Reflecting on 'Reconnecting International Studies'

International studies scholarship encompasses increasingly diverse research agendas and has become more explicitly interdisciplinary and global. The International Studies Association reflects this. Its membership represents a broad range of disciplines, and is international and diverse. The membership’s range of research interests, disciplinary backgrounds, and geographic locations presents opportunities for inclusion and innovation. It also creates the risk that conversations increasingly take place in small circles of likeminded scholars, rather than broadly within the association. The 2025 ISA annual conference seeks to reconnect scholars across these boundaries and invites proposals that work toward a common identity for international studies. The president and the two program chairs, along with other ISA staff members reflect on the conference theme in the Asian context.