IPS the Netherlands - Call for PapersSeminar Series in International Political Sociology (2025)
Deadline for applications: 6 December 2024
As part of the international research group “Doing IPS,” the Dutch IPS network provides a platform for scholars interested in transdisciplinary modes of inquiry to present and debate ongoing research. From PhD candidates to early career scholars, we invite you to join us in pursuing the development of this space for collaboration!
The fourth edition of the Dutch IPS Seminar Series seeks to continue the promotion of International Political Sociology’s commitment to challenge methodological and conceptual assumptions, and invites scholars to ask new questions about transdisciplinary modes of inquiry. It will offer a forum dedicated to IPS where PhD students and early career scholars 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 theorising, 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 and affiliated themes including (but not limited to):
● Critical methodologies (e.g. critical making, multi-modal methods, design)
● Movement: how to study/ conceptualize movement?
● Science and technology studies, data practices
● Ethnography, fieldwork, and archival research
● Critical race theory and global justice
● Critical theorizing (papers that understand themselves to be conceptualizing are very welcomed)
● Coloniality
● Queer, trans, and feminist theory
● Conceptions of planetary politics and multispecies politics
● Knowledge and post-truth
● Security and surveillance
● Algorithmic politics.
Program
This fourth IPS Seminar Series will run monthly from January to June 2025. During each two-hour seminar, two participants will discuss a piece of work-in-progress (around 8000-10,000 words of a thesis chapter, book chapter or journal manuscript). It is also their responsibility to invite a senior academic to act as a discussant. The discussion will be followed by questions and comments from the audience. All attendees are expected to participate regularly and actively.
All sessions will be held online. We will organise one physical event (tba) as part of the IPS network for scholars to meet each other and connect offline.
Applications
Applications for the IPS Seminar Series should include:
● A short bio (name, institutional affiliation, the year of your PhD/ post-doc/ research phase, keywords 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 Friday, 6th December 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent before Christmas.
Please send your application to ips.seminar.nl@gmail.com and feel free to email us if you have any questions.
Doctoral student organisers
● Federico Petris, International Relations and International Organisation, University of Groningen
● Katharina Wezel, International Relations and International Organisation, University of Groningen
Senior academic organisers
● Christine Andrä, Assistant Professor for International Relations and Security Studies, University of Groningen; Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst).
● Renata Summa, Assistant Professor, History and Theory of International Relations, University of Groningen.
● Enrike van Wingerden, Lecturer, Department of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
We look forward to reading your proposals and working with you in 2025.