Gregynog Hall

Gregynog Hall

16 December 2014

Three New Guest Professors


We are delighted to announce three new Guest Professors who will be joining us at Gregynog IV: Samson O. Opondo, Annick T. R. Wibben and Marysia Zalewski. Annick and Marysia were part of the original team at the first Ideas Lab; Sam is joining us for the first time.

·       Sam Opondo's research is guided by an interest in colonialism, race and the mediation of estrangement.  With an emphasis on violence, ethics and diplomacies of everyday life, he engages the problematics of humanitarianism, the politics of redemption and the popular culture in urban Africa.

·       Annick Wibben’s research straddles (critical) security studies, international theory, and feminist international relations. She is well known for her agenda-setting work in feminist security studies, and she also has a keen interest in issues of methodology, representation, and writing.

·       Marysia Zalewski has published widely in the area of feminist theory, gender and international relations. She is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and she has long been recognised as one of the leading critical voices in International Relations Theory.

These three join an already illustrious team:
·       Jenny Edkins (personhood, politics and aesthetics; image, photograph and face; trauma and memory; missing people)
·       Himadeep Muppidi (globalization, critical international relations, South Asian politics and postcolonial theory)
·       Michael J Shapiro (political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, cultural studies, media, indigenous politics, critical international studies)
·       Erzsebet Strausz (logics of thought underlying the contemporary epistemic order of the West and their potential transgression)
·       R. B. J. Walker (practices of spatiotemporality; modernity; sovereignty and subjectivity; liberty and security; governmentality; exceptionalism)
·       Andreja Zevnik (the intersection of political violence, psychoanalysis, political philosophy with critical theory and law)

12 November 2014

Worldwide participants with wide-ranging interests

Bookings for the 2015 Ideas Lab are arriving from participants across the world--from Canada and the USA to Australia and New Zealand.  And participants' interests are wide-ranging as well. They include, so far, topics such as democratization; modernization in Japan, China and South Korea; the intersection between mobility and security; the politics of classification; contemporary protests such as Occupy and the 2013 protests in Turkey and Bulgaria; rationalities of the person; cosmopolitanism, humanitarianism and the UNHCR; the consequences of economic growth; and transitional justice. Approaches include Foucauldian governmentality; narrative and storytelling; Gramscian theory; post/decolonialism; genealogy; aesthetics; psychoanalysis...and many more.

Join us to meet and talk in a wonderful environment conducive to discussion and debate--and the forging of new collaborations--in the company of our eminent guest professors.

Early booking will allow you to take advantage of our reduced registration rates, and you can secure a place with a non-refundable deposit of £100 whilst you firm up funding arrangements.  For more details click on the information to the right on this page, and for help with booking or for further enquiries contact Yvonne Rinkart on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.



10 October 2014

Help spread the word!

We would be grateful for your help in spreading the word about next year's Ideas Lab--and in particular circulating the poster and announcement, which can be downloaded from this blog site, posting links to our facebook site https://www.facebook.com/groups/675435315871900/ or the blog, or tweeting about the Ideas Lab. Last year several of the people who came had only heard of the Ideas Lab pretty late in the day and through fairly random routes. Bookings are already beginning to flow in for next year, but we want to ensure that doesn't happen again.

If you need any help with booking, or any more information about how the Ideas Lab works, do contact Yvonne on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com. She will be happy to help.  This year you can reserve your place while you firm up funding with a non-refundable deposit of only £100--and we have also introduced reductions for returning participants. Details on the booking form.

We are currently about to invite additional Guest Professors--so look out for an announcement on that in the next few weeks. Next summer feels a long way off at the moment, but it's not too soon to start looking forward to the oasis of calm for thinking and intellectual exchange that is the Ideas Lab!
Best wishes
Jenny

26 August 2014

Gregynog Ideas Lab IV: Details announced!!

We are excited to be able to announce that the fourth Gregynog Ideas Lab will take place from 13-18 July 2015. The full announcement and the booking forms are available by clicking on the list on the right. The announcement explains in detail what the Ideas Lab is and how it works. There is also a draft timetable, obviously provisional at this stage, which shows how the week unfolds.

We look forward to receiving your bookings--places are limited to a maximum of 40 participants and filled on a first come first served basis. A deposit will secure your place, and a reduced rate applies to bookings paid in full by 30 January 2015.  This year we are also pleased to offer a reduced rate for returning participants:  see the booking form for details.

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at Gregynog next year.  If you have any questions about the Ideas Lab or the booking process, please contact Yvonne Rinkart on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.
Best wishes
Jenny

12 July 2014

A wonderful week!!

Many thanks to everyone who made it such a wonderful summer school this year. We had fantastic conversations, and the mix of new participants and those who were attending for the second or third time made it really special.  I hope you all have good journeys back, and look forward to seeing many of you next year.  We haven't confirmed the dates yet, but there WILL be a Gregynog IV in 2015! 
More later...
Very best wishes
Jenny

30 June 2014

Summer School next week!!

