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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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Really happy to have been here! Thanks for the invite!

Happy to be ISA HIST Communications Officer for the next two years! If you don't yet, make sure to follow @hist-isanet.bsky.social for any and all Historical IR updates. Check out the section website here: www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections... 1/3

And here is our final term of History and Theory of International History colloquia @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...

All welcome - See you there!

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👏 Out in the journal Politics in open access: CIRR member Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social with Katharine Millar's @drkmillar.bsky.social paper on Conspiratorial Medievalism: History & Hyperagency in the Far-Right Knights Templar Security Imaginary 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Centre for International Relations Research (CIRR) The Centre for International Relations Research (CIRR) at the University of Groningen brings together a group of nearly 50 scholars, including doctoral and...

CIRR is a unique community of researchers exploring the complexity of world politics across a wide spectrum of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Follow us for updates on our projects and events. Get in touch (cirr@rug.nl) for talks, collaborations, and more | www.rug.nl/let/cirr

Come join us for the first Graduate Symposium on Doing IPS at the University of Groningen on 4-5 June 2025. The symposium offers PhD/ERC a space to collaborate and discuss what – in all its plurality – the doing of IPS entails for ERC today. CfP below, deadline 1 April 2025
@doingips.bsky.social

Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Calling all Low Countries colleagues to apply/circulate for our workshop on 'Emerging Research in International History and Political Thought', Groningen on June 12-13!
proudly co-chaired w. @arnabduttahist.bsky.social t & @jcostalopez.bsky.social

CFP: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-papers-2025/

The @isanet.bsky.social Convention is upon us; time for a happy countdown: Congratulations to @qbruneau.bsky.social for the 2025 Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR for his masterful book, "States and the Masters of Capital" published with @columbiaup.bsky.social! Stay tuned for more..

Don't forget to nominate your 2024 book or article for APSA International History and Politics Section prizes. Deadline January 31st!

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Encounters and Communities in Historical IR (Groningen, 2nd and 3rd of December 2024) The goal of this is to explore the potential of two concepts in the study of historical IR: encounters and communities. It starts from the perspective that, although these concepts are central to how historical IR has developed, they have very rarely been explicitly reflected upon in this body of scholarship. On the one hand, scholars have proposed that the notion of community provides a more nuanced analytics from which to approach the historicity and variability of international relations (Keene 2005; similarly but through the concept of polity, Ferguson and Mansbach 1999). In this perspective, international relations concern relations between communities, however historically understood, and one of the core tasks of historical research is to reconstruct these various constructions of community and their implications. And yet, what exactly is implied in the notion of community, which communities would be relevant, and what assumptions may underpin this approach have rarely been unpacked. Similarly, an important driver in bringing empire into the center of historical IR research has been the notion of the (colonial) encounter. Whether to highlight the formative nature of encounters for international political thought (Jahn 1999), or as sites of violence but also identity formation (Inayatullah and Blaney 2004, Sajed 2013, Grovogui 2006), the idea of encounter lays at the center of a burgeoning body of literature. And yet, at the same time, there are important selectivities: first, what exactly constitutes an encounter and what dynamics surround it are rarely discussed, most of it being modeled on the imaginary of 1492. In this sense, our historical exploration of encounters remains centered on modern encounters between 'Europeans' and 'non-Europeans'. In what way can a more developed notion of encounter productively open up avenues for research in historical IR? The workshop bring…

Now looking forward to welcoming a great group of Historical IR scholars next week, to continue our discussion on encounters and communities in IR!

