PAST EVENTS
On July 9 and 10, 2026, the first annual in-person PRSA Symposium took place in Vienna. Participants presented ongoing research on geopolitical risk and exchanged feedback across two days of panels and discussion.
The PRSA End of the Year Webinar took place on 4 December, from 6:00–7:00 PM CET (12:00–1:00 PM EST). The event featured an online conversation focused on one central question: What were the biggest political risk issues in 2025?
On October 30, 2025, Cecilia Emma Sottilotta (Unistrapg, PRSA member) and Julian Campisi (Unitoronto, PRSA member, introduced by Adib Bencherif (Université de Sherbrooke, PRSA member), presented the collective volume The Routledge Handbook of Political Risk at the first LIRIC (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sur les risques et les crises, Université de Sherbrooke) seminar of Fall 2025.
PRSA members Adib Bencherif (Université de Sherbrooke) Manfredi Valeriani (LUISS Guido Carli), Adriano Cozzolino (Università della Campania Vanvitelli), Roberto Paura (Italian Institute for the Future), Andrea Novellis (University L'Orientale, Naples) and Cecilia Emma Sottilotta (University for Foreigners of Perugia) took part in the SISP Conference in Naples (4-6 september 2025), participating in the panel “Future Studies Meet Political Risk Analysis: Issues and Challenges Between Disruption and Change.”
On 2 July 2025, PRSA members Carlos Cruz Fuente and Cecilia Emma Sottilotta took part in a seminar organized by the Centro de Estudios Internacionales (CEIUC) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The event featured CEIUC Director Jorge Sahd and was moderated by Diego Rojas, the center’s Research Coordinator.
Read more here: Experts Analyzed the Geopolitical and Political Risk Challenges in Latin America
Four members of PRSA took part in a panel at the online conference “Frontiers of Politics: Transforming Democracies in the Digital Communication Age” on 20 June 2025.
Check out the program here: https://www.instituteforthefuture.it/frontiers-of-politics-2025/
Three of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Political Risk (Sottilotta, Campisi, Meissner) took part in a webinar hosted by the ESCP Business School, Paris on 3 June 2025. Watch the replay here: