Dear All, We have a few available spots for two panels at the International Studies Association 2016 Conference in Atlanta, GA, to be held March 16-19, 2016. The conference deadline for submissions is June 1st, so we are requesting abstracts be sent by May 29th. Panel #1 - Gaming, Simulation, and International Relations This panel invites abstracts that address the role of video games in international politics, broadly defined. Possible topics may include but are not limited to the military-entertainment complex; gaming as a site of engagement with issues such as international law, immigration, and the treatment of non-combatans during wartime; indigenous games; feminist approaches to gaming and IR; and gaming and new technologies of the body. Panel #2 - Crowd Technologies and International Relations This panel invites abstracts addressing the increasing role of crowdmapping, crowdsourcing and other crowd-technologies in international relations. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to the use of crowd technologies and disaster management response by international organizations; crowdsourcing, development and urban planning; crowd technologies and open source warfare; crowdmapping sexual violence; and crowdsourcing and the production of racial and gendered exclusions in the assembly of data. Please email abstracts of no more than 200 words to Nicole Grove at nsgrove@hawaii.edu. ____________________________________________ Nicole Sunday Grove, PhD Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Hawai'i at Manoa 2424 Maile Way, Room 608 Honolulu, HI 96822 Web: www.nsgrove.com Email: nsgrove@hawaii.edu