CEEISA YOUNG SCHOLARS INITIATIVE 2024: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

CEEISA Young Scholars Initiative (CYSI) is a mentoring scheme designed for self-defined ‘early career’ scholars within the International Studies profession attending the joint ISA/CEEISA conference in Rijeka, organized by CEEISA Doctoral network. Two part event, with a dedicated panel and a post-conference writing retreat, CYSI aims to foster collaboration amongst early career researchers from the region, facilitate engagement with differing theoretical and methodological perspectives and capacitate interaction with established senior scholars, who will serve as mentors. While participants can apply to both events or choose only one of them, the CYSI is envisioned to be an integrated experience.


In the first event, participants present their papers/parts of doctoral dissertation and receive feedback from selected mentors and peers through a discussion based interaction. In the second part, participants are supposed to engage with the feedback and work on their papers with mentors’ support. Purpose of such an initiative is a creation of a platform through which students from the region can produce original ideas, improve their skills and grow professional networks. Beyond a traditional conference format, CYSI thus hopes to be a uniquely focused experience in which students occupy different roles, collaboratively go through the process of knowledge production and do so with support and guidance of senior scholars in the warm and welcoming environment of Moise palace.

We welcome proposals in the following formats:

YOUNG SCHOLARS PANEL

The Young Scholars (YS) Panel will follow a distinctly different format from CEEISA's traditional panels. The YS panel is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to maximise networking and get feedback on projects from CEEISA's leading scholars. 

Pre-session (14 days) 

Participants share their papers (max 10k words) or doctoral dissertation research plans with their mentors and participants of their dedicated group at least 14 days before the conference.

Participants are required to read all papers of their particular panel sub-group. During Session (120 minutes) 

Opening (10 minutes) 

The chair opens the panel by welcoming the group, explaining the purpose of the panel and introducing both the process and each senior scholar mentor. 

Presentations in dedicated groups (90 minutes)

The panel will be broken up into two groups, each with a dedicated senior scholar mentor. In each group, participants will have 2-5 minutes for their presentations in which they should shortly introduce their papers. This is followed by a discussion with participants which is guided by mentors who offer their in-detail comments at the end. 

Final feedback for the whole panel and wrap-up (20 minutes) 

At this stage, smaller groups are broken apart, and participants have an opportunity to talk to the whole panel, discuss their experience and offer feedback on the process. 

Post-session 

Participants are invited to share amongst themselves detailed comments and reflections on the papers and presentations through the creation of a YS vault as a platform for scholarly exchange, support and networking.

Applying 

All interested participants are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and key words at the following link https://forms.gle/MZy3VjJod62fJkAG7. Topics are not limited to any particular field, participants will be separated into groups based on mentors’ theoretical and methodological expertise and thematically when possible. In the application, please select your interest in participating in the YS panel. 

CEEISA YOUNG SCHOLARS POST-CONFERENCE WRITING RETREAT

CEEISA Writing retreat (CWR) the second element of CEEISA’s YS initiative, preceded by the dedicated conference panel. CWR stands as a post-conference writing boot camp held at Moise Palace on Cres Island. The purpose of CWR is to create an engaging and reflective environment in which YS can address the comments and feedback they have received during the CEEISA conference and do so with the support of their peers and mentors. 

FORMAT

A two-day event, CWR is set up in alternating blocks of ‘Pen & Paper’ writing sessions followed by ‘Observation & Critique’ feedback sessions. Through the interplay of these two formats, YS are invited to work on their papers by incorporating the feedback they received and do so with the help of mentors, who are there to guide the process. With this, CWR aims to respond to a frequent experience of YSs who are often not well-equipped to navigate the process (re)developing a paper, capitalising on the presence and expertise of selected mentors who can offer practical tools as well as theoretical and methodological insights. Through discussions with their peers, participants are invited to test out their ideas and writing tactics to think about possible avenues of inquiry and resolution of posed issues and challenges. Mentors will be able to observe this process, listen to participant's ideas and offer help and suggestions of the ways forward.

