The Doctoral Workshops initiative is the result of the cooperation in the areas of research and graduate teaching between Sciences Po, PUC-Rio, King's College and Univesity of Victoria during the last three years. It represents an attempt to enhance and structure the ongoing cooperation between these institutions to create the core of a network of institutions promoting a different way to do and to learn International Relations called International Political Sociology. The workshop will investigate the large spectrum of methods going beyond or against the diktat of rational choice theory in IR, ranging from discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, actor-network theory, approaches of limits and boundaries, genetic structuralism, socio-history. The workshop will gather researchers and students who, in the course of their research, are facing the problems posed by the impossibility of shifting from the “national” to the “global” and who consider the international as a central question that determines the conditions of possibility of political practices.

Sciences-Po / PUC-Rio / King’s College-London / UVIC

Paris

MONDAY 25 OCTOBER

First session 09:00 am – 12:30 pm

Welcoming coffee and opening remarks

“Analysing Discourses: Intertextuality and Genealogical Methods”         

PhD Participants:

• Marta Moreno (PUC Rio, Brazil), “Politicizing the United Nations Peace Operations through a discursive and genealogical analysis: the case of Somalia”
• Fabiano Mielniczuk (PUC Rio, Brazil), “Excavating Texts? Rethinking the State Concept through Archeological Practice”
• Jorg Spieker (King’s College London, UK), “Foucault, Hobbes, and the Discourse of Political Philosophy”

Discussants:

• Michael Shapiro (University of Hawaii, USA),
• Michael Loriaux (Northwestern University, USA),
• Engin Isin (Open University, UK)

Lunch: 12:30 - 02:00 pm

Second session 02:00 – 05:30 pm

“Analysing Liberalism, War, Resistance and the International”

PhD Participants:

• Rachel Ricci (Northwestern University, USA), “Caring for the Self and the World: A Critical Genealogy of Political Liberalism in International Rights Discourse”   
• Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama (PUC Rio, Brazil), “Narratives of Global Governance: ‘UN Ideas that Changes the World’ as Policymaking”  
• Youri Cormier (King’s College London, UK), “Understanding the Dialectical Theories of War”

Discussants:

• Vivienne Jabri (King’s College London, UK),
• R.B.J. Walker (University of Victoria, Canada)

Third Session: 05:30 – 07:30 pm

Round Table

• Michael Shapiro (University of Hawaii, USA), “Trans-Disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn”
• Michael Loriaux (Northwestern University,  USA), “Critical Hermeneutics and the Myth of the Transcendental Subject”
• Engin Isin (Open University, UK), “Thinking Genealogically”
• Vivienne Jabri (King’s College, London, UK), “Relating Method, Critique, and Knowledge in Politics”
• R.B.J. Walker (University of Victoria, Canada), “Concepts, Disciplines, Methods”
  

TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER

First session 09:00 am – 12:30 pm

“Analysing Justifications, Ethical Contexts and Boundaries of Identities”

PhD Participants:

• Arnaud Kurze (George Mason University, USA/Sciences Po, France), “Human Rights and Justice Revisited: A Critical Methodology of Post-Conflict Accountability Efforts in the Balkans”
• Maria O’Reilly (King’s College London, UK), “Catastrophe, Memory and Gendered Activism: A Critical Feminist Analysis of Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina”
• Francesco Ragazzi (Sciences Po, France/Leiden University, The Netherlands), “Diaspora Politics and the Transnational Political Field in IR”
• Kristina Balalovska (Sciences Po, France), “Macedonian Emigration and Strategies of Diasporization – (Trans)national Identity-making”

Discussants:

• Mervyn Frost (King’s College London, UK),
• João Nogueira (IRI-PUC Rio, Brazil)

Lunch: 12:30 – 02:00 pm

Second session 02:00 – 05:30 pm

“Analysing Practices of (In)Security and Surveillance”

PhD Participants:

• Adam Molnar (University of Victoria, Canada), “Revisiting Critical Research Methods in the Context of Interoperable Security Networks”
• Anthony Amicelle (Sciences Po, France), “Towards a ‘New’ Political Anatomy of Financial Surveillance”
• Asima Shaikh (King’s College London, UK), “Operationalising Securitisation: The Transfer of Security Discourse and Practices across Agencies at the Local Government Level in UK Domestic Counter Terrorism”

Discussants:

• Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po Paris, France),
• Jef Huysmans (Open University, UK),
• Didier Bigo (Sciences Po Paris, France/King’s College London, UK)

Third Session 05:30-07:30 pm

Round Table

• Antonin Cohen (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), “Prosopography: Introducing Quantitative   Methods into Qualitative Data and Vice-Versa”
• Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po, France), “In Security Matters, Enough is Enough... or Not? Confronting Professional and Public Practices”
• Jef Huysmans (Open University, UK), “Towards an International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies”
• Didier Bigo (Sciences Po, France and King’s College London, UK), “Assemblage, Field and Dispositif”
• Mervyn Frost (King’s College London, UK), “The Ethical Dimension of IR inquiry: How to Find It?”
• João Nogueira (IRI-PUC Rio, Brazil), “Critical Methodologies: Observations from Peripheral Sites”
• Marc B. Salter (University of Ottawa, Canada), “Reading Popular Security Culture”