IPS Belgium Seminar Series 2024
We are delighted to announce the programme of the IPS Belgium Seminar Series 2024! The series will run from January to June 2024, meeting at the VUB Main Campus (Pleinlaan 2, Building C, room 405) and online on the third/fourth Friday of the month, from 4 pm to 5 pm (CET).
In each seminar, one participant introduces their work-in-progress (thesis chapter, book chapter, journal manuscript) to the group and invites a senior academic as discussant. The work-in-progress is also discussed by a junior scholar among the seminar participants. 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.
Programme
January 26: Alizée DAUCHY (INALCO), "Biometrics dream in the ECOWAS: actors, rationalities and obstacles in controlling and facilitating mobility through digital systems"
Discussants: Rocco Bellanova (VUB) & Léonie Jegen (UvA)
February 16 [this seminar will exceptionally take place only online, between 10-11 AM CET]: Léonie JEGEN (UvA), "Senegal’s civil registration system: The in/exclusion paradox of “symbolic modernism"
Discussants: Georgios Glouftsios (University of Trento) & Karolina Kluczewska (UGent)
March 22: Louise AMORIS (UGhent, UNU-CRIS, Sorbonne-Nouvelle), "Relocating Itself at the Core: Georgia as the EU’s Wingman on the Fringe"
Discussants: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick) & Krystel Wanneau (Sciences Po Grenoble)
[This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date] April 26: Krystel WANNEAU (Sciences Po Grenoble), "Savant, nomadic and sedentary experts: a study of UNEP’s environmental crises field"
Discussants: Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (Geneva Graduate Institute) & Quitterie de Labbey (ULB)
May 24: Karolina KLUCZEWSKA (UGent), "Family-mainstreaming: knowledge production and expertise circulation in Poland’s international relations"
Discussants: Katarzyna Jezierska (University West) & Louise Amoris (UGent, UNU-CRIS, Sorbonne-Nouvelle)
June 21: Quitterie DE LABBEY (ULB), "From laboratory to battlefield: the socio-economic and technical dimensions of armament policies in Europe”
Discussants: (tba) & Alizée Dauchy (INALCO)
Full papers will be sent to registered participants one week ahead of each session. To receive the registration link or for more information, please contact ipsseminar.belgium@gmail.com.
Organizing committee
Morgane Ghys (ULB)
Marie Kwon (F.R.S.-FNRS, ULiège, ENS Paris)
Laura Luciani (UGent)
Cindy Regnier (F.R.S.-FNRS, ULiège)
Chloé Thomas (UCLouvain, USaint-Louis)
Zeger Verleye (UAntwerpen)
Alice Whelan (VUB)