Gregynog Ideas Lab III takes place next week, 7-12 July 2014, and we very much look forward to welcoming you to Gregynog!  Any last minute queries, please contact us on gregynogideaslab.gmail.com. 
Best wishes
Jenny

06 April 2014

Plenary Programme announced!


We are delighted to announce that the programme of plenary sessions for Gregynog Ideas Lab III has been finalised. We will have Guest Professor Roundtables on Time and the Event; Time and Subjectivity; The State of Violence;  and  Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism and Feminism. In the final session of the week, Generation and Critique, Mick Dillon, Mike Shapiro and Rob Walker reflect on the past 20-30 years of critical work in International Relations, and where we go from here. Full details of all these sessions, and the Practical Workshops (on Storytelling and/as Method;  Book and Journal Publishing; and Critique and Careers) are available by clicking on the link on the right. The full details of our Guest Professor Seminars, the highlight of the school, are also available on the right, as are a draft Schedule and brief bios of all our Guest Professors.

At present we have ten places remaining: we already have bookings from an amazing and international group of graduate students and early career faculty working on a wide range of topics (including: identity, the body, discourse, power, security apparatuses, historiography, time, 'freedom', cybersecurity, aesthetics, sovereignty, critical theory, memory, meaning production, feminist IPE, post-conflict interventions, development, affect, materiality, peacekeeping, narrative, language and discursive practice, war photography, militarism, risk, finance and anti-colonial thought).

Booking forms can be downloaded from the links on the right and should be returned, with payment, to gregynogideaslab@gmail.com. If you have any queries or need help with your booking, or want to make sure places are still available before you send in your form, please contact Yvonne Rinkart on the same email.

We look forward to seeing you in the summer!
Best wishes
Jenny

21 February 2014

Worldwide interest in Ideas Lab III

The 2014 Ideas Lab is filling up: we already have bookings from eight countries spread across four continents, with people working on a wide range of topics, including, for example: identity, the body, discourse, power, security apparatuses, historiography, time, 'freedom', cybersecurity, aesthetics, sovereignty, critical theory, meaning production, feminist IPE, post-conflict interventions, development, affect, materiality, peacekeeping, language and discursive practice, war photography, militarism, risk, finance and anti-colonial thought. We will have a fascinating group of participants, as in previous years.  

The programme of plenary sessions is being prepared as we speak, with the interests of our participants in mind. More details will be available soon, as will details of the three workshops, which are likely to include one on how to approach book publishers and journal editors. We are also planning a session on telling stories as a research methodology in IR.

We are accepting bookings on a first come, first served basis, and you are welcome to contact us to confirm that there are still places available before sending in your form.  Booking forms can be downloaded by clicking on the links on the right and should be returned, with payment, to gregynogideaslab@gmail.com. If you have any queries or need help with your booking, please contact Yvonne Rinkart on the same email.

We look forward to meeting you in the summer!
Best wishes
Jenny

22 January 2014

Additional information and bookings update



Further details of the seminars that our Guest Professors will be offering can now be downloaded from the list on the right. The seminars run in three steams, and participants choose one seminar from each stream:
Stream A:
Expressions of Trauma (Jenny Edkins)
Foucault, Deleuze, and Method (Mike Shapiro)
Politics, Violence and Resistance (Kim Hutchings)
Stream B:
Subaltern Scenes (Himadeep Muppidi)
Life After Death (Mick Dillon)
Is There a Deleuzian Politics? (Tom Lundborg)
Stream C:
Chasing Storks (Erzsebet Strausz)
On 
the 
Politics 
of 
“the 
World” 
(Rob
 Walker)

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Politics (Andreja Zevnik)

Details of the advanced methods training that we offer have also been added to the material, as announced in the previous post. This may be helpful to participants in their bids to their institutions for funding.

Places are still available, but are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis. You can pay in full now; alternatively you can pay a non-refundable deposit to secure your place, followed by the balance by 20 February 2014. Booking forms can be downloaded by clicking on the links on the right and should be returned, with payment, to gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.

If you have any queries or need help with your booking, please contact Yvonne Rinkart on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.

We look forward to meeting you in the summer!
Best wishes
Jenny

10 January 2014

Bookings: Places still available but book soon to avoid disappointment

We still have places available for the 2014 Ideas Lab. You can pay in full now; alternatively you can pay a non-refundable deposit to secure your place, followed by the balance by 20 February 2014. Places are limited to 40 participants, and available on a first come, first served basis. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Booking forms and further details can be downloaded from the information section to the right of this announcement. Forms should be returned, with payment, to gregynogideaslab@gmail.com. Details of the advanced methods training that we offer have been added to the site: see list on the right. This may be helpful to participants in their bids to their institutions for funding.

If you have any queries or need help with your booking, please contact Yvonne Rinkart on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.

We look forward to meeting you in the summer!
Best wishes
Jenny