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, Third Term, Academic Year 2024-2025
09 April 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
2nd Year Presentations
#1: Anna Reißig, Time and Power in the Borderscape
#2: Esteban Scuzarello, Performing Identity: The Role of Identity in RSD Processes in Brazil and Mexico
Discussant: Natasha Rupesinghe
22 April 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 2, Badia)
Prospectus Session
#1: Meindert Boersma, Towards a Gramscian Approach to Climate Change and Global Disorder
#2: Saniah Matengu, TBA (Young People in Memory Politics)
#3: Snizhana Diachenko, TBA (Identity and EU Enlargement: The Cases of Ukraine and North Macedonia)
Discussants: Nina Krickel-Choi, Maxine Both, Jan Lepeu
23 April 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
Prospectus Session
#1: Carlotta Rudolph, Continuous Violence, Resisting Communities: Queer Experiences in Post-Conflict Colombia
#2: Paweł Bącal, Conceptual History of the Figure of the Politician
#3: Oda Flekkøy, Resisting Islamophobia: Collective Action among Muslim Women in Sweden
Discussants: Nora Söderberg, Tamás Peragovics, Anastasia Prokhorova
07 May 2025
10:00-12:00 | (Seminar Room Mansarda, Villa Schifanoia)
Anastasia Prokhorova, The Global Politics of Peacekeeping Training
Discussant: Miranda Loli
28 May 2025
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room 3, Badia)
#1: Tamás Peragovics, Diplomacy, Becoming Related, and Pioneering Encounters (Draft Book Introduction)
#2: Nora Söderberg, TBA
Discussants: Anastasia Prokhorova, Anna Reißig
11 June 2025
10:00-13:00 | (Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca)
#1: Jan Lepeu, European Security (Dis-) Assembled: NATO Art.5 vs EU Art.42.7 and the (Non-) Emergence of Collective Defense
#2: Nina Krickel-Choi, Securing the Future in the Anthropocene: An Archive to Last a Billion Years
Discussants: Zuzanna Samson, Esteban Scuzarello
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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