THE FUTURE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

POLSIS HOMEPAGE

2009-08-04T02:20:00.001-07:00

www.polsis.bham.ac.uk/index.shtml

LOCATION

2009-08-04T00:23:00.000-07:00

Conference
All panels will be held in room G51, ground floor, European Research Institute, G3 Pritchatt's Road, University of Birmingham

See:
www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/pdfs/edgbaston-map-green-09.pdf

Conference dinner
tbc.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2009-08-04T00:14:00.000-07:00

Panel One : Gender and Interdisciplinarity

Chair
Nicola Smith
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“Arriving at Feminism Through International Relations”
Marysia Zalewski
University of Aberdeen

Paper #2
“Feminism Incorporated: Gender and Political Strategy in The West Wing”
Laura Shepherd
University of Birmingham

Paper #3
“Investigating the Concept of Women’s Empowerment: Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas”
Emma Foster
University of Birmingham

Panel Two: Ideas and Interdisciplinarity

Chair
Laura Shepherd
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“Discourse and Practices of Celebrity Diplomacy: Individuals as Moral Agents?”
Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Danish Institute for International Studies
Thomas Moore
University of Westminster

Paper #2
“Image Theory in International Relations”
Ahed Al-Houis
University of Manchester

Paper #3
“Re-Politicising Myths and Unconcious Ideologies: The Need for Interdisciplinarity in IR”
Linda Ahall
University of Birmingham

Panel Three: Power, Peace, and War

Chair
Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Danish Institute for International Studies

Paper #1
“Post–Colonial and Sub Altern Studies: Defining Power and Hegemony in International Relations”
Francis Espinoza Figueroa
Universidad Católica del Norte

Paper #2
“Measuring Fear and Consensus in Hegemonic Governance”
Cornelia Beyer
University of Birmingham

Paper #3
“East Asian Security Intellectual Networks”
Wararak Chalermpuntusak
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University

Paper #4
“Pedagogical Peacebuilding through Peace Education: the case of Cyprus”
Eleni Christodoulou
University of Birmingham

Panel Four: Political Economy and History

Chair
André Broome
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“The open range of IPE: On narrative discourse and historical representation in times of world economic disorder”
Amin Samman
University of Birmingham

Paper #2
“Puff, But Don’t Inhale: International Relations and Its Troubled Relationship with History.”
Lucian M. Ashworth
University of Limerick

Paper #3
“Engaging Africa in a changing IPE”
Collin Zhuawu
University of Birmingham

Paper #4
“Ambiguous Goals and Blurred Accountability at the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility”
Liam Clegg
University of Birmingham

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE

2009-08-04T00:11:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 15th September 2009.

Schedule

8.45 – 9.00 Introductions and coffee

9.00 – 10.30 Panel One: Gender and Interdisciplinarity

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee and tea

10.45 – 13.15 Panel Two: Ideas and Interdisciplinarity

13.15 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 15.45 Panel Three: Power, Peace, and War

15.45 – 16.00 Coffee and tea

16.00 – 17.30 Panel Four: Political Economy and History

18.30 – 21.00 Conference dinner

All presenters will be expected to keep within a 15 minute time limit to allow sufficient space in the program for audience questions and debate.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

2009-08-03T05:03:00.000-07:00

Dr. Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Danish Institute for International Studies
abr@diis.dk

Dr. André Broome
University of Birmingham
a.j.broome@bham.ac.uk

Dr. Nicola Smith
University of Birmingham
n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS

2009-08-03T04:58:00.000-07:00

NB: The call for papers is now closed

The study of International Relations (IR) has often borrowed from, and built upon, the work produced in diverse academic disciplines. These range from philosophy to economics, sociology to criminology, geography to cultural studies, and from international law to the philosophy of science. Despite the significant debt that the development of IR as a field of study in its own right owes to interdisciplinary scholarship, debates over the future development of interdisciplinarity in IR are too often treated as a marginal concern. In addition, while many IR scholars borrow from the research insights of other disciplines, disciplinary boundaries such as the organizational structures of universities and the specialization of academic journals and publishers often inhibit rather than facilitate dialogue between scholars and students working in similar research areas.

This one-day conference aims to bring together scholars working on contemporary issues in International Relations from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to discuss the future of interdisciplinarity in the study of International Relations.

The organizers invite potential participants to submit one of the following two types of proposals:

1. Individual conference paper proposals that directly address issues related to interdisciplinary scholarship in IR. The organizers are especially interested in papers that draw on the wide pool of relevant scholarship from outside the traditional 'IR canon', but which also seek to address the challenges involved with producing interdisciplinary scholarship that attempts to engage with an often sceptical 'mainstream' IR audience.

2. Research project proposals that will contribute to -- and draw on -- interdisciplinary scholarship in IR. This may include PhD research proposals, post-doctoral research proposals, or academic research grant proposals, and may be completed project designs that have already been submitted or works-in-progress. Successful proposals will be presented in a similar manner to conference papers, but with the specific aim of strengthening scholarly dialogue and knowledge exchange over interdisciplinary project design, access to funding for interdisciplinary research projects, and how to publish interdisciplinary research outputs.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The deadline for paper proposals and research project proposals (of 200-300 words) is 31 July 2009. Further additional information, including the conference programme, will be published on the conference website in August 2009.