RGIPS Newsletter, October 2023
Dear students, colleagues, and friends,
Welcome to the new iteration of the DoingIPS newsletter, bringing you the latest news, events and research relating to the DoingIPS research-node in SPIR. Enjoy the short read and don’t forget to visit our website and follow us on twitter @doingips.
Upcoming Events
Book Launch ‘International Organizations and Research Methods: an Introduction’
Join us for a virtual roundtable on ‘International Organizations and Research Methods: an Introduction’, a new book edited by Fanny Badache (Geneva Graduate Institute), Leah R. Kimber (University of Geneva), and Lucile Maertens (Geneva Graduate Institute) that brings together diverse, multi-method and interdisciplinary contributions from over 60 scholars.
The roundtable will take place on October 24th, 2023 (1.45-3pm, UK time) and features presentations by the editors, a live interview by Audrey Alejandro and a Q&A with the audience.
This event is co-hosted by DoingIPS and the LSE Department of Methodology. You can read more about it here and register at this link.
DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series London, 6th edition 2023/2024
The launch of the sixth edition of the DoingIPS London PhD Seminar Series will take place at Queen Mary University of London (GO Jones, LG1) on October 27th, 2023 (2.30-5pm). Jointly organised by PhD researchers and the DoingIPS convenors, the seminar series brings together UK-based PhD students from a variety of institutions and disciplinary traditions to present their work, invite external discussants, and gather focussed feedback. E-meet the new organising team here – including our QMUL SPIR PhD Candidates Dalia, Freddy, Meena and Timor.
Participants meet once a month in one of the three host institutions – KCL, LSE and QMUL – for a total of ten, 2-hours-long seminars throughout the academic year. The series will be opened by a brief introduction on DoingIPS by Jef Huysmans and Mirko Palestrino. It will be followed by two presentations by Livio Silva-Muller (LSE/Geneva Graduate Institute) and Timor Landherr (QMUL) and a small reception.
Read more about the seminar series here and access this edition’s programme here.
Save the date
Book launch ‘Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency’.
Co-organised by Global Politics Unbound and DoingIPS, this book launch will take place at QMUL (Laws 112) on November 22nd, 2023 (5.30-7pm). Hannah Owens (Royal Holloway) and Mirko Palestrino (QMUL) will join the author of the book Melissa Gatter (University of Sussex) to chat about doing ethnography, studying time, humanitarianism and displacement, and turning a PhD thesis into a book.
More information about this event will be circulated closer to the date.
Recent events
Doing IPS at EISA - 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Doing IPS delivered lively debates on themes in International Political Sociology in 15 panels and roundtables at the Pan-European Conference of the EISA in Potsdam, 6-9 September 2023.
We had a wonderful time in the outskirts of lovely Potsdam where we engaged in debates on key questions and themes in IPS and met many people involved in International Political Sociology research. Our panel discussions took place in a large lecture hall which created a pleasant coolness, despite the hot summer weather.
For the list of panels, please refer to: EISA PEC 2023. The Standing Section Doing International Political Sociology of the European International Studies Association is chaired by Jef Huysmans (QMUL) and Joao P. Nogueira (PUC-Rio).
Latest Doing IPS research
Jef Huysmans and Joao P. Nogueira have just published their latest article, in a series of pieces that explore and reframe the connection between International Political Sociology and critique. The article can be found in the European Journal of International Relations: Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231185569
This latest article explores new interventions into critical politics by examining contributions that push the concept of resistance to its limits. It argues for experimenting with conceptions of non-dialectical critical politics that work towards co-existence in heterogeneity and multiplicity.
The previous two articles in the series on IPS and critique:
Huysmans, J., & Nogueira, J. P. (2021). International political sociology as a mode of critique: fracturing totalities. International Political Sociology, 15(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaa017
Huysmans, J., & Nogueira, J. P. (2016). Ten years of IPS: fracturing IR. International Political Sociology, 10(4), 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olw025
About the DoingIPS Research Node at SPIR
DoingIPS is a transnational research network bringing together scholars working in the broad area of International Political Sociology (IPS). IPS scholarship engages contemporary challenges to instituted relations between the social, political and international. It is methodologically varied and theoretically transdisciplinary. The School of Politics and IR at Queen Mary is home to one of the DoingIPS research nodes which has been organising seminars series, workshops, roundtables, and other public events.
We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and wish you a lovely term.
Jef Huysmans and Mirko Palestrino