IPS Belgium: First Seminar Series

We are thrilled to announce that the programme of the first IPS Belgium seminar series is out!

Studying Power through International Political Sociology

The series will run from February to June 2021, meeting online on the third Friday of the month, from 3 pm to 5 pm (CET). In each seminar, with the exception of the first and last sessions, two participants will introduce their work-in-progress thesis chapter, book chapter, or journal manuscript to the group and invite a senior academic as discussant. The discussion is followed by questions and answers with the group.

Online registration for the seminars will be possible in early February.

All participants are expected to make every effort to attend the seminars and are expected to have read the papers in advance. Presenters are encouraged to invite their supervisors and colleagues interested in their work.

Programme

Friday 19 February 2021
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/ips-belgium-seminar-series-2021-session-1-1902-registration-141132604419

• Introduction by the organizers

• Keynote: Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary University of London)

• Emmanuel Klimis (Université Saint-Louis — Bruxelles): “The orphan fate of an hybrid object: Development policy with fragile and conflict-affected countries, the case of Belgium and Central Africa”
  Discussant: Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa)

Friday 19 March 2021
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/ips-belgium-seminar-series-2021-session-2-1903-registration-142225254565

• Pierre-Yves Cadalen (Sciences Po Paris): “Sovereignty redefined by Ecopower dynamics”
  Discussant: Amandine Orsini (Université Saint-Louis — Bruxelles)

• Julien Pomarède (Université libre de Bruxelles): “NATO’s endurance meets practice theory: A praxeology of NATO’s post 9/11 counterterrorism”
  Discussant: Frédéric Mérand (Université de Montréal)

Friday 16 April 2021
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/ips-belgium-seminar-series-2021-session-3-1604-registration-142225691873

• Sabine Dini (Paris Nord Sorbonne): “Blurring asymmetry: How the International Organization for Migration mobilizes the social division of labour as an instrument of intervention and state-building in Africa”
  Discussant: Lucile Maertens (Université de Lausanne)

• Paul-Malo Winsback (Sciences Po Toulouse): “A game of loyalty and individualism. The development of a specific capital within the regional freshwater sector in Southern Africa”
  Discussant: Dominique Darbon (Sciences Po Bordeaux)

Friday 21 May 2021
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/ips-belgium-seminar-series-2021-session-4-2105-registration-143947941167

• Julián Fernández (Pontifica Universidad Javeriana Cali): “Territorial peace: A state of the art”
  Discussant: Karlos Perez de Armiño (Universidad del Pais Vasco)

• Piero Tellerías (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): “Prepare yourself to be prepared: Restructuring disaster management in the United States and Chile through the circulation of the Community Emergency Response Team program”
  Discussant: Grégory Daho (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Friday 18 June 2021
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/ips-belgium-seminar-series-2021-session-5-1806-registration-143948978269

• Wendy Ramadan-Alban (Université de Namur): “Public diplomacy under Rohani’s first government (2013-2017): learning from the United States?”
  Discussant: Eric Sangar (Sciences Po Lilles)

• Benjamin Puybareau (Université de Namur): “National Security Secrecy and the Secret State in France and the US”
  Discussant: Damien Van Puyvelde (University of Glasgow)

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