[IPO] Warsaw 2013 Call section chairs

[Andreas Nölke]

'One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises'


8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations


Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013, Warsaw, Poland


Organised by the Standing Group on International Relations in
cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University
of Warsaw and the

Polish Association for International Studies



‘The world in crisis’ is a phrase that we often hear, especially in
recent years – be it the eurozone crisis, the global economic crisis
after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crisis of legitimacy for a
number of states in North Africa and the Middle East, the crisis of US
hegemony, climate change and (un)sustainable development, and so on.
Curiously, this has led to remarkably little self-reflection among
International Relations communities, especially with regard to two key
aspects of the phrase: (1) whose ‘world’ is it that is in crisis, and
(2) what is labelled as a ‘crisis’ and what is not.

This forces us to ask why and how this might be the case; in
particular, this Call for Papers calls attention to the ways in which
contemporary ‘real-world’ crises are frequently viewed as indicative of
crises of the paradigms and frameworks promoted by others and not
ourselves. As such, this conference asks whether IR is able to respond
effectively to the challenges posed to its assumptions and frameworks
as such. That is, if international relations is characterised by
multiple worlds and multiple crises then what does this say about the
discipline of International Relations?


We are particularly interested in the plurality of perspectives that
exist within (and can be brought into) IR in order to highlight how
these different perspectives allow us to see four things: (1) our view
of IR as a discipline; (2) our conception of ‘the world(s)’ that we
live in and study; (3) our view of what is important and/or appropriate
for IR to study in the world(s) that we live in; (4) our assessment of
crises and their significance, which extends to whether we view them as
crises or not in the first place (and thus the question ‘crises for
whom?’). In other words, are there many rather than one International
Relations and does this mean that there are multiple worlds and crises
which IR scholars could study? And why and how does this matter?


While participants are especially invited to respond to the conference
theme, proposals on all aspects of International Relations will be
considered (please see below). A Call for Panel and Paper proposals
will be issued later this year.


Call for Section Chairs

The academic programme for the conference will be organised in the
usual SGIR format of sections composed of panels. The conference can
host up to 30 parallel sections. A section may consist of either five
or ten 105-minute panel sessions during the programme. Each 105-minute
panel should comprise four to five papers plus discussant and chair.


The tasks for a section chair include:

- proposing a section around a theme; populating some panels at the
proposal stage; maintaining a balance between established and
new-coming scholars, and postgraduate students;

- composing the rest of the section’s program, by selecting papers that
were proposed in response to the call for papers;

- identifying panel chairs and discussants;

- taking overall responsibility for the actual execution of their
section’s contribution to the conference programme. This final task
includes the selection of best paper by a research student in their
section.


Proposals for sections should include:


1). Name, institutional affiliation and email address of the proposed
section chair(s).

2). Proposed section title and summary of its theme(s) and rationale(s)
(no more than 250 words). Please state here if your proposed section is
to contain 5 or 10 panels.

3). Tentative indication of possible panels (panels do not need to be
complete, and nor do we require a full list of panels, but a minimum of
two papers per panel is desirable). This could, if you so wish, include
roundtables (in which case please indicate at least two members of the
roundtable line-up).


Proposals should be submitted to [1]europeanisa at gmail.com.

As noted above, participants are especially invited to respond to the
conference theme, but we welcome proposals on all aspects of
scholarship interested in the study of international relations. For
example (this list is not exhaustive):


Area Studies

Conflict Management

Defence

Democracy

Development

Diplomacy

Environment

Ethics

Ethnicity and Nationalism

Foreign Policy Analysis

Gender Studies

Global Governance

History & IR

Human Rights

Intelligence Studies

International Communications

International Law

International Organisations

International Political Economy

International Political Sociology

International Political Theory

International Relations Theory

Knowledge

Migration

Peace Research

Security Studies


The closing date for section proposals is midnight on Sunday 14 October
2012.


Accepted section chairs will be notified by Friday 26 October 2012.
This will be followed immediately by a call for paper and panel
proposals, with a deadline of Sunday 16 December 2012. Section
convenors are expected to select papers and panels by Sunday 10
February 2013.


Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent) and Ian Bruff (Loughborough)

Programme Chairs

References

1. mailto:europeanisa at gmail.com
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