35 Years of Cultural Change: What’s Next?

The International Political Science Association (IPSA) will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of its permanent Secretariat in Montréal on March 30, 2016. To mark the occasion, past President Max Kaase and current President Aiji Tanaka will look back on the conditions that led to the permanent establishment of the Secretariat in Quebec, as well as IPSA’s achievements since its relocation to Montreal.

We’re also proud to announce that 2014 Mattei Dogan Prize Winner and co-recipient of the 2011 Skytte Prize, Ronald Inglehart, will present a lecture entitled “35 Years of the World Values Survey: What’s Next?” The lecture will be followed by a reception for representatives from the city of Montréal and Concordia University as well as members of the provincial and federal governments.

This event will serve as an opportunity to reflect on the current state of political science as well as the purposes and achievements of international organizations such as IPSA.

Free tickets are now available. Registration is free but mandatory. For more information contact secretariat10@ipsa.org.

About the speaker

Ronald Inglehart is the Lowenstein Professor of Political Science and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is also co-director of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. Inglehart helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and directs the World Values Survey, which has surveyed representative national samples of the publics of 97 countries containing almost 90 percent of the world’s population. His research deals with changing belief systems and their impact on social and political change.