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. 

2016 IPS Winter School

We are pleased to announce the second edition of the International Political Sociology (IPS) Winter School 2016, which will be held from June 27th to July 8th. More information about the course and the opening of the application process coming soon!
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Temos o prazer de anunciar a segunda edição da Escola de Inverno da International Political Sociology (IPS) 2016, que será realizada entre os dias 27 de junho a 08 de julho. Em breve informações detalhadas sobre o curso e abertura do processo de inscrição!

You are invited to our second week Roundtables!

The second week of the the 2015 IPS Winter School is soon beginning and you are invited to our roundtables! The attendance is free and open to the public.

Roundtable – “Acting Politics: Democracy, Inequality and Contestation” 
July 07, 19:00 – 21:00, B8 Auditorium, Frings Building, 8th floor - PUC-Rio

In this roundtable, professors Kyle Grayson, Jef Huysmans, Vivienne Jabri and João P. Nogueira will discuss what it means to be political against our current background of growing global inequality and mounting frustration towards national citizenship as the sole mode of political action. 

Closing Session – “IPS: the next 10 years”
July 10, 17:00 – 18:30, B8 Auditorium, Frings Building, 8th floor - PUC-Rio

In this closing roundtable, professors Kyle Grayson, Jef Huysmans, João P. Nogueira, Marta Fernández, Roberto Yamato, and Isabel Rocha de Siqueira will get together to discuss the future of the IPS movement. What have we learned so far? Where do we head from here?

First week of the 2015 IPS Winter School

The IPS Winter School started on 29th June, 2015. Check a bit of what happened during this first week!

Professors Mike Shapiro, RBJ Walker, Paulo Esteves, João Nogueira and Didier Bigo at the inaugural session "10 Years of IPS"

 Prof. João Pontes Nogueira during his course "Inequality in World Politics: an IPS approach"

Public roundtable "After Snowden: Security, Surveillance, Rights"

Prof. Elspeth Guild during her course "Human Rights and Free Movement in the EU"

Prof. Mike Shapiro during his course "The Aesthetic Turn and Beyond"

Gentle reminder

A gentle reminder that the links for paying the IPS Winter School fees will be deactivated shortly. If you have been awarded a spot, but haven't finalized your registration yet, we ask you to, please, confirm your enrollment.  We are looking forward to meeting you all in Rio!

You are invited to our ROUNDTABLES!

Through its public events, the IPS Winter School wants to strengthen the dialogue between IR experts and other social scientists at a local, national and international level. Four roundtables will prompt discussion on key topics contemporary IR. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Week 1

Roundtable 2 - After Snowden: Security, Surveillance, Rights  
(30/06, 19h – 21h, RDC Auditorium)

Edward J. Snowden's revelations about the secret US-NSA PRISM program have confirmed the large-scale mass surveillance of governments, companies, and citizens, including some of he United States' closest allies in Europe and Latin America. In this roundtable, professors Didier Bigo, Monica Herz, Eslpeth Guild and R.B. J. Walker will debate the impact of these practices on national security, diplomacy, human rights, democracy, subjectivity, and obedience.

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Week 2

Roundtable 3 – Acting Politics: Democracy, Inequality and Contestation
(07/07, 19h – 21h, B8 Auditorium, Frings Building, 8th floor)

In this roundtable, professors Kyle Grayson, Jef Huysmans, Vivienne Jabri and João P. Nogueira will discuss what does it mean to be political against our current background of growing global inequality and mounting frustration towards national citizenship as the sole mode of political action.

Roundtable 4 - IPS: the next 10 years
(10/07, 17h – 19h, B8 Auditorium, Frings Building, 8th floor)

In this closing roundtable, professors Kyle Grayson, Jef Huysmans, Vivienne Jabri, João P. Nogueira, Marta Fernández, Roberto Yamato e Isabel Rocha de Siqueira get together to discuss the future of IPS’s movement. What have we learned so far? Where do we head from here?

FINAL DAY TO APPLY TO THE IPS WINTER SCHOOL!

The IPS Winter School will offer an opportunity to engage in an intensive academic experience in the theory, methodology and current research in International Political Sociology. Activities include courses, workshops, public lectures, roundtables and informal discussions, in an environment that will facilitate scholarly exchanges and socialization among participants.

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 


Click here for more information about how to apply, fees, guest speakers and planned activities.

Prospective participants should fill in the Application Form (download here) and email it, along with supporting documents, to ipswinterschool@gmail.com until May 29th.

For help with application and other enquiries, contact us on ipswinterschool@gmail.com.