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IR Theory Working Group

International Relations Theory Working Group

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, Second Term, Academic Year 2024-2025

08 January 2025
09:00-11:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
Mariusz Bogacki, Thesis Empirical Chapter, Unraveling Hong Kong Cultural Identity


22 January 2025

09:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 4, Badia)
#1: Zuzanna Samson, Thesis Empirical Chapter, Burying the “Unwanted”: The Response of Local Communities to Migrant Deaths on the Polish-Belarusian Border
#2: Maxine Both, Thesis Empirical Chapter, Immigration Detention as a Transborder Space: Institutional and Legal Foundations


05 February 2025

10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
#1: Esteban Scuzarello, Thesis Theory Chapter, Identity Unboxed: Theoretical Hunches
#2: Anna Reißig, Thesis Theory Chapter, Borderscapes, Memory and the Problem of Time


19 February 2025

10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
Natasja Rupesinghe, Draft Article, Political Alignment to Jihadist Rebels in Civil War: Resource Rivalries and Civilian Agency


19 March 2025
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
#1: Miranda Loli, TBA
#2: Raffaele Mastrorocco, The Far-Right in Security Organizations

 

Schedule of Presentations, First Term, Academic Year 2024-2025

16 October 2024
16:00-18:00 | (Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia)
Liv Moe, Thesis Chapter, ‘The Subjectivity of Counter-Terrorism: Positionality, Practice, and Practitioners’

30 October 2024
15:00-18:00 | (Seminar Room Mansarda, Villa Schifanoia)
Max Lesch, Draft Article, ‘Law in Letters? Article 51 Reports on Self-Defense and the Politics of Norm Change in International Law’

Tamas Peragovics, Draft Article, ‘When Talking Peace Favors the Aggressor: The Discursive Construction of Appeasement in Viktor Orbán’s Conception of Russia’s War in Ukraine’

13 November 2024
16:00-18:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
Jan Lepeu, Thesis Chapters, Chapter 6: ‘The Balkan War and the Improvisation of EU Sanctioning’; and Chapter 7: ‘Targeted and Globalized – The Era of Liberal Sanctioning’

21/22 November 2024
EUI-IHEID Workshop, Geneva


04 December 2024
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room 4, Badia)
Mariusz Bogacki, Thesis Empirical Chapter(s)

Maxine Both & Marta Maria Nicolazzi, Draft Article, ‘Mutual, Reflexive and Dialectical: On the Constitutive Role of the Research Assistant in Ethical Knowledge Production’

 

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