IPS Belgium: Call for papers
IPS Belgium: Seminar series 2021-2022
Aims
After a fruitful first seminar series organized from February to June 2021, IPS Belgium organising committee is pleased to share the call for papers for a new seminar series that will start in October 2021.
As a transdisciplinary approach to the study of International Relations, International Political Sociology (IPS) offers alternative lenses to understand global politics and transnational relations through a wide range of analytical perspectives and empirical research strategies. By questioning the fragmentation of traditional IR categories such as the domestic and the international, high and low politics, or rationality and constructivism, it casts a light on the power dynamics at play in these entangled spaces and on their outcomes. IPS brings insights from sociology, anthropology, geography, history, among others, in the analysis of international relations. One of its aims is to question and analyse the tensions and the connections between the concepts of “the International”, “the Political”, and “the Social”.
IPS Belgium provides a platform for scholars to present and debate their research. We aim to create a space for discussion and to foster collaborations for anyone sharing an interest in the conceptual, ontological and methodological implications of the IPS perspective. From PhD candidates to senior scholars, all humanities and social sciences researchers are welcomed to participate in the seminar and present their work.
Themes in IPS
IPS includes various themes and research interests. We particularly welcome papers about (but not limited to) the following themes:
● Migration and borders
● Postcolonial and decolonial thought
● Security and surveillance
● Technologies of governance
● Identity (gender, race, sexuality, ...)
● Citizenship and sovereignty
● Social mobilizations
● Environmental challenges
● Expertise circulation and knowledge production
● Fieldwork methodologies
● ...
Programme
The seminar series will run monthly from October 2021 to June 2022. Each seminar will last 1 hour and a half and be devoted to the discussion of one work-in-progress paper in English (8,000-10,000 words of a journal article, a thesis or book chapter,...). Feedback on the paper will be provided by an invited senior academic and by another seminar participant. The discussion will be followed by questions and answers with the audience.
All participants are encouraged to attend regularly and actively. In addition to the presentation of their paper, participants will be asked to discuss one paper during another seminar of the annual series.
We hope that the context will allow us to welcome you in Brussels but to prevent any difficulties linked to travel restrictions, simultaneous online participation will be possible as well.
Application
Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) with a short bio and a description of how your research relates with IPS (max. 100 words) to ipsseminar.belgium@gmail.com before 10 September 2021.
Do reach out if you want to join the mailing list to be informed of our future activities or if you have any questions.
Organising team
Laura Luciani (UGent) - Anne Nguyen (ULB) - Benjamin Puybareau (UNamur) - Cindy Regnier (ULiège) - Chloé Thomas (USL-B)
Rocco Bellanova (USL-B) - Denis Duez (USL-B) - Christophe Wasinski (ULB)
More information on www.doingips.org/ips-belgium.
Photo by François Genon on Unsplash.