PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology (2021-2022)
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.
Into its 4th 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), with sessions streamed virtually where possible for participants based outside London.
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 (hyperlink)). Additional financial support is provided by the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Doctoral student organisers
Shruti Balaji, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
Hannah Owens, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Mirko Palestrino, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Mattia Pinto, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Josh Walmsley, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
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
Provisional Programme
The series will run from September 2021 to June 2022, 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
24 September 2021
Presenter and title
Alexander Stoffel (QMUL), ‘Politicizing difference: The anti-imperialism of Black feminism’
David Eichert (LSE), ‘Gender Diversity in ‘International’ Law? A Queer Decolonial Reimagining of Gender in International Law’s Origins’
Discussant
Lisa Tilley (SOAS)
Sandra Duffy (Bristol)
29 October 2021
Samah Rafiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University), ‘Reading the body at the border: risk profiling in human mobility’
Janina Pescinski (QMUL), ‘Negotiating Citizenship: Battles in the Courtroom’
Yael Berda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Peter Rees (Aberystwyth)
26 November 2021
Shruti Balaji (LSE), ‘Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay's anti-imperial internationalism from below’
Ida Roland Birkvad (QMUL), ‘Astral Race and Karmic Racism: Occultism and Race Making at the fin-de-siècle’
Or Rosenboim (City University)
Alex Barder (Steven J. Green School of International Affairs)
10 December 2021
Karoline Färber (KCL), ‘Feminist struggles in German foreign policymaking: analysing everyday practices of change and resistance’
Silvia Peirolo (University of Trento), ‘Assembling Security Assistance: unpacking the perceptions of EU police officers in the Sahel’
Zeynep Gulsah Capan (University of Erfurt)
Simone Tholens (Cardiff University)
28 January 2022
Mireia Garcés de Marcilla Musté (LSE), ‘Oppressive Cuts? Genital Surgeries, Choice and Feminist Debates’
Mattia Pinto (LSE), ‘Making anti-torture a penal imperative: a history of the present’
Leticia Sabsay (LSE)
Michelle Farrell (Liverpool)
25 February 2022
Anna Finiguerra (QMUL), ‘Making Waste into Art, and Art into Waste: the Multiplicity of Migratory Traces’
Alice Engelhard (LSE), ‘Historicizing the global politics of theorising people in movement’
Charles Heller (IHEID)
Radhika Mongia (York University)
25 March 2022
Timor Landherr (QMUL), ‘Fixing Labor in the “Transit State”: The Spatial Politics of EU-Turkey Border Externalization’
Tarsis Brito (LSE), ‘Between despatialisation and dispossession: Calais through the politics of (de)materialisation’
Philippe Frowd (University of Ottawa)
Maja Zehfuss (University of Copenhagen)
29 April 2022
Hannah Owens (QMUL), ‘The Car: Memory in, and of, space: Belonging and legitimacy’
Jonna Nyman (University of Sheffield)
27 May 2022
Italo Brandimarte (University of Cambridge), ‘Breathless War: Aerial Experiences, Martial Bodies and the Atmospheres of Empire’
Mirko Palestrino (QMUL), ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: Military Victory and the Temporal Politics of the UK Doctrinal Imaginary’
Kevin McSorley (Open University)
Alex Gould (KCL)
24 June 2022
Ji Young Kim (Paris Nanterre), ‘Gentrifying otherness: diversity and whiteness in the restaurants of the Canal Saint-Martin neighbourhood in Paris’
Shikha Dilawri (SOAS), ‘On the ‘worldmaking’ of vernacular capitalists: tracing entanglements between race, caste, and capital’’
Stefan Kipfer (York University)
Martin Bayly (LSE)