BISA Annual Conference
15th-17th December, 2008
University of Exeter
Tuesday 16th 11-12.30pm: Roundtable: Is There Still a Logic of Realism?
Convenor: George Lawson, LSE
Chair: George Lawson, LSE
Michael Williams (Aberystwyth)
Justin Rosenberg (Sussex)
Campbell Craig (Southampton)
Tuesday 16th 2-3.30pm: IR & Iran: Theory, History and Politics (1)
Convenor: Kamran Matin, Sussex
Chair: Kamran Matin, Sussex
Shabnam Holliday (Plymouth) - National Identity and Iran as an International Actor in Khatami’s Iran
Andrea Duranti (Cagliari, Italy) - The Variable Geometrics of Iranian Geopolitics, 1989-2009
Edward Wastnidge (Manchester) - ‘Cultural Foreign Policy’ During the Khatami Era: The Dialogue of Civilisations in Iranian Diplomacy, 1997-2005
Alessandra Cecolin (SOAS) - The Discourse of Domestic and International Policy of Iranian Zionism: Interrogating Israeli-Iranian Relations
Erika Atzori (Bologna) - Ahmadinejad's Iran : Between The Clergy and The Military
Workshop: The historical sociology of domination and resistance
18th September, 2008
Manchester University
Session 1
Dennis Smith (Loughborough) - Domination, Resistance and the Dynamics of Displacement
Ben Holland (LSE) - Pufendorf in America: Resisiting Sovereigns in a Composite State
Session 2
Julian Germann and Hannes Lacher (York, Toronto) - British Hegemony and Nineteenth-Century World Order
Jeremy Green (York, Toronto) - Rethinking Imperialism: Classes, States and Spatialization
Session 3
Anna Stavrianakis (Sussex) - Domination and Resistance in the World Military Order
Alex Prichard (Bath) - Towards a Moral Socioogy of War
ISA Annual Conference
March, 2007
San Francisco
Thursday 8.30-10-.15: Historical Sociology in International Relations: Bridging Divides or Generating Partitions?
Chair: Michael Cox, LSE
Discussant: Michael Cox, LSE
Daniel Nexon (Georgetown) - Historical International Relations
Martin Hall (Lund) - Historical Sociology Should Not Become a Subfield of International Relations
George Lawson (LSE) - The Fourth Wave in Historical Sociology: Lessons From and For International Relations
Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School) - Why Political Economy Needs Historical Sociology
Thursday 3.45-5.30: Roundtable: Relationalism in the Study of International Relations
Chairs: George Lawson, LSE & Daniel Nexon, Georgetown
Patrick Jackson (American University)
George Lawson (LSE)
Alexander Montgomery (Reed)
Daniel Nexon (Georgetown)
Sherrill Stroschein (University College)
Friday 3.45-5.30: Thinking Time in IR 1: Time and Truth in the Social Science of IR
Chair: Felix Berenskoetter, LSE
Discussant: George Lawson, LSE
Heikki Patomäki (Helsinki) - Layers of Geo-History, Historical Analogies, Counterfactuals, Possible Futures and Global Narratives
David Blaney (Malacaster) and Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca) - Savage Times: Making Visible the Critical "Past" within the Contemporary
Chris McIntosh (Chicago) - Time and the Production of Knowledge in IR
BISA Annual Conference
17th - 19th December, 2007
University of Cambridge
Monday 17th 4-5.30pm: Roundtable: History and International Relations - Critical Reflections (with History and IR working group)
Convenor: Geoffrey Roberts, Cork
Chair: George Lawson, LSE
Geoffrey Roberts (Cork)
Barry Buzan (LSE)
George Lawson (LSE)
Justin Rosenberg (Sussex)
Tuesday 18th 9-10.30am: Orders and Disorders: Violence in Global Politics
Convenor: George Lawson, LSE
Chair: George Lawson, LSE
Fred Halliday (LSE) - Hidden From Regulation: The Invisible Globalisation
John Sidel (LSE) - From Dress Rehearsal to Detonation: Recurring Cycles of Transnational Islamist Mobilisation from the Late 19th Century to the Present
Toby Dodge (Queen Mary) - Neo-Liberalism, Globalisation and Violence: The Case of the Middle East
Birthe Hansen (Copenhagen) - What’s in the Name of A War? The Politics of Designating Wars in the Middle East
Tuesday 18th 2-3.30pm: Slavery: A Lost History in IR?
Convenor: George Lawson, LSE
Chair: Robbie Shilliam, Victoria University of Wellington
Robbie Shilliam (Victoria University of Wellington) - What Can ‘Atlantic Studies’ give to International Relations, and What Can International Relations give back to ‘Atlantic Studies’?
