[AK.IPO] European Workshops of International Studies, Cardiff, June 7-10, 2017

[Benjamin Wilhelm]

Dear members of our IPE-list,

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.

All the very best!
Benjamin


Anthropology and IR: Interdisciplinary explorations of money, security and
the infrastructures of world order
Convenors: Kai Koddenbrock (University of Aachen) and Mario Schmidt
(University of Cologne)



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.



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.



Scholars from all the social sciences are welcome to join this collegial
debate!



For further details on EWIS see:
http://www.eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx.
Abstracts for paper proposals (200 words) have to be submitted via ConfTool:
https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2017/index.php?page=login. Unfortunately, the
deadline for paper proposals will be on 30 December already, but we are
happy to assist with the process in any way we can.



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