Roundtable: Creative Methods

The Power of Creative Methods when Doing Political Analysis

Roundtable organized by the Doing IPS Transnational Hub.

When: Friday, March 5, 2021, from 2 pm to 4 pm (London Time, GMT, UTC +0).

Where: Online event (Zoom). The event is free, but registration is needed: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PIe-ax5URTy0J6o0JbBmmA

A Zoom link will be sent to participants shortly before the event.

Gathering scholars working in political science and international relations and whose work enact visual arts, performance, photography, sound, and narrative writing, this roundtable addresses the power of creative and visual methods when doing critical work in political science and international relations. The aim of this roundtable is to discuss why it matters to include creative and visual methods when doing political analysis; how creative methods work in the interplay between research, theory, and communication strategies; what are their potentials, and what are their limits?

Speakers:

• Marie Beauchamps (host and coordinator)
  Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.
  Website: http://mobilisingaffects.org/

• Yoav Galai
  Formerly a photojournalist, now Lecturer in Global Political Communication at Royal Holloway, University of London.
  Website: https://yoavgalai.com/

• Francesco Ragazzi
  Documentary maker, Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University and Associated scholar at the Centre d’Etude sur les Conflits, Liberté et Sécurité (France).
  Websites: Security vision, Filmmaking as method | 13 attempts to Shoot My Father by Francesco Ragazzi

• Gail Ritchie
  Artist and PhD researcher at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University, Belfast.
  Website: http://www.gailritchie.com/2020.html (most recent studio work) and http://www.gailritchie.com/blog

• Vicki Squire (tbc)
  Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.
  Websites: Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat, Making Home Away, Data & Displacement

• Ruben van de Ven
  Artist and PhD candidate in Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University.
  Website: https://rubenvandeven.com/

• Raz Weiner
  Theatre maker, performer and researcher of the politics of performance, Queen Mary University of London.

This roundtable on Creative Methods is made possible by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 839538.

Image credits: Gail Ritchie: Empty Time; Fibreglass tissue and resin, 20 x 30 x 6 cm, 2020.