<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear members of our IPE-list,</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of Kai Koddenbrock, please find below the call for papers for nest year's EISA workshop in Cardiff, indeed a very productive format for intense discussions.</div><div><br></div><div>All the very best!</div><div>Benjamin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Anthropology and IR: Interdisciplinary explorations of money, security and the infrastructures of world order</b><i><b><br>Convenors:</b></i> Kai Koddenbrock (University of Aachen) and Mario Schmidt (University of Cologne)<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">While IR and political science more broadly has had a hard time moving beyond its state and organizations-centered social ontology and is only slowly discovering the virtues of tracing connections and networks from the bottom-up, complexity theory and actor-network theory have been highly influential in anthropology for decades. Yet, both anthropologists and political scientists have by and large refrained from controversial arguments on the bigger picture of contemporary world society, global capitalism in crisis, or the processes of migration affecting Africa, Europe and the Middle East at war.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">By contrast, our workshop explores the virtues of moving from the minutiae of social processes to the bigger structures of world society and back again by focusing on three broad – but not exclusive – issue areas – and their interlinkages: Money, security and infrastructures. Money as a prime means of Vergesellschaftung is crucial for the study of international relations and anthropology. Security, which has all but dominated IR for the last decades, conjures up the questions of external warfare and the securitization of our societies in the wake of terrorism and the challenges of migration. The focus on infrastructures opens our vista towards essential building blocks of our social lives that we usually take for granted like container ships, satellites or cross-continental cables.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Scholars from all the social sciences are welcome to join this collegial debate!</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">For further details on EWIS see: <a class="m_-6362024040148708892gmail-m_5810887221506647348moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.eisa-net.org/siteco<wbr>re/content/be-bruga/eisa/<wbr>events/ewis.aspx</a>. Abstracts for paper proposals (200 words) have to be submitted via ConfTool: <a class="m_-6362024040148708892gmail-m_5810887221506647348moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2017/index.php?page=login" target="_blank">https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2<wbr>017/index.php?page=login</a>. Unfortunately, the deadline for paper proposals will be on <b>30 December </b>already, but we are happy to assist with the process in any way we can. <br></p><br></div></div></div></span></div></body></html>