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Open Virtual International Workshops

WISC Open Virtual International Workshops for Early Career Researchers

18-19 May 2021

Based on the Call for Applications issued back in December 2020, the 2021 WISC virtual international workshop follows the WISC tradition of encouraging global debates having as a primary target group the active participation of early career scholars from the Global South. In contrast to previous WISC workshops in Cancun, Delhi, or Johannesburg, this time the selected papers will be grouped into panels and are scheduled for virtual presentation and discussion with senior scholars from the Global South and the Global North.


Workshop 1: Regional Integration and Global Ordering under Stress

18 May, 13-16h (CEST)

Chair: Gunther Hellmann

1. BRICS Members and the Reshaping of Liberal International Order. Conceptual Frames and Bid for Power in Global Health and World Energy Governance

By Clarisa Giaccaglia and María Noel Dussort, National Council for Scientific Research, Argentina

2. Aid-Based EU’s Economic Statecraft and European Populism: Is It Backsliding of Integration or Integration by the Crisis of COVID-19

By Hirotaka Suzuki, University of Shizuoka, Japan

3. Pacific Alliance’s Influence over Latin American Regionalism: an Unforeseen Scenario?
By Julia de Souza Borba Gonçalves, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil

Discussants:

Professor Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University, Turkey

Professor Stefano Guzzini, Uppsala University, Sweden and PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 


Workshop 2: Social Movement(s) in and between States

May 19 / Time: 15-18h (CEST)

Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

1. Decolonizing the "civil society" concept: an experience from Libya

Itzel Pamela Perez Gomez, Anahuac Mayab University, Mexico

2. Something beyond war and politics? Brazilian mothers against State violence

Izadora Xavier do Monte, Freie Universität, Germany

3. The Abkhaz Diaspora in Turkey

Ahmed A. Hafez Fawaz, Cairo University, Egypt

Discussants:

Professor Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore

Dr Erica Resende, Brazilian War College, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 


 

LA–EU Webinars 2022-2023

Webinar series "Governance in the Latin America-European Union Relationship"

The Carolina Foundation and WISC cordially invite you to participate in the webinars Governance in the Latin America-European Union Relationship.

In preparation for the next Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2023, the webinars seek to promote a systematic and broad reflection on the state of relations between Latin America and Europe. The series is part of a research project, coordinated by Roberto Domínguez and José Antonio Sanahuja, which includes a large group of renowned specialists on the subject from both shores of the Atlantic.

The purpose of the discussions is to review and analyze the main areas of interaction between Europe and Latin America, articulating its multiple aspects under the common perspective of the concept of governance, including actors, rules, institutions, and decision-making. In each session, the contributions of various members of the project will be discussed, and grouped according to the following thematic axes:

1. Latin America from the perspective of the institutions of the European Union

2. The European Union and the regions/states of Latin America

3. Economic links

4. Political agenda

5. Societal experiences

6. The emerging global order

7. Definition of the Euro-Latin American space


Calendar of activities

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | Opening Session

“Latin America from the perspective of the European Union institutions”

Institutional presentation and conceptualization of the project

José Antonio Sanahuja, The Carolina Foundation (Spain)

Roberto Domínguez, Suffolk University (USA)

Speakers

“The European Commission and Latin America: an evolving dialogue on horizontal cooperation”
Ileana Daniela Serban, Comillas Pontifical University (Spain)

“The Council and Latin America: The voice of the States”
María García, University of Bath (United Kingdom)
Arantza Gómez Arana, University of Northumbria (United Kingdom)

“The European Parliament and both Latin America and the Caribbean”
Bruno Theodoro Luciano, Paulista State University (Brazil)

Chair

Francisco J. Verdes-Montenegro, The Carolina Foundation


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

“The European Union and Regions (I)”

Speakers

“Institutionalized inter-regionalism (Summits, EU-CELAC)”
Alejandro Chanona, Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM (Mexico)

“EU policy learning in Chile: strengthening institutions and governance in matters of social cohesion, energy and trade”
Beatriz Hernández, Diego Portales University (Chile)

“Central America and the European Union, foundations of an exceptional relationship”
Pedro Caldentey, Loyola University (Spain)

Chair

Roberto Domínguez, Suffolk University (USA)


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

“European Union and Regions (II)”

Speakers

“The European Union and Mexico: the distance between ideas and institutions”
Lorena Ruano, Center for Economic Research and Teaching- CIDE (Mexico)/The Carolina Foundation

“The European Union – Caribbean”
Jessica Byron, University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago)

“The European Union and the Andean Region in the bi-regional governance scenario”
Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas, Pontifical Javeriana University (Colombia)

