Update on Optional Courses!

Along with our general courses on theory and methodology, the 2015 IPS Winter School OPTIONAL COURSES will familiarize participants with the field’s most innovative research, pressing issues and debates. Optional courses are small seminars taught by renowned Brazilian and international scholars that share an interest in the study of the international political sociology.

We are proud to announce that the list of courses includes:

First Week		Second Week
General Course		General Course
Critical Theories and IPS RBJ Walker		Critical Methodologies and IPS Jef Huysmans
Optional Courses		Optional Courses
Information, Surveillance, Obedience Didier Bigo Sciences Po, France/King’s College London		Theories of Violence Vivienne Jabri King’s College London
Human Rights and Free Movement in the EU Elspeth Guild University of Nijmegen/ Queen Mary, University of London		Visualization and War Debbie Lisle Queen's University Belfast
Anti-Statist Theories from Right to Left Jimmy Casas Klausen IRI, PUC-RIo		Cinematic Geopolitics Mike Shapiro University of Hawaii
Inequality in World Politics: an IPS approach João P. Nogueira IRI, PUC-RIo		Deconstruction, Postcolonialism, and Amerindian Perspectivism Marta Fernández and Roberto Yamato IRI, PUC-Rio
The Aesthetic Turn and Beyond Mike Shapiro University of Hawaii		Acknowledging practicality, embracing subtlety: practices in IR Isabel Rocha de Siqueira IRI, PUC-Rio

  

Optional Courses will take place each week, from Monday to Wednesday, in three different periods in the afternoon. Students will choose among the optional courses available for each time slot and will be able to attend up to three optional courses per week.

Please, click here for more information about application, fees, guest speakers and planned activities. For help with application and other enquiries, contact us on ipswinterschool@gmail.com.

More information on general courses!

Initial details of the 2015 IPS Winter School GENERAL COURSES are now available. One general course will be offered each week, between 10:00 and 12:00am, from Monday to Friday. Both courses are compulsory for students.

First Week: June 29 – July 03 2015

RBJ Walker, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada, and in the International Relations Institute, IRI, PUC-RIO, will share his thinking on the relation between “Critical Theories and International Political Sociology”. 

Click here for Walker’s profile.

Second Week: July 06 – July 10 2015

Jef Huysmans, Chair in Security Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies of The Open University and director at the Centre for Citizenship Identities and Governance will consider how “Critical Methodologies and International Political Sociology” can benefit from each other. 

Click here for Huysmans’s profile.

Please, click here for more information about application, fees, guest speakers and planned activities. For help with application and other enquiries, contact us on ipswinterschool@gmail.com. 

Applications are now open!

We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2015 IPS Winter School are now open. Places are limited to 35 participants per week and will be assigned on a first-come, first served basis. Prospective participants should be currently carrying out or have concluded doctoral research in the last 5 years. Deadline for application is 18 May 2015.

Candidates may choose to apply for:

• Option 1: first week only (29 June – 03 July 2015) 

• Option 2: second week only (06 July – 10 July 2015) 

• Option 3: both weeks 


Prospective participants should fill in the Application Form (download here) and email it, along with supporting documents, to ipswinterschool@gmail.com by 18 May 2015.

Applicants that fulfill the eligibility criteria will be contacted with payment information. A reduced fee is available for registration paid in full by 10 May 2015.

Fees are (Brazilian Reais):

• One week: R$ 1.300,00 / R$ 1.100,00 Reduced fee
• Two weeks: R$ 1.950,00 / R$ 1.600,00 Reduced fee

Please, click here for more information about application, fees, guest speakers and planned activities. For help with application and other enquiries, contact us on ipswinterschool@gmail.com.