Call for Papers: IPS Belgium Seminar Series 2022-23
Aims
After a fruitful second seminar series organized from October 2021 and concluded with a methodologies roundtable and ‘meet the editors’ event in June 2022, the IPS Belgium organising committee is pleased to share the call for papers for a new seminar series that will start in October 2022.
As a transdisciplinary approach to the study of International Relations, International Political Sociology (IPS) offers alternative lenses to understand global politics and transnational relations through a wide range of analytical perspectives and empirical research strategies. By questioning the fragmentation of traditional IR categories such as the domestic and the international, high and low politics, or rationality and constructivism, it casts a light on the power dynamics at play in these entangled spaces and on their outcomes. IPS brings insights from sociology, anthropology, geography, history, among others, in the analysis of international relations. One of its aims is to question and analyse the tensions and the connections between the concepts of “the International”, “the Political”, and “the Social”.
IPS Belgium provides a platform for scholars to present and debate their research. We aim to create a space for discussion and to foster collaborations for anyone sharing an interest in the conceptual, ontological and methodological implications of the IPS perspective. From PhD candidates to senior scholars, all humanities and social sciences researchers are welcomed to participate in the seminar and present their work.
Themes in IPS
IPS includes various themes and research interests. We particularly welcome papers about (but not limited to) the following themes:
● Migration and borders
● Postcolonial and decolonial thought
● Security and surveillance
● Technologies of governance
● Identity (gender, race, sexuality, ...)
● Politics of emotions
● Citizenship and sovereignty
● Social mobilizations
● Environmental challenges
● Expertise circulation and knowledge production
● Fieldwork methodologies
● ...
Programme
The seminar series will run monthly from October 2022 to June 2023. Each seminar will last 1 hour and be devoted to the discussion of one work-in-progress paper in English (8,000-10,000 words of a journal article, a thesis or book chapter,...). Feedback on the paper will be provided by an invited senior academic and by another seminar participant. The discussion will be followed by questions and answers with the audience.
All selected participants are encouraged to attend regularly and actively. In addition to the presentation of their paper, selected participants will be asked to discuss one paper during another seminar of the annual series.
We are happy to welcome participants in person in Belgium, but to prevent any difficulties linked to travel restrictions, simultaneous online participation will be possible as well.
Application
Please send your abstract (max. 300 words), together with a short bio and a description of how your research relates with IPS (max. 100 words) to ipsseminar.belgium@gmail.com by 19 August 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent before the end of August.
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Organising team
Laura Luciani (UGent) - Anne Nguyen (ULB) - Benjamin Puybareau (UNamur) - Cindy Regnier (ULiège) - Zeger Verleye (UAntwerp)
Rocco Bellanova (USL-B - UvA) - Denis Duez (USL-B) - Christophe Wasinski (ULB)
IPS Belgium is also looking for new team members, please reach out to us via email if you are interested!
More information on www.doingips.org/ips-belgium.