“EU-Mercosur inter-regionalism: institutions, actors and issues at stake”
Sebastián Santander, University of Liège (Belgium)

Chair

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


Tuesday, December 20, 2022

“Economic Linkages”

Speakers

“Competing economic and development models”
José Antonio Sanahuja, The Carolina Foundation (Spain)

“Investment flows between Latin America and Europe”
Lourdes Casanova, Cornell University (USA)

“The EU-Latin America trade relationship”
Julieta Zelicovich, National University of Rosario (Argentina)

“Climate change, development models and energy transition: the governance of forking roads”
Leonardo Stanley, Center for State and Society Studies – CEDES (Argentina)

Chair

Sebastián Nieto Parra, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – OECD


Tuesday, January 10, 2023

“The Political Agenda”

Speakers

“Populism in southern Europe and Latin America: connections and trends”
Jorge Resina, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

“A governance to build. The defense and security gap in the bi-regional agenda”
Francisco J. Verdes-Montenegro, The Carolina Foundation (Spain)

“Organized crime”
Andréi Serbin Pont, Regional Coordinator of Economic and Social Research – CRIES (Argentina)

“Cooperation for development and Agenda 2030”
Rita da Costa, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – OECD

“The EU-LAC Foundation as an instrument of the EU-CELAC Strategic Association”
Adrián Bonilla, EU-LAC Foundation
Anna Barrera, EU-LAC Foundation

Chair

Beatriz Hernández, Diego Portales University (Chile)


Wednesday, January 18

"European Union and Regions (III)"

Speakers

"EU-Caribbean"
Jessica Byron, University of the West Indies - Trinidad and Tobago

"The European Union and the Andean Region in the bi-regional governance scenario"
Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas, Pontifical Javeriana University

"A governance to build. The defense and security gap in the bi-regional agenda"
Francisco J. Verdes-Montenegro, Carolina Foundation

Chair

Lorena Ruano, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) / Carolina Foundation


Tuesday, January 24, 2023

“Societal Experiences”

Speakers

“Reconstructing the social contract: cohesion and social inclusion”
Sebastián Nieto Parra, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – OECD

“Science and Technology”
Daniela Perrota, National University of the Arts (Argentina)

“EU-Latin America relations: the mobility agenda”
Leiza Brumat, European University Institute (Italy)
Soledad Castillo Jara, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

“Anti-gender threats: the future of democracy in jeopardy”
Cecilia Güemes, Autonomous University of Madrid – UAM (Spain)

Chairs

María García, University of Bath (UK)
Arantza Gómez Arana, University of Northumbria (UK) (Pending confirmation)


Tuesday, January 31, 2023

“Emerging (Global) Orders”

Speakers

“Latin America from the EU-United States relationship perspective”
Roberto Domínguez, Suffolk University (USA)

“A paradigm shift? Latin America vs. China and Europe: faced with two cooperation regimes”
Javier Vadell, Pontifical Catholic University Minas Gerais-PUC-Minas (Brazil)
Li Xing, Aalborg Universitet, (Denmark) Will not speak

“Euro-Latin American multilateralism and world order”
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Chair

José Antonio Sanahuja, The Carolina Foundation (Spain)


Tuesday, February 7, 2023

“Reasoning on the realm Europe-Latin America”

Speakers

“Bringing the past to the present and the future”
Gerardo Caetano, University of the Republic of Uruguay

“Latin American regionalisms and the European experience”
Detlef Nolte, German Institute for Global and Area Studies – GIGA. Institute for Latin American Studies -ILAS (Germany)

“The differentiated imaginaries of the Europe-Latin America realm”
Kevin Parthenay, University of Tours (France)

“Closing words. Final thoughts”
José A. Sanahuja, The Carolina Foundation (Spain)
Roberto Domínguez, Suffolk University (USA)

Chair

Lorena Ruano, Center for Economic Research and Teaching- CIDE (Mexico)/The Carolina Foundation

Call for Virtual Workshops

Call for Applications

Open Virtual International Workshops
for Early Career Researchers, 18 May 2021

In line with the WISC tradition of exploratory workshops—from Cancun in 2015, via Goa, Johannesburg and Prague in 2017/2018, to Barranquilla and Cebu City in 2019—that facilitates a collegial mentorship by senior scholars towards the cultivation of potential state-of-the-art research works of early career academics, WISC invites applications for participation in virtual international workshops, open to any field of studies and research interests relevant to International Studies. Such themes may include, but are not limited to, topics that invite intellectual debates, such as globality, decoloniality, relationality, and other, perhaps more ‘classical’, approaches which IR scholars see as critical in making sense of and possibly contributing to resolve global problems. Applicants from the Humanities and Social Sciences are particularly welcome to apply as long as they can present their research interests as relating to some conception of the “International.” Selected papers will be grouped into panels and are scheduled for virtual presentation and discussion with senior scholars from the Global South and the Global North on 18 May 2021.