Kathryn Manzo (Newcastle) - Capitalism and Modern Slavery in Contemporary Africa: A Post-Colonial Critique
Joel Quirk (Hull) - Anti-Slavery, Imperial Benevolence and Colonial Expansion in the Age of High Imperialism
Amalia Ribi (Oxford) - Slavery in Ethiopia: A Problem in Inter-War International Relations
Tuesday 18th 4-5.30pm: Roundtable: Functional Differentiation and Sectors: Between Sociology and IR
Convenor: Mathias Albert, Bielefeld
Chair: George Lawson, LSE
Barry Buzan (LSE)
Phil Cerny (Rutgers)
Mathias Albert (Bielefeld)
Colin Wight (Exeter)
Wednesday 19th 11-12.30pm: Myth and International Relations
Convenor: George Lawson, LSE
Chair: John Gibson, Newcastle
Mark Bailey and John Gibson (Newcastle) - Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Objectification of World Orders
Chiara Bottici (Firenze, Italy) - The Clash of Civilisations as a Political Myth
Oliver Ramsbotham (Bradford) - On the Very Idea of Political Myth in the Phenomenology of Radical Disagreement
Kees van der Pijl (Sussex) - The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion
SGIR Annual Conference
12th - 15th September, 2007
University of Turin
HS 1: What is Historical Sociology and What is it to IR?
Chair and Discussant: Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Connecticut
John Hobson (Sheffield) and George Lawson (Goldsmiths) - The Fourth Wave in Historical Sociology – Lessons From and For IR
Martin Hall (Lund) -Historical Sociology Should Not Become a Subfield in IR
Daniel Nexon (Georgetown) - A Historical Sociology of International Relations
HS 2: The "Science" of Historical Sociology
Chair and Discussant: Justin Rosenberg, Sussex
Simon Curtis and Marjo Koivisto (LSE) - Historical Sociology in IR: Where's the Science? What Role for Science?
Colin Wight (Exeter) - Extending the Longue Dureé: Manuel De Landa and a Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Heikki Patomäki (Helsinki) - Is a Global Identity Possible? The Relevance of Big History to Self-Other Relations
HS 3: Historical Sociology and the Postcolonial Challenge
Chair and Discussant: Ann Tickner, USC
Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths) - The Nation-State as Globalization: Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of the Nation-State
Robbie Shilliam (Oxford) - ‘The Half That Has Never Been Told’: Can Lived Experiences be Treated as International Historical Sociologies?
Kamran Matin (Sussex) -One Hundred Years of Solitude: The International Relations of the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the State: The Case of Iran, 1890-1990
Michael Dutton (Goldsmiths) - 911: The Re-Emergence of Colonial Governmentality
HS 4: Feminism, Historical Sociology and IR
Chair and Discussant: Nicholas Onuf, Florida State
Ann Tickner (USC) - Journeying Through International Relations: Some Feminist and Postcolonial Observations
Lene Hansen (Copenhagen) - Go (Rebecca) West? Black Lamb and Grey Falcon as a Feminist IR Classic
Catherine Eschle (Strathclyde) and Bice Maiguashca (Exeter) - Rethinking Global Resistance: Feminist Activism and Critical Theorising in International Relations
HS 5: Constructivism and Historical Sociology
Chair and Discussant: Patrick Jackson, American University
Roland Dannreuther (Edinburgh) - Constructivist Methodologies and Methods: Lessons to and From Historical Sociology
Rodney Bruce Hall (Oxford) - Dialectics as Constitutive Process in Historical International Systems: From Concrete Totality to Context Sensitivity
Bryan Mabee (Queen Mary) - National Security as an Institution: ‘Constructing’ the ‘National Security State’
Simona Manea (LSE) - Historically Situated Typologies of the State
HS 6: The Historical Sociology of Empire
Chair and Discussant: Daniel Nexon, Georgetown
Michael Cox (LSE) - Why Empire? Why Not? American Exceptionalism and World History
Alejandro Colas (Birkbeck) - Peoples, Territories and Empires: The Place of Frontiers in Imperial Histories
Mehdi Mozaffari (Aarhus) - The Demise of Empires and the Rise of Islamism
Gonzalo Pozo (UCL) - Does Imperialism Need Imperialists?
