PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology (2020-2021)
Photo of first series from organisers.
Description
Organised by the research group Doing IPS and PhD students in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, the School of Politics and International Relations/School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, and the Department of International Relations at London School of Economics.
Building on the success of the first and second editions of the PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology, the Organising Committee is pleased to run a third IPS PhD Seminar series starting from September 2020. The Series provides doctoral candidates with a forum dedicated to IPS where they 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. More widely, the series will strengthen the analysis and evaluation skills of early career researchers.
The series is made up of monthly student-led seminars jointly organised through KCL, QMUL, and LSE. It will run over a period of 12 months, usually meeting from 3-5pm on the last Friday of each month. In each seminar, two participants have the chance to present their work-in-progress on/in IPS to PhD student colleagues and senior academics from universities across London and the UK who work within the realm of IPS. Due to the travel restrictions imposed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be holding the 2020/21 Seminar Series online, via Zoom, until January.
In addition to our regular seminars, we organise special events around IPS topics and debates. This year, we will be holding two Special Sessions, on Spatial/Temporal Disorders (6 November) and on Sociologies of non-Western Political Thought (during the Spring Semester).
Sponsor
The seminar series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership. Additional financial support is provided by the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Doctoral student organisers
Alvina Hoffmann, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Hannah Owens, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Olivia Nantermoz, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
Senior academic organisers
Audrey Alejandro, Assistant Professor of Qualitative Text Analysis, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Programme
The series will run from September 2020 to July 2021, usually meeting on the last Friday of the month. In each two-hour seminar, two participants introduce their work-in-progress (thesis chapter, book chapter, journal manuscript) to the group and invite a senior academic as discussant. The discussion is followed by questions and answers with the group. 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.
Date
25 September 2020
23 October 2020
6 November 2020
20 November 2020
11 December 2020
15 January 2021
29 January 2021
26 February 2021
19 March 2021
26 March 2021
30 April 2021
28 May 2021
25 June 2021
23 July 2021
Presenters and titles
Ingri Bøe Buer (University of Manchester)
‘Urban Violence and “Peace” Processes in a Violent, (Post)Colonial Democracy
Tasniem Anwar (University of Amsterdam)
‘Time will tell: reflections on defining violence in terrorism court cases’
Ahou Koutchesfahani (KCL) ‘“Iranian Woman”: The Conflicting Narratives Vying for Validity on Social Media and How Identity Is Not Fixed.’
Hattie Cansino (Newcastle University) ‘Taking the Road to Paradise: Aesthetic Infrastructures of Tourist Economies in Northeast Brazil’
Special Session on Spatial/Temporal Disorders Discussion with: Alvina Hoffmann (KCL), Mirko Palestrino (QMUL), Aino Korvensyrjä (University of Helsinki) and Freya Cumberlidge (Central European University)
Joshua Walmsley (KCL) ’Counter-radicalisation: the securitisation of caring?’
Lizy Blake (QMUL) ‘Behavioural Micro-targeting, polarisation and the problem for democracy’
Anna Finiguerra (QMUL) ‘Unpacking the Gateway to Europe: The Many Afterlives of a Monument to Lives Lost in the Mediterranean’
Léonard Colomba-Petteng (Sciences Po Paris) ‘The African uses of Europe: the demand-side perspective on the Common Security and Defense Policy’
Samah Rafiq (Yale University + Jawaharlal Nehru University) ‘How did we get here? A genealogy of border control practice and knowledge production in international relations’
Mattia Pinto (LSE) ‘Discursive alignments of trafficking, rights and crime control’
Shruti Balaji (LSE) ‘Towards a historical South Asian feminist conception of international thought’
George Ygarza (University of California, Santa Barbara) ‘Fugitive Ontologies: Biopolitics and Decolonial Praxis of Refusal in Contemporary Anti-Extractivist Resistance in the Andes’
Ida Roland Birkvad (QMUL) ‘Aryanism as Internationalism? ‘Solidarity’ and Connection in Global Reactionary Thought’
Alex Stoffel (QMUL) ‘Transnational imposition or liberation? The internationalism of the gay liberation movement’
Special Section on Sociologies of Non-Western Political Thought
Bryony Vince (University of Sheffield)
‘Forgetting International Relations: How ubuntu is used as a tool for conflict resolution in South Africa’
Taylor Borowetz (SOAS)
‘Liberation and the Haitian Revolution’
Aisha Kadiri (ENS Paris)
‘Radically digital: An emancipatory liberalism?’
Nina Kiderlin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) ‘Financial Networks of Armed Groups - Building Transnational Private Authority’
Théotime Chabre (Sciences Po Aix en Provence) ‘Internationalisation through knowledge ? The case of higher education in North Cyprus.’
Janina Pescinski (QMUL) ‘Racialization of Citizens and Migrants in the Borderscape’
Shikha Dilawri (SOAS) ‘“Caste as an aspect of race”?: Interrogating the ‘global colour line’ through exploring entanglements of ‘race’ and ‘caste’ in the Indian diaspora
Howard Rechavia-Taylor (Columbia University) ‘Against the Colony in the Courtroom- the International Politics of Reparations for Colonial Genocide
Olivia Nantermoz (LSE) ‘Out of Sight? Anti-Impunity Thinking and the Erasure of ESCR’
Aykiz Dogan (University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne) ‘Making Economic Statistics International: League of Nations’ Quantification Program and Cooperation with the New Turkey’
Sara van der Hoeven (University of Gothenburg) ‘Military ecologies of contemporary wildlife conservation – Kenya’s Northern Rangelands’
Lucy Kneebone (QMUL) ‘Politics of the In-between; Struggles over Camps.’
Hannah Owens (QMUL)
TBC
Discussant
Luciane Rocha (Kennesaw State University)
Claudia Aradau (KCL) and Emily Grabham (University of Kent)
Sara Tafakori (LSE)
Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University)
Rahul Rao (SOAS)
Francesco Ragazzi (Leiden University)
Engin Isin (QMUL)
Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)
Elisa Lopez Lucia (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Kerry Goettlich (University of Reading).
Audrey Alejandro (LSE)
Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL)
Charles R. Hale (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Professor Leela Gandhi (Brown)
Professor Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway)
Prof Arlene Tickner (Universidad del Rosario)
Professor Nina Caspersen (University of York)
Maurice Stierl (University of Warwick)
Vineet Thakur (Leiden University)
Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones (Birbeck)
Michelle Jurkovich (University of Massachusetts)
PD Dr. Martin Bemmann (University of Freiburg)
Kariuki Kirigia (McGill University)