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.