Session 2 – 12.00-13.30
Critical Theory and Practical Relevance
Nathan Andrews (University of Alberta) – Beyond the Ivory Tower
Samuel Knafo (University of Sussex) – Beyond the False Promise of Reflexivity: Towards a Methodology for Critical Theory
Mark Laffey (SOAS) and Suthaharan Nadarajah (SOAS) – Can the Mission be Saved? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Turn to Critical Theory
Rodger A. Payne (University of Louisville) – Cooperative Security: Grand Strategy meets Critical Theory?
Discussant: Paul Kirby (London School of Economics)
Post-conflict Peacebuilding: Researching the Disconnect Between Theory and Practice
Jair van der Lijn (Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael) – Afghanistan: Where Dilemmas become Dogmas, and Models are Perceived to be Reality
Gearoid Millar (Radboud University Nijmegen) – Dissociated Elites: Investigating the Disconnect between Elites and Those They Claim to Represent
Marta Iniguez de Heredia (London School of Economics) – The Everyday Paradox of Statebuilding Practice
Rebekka Friedman (London School of Economics) – Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Peacebuilding: Participatory Nation-Building in Sierra Leone
Discussant: Chris Alden (London School of Economics)
Questioning Resilience: What is at Stake in Policy and Academic Framings of the Governance of the Self?
Chair: Liza Griffin (University of Westminster)
Mustapha Kamal Pasha (University of Aberdeen) – Human/ Resilient/ Secular
Nicholas Michelsen (King’s College, London) – The Political in Question Between Resilient Subjects and Suicide-bombers: in Conversation with Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou
Jonathan Joseph (University of Kent) – Resilience as Governance: An Anglo-Saxon Model?
David Chandler (University of Westminster) – International Statebuilding and the Post-liberal Discourse of Resilience
Discussant: Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Practice, Ethics and Normativity
Chair: David J. Karp (University of Glasgow)
Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg) – Constitutionalism Unbound
Cornelia Navari (University of Buckingham) – Getting from Social Practices to Ethical Practices
Chris Brown (London School of Economics) – Practice, Phronesis and Prudence
Rahul Rao (SOAS) – Stretching Normative Theory: Fiction, Praxis and Third World Protest
Discussant: Kirsten Ainley (London School of Economics)
Session 3 – 14.30-16.00
Filling the Theory/Practice Divide – Divergence and Convergence
Thomas C. Walker (Grand Valley State University) – Another Peril of Paradigm Mentalities: The Widening Academic and Policy Divide
Hiski Haukkala (University of Tampere) – Timing is Everything: The Time, Space and Strategies for Scholarly Analysis in the Making of Foreign Policy
Ben Jacoby and David Guttormsen (University of Warwick) – Bridging the Gap – Academia and the Realist – Constructivism Debate
Heikki Patomäki (University of Helsinki) – The Central Task of Social Sciences: Explanatory Critique and Concrete Eutopias – With a Cosmopolitan Intent
Discussant: Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Steering IR Through Practice Approaches – the Application of Practical Approach to the Study of IR
Karen Tucker (University of Bristol) – Theorising Global Power, Knowledge and Representation: Towards a Practice-Based Approach to NGOs and Global Governance
John Karlsrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) – SRSGs as Norm Arbitrators? Understanding Authority in UN Peace Operations
David J. Tingle (McGill University) – Practice Theory and the Theory/Practice Dichotomy: The Foundations of Theoretical Account of International Practices.
Ann Marie Clark (Purdue University) – The Appeal to Justice in International Politics: Theory and Practice
Discussant: David Chandler (University of Westminster)
Theory and Practice of IR in the Emerging Powers
Hugo Arend (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul) – “What if that tower is not made of ivory at all?”: International Studies in Brazil (resisting theories, reifying practices)
Upendra Choudhury (Aligarh Muslim University) –International Relations in India: Bridging the gap between potential and reality
Discussant: Chris Brown (London School of Economics)
On Courage: How to Traverse Theory/Practice Divide with Dignity
Chair: Aida A. Hozic (University of Florida)
Mauro J. Caraccioli (University of Florida) – Pedagogies of Freedom: Courage and Exile in International Life
Manu Samnotra (University of Florida) – Courage, Conscience and Timeliness
Evgenia Ilieva (University of Florida) – Nandy, Todorov, and Non-Heroic Ordinariness
Aida A. Hozic (University of Florida) – Conformism and Courage in and about American IR
Discussant: Wanda Vrasti (Humboldt University)
