Call for Papers
1st European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS)
5-8 June, 2013, Tartu
Power, Popular Culture, and World Politics (Workshop #10)
Deadline for Proposals: 15 December, 2012
I am convening a four day workshop on popular culture and world politics (PCWP) as part of the European International Studies Association's 1st European Workshops in International Studies. The workshop will be held in Tartu, Estonia from 5-8 June 2013.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in order to explore the state of the art in aesthetic, phenomenological, and representational explorations of contemporary relations of power as well as best practices in teaching these approaches to PCWP.
The workshop particularly seeks papers that:
- critically engage with the questions of whether popular culture matters in world politics, how it might matter, to whom it might matter, and how its myriad influences might be assessed or perceived?
- explore methodological issues in PCWP--including aesthetic and phenomenological approaches to the analysis of artifacts and power dynamics.
- focus on the political impacts of embodiment, affect, the material design of devices, and the modes through which contemporary media are experienced.
- analyse cultural forms as a way of problematising world politics and its supporting structures.
- share best pedagogical practice in terms of deploying popular culture in the seminar room and/or in teaching appropriate research methods for the field.
To all of these ends, work from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences is warmly welcome.
The central organisers have stated that a workshop may accept up to 20 participants. With the four day length, this upper limit allows for extended paper presentations beyond conference norms and ensures that a significant amount of time can be dedicated to discussing each paper. From talking with colleagues who have previously attended ECPR workshops that are run along similar lines, the format is said to be very conducive to developing works-in-progress and exploring themes of common research interest.
If you are interested, you can submit a paper proposal here. Please indicate that you are applying for workshop #10 in the drop-down menu on the form.
More information on the EWIS can be found here
The registration fee is €50 (full)/€30(research students).
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me via email
