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AACP Institute 2013

ptj — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:39 +0000

Here’s the audio and slides from my keynote presentation at this morning’s AACP Institute on teaching, in which I speculate about the future of higher education and suggest that we have to pay more attention to what we are using the classroom space to accomplish. The audio is raw and unedited, but a same-day podcast is often not the world’s greatest production quality!

Whither constructivism?

ptj — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:37:24 +0000

Audio of a panel and the subsequent q&a from ISA-Northeast 2012, Baltimore, MD. Panelists were Nick Onuf, Mike Barnett, and PTJ; panel was ably chaired by Sammy Barkin, who also participated in the discussion from time to time.

BISA/ISA 2012 — fear of relativism

ptj — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:12:19 +0000

Recording of my remarks on a panel on pluralism and diversity in international studies, BISA/ISA joint meeting, Edinburgh, 20 June 2012. A written version of these remarks, featuring the addition of a Star Wars-themed example, appeared here, and I suspect that there will be another version someplace else before too long.

BISA/ISA 2012 — aesthetics and politics

ptj — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:08:56 +0000

Better late than never! My discussant comments for a panel on Aesthetics and Politics, Edinburgh BISA/ISA joint meeting, 20 June 2012. I touch on some methodological issues that might be intriguing for those doing work in this area.

How to Talk About the Future

ptj — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:05:28 +0000

Recording of my talk “How to Talk About the Future,” University College Utrecht, 25 September 2012. Slides for the talk are here.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 13

ptj — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:47:37 +0000

The final podcast lecture in my Spring 2012 SIS-301 “Theories of International Politics” class — and the last podcast of the last time I will teach this class for a while, since I become Associate Dean in a couple of months ad that’s a full-time administrative gig. So, perhaps fitting that the topic of this last podcast lecture is Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney’s radical reexamination of IR as an enterprise, which raises some fundamental questions about the purpose of IR theory and IR scholarship. Is it science? Is it philosophy? Does it matter? Questions to ponder.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 12

ptj — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:22:34 +0000

The twelfth lecture in the series: theory and methodology, or, why we have to know something about methodology in order to figure out what is actually going on in a piece of theory.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 11

ptj — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:41:17 +0000

The eleventh in the ongoing series. This week, relational theory: boundary processes and sovereign practices, especially the formation of identities.

ISA 2012: The Constructivism That Wasn’t

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:33:42 +0000

Audio of my remarks at the panel “Telling the Tale of Constructivism” at ISA 2012. An edited version of the text I spoke from and around will soon be a blog post over at Duck of Minerva.

ISA 2012: Social Technologies of Protest

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:31:25 +0000

Unfortunately this recording only contains my discussant comments, and neither of the musical performances by two of the panelists. Nor does it contain my singing of a verse of The Doors’ “The End” to close out the festivities. Guess you had to be there.