🚨🚨Early Career Opportunities at @europeanisa.bsky.social

👉Dissertation Fieldwork Support Grants for PhD students
📆 Apply by 13 May 2026

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We look forward to engaging events with the thriving ECR community at #EISAPEC26!

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💻 💥Still time to sign up for tomorrow's online event on IR concepts in the current geopolitical moment and why studying IR may matter more than ever now. ⬇️

🔥 Do not miss this timely new episode of the @europeanisa.bsky.social podcast discussing the #US financial #hegemony under threat ⤵️

🚨Last chance!

👉🏽 Apply by #today to join the @europeanisa.bsky.social Early Career Development Group.

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Join the #EISA Early Career Development group and connect with the core of #EISA’s vibrant ECR community.

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🔈Apply now to join the #EISA Early Career group.

We are looking for 3 new members to join our group. The voluntary position is for a 2 yr term. Together we organize activities to build a thriving ECR community!

Deadline: 5 March 2026
More info: eisa-net.org/early-career...

Best Graduate Paper 2025. Congratulations to Nijat Eldarov for the paper ' Border security innovation as ecological risk management: Preemptive surveillance and techno-natural turn in border security'

🎉 Congratulations to Nijat Eldarov, winner of EISA's Best Graduate Paper Award!

🔗 Learn more about the paper and the committee's comments here: buff.ly/weiEpHI

Online writing retreat for early career scholars. Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 13:00-16:00 CET, zoom event. The EISA ECD Group is organizing an Online Writing Retreat for Early Career Scholars aimed at sharing writing strategies and creating a friendly, encouraging environment for writing. The event does not require any prior preparation – just booking and dedicating time for focused writing on anything you are currently working on: your thesis, paper, or application. Speaker Dr. Tom F.A. Watts, Postdoctoral Researcher, the Center of War Studies, University of Southern Denmark.

📣 Our next online event will be a writing retreat for early career scholars, taking place on 25 February, 13:00-16:00 CET

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/u2DdpGr

🎓 Thank you to all who participated in "Dealing with Precarity as an ECR"!

📺 You can now watch a recording of the event on the EISA YouTube channel:

🔗https://youtu.be/pkQaFJ-X2-k?si=-D-ClzLnmh4HpDfB

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Dealing with Precarity as an ECR: Practical Advice to Navigate Academic Transitions YouTube video by European International Studies Association

Have you missed our last online event?

💻 Get inspired by our discussion on 'Dealing with Precarity as an ECR: Practical Advice to Navigate Academic Transitions' available now on the @europeanisa.bsky.social YouTube channel! 👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkQa...

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After Venezuela: Regional and Global Consequences of US Intervention The U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro have reopened questions many assumed were settled since the end of the Cold War. For decades, South American governments…

💻 You can now watch the recording of our recent event, 'After Venezuela: Regional and Global Consequences of US Intervention', on our YouTube channel

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Dealing with Precarity as an ECR: Practical Advice to Navigate Academic Transitions. Thursday 22 January, 2026, 18:00-19:30 CET. Zoom event. Early Career Researchers (ECRs) often face significant uncertainty as they navigate multiple transitions from doctoral studies to academic careers. This online event creates space for an open and honest conversation about both the structural challenges and lived experiences of researchers in the early stages of their careers.Speakers: Sara Berlotto, PhD, Italy China Council Foundation; Ashlyn Hand, PhD, Southern Methodist University; Huanyu Zhao, PhD, University of Ghent; Silke Zoller, PhD, Kennesaw State University.

📣 Register now for our next online event - 'Dealing with Precarity as an ECR: Practical Advice to Navigate Academic Transitions'!

🗓️ Thursday, 22 January, 18:00-19:30 CET, Zoom

🔗 Full description and registration link here: buff.ly/MWB1GbQ

⏰ Don't forget to register for this evening's online event on the consequences of U.S. intervention in Venezuela

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Academia can be exciting—and precarious. This upcoming online session offers practical advice about academic transitions for early-career researchers.