PARTICIPANTS

CWR is a limited-attendance special workshop sponsored by CEEISA's Doctoral network. It is geared towards regional scholars near completion of their PhD projects or early in their faculty careers. Interested participants should apply for the workshop by 15 December 2023 through the link https://forms.gle/MZy3VjJod62fJkAG7. CEEISA’s board and Doctoral network leaders will evaluate these applications, identifying 20 individuals to take part in the workshop. A limited amount of funding is available for participants through CEEISA’s Travel Grant programme.

For enquiries regarding the initiative, please contact Doctoral network coordinators: Melika Mahmutović (melika.mahmutovic@fdv.uni-lj.si) and Ajda Hedžet (ajda.hedzet@fdv.uni-lj.si)

CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2024, Rijeka

Knowing the global-local:

imagining pasts, debating futures

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2023.

The politics of knowledge production shapes how we make sense of world politics and our scholarly practices. Established analytical frameworks and the distinction between the local and the global are often taken for granted in International Studies. They reflect epistemic authorities hailing from social and material hierarchies. Such structures generate and discipline political imaginaries and policy designs. They underpin interpretations of current events even when impartial expertise is claimed. The main conference theme seeks to unpack the politics of knowledge and policy processes in the making of the global-local. We promote the adoption of heterogenous approaches that unsettle received categories in the study of the international. The ambivalent positionality in the global order of the diverse Eastern, Central, and South-Eastern Europes provides for a dynamic space from which and in which to debate such questions. We encourage proposals that make critical use of context-sensitive interdisciplinary knowledges to offer such grounded perspectives. We do not, however, limit the scope to any one region.

While we welcome proposals that broadly relate to the main theme, we will consider all submissions, including those outside the overall theme. Within the main theme, we emphasise the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

  • - Decentring and recentring global knowledge production through regional epistemic frameworks and practices

  • - War in (re-)making knowledge

  • - Environmental, climate, nature, conservation, and land knowledges in the making of the global-local

  • - Do the diversities (non-homogeneous) in the Global South act as constraints and/or as opportunities for the advancement of their agencies?

  • - Relations between the Global Norths, Global Souths, and Global Easts, including varieties of racialisation, the role of political economy, migration governance, and the return of geopolitical thinking

  • - Global-local knowledge in governance reform, including emulation, learning, and creativity

  • - Institutional designs for democracy promotion and market capitalism, and the international political economy of authoritarianism

  • - Universal disciplinary histories and theoretical modelling in producing expertise and forecasts

  • - Varieties of dissent knowledges, the politics of memory, and the narration of histories

  • - Ethnic divides and nationalist contestations of histories and policies

  • - Non-formal and non-discursive shapes of knowledge, including affect and the everyday

 

We welcome proposals in the following formats:

 

Individual papers: Please submit a title and an abstract of up to 200 words. Programme chairs will compose panels out of the accepted paper proposals.

Standard panels: Please submit a proposal consisting of a panel title, abstract, and up to five papers. Your panel should include a designated chair, discussant, and title and abstract for each paper.

Experimental panels: These panels approach a topic in a more creative and not necessarily paper-based format. Examples include, but are not limited to: a methods café which involves simultaneous exchanges at separate tables in one room, an arts panel which can choose its own medium of exchange, photo essays, a professionalisation panel that provides advice on a particular aspect of the academic profession, etc.

