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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
Organizers of these meetings say that tougher rules around visas and border control — alongside other policies introduced by US President Donald Trump’s administration — are discouraging international scholars from attending events on US soil. “It was clear to us that, if we held a meeting in the US, based on the feedback we received, that we might not get enough people to register,” says Dominic Parrott, a clinical psychologist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and ISRA’s president-elect. The International Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has cancelled its conference, originally planned for August 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, because cuts to federal funding meant it was “no longer financially viable”.
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