IPSA is pleased to announce that Professor Donatella della Porta will be a plenary speaker at the 2025 IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul on 14 July 2025. Her keynote, titled The Contentious Politics of Academic Freedom: Social Movements and Repression, will explore the growing threats to academic freedom, particularly the repression of scholars and social movements in both authoritarian regimes and Western democracies.