Roundtables: This is a non-paper exchange on a topic. It can concern, for example, a larger question about International Studies or a theory or policy problem, a concentrated discussion on the scholarship of a particular author, or an ‘Author meets critics’ format. Proposals should consist of a title and a 200-word description of the roundtable, up to five participants, and designated chair and discussant

Pre or post– conference workshops: To be hosted either at the University of Rijeka or in the Moise Palace on the nearby Island of Cres, each workshop brings together up to twenty participants to support collective research. Proposals for the workshop should include:

  • - a title and a 350-word description of the workshop as a collective project

  • - a 50-word bio of each convener

  • - the list of contributors and (if applicable) titles of their papers, with a sentence on how each paper adds to the overall purpose

  • - preferred location (Rijeka or Cres)

  • - preferred dates

  • - preferred room setup

  • - equipment needed

Please note that the workshops at the Moise Palace come at additional cost. Also, if you plan a workshop at the Moise Palace it is advisable to book accommodation on the Island of Cres for the duration of the workshop. For any queries, please contact cas@uniri.hrand tina.peric@uniri.hr.
Please submit your workshop applications by 15 December via email to Rijeka2024@isanet.org

 

To submit your individual papers, panel proposals, experimental panels or roundtables, please use the ISA submission management system.

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2023
Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2024

For general enquiries regarding the programme, please contact programme chairs: Xymena Kurowska and Alena Drieschova at Rijeka2024@isanet.org.

We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Rijeka!

CEEISA Young Scholars Initiative 2024

As a part of the conference, CEEISA Young Scholars Initiative (CYSI) will also be taking place, as a mentoring scheme designed for self-defined ‘early career’ scholars organized by CEEISA Doctoral network. CYSI will consist of two parts, a dedicated panel and a post-conference writing retreat that will take place at the Moise Palace on the nearby Island of Cres. Please find all relevant information on the initiatives and application process here.

Organising committee of the joint ISA/CEEISA Conference in Rijeka:

Sanja Bojanić, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka
Filip Ejdus, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, CEEISA President 
Mark Boyer, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, ISA Executive Director
Tina Perić Lukačević, Programme Associate, Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka
Tena Prelec, Assistant Professor, Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka
Jennifer Fontanella, ISA Director of Operations

The hidden curriculum of journal publishing. Open workshop with editors of Journal of International Relations and Development

Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Speakers

Xymena Kurowska

Saskia Stachowitsch

Publishing in reputable peer reviewed journals is a practice of knowledge production. It has become core to academic careers and thus venerated and mystified. Advice on how to publish in journals proliferates yet the process is often obscure and experience with journals (and editors) frustrating. Learning the practice is haphazard and relies on uneven access to mentorship. In consequence, many promising ideas never make it to a wider academic audience.  

This interactive workshop with editors of Journal of International Relations and Development de-mystifies the practice from within, considers the demands of developing an original contribution while honing the craft and one’s own voice, and provides pragmatic guidelines on all submission and revision stages. We encourage theoretically daring and well-substantiated writing and look forward to discussing potential submissions that represent these qualities.  

The workshop is hosted by Doctoral School of Political Science Public Policy and International Relations at Central European University but is open to all who register: RSVP.

We will discuss the following, among others:  

  • Submission and resubmission process, including questions such as when a paper is ready to be submitted, what an original contribution is, what Revise&Resubmit decision means, and whether/how to self-cite; 

  • How to draft: a cover letter accompanying submission, an abstract, an introduction, a Response to Reviewers letter; 

  • Standing controversies, including reasons for a desk reject and rejection after revisions, expectations from reviewers and editors, correspondence with editors and social media conduct related to journal publishing; 

  • Ideas and questions on potential submissions.

Registration required: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcu-prDgoGtDzQXAlg4egcBvbyCLaTFJR

Call for applications - Assistant Professor (post-doc) research position

The Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences , Jagiellonian University in Kraków invites applications for 3 Assistant Professor (post-doc) research positions interested in carrying out 2-year research on one of the topics:

1. The Future of the EU's democratic spirit: democratisation, democratic back-sliding, re-democratisation

or

2. Constructing, changing and re-constructing of collective identity through memory: remembering, commemorating, forgetting.

