About the Conference

Founded in 2025, Polity is an annual undergraduate research conference hosted at McGill University, organized and planned by the Political Science Students’ Association and Department of Political Science. Its purpose is to demonstrate and present the research projects and theses of McGill’s most accomplished political science students, alongside a series of seminars and panels for students to hear professors discuss the most pressing political science issues of today. Student-led presentations and professor-led seminars are categorzied by subfield (comparative politics, international relations, Canadian politics, & political theory). The conference features many opportunities for students to interact with professors, and for conference attendees to socialize with one another, with the hope of sparking further conversations and creating connections between scholars and students in the discipline.