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The GEM-STONES (Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism - Sophistication of the Transnational Order, Networks, and European Strategies) PhD program aims at understanding the developing transnational order, and at assessing EU’s role within it. Since the establishment of the League of Nations in 1920, Geneva has long been a hub for international governance, with an unequaled concentration of International Organizations gravitating around the UN European Headquarter Office. The institutional proliferation approach of this Summer School will aim at identifying the multiple formal IOs, the QUASIOs (such as ISO) and the myriad of NGOs and examining whether and how efficiently they interact with each other. The regime complex approach developed by IR scholars, and the International Law constitutionalization/fragmentation debate will be the most central theoretical approach mobilized. Based on this understanding of the functioning of the “Geneva Governance Hub”, the participants will investigate the EU action on the Geneva stage. PhD candidates presenting their work will discuss how their own research fits within this complex and sophisticated transnational order perspective and contribute to the development of a theoretical framework capturing the evolution of multilateralism within a globalized world. The 2018 GEM-STONES Summer School will take place at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva, Switzerland
LECTURE SESSIONS
Each session will kick off with a short introduction of the speaker by one of the student participants. This will be followed by a lecture on a relevant topic chosen by the speaker, and a Q&A on the presentation. The discussions will be concluded with a privileged roundtable exchange between the speaker and the participants on a specific challenge related to the writing of a PhD.
PhD SESSIONS
Selected PhD papers will be circulated in advance and will be first introduced by the author. Majority of each 1,5-hour-long session will be divided up between the comments prepared by two previously designated discussants (incl. one academic and one fellow doctoral student) and the open floor debate with all attending doctoral researchers. The presented papers will thus be discussed both by academics, as well as by the PhD student’s peers. As a result, paper-givers are provided with ample constructive feedback on their research. Participating PhD students not involved in the presentation of a paper will assume the role of discussant and contribute towards the introduction of a session’s speakers. The PhD workshops are designed to meet the needs of maximum 12 PhD paper-givers, with an equal amount of student discussants to be assigned by the organizers.
DEBRIEFING SESSION
Following the logic of a flipped classroom, the debriefing session will be centered on the participants’ learning experiences acquired during the week (including their field work accomplished during the no-teaching day reserved for interaction with actors of the “international Geneva”). Several instructors from the PhD schools and professors from the University of Geneva shall participate in this debriefing session. Through the interactions between all the participants, shall emerge a better (and hopefully common) understanding of the meaning and consequences of Institutional proliferation on IR scholarship.
Selected paper-givers will be expected to present the suggested paper after having circulated it minimum 10 days in advance. Both an attending academic and a fellow student will discuss the presented research. 5 spots have been reserved for non-GEM-STONES participants selected through this Call for Applications. The PhD Students are expected to attend the full week, and participate in all the Summer School’s various sessions and activities - excepting the excursion where attendance is optional. Candidates must be fluent in spoken and written English, as it is the PhD Summer School’s working language. Applicants are free to suggest any presentation topic of their choosing that fits the broad scientific agenda of the Summer School. Applications and any questions are to be sent to pmo@gem-stones.eu
This Summer School is a closed-door event for selected participants. The organizers‘ aim is to gather a limited number of informed and motivated participants who will see their expenses covered by the host. Accommodation in Geneva will be booked and paid for directly by the organizers. Travel to and from Geneva will be paid by the organizers. Lunches during the Summer School, welcome dinner on Monday 2nd July and a public transportation card in Geneva will also be provided. Any other incurred costs are at the participants’ own expense.
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