Candidates are expected to propose topics of research they would like to carry out during the 2-year of employment at the Taube Centre

Applications deadline 28th May 2023

Online interviews of shortlisted candidates will be held at the beginning of June 2023

Employment: Autumn 2023, contract for 2 years

More information: http://taubecentre.uj.edu.pl/apply

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Metropolitan University Prague - Center for Security Studies

For 2 New PostDoc Positions within the Center for Security Studies

Starting date – position 1: October 1, 2023

Starting date – position 2: January 1, 2024

Application deadline: June 12, 2023

On-line interviews with shortlisted candidates: June 23, 2023

Duration: 12+12 months. 12 months fellowship awarded upon selection, with the option for another 12 months extension of the fellowship pending successful performance of the fellow in the first 12 months.

Fellowship: 50 000 CZK per month. The selected fellow will be offered a regular employment agreement for 12 months in accordance with the law of the Czech Republic.

The fellow must be in residence in Prague for the entire duration of the fellowship. Office space will be provided at the premises of Metropolitan University Prague.

Eligibility criteria: A PhD degree in a social science discipline relevant to the study of security, broadly understood. The fellow must have officially obtained the PhD degree no later than the starting date of the fellowship and no earlier than 5 years before the starting date of the fellowship.

 Terms and conditions:

·       In terms of publication outcomes, we are looking for high-quality publications that would be counted on behalf of MUP in the Czech database of scientific results of universities and research institutions. In practical terms, this means that the fellow must state the institutional affiliation to C4SS Metropolitan University Prague as the primary author affiliation in all publications produced during the fellowship.

·       In quantitative and qualitative terms, in the first 12 months, the fellow is expected to publish at least 1 article in a journal with a higher than average Web of Science impact factor for the primary discipline AND to obtain a contract for his/her revised Ph.D. thesis for a book publication with a major international publisher and/or university press. The final book manuscript has to be submitted for publication within 24 months from the beginning of the fellowship.

·       If these criteria are met, the fellowship can be extended for additional 12 months, when the fellow is expected to publish at least 2 additional articles in a journal with a higher than average Web of Science impact factor for the primary discipline.

·       In case of co-authored publications, the fellow is expected to produce additional publications so that the final count of publications produced during the fellowship would correspond to 100 percent/single authorship of 3 articles in a journal with a higher than average Web of Science impact factor for the primary discipline and a book publication with a major international publisher and/or university press.

·       In addition, we expect the fellow to present his research in at least 2 public lectures and to participate in the other public events at the C4SS and MUP. In the second year, we also expect the supervision of a small number of B.A. and/or M.A. theses and teaching of one one-semester elective course in the area of his/her research.

Selection criteria: The selection of applicants who are eligible for a fellowship is competitive and merit-based. It will be conducted through an internal review process by senior faculty members of MUP. The results of the selection process will be announced in the first half of July.

How to apply: In order to provide our evaluators with relevant information to perform their work efficiently, please submit your application via e-mail to the Centre of Research, Development and Accreditations at jakub.marek@mup.cz, containing all of the following documents (in English exclusively):

·       The completed application form

·       A CV, including a list of publications

·       One sample peer-reviewed publication in a .pdf format

·       A detailed research proposal (maximum 10 pages/20,000 signs (spaces included) and a bibliography – maximum 1 additional page)

·       Two letters of recommendation. Candidates are requested to instruct the referees to e-mail their letter of recommendation directly to jakub.marek@mup.cz by the application deadline. Applicants will not be able to access these documents. Late recommendation letters will not be considered.

Applicants are required to specify the following in their research proposals:

·       The relevance and connections of the research to a wider academic context

·       The aims and methods of research

·       The current state and schedule of their research

·       Their motivation for participating in the fellowship program

·       The planned publications

·       Copy of the Ph.D. diploma. If the writing system/script used in the diploma is not Latin (but, for example, Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic or some other) it must be coupled with a Latin script university certificate or an official translation in English.

Additional information:

·       Paper applications via post are not accepted.

·       Incomplete applications will not be considered.

·       Late applications will not be considered.

·       Only one project per applicant per year.

·       Only individual projects.

·       For Prague, the fellowship provides a decent amount of money for a single fellow. However, it is not enough to support a spouse and/or family.

