EISA members are all cordially invited to attend the 14th General Assembly meeting of EISA. The General Assembly is a key pillar of our organisation as a democratic association.  This year’s Assembly will feature a detailed report from the outgoing board on existing and newly developed initiatives. We will ratify our newly elected board members. We will present awards to the winners of EISA’s 2025 prizes, including the Best Dissertation Award, Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations.  

Lunch boxes will be available for the attendees in the room (first come first served). 

Date: 27 August 2025
Time: 12:45-13:45 (lunch break) 
Room: Palazzo Hercolani building, Sala Poeti 

The IR Cafe is set up as casual conversations between leading scholars and all interested participants (with an emphasis on early career participation); people will be able to join different tables and chat in an informal setting. Attendees are invited to hop between the tables, explore different streams of research in International Studies, what related disciplines mean for different people and learn from each other’s perspectives and approaches. The focus of this year’s IR Cafe is research methods and researching fields. Participants will be able to engage in an informal conversation, led by a distinguished scholar on major research methods, such as qualitative research, research on the politics of outer space, technology & war and freedom of information requests. 

Date: 27 August 2025
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: Belmeloro building, Aula L 

• • Corina Lacatus, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Marijn Hoijtink, University of Antwerp 
  • Darshan Vigneswaran, University of Amsterdam
  • Stefano Guzzini, European University Institute

Do you have a book project you are working on? Does it challenge, expand and reconfigure the conventional boundaries of the discipline of International Relations? If so, come along during the afternoon coffee break and talk about your project with one of the editors of the EISA-OUP Book Series Voices in International Relations. We can provide guidance on substantive issues, argument framing and submission procedures. 

Date: 27 August 2025
Time: 15:30-16:00 (afternoon coffee break)
Room: Belmeloro building, Belmeloro Garden 

• • Debbie Lisle, Queens University Belfast

Date: 27 August 2025
Time: 17:50-19:00
Room: Palazzo Hercolani building, Sala Poeti 

• • Asaf Siniver, International Affairs
  • Andy Hom, Review of International Studies
  • Oliver Kessler, European Journal of International Relations
  • Kristin Haugevik, Cooperation and Conflict
  • Taylor Borowetz, Millenium
  • Beatrix Futák-Campbell, International Studies Review
    

Handbook of European Union Governance
(eds. J. Sperling & S. Lucarelli, Edward Elgar, 2025)

Date: 27 August 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Room: Palazzo Hercolani building, Giardino d’Inverno 

• • Sonia Lucarelli 
  • James Sperling 

The Early Career Development (ECD) group is very pleased to host the ECD Hub. If you are a PhD student or an early career scholar, come join us for an informal lunch to get to know better the ECD Group’s activities, EISA opportunities for early career development such as grants and awards, as well as to have an opportunity for meaningful networking with peers. 

Lunch boxes will be available for the attendees in the room (first come first served). 

Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 12:45-13:45 (lunch break)
Room: Palazzo Hercolani building, Sala Poeti 

Do you have a book project you are working on? Does it challenge, expand and reconfigure the conventional boundaries of the discipline of International Relations? If so, come along during the afternoon coffee break and talk about your project with one of the editors of the EISA-OUP Book Series Voices in International Relations. We can provide guidance on substantive issues, argument framing and submission procedures. 

Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 15:30-16:00 (afternoon coffee break)
Room: Belmeloro building, Belmeloro Garden 

• • Debbie Lisle, Queens University Belfast

This year’s Projects Lab aims to provide a dialogue between early-career scholars and more senior counterparts who have pedagogical recognition and experience in the field. The session is structured in two part. In the first part, invited scholars will give short presentations on their own course design strategies and pedagogical experiences. Following the presentations, participants will engage in conversation with the guest scholars at tables to share their diverse pedagogical experiences in their respective fields, the challenges they have encountered in course design, and potential strategies for improvement. This event also aims to create an environment where participants can share their course programs with one another if they wish. 

Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 16:00-17:30
Room: Belmeloro building, Aula L 

• • Anahita Arian, Leiden University 
  • Navnita C. Behera, University of Delhi

Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 17:50-19:00
Room: Hercolani building, Sala Poeti 

• • Manuela Moschella, Review of International Political Economy
  • Andrea Oelsner, Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Matthias Leese, Journal of International Relations and Development
  • María Martín de Almagro, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • Mark Salter, Security Dialogue
  • Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Geopolitics

Do you have a book project you are working on? Does it challenge, expand and reconfigure the conventional boundaries of the discipline of International Relations? If so, come along during the afternoon coffee break and talk about your project with one of the editors of the EISA-OUP Book Series Voices in International Relations. We can provide guidance on substantive issues, argument framing and submission procedures.

Date: 29 August 2025
Time: 10:30-11:00
Room: Belmeloro Garden

• • Debbie Lisle, Queens University Belfast

This ECD event aims to develop a conversation between early career scholars on writing and publishing strategies in particular on tips for publishing in top-tier journals. The session is organized as a panel-type followed by Q&A. The invited guest panelists (a) discusses strategies for getting published (how to find the right journal, how to approach it and the steps throughout the process) and (b) present their own experience throughout the reviewing and publishing processes (how to effectively present your work, how to incorporate feedback from peer-reviewers, etc…). 

Date: 29 August 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Room: Belmeloro building, Aula L 

• • Tasniem Anwar, VU Amsterdam 
  • Tarsis Brito, LSE 
  • Anna Finiguerra, King’s College London