Early Career Researchers Workshops (ECW) are linked to the next EISA Pan-European Conference taking place in August.
ECWs are two-half days workshops organized by and for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who finished their PhD less than three years prior to the application deadline. Eight to twelve participants use the workshop to present and discuss their work with invited senior discussants. Early career workshops offer a collegial, supportive and empowering environment for PhD candidates and Early career scholars to present their work, test their ideas and research findings, and develop novel collaborative projects, networks and publications. The EISA supports each selected workshop with a budget of 4 000 EUR.
All ECW participants are part of the PEC conference, therefore need to register and pay the registration fee.
Sofie van der Maarel: “Between Urgency and Accountability: Lived Experiences of AI Governance in Security” Discussants: Anna Nadibaidze and Fabio Cristiano
Anna-Katharina Ferl: “The Limits of Legalization: International Law and the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons Systems”
Discussants: Fer Avar and Ingvild Bode
Anna Nadibaidze: “Beyond Oversight: The Role of Human Agency as a Regulatory Principle Across Responsible AI Initiatives”
Discussants: Elena Kavanagh and Fabio Cristiano
Robin Vanderborght: “Do Tech Leaders Dream of Artificial War? Exploring Vanguard Visions of Military AI and the New Pax Algorithmica”
Discussants: Sofie van der Maarel and Ingvild Bode
Fer Avar: “Co-Producing Military AI Permissibility: The Role of Private Actors in European Defense Governance”
Discussants: Ben Johnson and Fabio Cristiano
Ben Johnson: “Algorithmic Total War: Militarism, Mobilization, and the New Frontiers of Conflict”
Discussants: Anna-Katharina Ferl and Ingvild Bode
Elena Kavanagh: “Relational Futures: Indigenous Knowledge and Reimagining AI Governance”
Discussants: Robin Vanderborght and Ingvild Bode
Qiaochu Zhang: “Defining ‘Responsible AI’: Multiplicity and Consolidation in China’s AI Governance Narratives”
Discussants: Hengfeng Zhao and Fabio Cristiano
Hengfeng Zhao: “Boundary Work in Global AI Governance: China's Strategy to Reshape International Standards and Alliances”
Discussants: Qiaochu Zhang and Ingvild Bode
Justinas Lingevičius: “Towards Agentic Security: Articulating Human-Technology Interaction in the Emerging EU AI Policy”
Discussants: Matilde Bro and Fabio Cristiano
Stefka Schmid “(In)Security at the Border: European AI Adoption for Situational Awareness”
Discussants: Justinas Lingevičius and Ingvild Bode
Matilde Bro: “The Inner Geopolitical Complexities of Negotiating AI: A Concept for Studying Narratives, Logics and Instruments of Power in Diplomatic Negotiations”
Discussants: Stefka Schmid and Fabio Cristiano
Helena Drdlová: Possibilities and limitations of industrial policy at the Central and Eastern European (CEE) integrated periphery
Phillip Nock: Daring more state capitalism? On the changing role of the state in German economic and industrial policy (2018-2024)
Itsane Allende: Cuban peripheral agency after neoliberalism: SouthSouth industrial policy and overlapping orders
Matias Castrén: Why do states sometimes prioritise sovereignty over economic gains, and vice versa?
Martin Fischer: Countering Dollar Dependency: France’s Drive for European Monetary Integration
Connor Clery: Scalar order(ing): transnational, non-state and societal contributions to sovereignty
Mingchun Xu: The BRICS+ In A Fragmented World Order
Konsta Kotilainen: Overcoming Polycrisis and Geoeconomic Fragmentation through an International Clearing Union: An Analysis of Expert Assessments
Petr Svatoň: Development Strategies in a Post-WTO World: New Constraints and Opportunities
Eugenio Sánchez: State-Business Ties as a Force Multiplier in Great Power Competition: Explaining the Rise of US Industrial Policy in Semiconductors (2012-2025)
You Wang: East’s Triumph? Domestic Politics and Capability of Economic Statecraft
Melike Bozkurt: Contesting hegemony: The role of geopolitical ambitions for the (mis)alignments between economic statecraft and industrial policy
Chair: Italo Brandimarte
Discussant: Dr Farai Chipato
Presenters:
Shambhawi Tripathi: Roots of Resistance: Trees as Eco-Political Protagonists Against Colonial and Capitalist Histories
Tarsis Brito: Becoming Property: (Dis)possession and the Making of International Order
Sharazad Odeh: The Smoking Gun: The Circulation of Weapons and the Creation of New Borders and Politics in Israel-Palestine
Chair: Tarsis Brito
Discussant: Prof Mark Salter
Presenters:
Georgia Yaritji Mansell: Quantum Imaginaries and the Politics of (Im)Materiality
Caio Simoneti: Groundwork of the Robophysics of Morals: Autonomy, Reason and Moral Subjectivity in Immanuel Kant and Autonomous Weapons
Niklas Kehrle: Fabricating Visibility: The Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations in and through Surveillance
Chair: Italo Brandimarte
Discussant: Dr Farai Chipato
Presenters:
Meena Masood: Humanitarian ‘Vulnerability’ Categories, ‘Vulnerability’ Forms, and ‘Vulnerability’ Imaginaries in Greece: Making ‘the Vulnerable’
Leah de Haan: Queer intimate partner- and domestic violence through the lens ofassemblages: tracing materiality, (body)parts and the contesting of bodily autonomy in violent racialized heteropatriarchal orders
Franca Kappes: Epistemic Regimes of Surprise and Uncertainty & the Commercialisation of the Resilience Paradigm in NEOM City
Chair: Tarsis Brito
Discussant: Prof Mark Salter
Presenters:
Italo Brandimarte: The Ecological Way of War: The Coloniality of Sustainable Violence
Julia Maria Charlotte Feine: The Crisis Will Fix Sweden? Broken Fantasies and the Power of Solidarity in the Aftermath of Extreme Forest Fires
Aksel Hvid: Taking difference seriously: New Materialist and Postcolonial approaches to representation
Senior discussants’ reflections (20 mins):
Dr Farai Chipato
Prof Mark Salter
+ Broader discussion on next steps (40 mins)
5 February 2025
Call for Early Career Workshop Proposals
25 March 2025
Deadline for applications
24 March 2025
Deadline for EISA PEC Mobility Funds
28 March 2025
Workshops acceptance emails sent
31 March 2025
Acceptance of the grant by convenors
2 April 2025
Public announcement of succesful workshops
2 April 2025
Call for participants by organisers
28 April 2025
Results from call for papers
15 May 2025
Registration deadline
1 July 2025
Workshop programmes published