Eligibility

Given the limited availability of workshop and paper giver slots the selection process will be competitive. Successful applicants will have a clear profile as promising scholars of any epistemological background dedicated to International Studies in the initial stages of their career. Normally they will be members of one of the member associations of WISC (the list of WISC members is available here). However, applications are also encouraged from scholars in countries where WISC is not present, especially from the Global South.

Format

Complete applications must include:

  1. A paper proposal (up to 1.000 words, excluding bibliography) specifying the extant contribution to International Studies
  2. CV (1 page)
  3. List of publications. References (i.e., names of scholars who may possibly be willing to provide letters of reference if requested) are not required, but up to three references may be provided

Contact and Deadline

Applicants must submit proposals electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. using a pdf document format. Applications with all required accompanying materials contained in a single pdf-file, must be received by January 29th, 2021.

If you do not receive an email confirmation within seven days after sending your proposal, please resend it to the same address since there may have been transmission problems.

All applicants will receive notification as to whether their proposal has been accepted in late February 2021.

Leiden Workshop 2019

The Many Births of International Relations

Date: 16-17 May 2019

Place: Leiden University, The Netherlands

Introduction

Some years ago, David Long and Brian Schmidt called upon International Relations (IR) scholars to march to the archives and get their ‘hands dirty by reading texts, journals, memoirs, and other sources that have been standing dormant on library shelves’. Scholars who have taken up that challenge have copiously questioned IR’s self-narratives, not least the idea that IR took ‘birth’ in 1919.

However, these archives – like much of this revisionist work – are primarily located in the Global North. Our understanding of how the discipline emerged in America and Europe has been significantly advanced, but there is still very little known about how IR arrived in the (former) colonies. As a field of enquiry that worked to transform the empire into the international in Britain, how did, for instance, IR emerge in places like South Africa where the ‘policy work’ of imperial imagination was already being sketched out by Anthropology? How did IR as a field of study define itself as a self-contained body of knowledge that is distinct from other social sciences in other parts of the world? The ideas of the ‘international’ travelled to different parts of the world through both official – universities, think-tanks, journals, and so on – as well as unofficial – private member groups, networks of individuals – channels. How did people, ideas and institutions come together to form a distinct discipline?

Taken together, how do these different stories of, what we generally see as a monolith, ‘International Relations’ hang together? What do they tell us about how IR as a discipline is understood and negotiated in different parts of the world? This workshop will draw together stories of the discipline’s emergence from several parts of the Global South.

Programme

16 May 2019

Venue: 2.60 (Conference Room), Huizinga Building

8:30 – 9:00

Registration
Introductory Remarks: Karen Smith and Vineet Thakur, Leiden University

9:00 – 11:30 Chair: Carolien Stolte (Leiden University)

Morten Valbjorn (Aarhus University)
Title: (Arab) Middle East IR: a young discipline with a long tradition

Siddharth Mallavarapu (Shiv Nadar University)
Title: A Disciplinary History of International Relations: Notes from India
Discussant: Karen Smith (Leiden University)

Zeyneb Gulsah Capan (University of Erfurt) and Türkan Özge Onursal-Beşgül (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Title: Debating the ‘international’: Turkey and the Formation of the discipline of IR
Discussant: Alexander Davis (La Trobe University)

11:30-12:00 Tea/coffee break

12:00 – 13: 30 Chair: Maxine David (Leiden University)

Timothy Vasko (Barnard College)
Title: Nature and the Native
Discussant: Türkan Özge Onursal-Beşgül (Istanbul Bilgi University)

Alexander Davis (La Trobe University)
Title: Settler Colonialism and imagining the 'International' in early Australian International Relations
Discussant: Timothy Vasko (Barnard College)

13:30-14:30 LUNCH

14:30- 16:00 Chair: Santino Regilme (Leiden University)

Arlene Tickner
Title: Styles of Thought in Latin American IR
Discussant: Carlos Milani (State University of Rio de Janeiro)

Carlos Milani (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
Title: The foundation of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis in Brazil
Discussant: Zeynep Gulsah Capan (University of Erfurt)

16:30 onwards: Boat tour, followed by dinner at Surakarta, Noordeinde 51-53

17 May 2019

Venue: 148 Lipsius

8:30 – 10:45 Chair: Lindsay Black (Leiden University)

Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University)
Title: The transcendental whole or mere contingency: the tragedy of the second generation of the Kyoto School philosophers
Discussant: Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University)

Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University)
Title: Indigenization of International Relations Theories in Korea: Essencializing Historical Experiences
Discussant: Hwang Yih-Jye (Leiden University)

Hwang Yih-Jye (Leiden University)
Rethinking the "Chinese School" of International Relations: A Critical Appraisal
Discussant: Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University)

10:45-11:15 Tea/coffee break

11:15-12:45 Chair: Alanna O’Malley

Vineet Thakur (University of Leiden) and Peter Vale (University of Pretoria)
Title: The Mission that very nearly failed! The Founding of the South African Institute of International Affairs
Discussant: Thomas Kwasi Tieku (Western University)

Thomas Kwasi Tieku (Western University)
Title: The Legon School of IR
Discussant: Peter Vale (University of Pretoria)

12:45 – 13:15: Next Steps

13:15-14:00 LUNCH


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The Workshop was co-funded by:

The World International Studies Committee (WISC)

Research Specialization in International Relations, Leiden University

Institute for History, Leiden University

Leiden University Fund, Leiden University


 

 

International Relations Workshop: New Research Topics And Proposals

The Faculty of Finance, Government, and International Relations of Universidad Externado de Colombia, in partnership with the Colombian Network of International Relations (RedIntercol), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and with the support of the World International Studies Committee (WISC), invites university professors and researchers linked to the International Relations field, whose research interest is in teaching and/or International Relations theory, to participate in this workshop, which will be carried out in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) on October 1-2, 2019.

Purpose

  • Explore the alternatives and research proposals from different parts of the world that are expanding the field of study and analysis of International Relations, including: economic issues, climate change, international migration, international cooperation for development, the influence of ICT’s, cybersecurity, among others, that is to say, those study phenomena that are increasingly diversifying the theoretical-practical analysis.
  • To debate if theoretical pluralism is a valid proposal through which it is possible to give an answer to the classical and new problematics of the discipline.

Thematic tables

The workshop is structured around two thematic tables that will work simultaneously for one day. Each table will have between 12 and 15 participants.

Thematic table 1. New themes and actors / agents in the study of International Relations

  1. Is there a transformation in IR studies?
  2. Is there a thematic frontier of research in International Relations?

Objective: To identify how new topics have been incorporated into research in International Relations and the impact on their studies.

Invited professor and table coordinator: Mónica Herz, PhD in International relations. Associate Professor of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at PUC-Rio.

Thematic table 2: Theoretical and methodological proposals in the advancement of the discipline.

  1. How are theories and methodologies in International Relations adapted to political, economic, or socio-cultural changes?
  2. What is the relationship between academic research and political practice?

Objective: To debate the theoretical and methodological currents most used in the research in International Relations with a view to identify if scientific production in the field of study responds to some of the academic curricula of the universities of the participants.

Invited professor and table coordinator: José Antonio Sanahuja, PhD in Political Sciences (International Relations). Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Sociology and Political Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid and Director of the Carolina Foundation.

Process

  • Those interested in participating in thematic table 1 must submit an abstract of no more than 300 words answering one of the following questions:
  1. Is there a transformation in IR studies?
  2. Is there a thematic frontier of research in international relations?
  • Those interested in participating in thematic table 2 must submit an abstract of no more than 300 words answering one of the following questions:
  1. How are theories and methodologies in International Relations adapted to political, economic, or socio-cultural changes?
  2. What is the relationship between academic research and political practice?
  • With the abstract, each participant must include a personal presentation of no more than 200 words (with contact information).
  • The required documentation must be sent in a single pdf file, no later than Friday, March 1, 2019, to the email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject “Call workshop. Table (#)”.
  • All abstracts received will be evaluated by the academic committee, composed of the following members:
Martha Ardila, PhD. Coordinator of the Observatory in International Systems Analysis (OASIS), Universidad Externado de Colombia - Bogotá

Arlene Tickner, PhD. Research Director, Faculty of Political Science, Government, and International Relations, Universidad del Rosario – Bogotá

Luis Fernando Vargas-Alzate, PhD. President of the Colombian Network of International Relations (RedIntercol).
  • The call is made to those with a future interest to participate in a joint publication led by Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Scholarships and financing

The organizers of the workshop will offer 6 scholarships for those who are selected to participate and present an original and innovative proposal:

  1. Three for Colombian researchers (transport and accommodation).
  2. Three scholarships for researchers outside of Colombia (transport and accommodation).

Project coordinator

Paula Ruiz

Researcher-Professor

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