This group meets every two weeks during the academic year; it is for researchers and post-doctoral fellows working with Checkel and Guzzini, and is run by them.
We use it as a forum for presentations of work-in-progress (prospectuses, thesis chapters, drafts of conference papers); discussing current trends and controversies in IR theory, be they over ethics, data, meta-theory, theory or method; and critically evaluating arguments in the literature (journal articles, book chapters). The focus is on helping researchers and fellows make better arguments in their projects; skill building; and a bit of professional socialization.
Schedule of Presentations, First Term, Academic Year 2025-2026
8 October 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 2, Badia)
Tamas Peragovics, Journal Article, ‘The Bravado of the Stigmatized: Ontological Security, Counter-Stigmatization and the Hungary-EU Relationship under the Orbán-governments’
Discussant: Nina Krickel-Choi
22 October 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Sala del Capitolo, Badia)
Aksel Hvid, Journal Article, ‘The temporal limit of War: Deconstructing the battlefield through the unexploded explosive’
Discussant: Ștefan Capmare
5 November 2025
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room 2, Badia)
Nora Söderberg, Dissertation Chapter, ‘Recognition through Forms and Fantasies: Following the aesthetics of the climate crisis across dashboards and informal settlements’
Discussant: Zuzanna Samson
19 November 2025
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room 2, Badia)
Zuzanna Samson, Dissertation Draft Chapter, ‘Securitisation of visibility: Local perceptions of migration at the Polish-Belarusian border’
Discussant: Aksel Hvid
Natasja Rupesinghe, Fieldwork Report, ‘War zones from adjacent localities: ethics, risks and opportunities’
Discussant: Nora Söderberg
21–22 November 2025
(EUI-IHEID Workshop, Geneva)
3 December 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 2, Badia)
Nina Krickel-Choi, Journal Article, ‘Climate change, the decline of modernity, and the need to remake our world(s)’
Discussant: Tamas Peragovics
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