PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology (2024-2025)
Description
Organised by the research group DoingIPS and PhD students in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, and the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Now into its 7th year, the ‘Doing IPS’ PhD Seminar Series introduces graduate students to research inspired by International Political Sociology’s (IPS) commitment to challenge methodological and conceptual assumptions in their research disciplines, and ask new questions about transdisciplinary modes of inquiry. It will address the need for doctoral candidates to have 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. Lastly, the series will strengthen the analysis and evaluation skills of early career researchers.
The series runs over a period of 10 months starting from September usually meeting on the last Friday of each month, from 3-5pm. 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. The seminars will rotate between the three host institutions (King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, and London School of Economics and Political Science).
In addition to our regular seminars, we organise special events around IPS topics and debates. Check this page regularly for updates.
Sponsor
The seminar series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP). Additional financial support is provided by the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Doctoral student organisers
Brunno Cunha, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Rhiannon Emm, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Shireen Manocha, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics
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
Mirko Palestrino, Lecturer in Sociology, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Programme
The series will run from September 2024 to June 2025, 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: 27 September 2024
Presenter: Florence Wolsteholme (Queen Mary University of London), “Just a real estate project”: The role of the built environment in constituting ‘offshore’ Dubai.
Discussant: Prof. Lisa Tilley (SOAS)
Presenter: Taif Alkhudary (University of Cambridge), “This village is a graveyard for the living”: Slow Violence and the Politics of Carceral Time
Discussant: Prof. Ida Danewid (University of Sussex)
Date: 1 November 2024
Presenter: Rhiannon Emm (King’s College London), ‘Producing the Right to Live at Home When Sovereignty is Impossible: The Chagossian Claim to International Politics’
Discussant: Dr. Alice Engelhard (LSE)
Presenter: Lujain Meligy (King’s College London), “Beyond a Western Narrative of Terrorism: The Case of Egypt (1952-1981) from a Postcolonial Perspective”.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 29 November 2024
Presenter: Javier Valdés (Queen Mary University of London), “THE NORMALIZATION OF STATE OF EXCEPTION: THE CASE OF CHILE AND THE MAPUCHE CONFLICT”.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Aine Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Proximity to monosexuality as protection in asylum”.
Discussant: Dr. Koen Slootmaeckers (City, University of London)
Date: 13 December 2024
Presenter: Silvester Schlebrügge (University of Warwick), “Borders at the limit: the racialised aesthetics of the ‘small boats crisis’”.
Discussant: Dr. Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster)
Presenter: Dalia Saris (Queen Mary University of London), “Technical solutions to political problems: the ‘de-humanitarianisation’ of humanitarian security practices”.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 31 January 2025
Presenter: Katherine Pye (London School of Economics and Political Science), “Ten years of EU intervention failure in the Sahel: Attachment and the meaning-making of staff”.
Discussant: Dr Margot Tudor (City, University of London)
Presenter: Yifan Jia (King’s College London), “Are Global Human Rights Sanctions an Emerging Institutionalized Human Rights Enforcement Mechanism?”.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 28 February 2025
Presenter: Dolores Teixeira de Brito (University of Sussex), “Voluntary Sustainability Standards through the lenses of riverine açaí berry harvesters”.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Jan Gilles (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), “BUILDING THE SOCIAL CARBON CYCLE: Reconfiguring humanity and the planetary through practices of control in the British carbon dioxide removal field”.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 28 March 2025
Presenter: Chana Rose Rabinovitz (Queen Mary University of London), “Making Time: An Exploration of alternative temporalities in post-denominational Judaism”.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Marianna Patat (King’s College London), “Complicating Necrogeographies: A Reimagining of Contemporary Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean”
Discussant: TBC
Date: 25 April 2025
Presenter: Akram Salhab (Queen Mary University of London), “‘Liberated Territory’ in Palestinians Anticolonial Thought and Practice”.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Wael Omar (SOAS University of London), “Beyond the Metropole: Anticolonial Recognition and the Making of the Revolutionary Subject in the Work of Frantz Fanon”.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 30 May 2025
Presenter: Albert C. Cano (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), “Were the Troubles a Decolonial Conflict? A Lacanian-Kristevian IR Historisation as Intertext”.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Shireen Manocha (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), TBC.
Discussant: TBC
Date: 27 June 2025
Presenter: Brunno Cunha (Queen Mary University of London), TBC.
Discussant: TBC
Presenter: Annie Hsu (University of Oxford), “Contesting International Order and the “Standard of Civilization”: The Republic of China in the League of Nations’ Technical Domains in the Interwar Years”.
Discussant: Prof. Martin Bayly (London School of Economics)