The International Relations Working Group (IRWG) is a network of researchers and scholars based at the EUI who share an interest in International Relations. It is a forum for discussion and exchange among and beyond the EUI community. The members of the IRWG organize lectures, paper presentations, debates on current IR-related issues, and informal feedback sessions on their work in progress. The IRWG gives its members the opportunity to hear and discuss the work of both internal and external IR scholars. The IRWG is a space to exchange views about the development of the IR discipline, as well as to discuss the contemporary events and processes shaping the state of international affairs.
Target group
The IRWG is open to PhD researchers, fellows, visiting scholars and all EUI affiliated persons interested in the discipline of International Relations. In accordance with the interdisciplinary emphasis, the IRWG welcomes researchers and scholars from all departments and bodies of the EUI.
Format
The working group sessions take place once or twice a month for a maximum of two hours. The meetings are not confined to one single format. In past years, the IR working group has hosted very different types of events, including researchers’ and scholars’ presentations of their own work; peer-to-peer sessions supporting the 1st year researchers; and informal meetings with distinguished scholars. Recent guests in these meetings include Prof. Alexander Wendt, Prof. Ayse Zarakol, Prof. Stefano Guzzini, Prof. Peter Katzenstein and Prof. Nina Hall. The meetings typically consist of a presentation followed by a plenary discussion.
Schedule of Talks, Third Term, Academic Year 2024-2025
- Thursday, 29th of May, 10:00-12:00 CEST: Presentation by Dr Alvina Hoffman (SOAS University of London) Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora’s travelogues of the first UN human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993) • European University Institute Badia Fiesolana (Teatro) and Zoom
- Thursday, 29th of May, 13:00-15:00 CEST: Book talk by Dr Kerry Goettlich (University of Reading) From frontiers to borders: how colonial technicians created modern territoriality • European University Institute Badia Fiesolana (Teatro) and Zoom
- Tuesday, 27 May, 11:00-13:00 CEST: Talk by Dr. Mina Pollman (Independent Researcher) and Dr. Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam).
Co-organized with the EU-Asia Project (Robert Schuman Centre).
Causes of Alliances, Effects of the Bureaucratic Revolving Door • European University Institute Badia Fiesolana (Teatro) and Zoom
- Tuesday, 29 April, 15:00-16:30 CEST: Talk by Prof. Peter Finkenbusch (Coventry University). Resilient Life in Neoliberal Ruins: Foregrounding Hope and Optimism in the Face of Biopolitics and Governmentality • European University Institute Villa Schifanoia (Mansarda) and Zoom
- Friday, 06 June, 17:00-18:30 CET: Talk by Prof. Tanja Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin). The globalization of academic freedom: contestation and resilience • European University Institute Villa Schifanoia (Sala Belvedere) and Zoom
Schedule of Talks, Second Term, Academic Year 2024-2025
- Thursday, 16 January, 11:00-13:00 CET: Talk by Dr Mirko Palestino (Queen Mary University of London). Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime • European University Institute Villa Schifanoia, Sala Belvedere
- Wednesday, 29 January, 14:30-16:00 CET: Session with Dr Alexander Mesarovich (EUI Max Weber Fellow) Complex, changeable, or just complicated • European University Institute Villa Schifanoia (Sala Belvedere) and Zoom
- Thursday, 20 February, 11:00-13:00 CET: Presentation by Dr Pablo De Orellana (King's College London). Hand of the Prince: How diplomacy describes subjects, territory, time, and norms • European University Institute , Badia Fiesolana (Teatro) and Zoom
- Friday, 21 February, 16:00 - 17:30 CET: Book Launch with Dr Nele Kortendiek (EUI Max Weber Fellow) Global Governance on the Ground: Organizing Migration and Asylum at the Border • European University Institute , Badia Fiesolana (Teatro) and Zoom
Schedule of Talks, First Term, Academic Year 2024-2025
To read about the past events of the International Relations WG (IRWG) please click on:
Past events
Contact
If you would like to join the IRWG, contribute with your own presentation, or just be included in the mailing list, please email us at [email protected]. Any comments, suggestions and ideas are also most welcome.