2025-2026
Tuesday, 4th November (Week 8), 16:00-17:30
Hebdomadar’s Room
- John Greyson, ‘Pop Goes the Boycott,’ in Emily Merson (ed) The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices (Routledge, 2020).
- I selected the chapter to reflect on whether and how creative practices and [pop] cultural engagement can be outlets for our own hopes and frustrations re: our peace knowledge, practice, and research.
- From the volume intro: Greyson’s chapter calls ‘attention to the erasure of colonial violence in global popular imaginaries and [considers] both the limits and potential for music as a method of global solidarity with Indigenous self-determination struggles.’ He wonders about pop as a place where erasure happens, but also as a site of creative resistance to pinkwashing and to other queer silences about Gaza. It is the written companion piece to his video, ‘Hey Elton’.
Discussion Questions:
- What kinds of research community do we need/seek?
- What are ways to build research community in the School and Centre?
2024-2025
14th November 2024
“Narratives of exceptionalism and the threat of cyberterrorism in liberal democracies”
Facilitator: Louise Courbin (PhD Candidate)
Haunting and memory in Black and Dalit Literature (facilitated by Q manivannan)
- Indranil Acharya, ‘Search for an Alternative Aesthetic in Bangla Dalit Poetry’, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, VI(2), 2014. https://rupkatha.com/V6/n2/11_Bangla_Dalit_Poetry.pdf
- Saidiya Hartman, ‘Venus in Two Acts’, Small Axe, Number 26, 12(2), 2008.
The Role of State Identity in Construction of the Enemy (Facilitated by Mareva Chatzitheodorou)
- Alexander J, ‘Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy’, Sociological Theory 22(4), 2004, pp527-573.
- Documentary: ‘Putin: A Russian Spy Story‘, 2022.
2022-2023
Borders (facilitated by Sarah Edgcumbe)
- Ali Bektas (2014), ‘Rojava: A struggle against borders and for autonomy’, ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/kurdistan-rojova-syria-autonomy/
- Robbie McVeigh (2017), ‘Pathologised Presence / Normalised Absence in Conflict: Learning from Irish Travellers and ‘the Troubles’ in Ireland, Roma Rights: Journal of the European Roma Rights Centre. http://www.errc.org/roma-rights-journal/roma-rights-1-2017-roma-and-conflict-understanding-the-impact-of-war-and-political-violence
- Radicals in Conversation (2022). ‘Against Borders’. RIC in-haus: Against Borders | Radicals in Conversation (podbean.com)
2021-2022
Ethics, Positionality & Self-care in Fieldwork Research (facilitated by Dr Nick Barnes)
Thurs 7 Oct Week 4, 15:30-17:00 {Teams}
- Nicholas Barnes (2021) ‘Supplementary Materials: The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro,’ Comparative Political Studies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/00104140211036035.
- Kimberly Theidon (2014) ‘“How Was Your Trip? Self-care for Researchers and Writers Working on Violence,’ Social Science Research Council DSD Working Papers on Research Security, No.2 [For the whole list of the SSRC DSD working paper series, see https://www.ssrc.org/pages/dsd-working-papers-on-research-security//.]
Feminist Methodologies and Joy as Research Practice (facilitated by Dr Roxani Krystalli)
Thurs 4 Nov Week 8, 15:30-17:00 {Teams}
- Roxani Krystalli (forthcoming) ‘Feminist Methodology,’ in Laura J. Shepherd and Caitlin Hamilton (eds) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, 2nd edition (Routledge).
- Elina Penttinen (2010) ‘Introduction: Journey from Feminist International Relations Problem-making towards a Life-enhancing Approach,’ in Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology (Routledge).
Knowledge Production in ‘Conflict Zones’ (facilitated by Dr Malaka Shwaikh)
Thurs 2 Dec Week 12, 15:30-17:00 {Teams}
- Malaka Shwaikh (2020) ‘Translation in the War-zone: The Gaza Strip as Case Study,’ in R. R. Gould and K. Tahmasebian (eds) Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (Routledge), pp.129-144.
- Mona Baker (2010) ‘Interpreters and Translators in the War Zone: Narrated and Narrators,’ The Translator, 16:2, 197-222, special issue, Translation and Violent Conflict, Moira Inghilleri and Sue-Ann Harding (eds).
2020-2021
