In the academic landscape of today, French social theory and the methods that springs from these have their natural place. Scholars who work with these are often not aware of their origins, and those who read such works frequently misunderstand because they lack the necessary context. This seminar seeks to provide such background and give a hands-on presentation of such methods.
Iver B. Neumann is Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He holds doctorates in Politics (1992, Oxford) and Social Anthropology (2009, Oslo) and was the Montague Burton Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, 2012-2017. His overarching research interest is in how polities relate to one another, in pre-history, in history, in imagined worlds, and in principle. He usually draws on Continental social theory to analyse this, and use empirical examples from Russian foreign policy, Norwegian foreign policy and, increasingly, from archaeology. His latest book, with Einar Wigen, is The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building, 4000 BCE-2018 CE (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
How do I sign up for the course:
Applications to join the course should contain a 1-page sketch of the dissertation project and a CV.
Application deadline: 1 March 2023.
You sign up by sending an e-mail to Kari Andersen
Notice of acceptance will be given shortly after.
About the paper:
Participants will be asked to hand in paper of maximum 3000 words, where they reflect on their own material in light of some of the readings assigned. The papers will be pre-circulated among the participants ahead of the seminar.
All participants will also be asked to comment on the papers of others. There will be a course curriculum that participants should have acquainted themselves with before they arrive at the course. Working language will be English.
Deadline for paper: 11 April 2023
Please send your paper to: Tarjei Brekke
ECTS points
4 ECTS
Program
Wednesday 19 April
10.15-12 From Durkheim to Bourdieu
12-12.30 Lunch
13-15 Discourse, Practice, Ethnography
15.15-16 Papers
Thursday 20 April
10.15-12 Papers
12-12.30 Lunch
12.30-14 Papers
1415-16 Papers