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