Medieval and Early Modern Entangled Communities: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue 21st and 22nd of November 2024 Groningen, the Netherlands Organisers: Julia Costa Lopez (University of Groningen) and Jenny Pelletier (University of Leuven) Funded by: university of groningen NWO faculty of arts

Programme Thursday 21st of November Coffice and tea will be served from 8,15am 09.00 - 09.50 Welcome and Introductions 09.30 - 11.00 Session 1| Lidia Lanza: Community Boundaries; Luis de Molina on Unbelievers, Heretics and Apostates Alessandro Mulicri: Theorizing Otherness in Early Modern Political Thought. Can Exclusion be an Art of Government? 11.00 - 11.30 Coffoc break 11.30 - 18.00 Sexsion 2 Josephine van der Bent: The Notion of Jinsiyya: Ethnic and Other Solidaritics in the Premodern Islamicate world (ca. 1100-1300) Gianluca Kaccagni: Military Service and Inter-Ethnic Entanglement on the Eve of the Crusades: the Case of Harakd Hardrada in the Moditerrancan 15.00 - 15.00 Lunch 15.00 - 16.30 Session 3 Bert de Munck: Reassembling Capitalism, or How to Remove Structural Factors from the Historical Laboratory Chloe Ircton: Cartographies of Social and Intelloctual Networks of the Enslaved and Froc Black Communities in Sixtoenth-century Sevilla and the Atlantic World. 16.30 - 17.00 Coffoe break 17.00 - 18.30 Session 4| Clair Wooda: The Biopolitics of Race: Care and Categorization of Muslim Galley Slaves in Sixtenth-Century Malta Julia Costa Lopez: Community Claims and Counterelaims in the Late-Mcdieval Canary Islands

Friday 22nd of November Coffice and tea will be served from 8.15 09.00 - 10.30 Session 5 Ana Fouto: Totas orbis, qui aliquo modo est una respublica - Visions of the Workd: the Acknowlodgement of Alterity and the Overcoming of Difference in 16th century Legal Discourse Joan Pau Rubiés: The Various Meanings of Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance in the Early Modern World: a Comparative Approach 10.50 - 11.00 Coffoc break 11.00 - 12.90 Session 6 Serena Mari Difies aim dries Church Uniny and Roberto Lambertini: Master and Friar at the Same Time: Conflicts and Solution between Paris and Bologna 12.30 - 11.30 Lunch 14.90 - 1609 Session 7 Cary Nederman: Supremacy without Sovereignty? The Problem of Jurisdictional Conflict in Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor pacis Megan Williams - Contra jus omnium gentium: Dischtangling Early Sixteenth- Century Conflicts over Legitimate Mobility Betwcen Commonwealths 16.00 - 17.00 Wrap-up discussion 17.00 Borrell

Energized after the first of two final workshops for my NWO Veni project, co-organised with Jenny Pelletier. We discussed different approaches and perspectives to Medieval and Early Modern entangled communities with a highly interdisciplinary group. Looking forward to continuing the conversation!

@hist-isanet.bsky.social is on here! Follow & spread the word #HistIR

IR scholars: We've gathered the associations and groups we could find thus far. Shout out to be added.
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A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3

Part 2 of "Intellectual History & Friends" has grown considerably & continues to grow - do check it out (with Part 1) & share!

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My new article, ‘History in the plural; Reconfigurations of past-present-future’, now published in @risjnl.bsky.social

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Hello! Working on medieval law and communities in Iberia

To get around the limit, I have made a Part 2! If you think I should add anyone or I missed you do let me know & I will add you go.bsky.app/7DTVem6

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
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Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates Abstract. This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrog

Our collective discussion on 1492 and the politics of benchmark dates in IR is now out with IPS @zgc.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social Adhemar Mercado and Atsuko Watanabe academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Still two days to send abstracts for this workshop! Feel free to message also if you have questions! ☺️

Submit your articles! I am the chair of the committee this year.

⏳ Deadline tomorrow! #EWIS2024

Public throwing of tomatoes in medieval themed movies gets me every time… 😂😅

@zgc.bsky.social and I are organizing a workshop on modernity in IR. Come along!

Myself and @jcostalopez.bsky.social are organizing a workshop for CEEISA-ISA in Rijeka on Rethinking Modernity. It is intended as a conversation starter, so if you are interested in social theory, historical IR, postcolonial approaches, time or any other perspective on ‘modernity’, join us!

Fascinating new article by @jcostalopez.bsky.social in CRIA on how the distinction between history and fiction gets "negotiated" and "settled" in historical IR #HistIR www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....