Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA) Conference 2025 "The Pacific Islands: Zone of Peace or Ocean of Discontent?"

The PIPSA executive is delighted to announce an in-person conference running again for the first time since the pandemic, providing the opportunity for scholars, policy makers and all other interested parties to share knowledge and perspectives on a range of important issues facing the region. We want the conference to be broad and inclusive, welcoming of a diverse range of topics, approaches and methods. PIPSA is suitable not only for political scientists and international relations specialists, but also Pacific historians, geographers, economists, anthropologists and those interested in a wide range of security, developmental and political issues. Early career researchers and post-graduate students are especially welcome.

Conference theme: Pacific Islands: Zone of Peace or Ocean of Discontent? 

Registration for the PIPSA 2025 conference has opened. 

Registration fees

Registration includes an opening reception on 19 February 2025, morning and afternoon tea and lunch on both conference days on 20-21 February 2025. 

There will be a separate fee for the conference dinner on 21 February 2025– details TBA.

The programme will be released in due course.

Accommodation

We have held special rates in the following hotels.

Rydges Hotel Wellington

Address: 75 Featherston St, Pipitea, Wellington 6011, New Zealand

Phone: + 64 4 4998686

Customised booking website to get 15% off: https://www.rydges.com/private-page/pipsa-conference-2025/

QT Wellington

Address: 90 Cable Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand

Phone:+64 04 802 8900

Hotel’s Official Website: https://www.qthotelsandresorts.com/wellington/

Use Corporate ID “PIPSA2025” to get 15% off

Please send your questions and enquiries to pipsa2025@gmail.com. Check more conference details from the PIPSA 2025 webpage.

Stephanie Lawson

PIPSA President

Local Organizing Committee

David Capie                             Mengdi Zhang

Jon Fraenkel                           Jason Young

Iati Iati (Vice-President)           Terence Wood

Marion Crawshaw                    Adrian Muckle