2026 IIPPE Annual Conference

16th Annual Conference in Political Economy

September 9 – 12, Lisbon, Portugal

Call for proposals for panels and papers expected to go out about December 15, 2025

2025 IIPPE Annual Conference

15th Annual Conference in Political Economy

Immigration: Crisis of the World Capitalist System, Crisis for the World Capitalist System

Date: Wednesday (all day), September 17, to Saturday (all day), September 20, 2025
Venue: Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye

Registered participants can access the Whova conference portal, which includes the conference programmes.

People wanting to audit the conference can register up to September 7, 2025.

NOTE. The registration link will not allow registration to present after May 19.

Report back on the 2025 IIPPE Annual Conference, September 17 – 20, Ankara

This year’s Annual Conference in Ankara was Crisis of the World Capitalist System, Crisis for the World Capitalist System. As IIPPE began to do last year, what had previously been a pre-conference day of a single workshop on political economy theory has become the first day of the conference, a day of multiple workshops on whatever topics IIPPE Working Groups and members decide to use the flexible workshop format to present and develop work on. A morning workshop Crisis of Neoliberalism in the Balkans was a roundtable involving local presenters and presenters by video from the Balkans. Two workshops ran right after lunch, Why China is Not Imperialist and the annual Topics in Political Economy (TIPE) theory workshop, this year on Basics and Foundations of Marx’s Value Theory. In the midafternoon there was a roundtable on Palestine, and this year we introduced an IIPPE invited-speaker plenary session on the Workshop Day which was organized by the Activism, Film, and Media Working Group, Internal Borders: The Asylum Industrial Complex and the Politics of Precarity by Helen Brewer. The first day ended with a Meet and Greet Reception for those who participated in the opening day of workshops, with a second Meet and Greet Reception later in the conference at the end of the third day.

In the following three days of panel presentations we had approximately 45 panels with approximately 190 presenters, and roughly 30 to 40 auditors. Accepted submissions came from 43 countries.

The plenary at the end of the second day of the conference was Migration, Internationalism, and Class in the Time of Late Imperialism Migration Control by Hannah Cross. The plenary at the end of on the third day was Displacement and the Right to Home(land): Reimagining Republican Citizenship in an Era of Counter-Revolution by Cenk Saraçoğlu. The closing plenary on the final day was a roundtable discussion by political economists from the Local Organizing Committee, Aylin Topal, Pınar Bedirhanoğlu, and Ebru Voyvoda, moderated by Galip Yalman.Links to all four plenaries will be posted below, hopefully by the end of November.

Call for Papers and Activist Proposals (Ankara, September 2025)

For a quite a number of years now the mainstream mass media has run a constantly increasing number of stories on the world immigration crisis. Nearly all of them are either part of some aspect of the mainstream’s political agenda, such as immigration from Venezuela or the Ukraine (and the minimal coverage of the refugees from devastated Palestine), or as part of its pervasive ‘at least your social problems are not this bad’ coverage of real human tragedies. The plenary presentations at this conference to the contrary will discuss this crisis simultaneously from three perspectives: the (unnecessary) massive human tragedy that it is, the component of world capitalism’s current policrisis that it is, and the crisis it constitutes for world capitalism.

This is the first time in IIPPE’s 15-year history of conferences in political economy that we have had immigration as the theme. The nature of this crisis in capitalism indicates that it will not be the last time that we will address it. Absent any major restructuring of the world social order, this crisis can only continually deepen over the years and decades ahead to hard-to-even-imagine dimensions.

This is the Call for proposals for presentations at the conference on any aspects of political economy. Submissions may be made as

• proposals for individual papers;
• proposals for entire panels;
• proposals for streams of panels;
• proposals on activism, film, and media.

Like last year, proposals will be made electronically to the WHOVA platform. The Proposal Submission Portal is open as of today, December 17, 2024, with a deadline for proposals of about February 15, 2025.

The IIPPE Conference Committee

Annual Conferences of Political Economy Associations

IIPPE 2026 Annual Conference
September 9-12, 2026, Lisbon
www.iippe.org
Contact: iippe@iippe.org

Portuguese Association for Political Economy
January 29 – 31, 2026, Porto
Call in English for papers (Closes Sept 30)
Contact: info@economiapolitica.pt

Asociación de Economía Crítica
Next Conference in June 2026

Association for Heterodox Economics
July 1 – 3, 2026, Coimbra, Portugal
Contact: heteconevents@gmail.com

Association for Institutional Thought
April 2-5, 2025, Seattle
Contact: Mila Malyshava