ACTIVITIES & PROGRAM

We are carefully preparing the program to encourage rich exchanges, lasting connections, and new collaborative outputs. We aim to enable a strong connection between the conference and the city of Budapest, the Hungarian context, and the state of the world.

Get to know our main activities:

1.     Opening and closing plenary sessions: bringing together leading scholars from our community and the Hungarian context to set an agenda for our critical-interpretive community during and beyond the conference. We will also connect with colleagues from the Brazilian and Australian editions of the IPA conference to enhance global dialogue and collective learning.

2.     Thematic workshop sessions: five parallel workshop sessions will bring together diverse scholars to share their work-in-progress, offer constructive feedback, and develop shared outputs.The number of workshops and participants will be limited in order to ensure meaningful engagement and generate both individual and collective benefits.

3.     Critical-interpretive research labs: up to three interactive sessions facilitating honest dialogue and critical reflection on key elements of critical-interpretive research, such as teaching, publishing, and obtaining funding for critical-interpretive research.

4.     Field visits: offering the opportunity to engage with local groups and organizations at the forefront of the struggle to advance democracy, equality, justice, and sustainability. Far from ‘academic tourism’, these visits will be structured and facilitated to generate meaningful insights and support for the local groups and organizations.

5.     Ethnographic walk through Budapest: inviting participants to explore the intersections between urban politics, democracy, and equality through situated, collective inquiry.