IPSA Research Committees Colloquium, 23-26 June 2026

15:04 - By Laurence Cooley

Minorities Under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges

Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

Hosted by the Institute for Minority Rights and the Center for Autonomy Experience of Eurac Research and organised by IPSA RC14 Politics and Ethnicity in collaboration with RC13 Democratization in Comparative Perspective, RC16 Socio-Political Pluralism, RC23 Elections, Citizens and Parties, RC28 Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance, RC43 Religion and Politics, RC44 Security, Conflict and Democratization, RC50 The Politics of Language, and RC53 Indigenous Politics.

This year's IPSA Research Committees colloquium organised by RC14 Politics and Ethnicity is titled 'Minorities Under Siege?' and aims to explore the evolving and multifaceted challenges facing minority community members, their identities, cultures, religions and rights, in contemporary states, embedded within the changing normative and globally interconnected context. The notion of being 'under siege' is used as a powerful lens to examine the pressures, vulnerabilities and systemic threats that minorities face in an increasingly volatile world.

Please see https://sites.google.com/view/ipsarc14/colloquia/bolzanobozen-2026 for the call for papers and further details.