Taking Stock: DoingIPS in 2020-2021
This morning, the DoingIPS Communication Team has shared its annual newsletter with the community.
Find out below what has been organized this year and what our projects for next year are!
Dear members of the DoingIPS mailing list,
We hope our end of the academic year newsletter is finding you well. In this letter, we summarise the activities that the DoingIPS network has organised and hosted this year to promote the field of International Political Sociology. We are also opening a call for new contributions.
As per the tradition, our student-led PhD seminar series was a success! The seminar series is a monthly event jointly organised through Queen Mary University of London, King’s College London and the London School of Economics. Thank you to the doctoral student organisers Alvina Hoffman (KCL), Hannah Owens (Qmul) and Olivia Nantermoz (LSE) for their great leadership. In addition to the PhD seminar, the team also organised two special sessions around specific topics: “Spatial/Temporal Disorders” and “Sociologies of non-Western political thought”. We congratulate the new team who are in process of finalising the programme for 2021/2022: Hannah Owens (Qmul), Mirko Palestrino (Qmul), Joshua Walmsley (KCL) Matia Pinto (LSE) and Shruti Balaji (LSE).
DoingIPS is promoting International Political Sociology at the European International Studies Association 2021 via a standing section led by Jef Huysmans and Joao Pontes Nogueira. The section has organised 16 panels and roundtables covering a wide range of questions and issues, including among others transversalising the international, inhabiting ruins, regimes of power and non-knowledge, anthropology and rethinking international social science, and new themes in IPS. The section also has organised two framing roundtables, one on the problem of the international in IPS and another on contemporary questions of the social.
DoingIPS also hosted and supported the organisation of several events such as the Workshop ‘Visuality and Emotions in International Politics’ and the Roundtable ‘Contemporary explorations of the problem of the international in IPS’.
The International Political Sociology Winter School, organised by Joao Nogueira at PUC-Rio, is back. The Winter School will go virtual this year and takes place 6-9 July 2021. The School consists of: General course in theory and methods of IPS; thematic panels on the history of IPS and its presence in the discipline of IR; a research workshop; and public roundtables on the far right and on COVID-19.
The transnational hub, created last year and aimed to foster further connections between IPS initiatives happening in various countries, has also been expanding. with a “work-in-progress” seminar series and the organisation of online public events.
A special congratulations goes to our Belgium colleagues for the launch of the first IPS seminar series in the country (more information here).
Our main objective for 2020/2021 was to strengthen our social media presence to help connect scholars around the world interested in IPS despite the pandemic. Many of you have come across the network since then and have joined our mailing list, Facebook group and followed us on Twitter. We are happy to see that the IPS community is growing. Thank you for your engagement! Do not hesitate to use these platforms and our (@DoingIPS) to advertise your events and publications in line with the objectives of the group, as well as to keep up to date with what is going on within the network.
Our main objective for 2021/2022 is to expand the community of scholars and students involved in the organisation of the events hosted by DoingIPS. Through this initiative, we hope to diversify the scope of our activities and better showcase the different trends and traditions that constitute International Political Sociology. Have a look here for more information about the range of activities DoingIPS has hosted so far.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Audrey on the behalf of DoingIPS Communication Team.
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