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The Emotions in Politics and International Relations working group aims to promote the study, research and teaching of emotions in politics and international relations.
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Call for papers: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group best thesis prize 2026
Nominate the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR for our working group annual prize.
Call for papers: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group best thesis prize 2025
Nominate the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR for our working group annual prize.
Emotions in IR Thesis Prize 2024
Submissions are now open for the Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Thesis Prize 2024.
Call for expressions of interest - new book reading group
Details of a new book reading group from the Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group.
Become an Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group co-convener
EPIR is recruiting a co-convener to join the convener team. Applications in by 8 December!
Emotions in IR Thesis Prize recognises outstanding research
A summary of the winners of the EPIR Working Group 2023 Thesis Prize.
Submissions open for the Emotions in IR Thesis Prize
Submissions are now open for the new Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Thesis Prize.
Upcoming events
Feeling the mission: affective atmospheres and the interpretation of peacekeeping
Register for a new event from the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group.
Past events
Masculinity, micropolitics, and global (dis)ordering
Join the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group for their annual lecture.
Book talk - The politics of feeling: populism, progressivism, liberalism
Join the Emotions Working Group for a book talk with authors Ben Anderson and Anna J Secor.
Book talk - The psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empire
join the EPIR Working Group and author Rahul Rao for a virtual book talk.
Traversing memories in global politics
Join the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group for a virtual roundtable.
Emotions in Politics and International Relations seminar series: An introduction to Jacques Lacan
The EPIR Working Group will be joined by Todd McGowan to discuss his Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan.
Book talk - Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control
Join the EPIR Working Group for a book talk from Billy Holzberg on his book on 'Affective Bordering'
Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics
Join the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group for an online roundtable.
EPIR seminar series: Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone
Join the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group for the second event of their seminar series.
Postgraduate/early-career researcher virtual workshop: Intersection of memory/trauma and the Politics of Emotions in IR
New workshop from Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group for PG/ECRs.
Emotions in Politics and International Relations seminar series: ' Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War'
Join the EPIR Working Group for their first research seminar of the term with Matthieu Grandpierron.
Seminar: liquid fear, agency and the (un)conscious in securitisation processes
New virtual seminar from the Emotions in International Relations Working Group
Book talk - Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste
New book talk from our Emotions in Politics and international relations Working Group.
Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group virtual reading group, 'The Affect Theory Reader 2' (Session 5)
EPIR are hosting their fifth 'Virtual Book Reading Group' on 'The Affect Theory Reader 2'
EPIR Working Group first annual lecture: The evolution of emotion research in international relations
First annual lecture from the Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group.
Celebrating prizewinning new research on Emotions in Politics and IR
Join the Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group to hear about the winner's cutting-edge work.
Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group virtual reading group: 'The Affect Theory Reader 2' (Session 4)
The fourth session of the EPIR virtual reading group events.
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