10th Edition of the IPS Winter School at PUC-Rio

The annual Winter School in International Political Sociology at PUC-Rio celebrated its 10th anniversary (30 June – 11 July 2025). There were some fantastic discussions during the seminars on Concepts and Methods of IPS (Joao P Nogueira & Jef Huysmans), Global Health Security (Sophie Harman), Planetary Citizenship (Engin Isin), Modernity and Discrimination (Victor Coutinho Lago), and Body and Politics: Notes on a Feminist Cartography (Lara Selis). William Walters opened the two weeks with a provocative keynote revisiting Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended in light of the far-right Project 2025. Kyle Grayson, with Paulo Chamon and Roberto Yamato, delivered excellent writing and publishing sessions. This year, the Winter School also hosted a week-long International Writing Workshop, funded by the British Academy (IWWEAF21\100027), for early-career researchers from across Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.

The two intensive weeks of teaching, mentoring, and debating concluded with an excellent roundtable led by the students, which sparked a lively discussion on methodological nationalism, followed by drinks at the usual venue in Gávea.