🗓 22 Jan | ⏰ 18:00 CET | 💻 Register at: eisa-net.org/online-event...

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Dealing w/ academic precarity as an ECR?

👉🏽Mark your calendar for our upcoming online event!
🗓️ 22.01.2026 18:00-19:30 CET, Zoom
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🔗 Please make sure to read the submission guidelines carefully on our website: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

📆 Deadline: 11 Febraury 2026

📣 Abstract submission for workshops at #EWIS2026 is now open.

➡️This is an excellent opportunity for early-career scholars to connect with peers and present ongoing research in a constructive workshop setting.

Thanks to @pollypw.bsky.social and Judith Koch for this conversation! Great to talk all things arms trade for an hour.

What is...the Arms Trade? What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first episode of 2026, we explore why scholars of international relations should pay closer attention to the arms trade, and what its dy...

What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices episode of 2026, I talk to the indomitable @annastavrianakis.bsky.social to explore this question and much more…

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📺Watch our online roundtable discussion on Care and Resistance in #NeoliberalAcademia now on the @europeanisa.bsky.social YouTube channel

👉🏽Featuring important contributions from #AsliVatansever #JanOrbie #AgnieszkaMartaFal-DutraSantos @anahitaarian.bsky.social

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Interested in joining the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations taking place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026?

🗳️Submit your paper abstract by📆 19 February 2026 !

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🔊The latest #EISA Voices episode is out, featuring Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín ( @drqv.bsky.social), winner of the #EISA Best #Dissertation Award 2025 🏆, in conversation with Polly Pallister-Wilkins (@pollypw.bsky.social).

Tune in now.

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How do we think about tech disruption and world politics? Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 15:30 CET, Zoom event. This online discussion aims to provide space for IR scholars to reflect on whether, and in what ways, technological developments are transforming global politics. Are these changes profound enough to challenge established assumptions, or do they simply call for familiar theoretical tools to be applied in new contexts? Speakers: Julia Calver, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leiden; Tobias Liebetrau, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen; Andrew Liaropoulos, Associate Professor, University of Piraeus; Rebecca Slayton, Associate Professor, Cornell University

📣 Mark your calendars for our next online event, 'How Do We Think About Tech Disruption and World Politics?'

🗓️ Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 15:30 CET

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/IHH2tol

In-between PhD and Postdoc? This may be for you👉🏽

The #PostdoctroalBridgeGrant is one of the ways @europeanisa.bsky.social supports its early career membership.

Apply by 19 March 2026💥All info below⤵️

The #deadline for @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS workshop submissions are coming up⏰

Are you an Early Career Researcher submitting a proposal and still looking for participants?

➡️tag @ecdeisa.bsky.social, we will share your proposals🤝🏽

Looking for a weekend podcast?

Check out the latest #EISAVoices hosted by @pollypw.bsky.social, featuring disintguished guests @victorkattan.bsky.social and @ebadarin.com

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🏆Do not miss the nominations for @europeanisa.bsky.social Best Dissertation Award. Nomination deadline is 31 January 2026. All relevant details below ⤵️

🚨Do not miss our online round table discussion on #Solidarity across uneven terrains: Practising #Care and #Resistance in #Neoliberal Academia. ➡️This is happening tomorrow!

Solidarity across uneven terrains: Practising care and resistance within neoliberal academia. 19 November 2025 16:15 CET, online roundtable discussion. Description: This event brings together four speakers to explore how solidarity, care, and resistance can be practiced within the neoliberal academy and across enduring divides of coloniality, gender, and class. Speakers: Aslı Vatansever, Bard College Berlin; Jan Orbie, University of Ghent; Agnieszka Marta Fal-Dutra Santos, Geneva Graduate Institute; Anahita Arian, Leiden University

📣 Mark your calendars for our next online event with ecdeisa.bsky.social ... Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within Neoliberal Academia

🗓️ 19 November, 16:15 – 17:45 CET (Zoom)

🔗 Register here ASAP to secure your spot: buff.ly/lzLPo33