Conferences

 
 
2026 Conference
 
SPPC 2026 will be held Thursday, June 4-Saturday, June 6. The conference website is here. The conference will be hosted in Chicago by Eric Hansen and Agustin Markarian of Loyola University Chicago and Alexandra Filindra of the University of Illinois Chicago.
 
If you have any questions about the conference, email statepolitics2026@gmail.com.

Future Conferences

2027: University at Buffalo

2028: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Past Conferences

2025: UMass System [program]

2024: University of Virginia [program]

2023: University of Pittsburgh [program]

2022: Florida State University [program]

2021:  No SPPC due to the pandemic.

2020:  University of California at San Diego  [Twitter feed]  [program] (Cancelled due to the pandemic)

2019:  University of Maryland (College Park) 

2018:  Pennsylvania State University [program]

2017:  Washington University/St. Louis University [program]

2016:  University of Texas at Dallas  [program]

2015:  California State University-Sacramento [program]

2014:  Indiana University

2013:  University of Iowa

2012:  Rice University/University of Houston  [program]

2011:  Dartmouth College

2010:  University of Illinois-Springfield [program]

2009:  University of North Carolina/Duke University

2008:  Temple University [program]

2007:  University of Texas at Austin [program]

2006:  Texas Tech University [program]

2005:  Michigan State University [program]

2004:  Kent State University [program]

2003:  University of Arizona [program]

2002:  University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee [program]

2001:  Texas A&M University