Fourth Emerging Global South Scholar Workshop
The Fourth Emerging Global South Scholar Workshop is a training, mentoring and networking program designed for emerging scholars of the Global South within the International Studies profession. This workshop is sponsored by the ISA’s Committee on the Status of Engagement with the Global South (CSEGS), in collaboration with the Global South Caucus (GSCIS) and the Global Development Studies Section (GDS). The workshop will take place Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Montreal.
Established Global South scholars (and Northern scholars interested in the Global South) will act as mentors throughout a half-day workshop, and hopefully, beyond. Improving on the success of our first and second workshops, this third edition will address the issues that seem to be of use and interest, such as publishing, teaching, networking and conducting research in challenging settings. The purpose of the workshop is to provide more comprehensive information about how to navigate academia, locally, regionally and globally, to create robust networks of emerging Global South scholars, and to address current inequalities and asymmetries within the International Studies profession with respect to the Global South.
Special attention will be given to the conditions that characterize academic work and IR communities in many Global South sites, including lack of resources, institutional barriers, unhelpful government policies, constraints on academic freedom, and limited support for social science and humanities programs, including discussions on how COVID has affected scholars, and suggestions to overcome the new challenges. Throughout the course of the half-day workshop, it is expected that all attendees participate in question and answer sessions, break-out groups, and mentoring activities.
Interested participants should apply to globalsouth@isanet.org by November 15th, 2022 with the following information:
- Name
- Institutional affiliation (if there is one) and current status
- Current CV
- A brief statement (100-200 words) indicating your interest in the workshop
The CSEGS will evaluate these applications and identify 25 scholars to take part in the workshop by December 1st, 2022. (1) Please note, participants of this program must be ISA members at the time of the event, though membership is not required for application.
