Seminar of the Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies

Seminar of the Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies

The seminar is conducted online via ZOOM app. Participants will recieve link just before the meeting.

Registration form: Google Form

Spring 2023:

29.05.2023 (5.00-6.30 pm CEST)
Dangers of „Self-Determination”: the Chinese Communist Party and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

  • Speaker: Federico Brusadelli (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
  • Discussant: Sören Keil (University of Fribourg)
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Federico Brusadelli, Federal Failure: the Chinese Communist Party and the Breakup of Yugoslavia as a Post-Cold War Cautionary Tale, „Global Perspectives” (University of California Press) [forthcoming].

30.01.2023 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
Vidya Bharati textbooks within the Hindu nationalist narrative on history

  • Speaker: Krzysztof Iwanek (War Studies University)
  • Discussant: Ivan Peshkov (Adam Mickiewicz Univrsity)
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Krzysztof Iwanek, Endless Siege, Education and Nationalism in Vidya Bharati Schools (Oxford University Press 2022), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/endless-siege-9780192865564?lang=en&cc=pw#

Autumn 2022:

28.11.2022
A debate around anthropological perspectives on reconstruction of security institutions

  • Speaker: Jesse Wozniak (West Virginia University)
  • Moderator: Sara Nowacka (IPS PAS/GSSR)
  • Reference: Jesse Wozniak, Policing Iraq, University of California Press 2021 https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355712/policing-iraq

24.10.2022 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
Global Legitimacy Crises. Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance

  • Speakers: Thomas Sommerer, Potsdam University; Hans Agné, Stockholm University
  • Discussant: Zachary Paikin, Centre for European Policy Studies
  • Moderator: Anna Grzywacz (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Global Legitimacy Crises. Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance (Oxford University Press, 2022)

26.09.2022 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation

  • Speaker: Guangyu Qiao-Franco, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for War Studies, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Discussant: Randy W. Nandyatama, Gadjah Mada University, Sleman, Indonesia
  • Moderator: Anna Grzywacz (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Introduction to UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (Edward Elgar, 2023)

Spring 2022:

25.04.2022 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
The Nagorno-Karabakh war in narratives of Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Georgia – uncertain peace and conflict mobility

  • Speaker: Anna Cieślewska (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS) & Klaudia Kosicińska (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS)
  • Discussant: Sofiya-Yaryna Voytiv (Stockholm University)
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Conflict mobility: the consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020. – Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Georgia

24.01.2022 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
Herbal Immune-nationalism and cosmopolitical economies of the Russia-China Borderlands

  • Speaker: Sayana Namsaraeva (University of Cambridge)
  • Discussant: Emilia Sułek (University of Zurich)
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Sayana Namsaraeva, Siberian Tea for Vladimir Putin and Moral Economies of the Russia-China Borderlands

28.02.2022 (2.00-3.30 pm CEST)
Future of journalism? On artificial intelligence, robotic media production and Czech-learning algorithms

  • Speaker: Kamil Ekštein (University of West Bohemia)
  • Discussant: Dominika Janus
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Václav MORAVEC, Veronika MACKOVÁ, Jakub SIDO, Kamil EKŠTEIN, The Robotic Reporter In: The Czech News Agency: Automated Journalism And Augmentation In The Newsroom, https://communicationtoday.sk/wp-content/uploads/03_MORAVEC-et-al_CT-1-2020.pdf

Autumn 2021:

25.10.2021 (10.00-11.30am CEST)
The contemporary understanding of war

  • Speaker: Lukas Milevski (Leiden University)
  • Discussant: Ofer Fridman (King’s College London)
  • Moderator: Tomasz Paszewski (IPS PAS)
  • Reference: Chiara Libiseller & Lukas Milevski, War and Peace: Reaffirming the Distinction, Survival 63(1), 2021: 101-112, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00396338.2021.1881256

30.11.2021 (14.00-15.30)
City diplomacy czyli o roli miast w polityce międzynarodowej

  • Paneliści: Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska i Tomasz Kamiński (Uniwersytet Łódzki)
  • Dyskutantka: Justyna Szczudlik (PISM) (TBC)
  • Moderacja: Agnieszka Cianciara (ISP PAN)
  • Literatura: Numer 1/2021 czasopisma „Sprawy Międzynarodowe” pt. „Powrót miast. Miasta przyszłości”: http://czasopisma.isppan.waw.pl/index.php/sm/issue/view/146

13.12.2021 (05.00-06.30 pm CET)
Water conflicts: analysis for transformation

  • Speaker: Mark Zeitoun (University of East Anglia)
  • Discussant: Aaron Wolf (Oregon State University)
  • Moderator: Sara Nowacka (PISM/ GSSR/IPS PAS)
  • Reference: M. Zeitoun et al.(2020), Analysis for water conflict transformation, Water International 45(4): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2019.1607479?journalCode=rwin20

Spring 2021:

19.04.2021 (14.00-15.30)
On the usefulness of foresight analysis in International Relations

  • Speakers: Monika Sus (ISP PAN & Hertie School) & Marcel Hadeed (Robert Bosch Stiftung)
  • Discussant: Trine Flockhart (University of Southern Denmark)
  • Moderator: Agnieszka Cianciara (ISP PAN)
  • Reference: Sus & M. Hadeed (2020). Theory-infused and policy-relevant: on the usefulness of scenario analysis for International Relations, Contemporary Security Policy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2020.1730055.

31.05.2021 (14.00-15.30)
Social theory in International Relations: hierarchies, status and recognition

  • Speakers: Rebecca Adler-Nissen (University of Copenhagen) & Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)Moderator & Discussant: Agnieszka Cianciara (ISP PAN)
  • Reference: Adler-Nissen & A. Zarakol (2020). Struggles for Recognition: The Liberal International Order and the Merger of Its Discontents, International Organization: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/struggles-for-recognition-the-liberal-international-order-and-the-merger-of-its-discontents/2CA314390EAC48EA619D7834C3A71CA4.

21.06.2021 (14.00-15.30)
Concepts of Parliament in and after the Russian and Qing Empires

  • Speakers: Ivan Sablin (Heidelberg University) & Egas Moniz Bandeira (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)
  • Discussant: Ivan Peshkov (UAM)
  • Moderator: Katarzyna Golik (ISP PAN)
  • Reference: Sablin, E. Moniz Bandeira, J. Badagarov, M. Dorn & I. Sodnomova (2021), Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires, in: Planting Parliaments in Eurasia 1850-1950, London & New York: Routledge: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003158608-2/duma-yuan-beyond-ivan-sablin-egas-moniz-bandeira-jargal-badagarov-martin-dorn-irina-sodnomova?context=ubx&refId=70e8fe3e-56d2-45aa-95c6-aaeb2e1f0bb3