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.
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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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News and analysis
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.
Call for papers: The emotional politics of social movements in global politics
A call for papers for the Emotions in Politics & IR working group postgraduate/ECR virtual workshop.
Call for papers: Researching emotion in International Relations: a conversation on methodologies
PG/ECR virtual workshop exploring methodological issues and challenges in researching emotions.
Past events
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.
Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group virtual reading group, 'The Affect Theory Reader 2' (Session 3)
The third session following on from the EPIR virtual reading group events.
Emotion/Affect and Imperial Formations: Postgraduate virtual workshop
A Postgraduate virtual workshop from the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group.
Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group virtual reading group: 'The Affect Theory Reader 2' (session 2)
The second session following on from the EPIR virtual reading group event.
Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group virtual reading group: 'The Affect Theory Reader 2'
The first in a series of EPIR virtual reading group events.
Celebrating prizewinning new research on Emotions in Politics and IR
An Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group event to celebrate the winners of the 2023 thesis prize
The emotional politics of social movements in global politics: Postgraduate/ECR virtual workshop
A Postgraduate/ECR Virtual Workshop from the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group.
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