Events
APLS Grants & Call for Research
Applications Due: Oct. 1, 2024 -> Review Process Ends: Dec. 1, 2024
- Full registered reports due: Feb. 15, 2025 -> Final Manuscripts Due: July 31, 2025
We are calling for proposals from researchers across the social science disciplines for the Association for Politics and Life Sciences (APLS) research grants.
2024 Call for Research
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APLS Sponsored Workshops
APLS Sponsored Workshop
- Oct 2021
- Western University, London, ON
Science in Politics: Methodological Innovations and Political Attitudes
Workshop Program
APLS Sponsored Workshop
- July 2019
- Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC
Politics, Physiology, and Cognition: Advances in Theory and Method.
Workshop Program
Upcoming APLS Meetings
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The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) will be held April 2024, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Meetings
37th Annual Meeting
- April 7-10, 2022
- Chicago, IL, USA
The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) will be held April 7-10, 2022, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
36th Annual Meeting (2019)
- April 6, 2019
- Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, USA
Keynote: Kevin Areceneaux, Ph.D., Temple University: “What Can Biopolitics Teach Us about Democratic Representation?”
35th Annual Meeting (2018)
- April 4, 2018
- DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Keynote: Michael Bang Petersen, Ph.D., Aarhus University: “How and Why Disgust Responses Underlie Prejudice”
34th Annual Meeting (2017)
- April 5, 2017
- DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Keynote: Kevin Smith, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: “In Your Face: Emotional Expressivity as a Predictor of Ideology”
33rd Annual Meeting (2015)
- October 23-24, 2015
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Opening Keynote:
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: “Sidestepping Rhetorical Quicksand in Debates in the Life Sciences”
Closing Keynote:
Dietram Scheufele, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison: “(New) Public Interfaces in the Life Sciences”
32nd Annual Meeting (2014)
- October 17-18, 2014
- Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Keynote: Gregory S. Berns, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University: “Neuroimaging of Sacred Values”
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31st Annual Meeting (2013)
- October 25-26, 2013
- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Keynote: Gad Sad, Ph.D., Concordia University (Montreal, CAN): “The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature”
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30th Annual Meeting (2011)
- October 13-15, 2011
- Garfield Suites Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
Keynote: Mark van Vugt, Ph.D., VU University (Amsterdam, NL): “An Evolutionary Theory of Leadership”
29th Annual Meeting (2010)
- October 14-16, 2010
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Keynote: Elinor Ostrom, Ph.D., Indiana University: “A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change”
27th Annual Meeting (2007)
- October 11-13, 2007
- Garfield Suites Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
Keynote: Owen D. Jones, J.D., Vanderbilt University: “Evolution, Primates, Neurons, and Law”
26th Annual Meeting (2006)
- October 25-26, 2006
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
25th Annual Meeting (2005)
- August 31 – September 4, 2005
- The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
Keynote: Napoleon Chagnon, Ph.D., University of California – Santa Barbara: “Warfare Among the Yanomano”
24th Annual Meeting (2004)
- Sept 2-5, 2004
- Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL
Keynote: Gary Marcus, Ph.D., New York University: “Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Create the Complexities of Human Thought”