Writing Workshop
Doing IR Differently
(Doing IR from Diverse Ways of Knowing)
📍 Universidad San Francisco de Quito
📍 GAIAS campus, San Cristóbal, Galápagos, Ecuador
🗓️ 20-24 July 2018
International Relations as a field of study seeks to understand how the peoples of the world interact so as to prevent or decrease conflict, yet this discipline arises out of a particular socio-cultural context imbued in the Judeo-Christian tradition. As such, this panel explores how these roots affect our ability to understand “Others” and our relations to them and offers lessons from alternate worldviews.
Sessions Summary
Fri. July 20
14:45-17:45: Personal exchange
18:00-19:30: Welcome toast on the beach, enjoy the boardwalk to dinner
Sat. July 21
08:00-10:00: Panel 1
- Siba N. Grovogui | Lest We Bark Up The Wrong Tree: On Reconstructing the ‘Science’ of International Relations
- Amaya Querejazu & Arlene Tickner | Encounters of difference: The creation of the global when different worlds interact
- Amy Niang | The Thinking and Doing of IR and the Crisis of Community
- Giorgio Shani | From Ontological to Cosmological Security? Sikhi(sm) and Post-Western IR
10:30-12:30: Panel 2
- Jarrad Reddekop | Reckoning with Ontological Disagreement: Lessons from Quichua Relationality
- Kosuke Shimizu | Different concepts of time, same type of sovereignty: the lessons from the Kyoto School experience
- María Giulianna Zambrano Morillo | Doing IR for a Broader Audience: Academic research in non-academic formats and platforms
- Tamara Trownsell | Ontological Competence: A key ingredient for doing IR differently
14:00-16:30: Panel 3
- Navnita Behera | Retooling the Frames of IR Pedagogy
- David Blaney | Teaching IR Differently
- Isaac Kamola | Defetishizing IR: The First Step in Decolonizing an American Social Science
- Zeynep Gulsah Capan | Constitutive Difference, Constituting Difference
Post-session: Pre-dinner walk to see sunset from edge of island
Sun. July 22
8:00-10:00: Interpretation/Analysis – What does it mean to do IR differently from all of our particular angles?
10:45-12:45: Intervention by ISP editorial team / Discuss implications for publications
Afternoon: Outing that includes lunch in a beautiful outdoor restaurant, visit to the turtle conservation unit and a nice beach
Mon. July 23
8:00-12:00: Work with editors / Work alone – coffee break at 10
13:00-14:30: Explorations in diverse ways of knowing: Concept development, Methodology, Pedagogy, Curricular development, career development for students
Afternoon: Pedagogical experimentation
Tues. July 24
8:00-10:30: Collective encounter