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 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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