By the end of the week, the second edition of the International Political Sociology (IPS) Winter School will come to its end. These days were marked by marvelous discussions and lectures that certainly not only made us think critically about the International Relations area of study and reach satisfactory conclusions but also allowed us to get along with each other and create a dynamic and joyful academic environment. Below, you will find a few moments from our productive meetings.

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Nesta sexta-feira, 08 de julho, se encerra a segunda edição da Escola de Inverno de Sociologia Política Internacional (IPS). As últimas duas semanas foram marcadas por ricas discussões e palestras que não apenas fomentaram o pensamento crítico em Relações Internacionais mas também promoveu integração entre os professores e alunos participantes em um ambiente acadêmico dinâmico e vibrante.

It has been a pleasure to have you all here with us and we hope to see you next year!

1st week Roundtable: The limits of critique: resistance and contestation in world politics today
with Debbie Lisle, Ritu Vij, Marta Fernández and Jimmy Klausen

2nd week Roundtable: Fracturing IR: Re-reading the lineages of IPS
with Jef Huysmans, Marieke de Goede, João Nogueira and Mike Shapiro

1st week Writing and Publishing Tutorial
with João Nogueira, Debbie Lisle, Beto Yamato and Rob Walker

2nd week Writing and Publishing Tutorial
with Jimmy Klausen, Jef Huysmans and João Nogueira

The 2016 IPS Winter School was opened yesterday with the beginning of the courses and the welcome words from professors João P. Nogueira, Marta Fernández and R. B. J. Walker. We remind you that our first public event – Roundtable “The limits of critique: resistance and contestation in world politics today” –  will be held on June 30th, from 4:15 p.m. to 6:00p.m., at B6 Auditorium (PUC-Rio - Frings Building, 6th floor).

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A Escola de Inverno da International Political Sociology de 2016 teve início ontem, com o primeiro dia de aulas e com a realização da Cerimônia de Abertura, na qual participaram os professores João P. Nogueira, Marta Fernández e R. B. J. Walker. Lembramos a todos(as) que nosso primeiro evento público - Mesa-redonda "Os limites da critica: Resistência e constestação na política mundial hoje" acontece no dia 30 de junho, de 16h15 às 18h00, no Auditório B6 (6º andar do Prédio Frings - PUC-Rio)

IPS Public Events 2016 ::: Eventos Públicos IPS 2016

We are pleased to announce our 2016 Public Events!

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Temos o prazer de anunciar nossos Eventos Públicos de 2016!

Initial details of the 2016 IPS Winter School GENERAL COURSES!

Initial details of the 2016 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 27 – July 01, 2016

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



Critical Theories and International Political Sociology

International Relations and the challenge of interdisciplinarity. Sociology, politics and international as contested objects. Science and critical in the production of knowledge in International Relations. For an International Political Sociology: privilege, eurocentrism and hegemony as research topics.

Click here for Walker’s profile.

Second Week: July 04 – July 08, 2016

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.



Fracturing Methods

Methods have increasingly been placed at the heart of theoretical and empirical research in International Relations. This course explores what is at stake in foregrounding ‘method’ in the production and validation of knowledge and how International Political Sociology as a practice of fracturing IR can be methodologically enacted. First the course will introduce what it means to take methods as practices rather than fixed sets of instructions. In doing so, it questions the conception of methods as mere techniques of extracting and organising empirical material and introduces the social and political life of methods. The course then moves onto the methodological fracturing of IR by means of four conceptual devices. Each implies particular modes of assembling knowledge and texts that fracture international relations and thus acts as a methodological vehicle for doing International Political Sociology.

The course consists of five sessions:

- The social and political life of methods
- The everyday: fracturing global politics
- Media: fracturing global governance
- Motion: fracturing community
- Disputes: fracturing surveillance

Each session will start with an introductory lecture followed by a conversation on implications for research practice.

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.