·       Full medical insurance of the fellow is included as part of the employment agreement.

·       We are unable to offer any additional funds to cover either accommodation or relocation costs.

If you have any questions, please contact jakub.marek@mup.cz

Call for papers for the PhD Section of the 3rd Student Conference on International Relations, on 4th & 5th May 2023 (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

General description 

The Student Association for International Relations Globallis, in partnership with the Chair and Centre for International Relations (IR) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (FSS UL), is organizing its 3rd Student Conference on International Relations. The international conference will be held during Europe Week, on the 4th and 5th May 2023 at FSS in Ljubljana and the organizers cordially invite Doctoral students from the wider IR field to participate in the PhD activities, which will be co-organized with the help of CEEISA Doctoral Network. 


With the organization of this section, we want to allow doctoral students to present their scientific research to experts and colleagues working in the field of IR, get a closer look at the publishing industry and obtain constructive comments and recommendations on their research. Next to participating in the student conference (general information on SCIR can be found here & the main call can be found here), where doctoral students will be able to present their work in conference panels, the PhD section of the conference will also include a workshop on academic publishing and a doctoral networking event. In this way, the student conference hopes to allow doctoral students to present their research work in the wider field of IR, improve their review skills, and meet other doctoral students working in the region working on related cases and research topics. If interested, doctoral students can also serve as discussants on main conference panels. 

Format 

The number of participants will be limited. The authors of the selected abstracts will be required to submit a paper two weeks before the event. The papers will be circulated to the panel participants and discussants. The participants will be expected to read all papers from their panel and serve as commentators. This format is designed to stimulate in-depth discussions, provide students with valuable feedback, and let participants get acquainted in an informal setting. 

Submission of proposals 

Short abstracts (maximum 300 words), along with the working title and a short biography (maximum one paragraph), should be submitted no later than February 13th, 2023, to melika.mahmutovic@fdv.uni-lj.si. 


Fees and travel allowance 

There is no registration fee, with some limited funding possibly being available to secure in-person attendance of doctoral students in need. For that reason, we kindly ask that authors indicate in the submission form if they believe the might require funding to attend the Conference and the Conveners will do their best to accommodate these requests. 

Organizing team 

The head organizer of the student conference is Patrik Marčetič. 

The scientific committee: prof. dr. Zlatko Šabič, prof. dr. Ana Bojinović Fenko, Assoc. prof. dr. Julija Brzakoska Bazerkoska, Assoc. prof. dr. Rok Zupančič, Assist. Prof. dr. Danijel Crnčec, Assist. Prof. dr. Boris Lučev, Assist. Prof. dr. Faris Kočan and Assistant Prof. dr. Marko Kovacevic. 

Organizers of the PhD section: Ajda Hedžet, University of Ljubljana (ajda.hedzet@fdv.uni-lj.si) & Melika Mahmutović, University of Ljubljana (melika.mahmutović@fdv.uni-lj.si). 

Partners: CEEISA Doctoral Network.

Politics and Governance - Call for Papers

Volume 12, Issue 1
Title: 

From New to Indispensable? How Has the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement Reshaped EU’s Power Balance
Editor(s): 

Marko Lovec (University of Ljubljana) and Matej Navratil (Slovak Academy of Sciences / Comenius University)
Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 March 2023
Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 July 2023
Publication of the Issue: January/March 2024
Information: 

2024 will mark the 20th anniversary of the European Union’s “Big Bang” enlargement. EU’s conditionality not only amplified the ongoing “triple transition” in EU member states but was also instrumental in facilitating countries’ embeddedness into the West. However, assumptions of the EU’s transformative power on new members after accession are rather ambiguous, ensuing both from EU’s inability to enforce the rules once a candidate country becomes a member and from the fact that countries were preparing to join an entirely different Union—one that was, at the time, unmarked by economic and migration crisis, security threats, or centrifugal forces resulting in disintegration. As a response to external and internal shocks, Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have also participated in redesigning dysfunctional EU policies: This thematic issue challenges us to consider how.

