Launch: IPS the Netherlands: Call for Papers
PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology (2022)
Deadline for applications: 22 November 2021.
As part of the international research group “Doing IPS,” the new IPS network in the Netherlands will provide a platform for scholars to present and debate their research. From PhD candidates to senior scholars, we invite you to join us in creating a new space for collaboration!
The first Dutch IPS PhD Seminar Series will introduce graduate students to research inspired by International Political Sociology’s commitment to challenge methodological and conceptual assumptions in their research disciplines, and invite them to ask new questions about transdisciplinary modes of inquiry. It will provide a forum dedicated to IPS where doctoral candidates can: (1) present their work and receive feedback from peers and senior academics in the field; (2) engage with contemporary IPS research designs and debates; and (3) develop transdisciplinary and cross-institutional relationships with a view to facilitating further discussions and collaborations around common research themes.
Aims
As a transdisciplinary approach to the study of International Relations, International Political Sociology (IPS) offers alternative lenses to understand global politics and social relations through a wide range of analytical perspectives and empirical research strategies. IPS can be thought of as a collective intellectual project which rejects traditional boundaries between disciplines or knowledges and seeks to challenge fundamental oppositions within traditional theorizing, such as that between politics and society, the individual and the collective, structure and agency, internal and external, international and national.
Themes in IPS
We welcome papers that speak to IPS themes including (but not limited to):
Critical theory and methodologies
Migration and borders
Security and surveillance
Science and technology studies
Ethnography and fieldwork methodologies
Critical race theory and global justice
Coloniality
Queer, trans, and feminist theory
Climate change and ecology
Program
This first PhD Seminar Series will run monthly from January to June 2022. During each two-hour seminar, two participants will present a piece of work-in-progress (around 8000-10,000 words of a thesis chapter, book chapter, journal manuscript) to the group and invite a senior academic as discussant. The discussion will be followed by questions and comments from the audience. All attendees are encouraged to participate regularly and actively.
All sessions will be held online. We also intend to organize several physical events as part of the IPS network for scholars to meet each other and connect offline.
Applications
Applications for the PhD Seminar Series should include:
A short bio (name, institutional affiliation, the year of your PhD, key words that describe your research interests)
A statement on how your work relates to IPS (1-5 short sentences max.)
An abstract of the work you would like to present (250 words)
The deadline for applications is Monday, 22 November 2021. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-December.
Please send your application to ips.seminar.nl@gmail.com and feel free to email us if you have any questions.
Doctoral student organizers
Tasniem Anwar, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Leonie Jegen, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Enrike van Wingerden, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
Senior academic organizers
Tanja Aalberts, Professor of Law and Security, VU Amsterdam
Marijn Hoijtink, Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Security, VU Amsterdam
Beste Isleyen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Associate Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution and Governance, University of Amsterdam