Structuralism – IPS Winter School

Roundtables IPS 2017: Videos and audios

On June 29 and July 6, two roundtables were held at the IPS Winter School.

The first table, entitled “Structuralism and then: IPS and the Critique of Limits“, was mediated by Professor Roberto Yamato and was attended by Professors R. B. J. Walker, Michael J. Shapiro, Jef Huysmans and João P. Nogueira.

Already on June 06, Professors Cynthia Enloe, Heather Johnson, Carolina Moulin Aguiar and Professor Jef Huysmans discussed “Borders, boundaries, frontiers.”

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1st week Roundtable – Structuralism and after: IPS and the Critique of Limits

Yesterday was held at the International Relations Institute the first open event of 2017 IPS Winter School. Were present at the roundtable professors R. B. J. Walker, Michael J. Shapiro, Jef Huysmans, João P. Nogueira and Roberto Yamato as the chairman. They discussed ‘the question of the limit’ as a conceptual device of critical engagements with ‘the international’ and the limitations of international political sociologies of the limit.

Roundtable 1: Structuralism and after: IPS and the Critique of Limits

R. B. J. Walker, Michael Shapiro, Roberto Yamato, João Nogueira and Jef Huysmans

First week of classes in the third edition of the Winter School

Yesterday, July 26 began the activities of the International Political Sociology Winter School. Throughout the day, students attended the courses taught by Professor Rob Walker – on the subject International Relations and the challenge of interdisciplinary, discussing sociology, politics and international as contested objects; Professor Rita Abrahamsen, discussing the theme “Africa and the International”; and Professor Michael Shapiro discussing “the forces that set people in motion across land and borders and the precarities they face in the process of moving”.

We remind you that our first public event – Roundtable “Structuralism and after: IPS and the Critique of Limits” – will be held on June 29th, from 4:15 p.m. to 6:00p.m., at RDC Auditorium (PUC-Rio).

Thematic Course 1: Security, Development and Democracy with Professor Rita Abrahamsen

Thematic Course 2: Contingent Flows: Precarious Lives with Professor Michael Shapiro

General Course 1: Critical Theories and IPS with Professor R. B. J. Walker

IPS Public Events 2017

The Institute of International Relations is pleased to invite you to 2017 IPS Winter School public events. There will be two roundtables, one on June 29, with the theme “Structuralism and after: IPS and the Critique of Limits” and others on July 6 with the theme “Borders, boundaries, frontiers”.

“Structuralism and after: IPS and the Critique of Limits” will discuss ‘the limit’ as a conceptual device of critical engagements with ‘the international’ and the limitations of international political sociologies of the limit. What can international political sociology be when it takes as it’s starting point the primacy of heterogeneous relations, fracturing worlds and multiplicities?

Professors R. B. J. Walker, Michael J. Shapiro, Jef Huysmans, João P. Nogueira and Roberto Yamato will attend the panel, which will be held at 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the RDC Auditorium, PUC-Rio.

On July 6, the “Borders, boundaries, frontiers” table, which will be held from4:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in Auditorium B8*, PUC-Rio, will address the issue of borders and boundaries, that have had a central role in defining some of the conceptual, methodological and epistemological markers of IPS’ research agenda.

The panel aims at assessing such contributions with a focus on the ways in which they have challenged the frontiers of the ‘international’. Cynthia Enloe,Heather Johnson, Carolina Moulin Aguiar and Professor Jef Huysmans will take part in the table.

The event will be held in English and there will be no simultaneous translation.

* The B8 Auditorium is located on the 8th floor of the Frings Building.