We invite up-to-date research that revolves around the following questions:

  • How have CEE new member states, as passive actors, changed the EU? What were their degree of institutional quality and policy capacity to adapt to the EU? In turn, what was the level of absorptive capacity of EU institutions and their most prominent challenges (e.g., the creation of efficient decision-making mechanisms, democratic backsliding) in incorporating these new member states?

  • How have CEE new member states, as active players, changed the EU? How have they used EU institutions to advance their own interests?

  • Should global crises and EU dysfunctionalities be understood as intervening variables in the positive adaptation of new member states? How is global change a challenge to the EU?

  • To what extent, if any, are new member states responsible for institutional inertia/institutional vibrancy in EU’s approach to endogenous and exogenous shocks (e.g., (de)democratization, resurgence of identity politics, ontological security, security threats, spread of extremism, etc.).

We encourage scholars and researchers to address why and under what circumstances are countries willing to proceed with the integration of “core state powers” and what are the repercussions of these dynamics for the EU’s institutional set-up, as characterized by differentiation.
Instructions for Authors: 

Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here). When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Politics and Governance is an open access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee).

Open Access: 

The journal has an article publication fee to cover its costs and guarantee that the article can be accessed free of charge by any reader, anywhere in the world, regardless of affiliation. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and advise them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication fees. Institutions can also join Cogitatio's Membership Program at a very affordable rate and enable all affiliated authors to publish without incurring any fees. Further information about the journal's open access charges and institutional members can be found here.

Call for Abstracts - International Theory ISA pre-conference workshop 

The IT Section, with generous funding and support from the journal International Theory, will be hosting a day-long workshop in advance of the 2023 ISA Convention in Montréal for young career and underrepresented scholars who work on international theory. 

The workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 14 at one of the conference hotels and will give scholars an opportunity to meet with members of the IT editorial team and receive feedback on a manuscript they intend to submit to IT or another journal. Travel stipends of 500 USD will be provided to all participants. Participants need to be(come) members of ISA and be registered for the 2023 Annual Convention. 

Our top priority is meeting the needs of scholars who might otherwise have a hard time accessing intellectual networks in the development of their research and career, including early career scholars, those without tenured/tenure-track appointments, scholars in the Global South, and Black and Indigenous scholars. We are interested in proposals that address different forms of theorizing the international, including but not limited to empirical generalizations, empirical abstractions (also based on field research), concept analysis, as well as political and normative theory (IPT). 

To apply for this workshop, please submit an abstract and short paper outline (max. 3 pages) to: InternationalTheory@cambridge.org. 

Deadline: 16 October 2022, so that participants will receive their acceptance before the registration deadline. Please include “IT workshop” in the subject line.

JIRD Special Forum - The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine

 

Guest editors: Dr. Olga Burlyuk (University of Amsterdam, UvA) and Dr. Vjosa Musliu (Free University of Brussels, VUB)

 

This Special Forum is seeking contributions addressing knowledge production and expertise on Russia’s war against Ukraine. We are particularly interested in works that reflect on individual, institutional and disciplinary stratification and authority in debates of and about war; on who can produce knowledge about the war in international, transnational and European political debates and how; and on who needs to hurry and speak loudly and who does or ought to remain silent.

We welcome conventional and creative academic writings in different theoretical and methodological traditions, ranging between 2,000 and 6,000 words. 

Our timeline and process:

-       We welcome expressions of interest accompanied by a 250-word abstract to be submitted to guest editors (Olga Burlyuk o.burlyuk@uva.nl & Vjosa Musliu vjosa.musliu@vub.be ) by 30 October 2022.

-       Guest editors in consultation with JIRD editors will swiftly select the pieces and the prospective authors will be informed about the logistics of the submission process in line with the JIRD’s policy.

-       The deadline for submission of full pieces is no later than 28 February 2023.

-       All pieces will undergo a two-stage peer review: in-house by the editors and by external anonymous peer reviewers.