Call for Papers: Legal and Global Ordering

A call for papers has been issued for a section on "Legal and Global Ordering" for the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Here's the call:

For EISA | PEC 2026 (1-4 September in Lisbon) we are organizing a section on Legal and Global Ordering, including a panel on ‘Aesthetics as a technology of ordering’. Inspired by aesthetic and material turns in various disciplines, the panel organizes an interdisciplinary dialogue to investigate the role of aesthetic practices in global and legal governing, and the politics and hierarchies it reinforces. From the usage of standardized files for the production of colonial treaties, to the role of legal form in offshore oceanic migration policing and transformation of borders, to the gridding of the deep-seabed through networks of mining contracts, or the mapping of the Arctic, we are particularly interested in exploring colonial logics at play in concrete aesthetic manifestations of global ordering.

Another panel focuses on legal and political temporalities. We invite researchers who are working on questions of futurity, connections between the past-present-future, haunting, and temporal ordering to explore connections between law and politics.

Interested? Please contact Tasniem Anwar or Tanja Aalberts. Early-career scholars are especially encouraged to submit and join the conversation!

PS: working on either Technology, data & infrastructure or socio-material shifts in global governance practices? Contact Gavin Sullivan or Nina Reiners who are organizing panels on these themes.