for securing the Charles Hotel rate is September 3rd. The Charles Hotel is within walking distance of the meeting location at the Center for Government and International Studies South Building (CGIS-South) on Harvard's campus, located on 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. 

For other accommodation options, we suggest AC Hotel by Marriot - Cambridge (link here). The AC Hotel is accessible via the subway/redline – three stops away, 2.7 miles. 

Getting to/from the Hotel and Conference

The Charles Hotel is within walking distance of the meeting location at the Center for Government and International Studies South Building (CGIS-South) on Harvard's campus, located on 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. 

AC Hotel by Marriot is accessible via the subway/redline – three stops away, 2.7 miles