HS 7: Historical Sociology and War
Chair and Discussant: Bryan Mabee, Queen Mary
Justin Rosenberg (Sussex) - Kladderadatsch: 1914 in the History of Uneven and Combined Development
Tarak Barkawi (Cambridge) - Orientalism in Times of War
Antoine Bousquet (LSE) - The Scientific Way of Warfare
Campbell Craig (Southampton) - Nuclear Weapons and the Recurrent Crises of American Realism
HS 8: The "Inside/Outside" to Historical Sociology: Nation, State and Territoriality
Chair and Discussant: Tarak Barkawi, Cambridge
Benno Teschke (Sussex) - Prusso-German State-Formation and the 19th Century International System
Clemens Hoffman (Sussex) - ‘Imagined Histories’: Reflections on the Problem of Nationalism and Historiography For an International Historical Sociology
Douglas Bulloch (LSE) - Humanity, Inside and Out: Mapping Historical and Territorial Differences in the Discursive Evolution of IR
Lars Bo Kaspersen (Copenhagen) and Jeppe Strandsbjerg (Sussex) - Polity, Space and Power: How Polities Make Space Make Polities
HS 9: The IPE Dimension of Historical Sociology
Chair and Discussant: Benno Teschke, Sussex
Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen) - Why Political Economy Needs Historical Sociology
Stuart Shields (Manchester) - Towards a Spatial Political Economy Critique of ‘Global Governance’
André Broome (ANU) - The Historical Sociology of Intercultural Financial Orders
Samuel Knafo (Sussex) - State Intervention and the Origins of Speculative Finance in Nineteenth Century Britain
HS 10: "Long-Term" Perspectives on the Making of Modern World Order
Chair and Discussant: Martin Hall (Lund)
Fulvio Attina (University of Catania) - The Study of Long-Term Change and World Political Institutions
Herbert Dittgen (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität) - World Politics as a Civilizing Process?
António Ramos dos Santos (University of Lisbon) - Should We Examine a Map and Remember the Past? How Geography and History Enter into Connexion with International Relations
Ernesto Gallo (University of Turin) - Italy and Spain: Two Models of Hobbesian State-Society Complexes
Workshop: The Post Colonial in World Politics
June 7th, 2007
Queen Mary, London
Toby Dodge (Queen Mary) - Indigenous traces and endogenous state formation: The comparative autonomy of the state in the Middle East
Adam Morton (Nottingham) - Unravelling Gramsci and the North/South Question of Uneven Development
Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Leeds) - “Properly speaking”: Pathologies of the African state in political science and international relations
Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Nottingham) - Political Economy, Social Movements and State Power: A Marxian Perspective on Two Decades of Resistance to the Narmada Dam Projects
BISA Annual Conference
18th – 20th December, 2006
University of Cork
Historical Sociology I: The International in the National - Theories and Histories
Wed 20th 11 - 12.30
Chair: tbc
Discussant: Neil Davidson, Strathclyde
Frederick Guillaume Dufour (Sussex/UCLA) - The Uneven and Combined Development of Nationalism
Kamran Matin (Sussex) - Revolutions from Without, Above and Below: Iran ’s Uneven and Combined Development, 1921-79
Adam Morton (Nottingham) - Mexican Revolution, Primitive Accumulation, Passive Revolution
Suzi Weissman (St Mary’s College of California) - Disintegrating Democracy: From the Promise of the Soviet since 1905 to the Contemporary Crisis of Corrupt Democratic Forms
Historical Sociology 2: The Space(s) of International Relations: Globality, Territory, and the State
Wed 20th 11 - 12.30
Chair: Justin Rosenberg, Sussex
Discussant: tbc
Jeppe Strandsbjerg (Sussex) - The Cartographic Production of Territory: Mapping and Danish State Formation, 1450-1650
Stuart Elden (Durham) - The Territory Integrity of Iraq : Preservation, Sovereignty, Viability
Henrik Aspengren (SOAS) - The Politics of Making Colonial State Space: Bombay between the Wars
John Gibson (Newcastle) - Thinking the Global: Notions of Spatiality in IFI’s and Global Justice Discourses
Workshop: 'Finding “the International” in International Historical Sociology
Sep 12th, 2006
SOAS
The International – in Social Theory
Justin Rosenberg (Sussex) & Alex Callincos (York) - Debating “the International”
The International - in Historical Practice
Clemens Hoffmann (Sussex) - The Emergence of “the International” in SE Europe
Fiona Adamson (University College London) - Nationalism & the Emergence of Corporate Agency in World Politics
The International - and the Geopolitical
Simon Bromley (Open University) - Politics and the International
Roundtable
Joint Workshop with SAID working group: 'Logics of Sovereignty - Theory and History'
May 12th, 2006
University of Oxford
Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Manor Road
Sovereignty in Theoretical and Historical Perspective
Philip Cunliffe (Kings College, London) - Politics without Sovereignty
Benno Teschke (Sussex) - When was Sovereignty?
Europe, Sovereignty and Empire
James Heartfield (Westminster) - Sovereignty and the European Union
Andrew Baker (Christchurch, Oxford) - The Contest Between National and Imperial Self-Interest in Twentieth-Century Britain
Sovereignty and Independence
Robbie Shilliam (Wadham, Oxford) - Development, Security and Race: the Challenge of the Haitian Revolution to Historical Sociologies of International Relations
David Chandler (Westminster) - Rewriting Sovereignty: A Critical Analysis of International State-Building Practices
Roundtable
Chris Bickerton (St Johns, Oxford)
Justin Rosenberg (Sussex)
