ISIR 2025
We are pleased to officially announce the 25th annual ISIR conference, which will be held in Chicago, Illinois! The conference will be held from July 24–26, 2025 at Northwestern University and will be hosted by Prof. William Revelle. As always, we will have a special IMC welcome event the evening before the conference begins on July 23.
Abstract submission and conference registration are now open. Please click the buttons above to register and submit an abstract. Abstract submission has been extended to April 28, 2025, with decisions being sent out approximately two weeks later.
Student travel
All graduate students and postdocs with an accepted oral or poster presentation for ISIR automatically qualify for $1,000 in travel support (for traveling from within the United States) or $1,500 of travel support (for those traveling from outside the United States) from the Institute of Mental Chronometry. In addition, for these students & postdocs, if they would like to attend IMC’s Welcoming Reception the day before ISIR, an additional $200 of support will be added to each of these amounts. These travel awards are also sponsored by IMC, and the Welcoming Reception is in part to honor the graduate students and postdocs who have been awarded travel grants. This is an excellent venue for students to meet each other as well as leaders in the field, so don’t miss out.
Speaker lineup
This year’s annual meeting features a distinguished lineup of invited speakers. Meredith Frey (Otterbein University) will open the conference with a special presentation commemorating the 25th anniversary of ISIR, honoring the vision and legacy of our founder. Claire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette magazine, will receive the Constance Holden Award for distinguished journalism, recognizing her contributions to public discourse on intelligence research. David Geary (University of Missouri), a leading voice in the field, will deliver an invited address.
We are also honored to present our local host Bill Revelle (Northwestern University) as this year’s recipient of both the Lifetime Achievement Award and our Distinguished Contributor Interview, where he will discuss his influential career and longstanding contributions to intelligence research.
Our special IMC welcome evening on July 23rd will include a special session with Nobel Laureate James Heckman and Zhe Yang (both of the University of Chicago), who will discuss their pioneering work at the intersection of economics and human development.
Please see the attached flyer for more details, and feel free to send around to colleagues who may be interested in attending.
Accommodations
We have a room block reserved at the conference hotel (Hilton Orrington/Evanston, 1710 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60201, USA) for July 23-27, 2025. Rooms must be booked by June 23, 2025. To book a room reservation at conference rates, please see the email with the booking link which will be going out to members. If you intend to attend the conference but did not receive this booking link, please email admin@isironline.org.
Room options and costs:
• Petite Two Queen Beds – $195.00
• Petite One King Bed Room – $195.00
• Deluxe King Bed Room – $195.00
• Deluxe Two Queen Beds – $195.00
