20.5.2025 Love in International Relations In the February 2025 meeting of the Tampere IR Reading Group, we discussed the underexplored theme of love in international relations (IR). The discussion was centered around two articles: Simon Polinder's "Through the Eyes of Love: Looking at International Politics Differently" and Liane Hartnett's "How Love Orders: An Engagement with Disciplinary International Relations." Theme 1
22.2.2025 Ableism in IR and beyond In the March IR Reading Group meeting we discussed the topic of ableism in the field or IR and in academia more generally on the basis of two texts, one examining the use of autism metaphors in IR and the second detailing an author navigating her PhD research as a blind scholar and trying to find methods of working with the data that do not prioritize the sense of sight. Theme 1
