Institutions & Societies

Institutions & Societies: A Graduate Conference is an annual graduate student interdisciplinary conference co-hosted by the Rockefeller College Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS) and the Students of Educational Administration for Change (SEAChange). The inaugural conference was held on Friday, 1 March 2013 at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, located on the Downtown Campus of the University at Albany.

The aim of the conference is to provide graduate students in the Capital Region an open venue for sharing their work and promote cross-discipline dialogue to improve the overall quality of graduate research. The conference also seeks to allow graduate students to present their work and receive peer and faculty feedback in a "low threat" environment without the pressure of a major academic conference.

The conference is open to all graduate students in the Capital Region who is engaged in research areas of anthropology, area/regional studies, criminal justice, economics, education, environmental studies, history, informatics, law, nano-economics, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration & policy, organizational studies, sociology, social welfare, and urban planning as well as interdisciplinary research that has a social science flair.

Definition of the conference name and theme, Institutions & Societies, has been left purposefully broad and somewhat vague to allow for the largest variation in the participant pool.

The next graduate student conference will take place on Friday, February 22, 2019.

Please follow this link to the Conference website to submit a proposal: http://sites.google.com/site/institutionsandsocieties.