Workshop: From Papers to Publications: Meet the Editor of Review of International Studies
In this workshop, Andrew Hom, editor of Review of International Studies (RIS), provides insight into publishing with the journal, as well as the publishing process in general. RIS publishes high-quality research that makes significant contributions to conversations about global politics, broadly defined, and encourages submissions that are attentive to historical and contemporary dynamics of global politics and their effects. All welcome!
Workshop information
Time: Friday, 30.5.2025, 10:00-11:00 (UTC +3)
Place: Room 247 (2nd floor), Unioninkatu 33 (inner courtyard)
Seminar: Anti/hero: The existential stories violent men tell themselves
Why is everything so existential? Novel arguments about living freely amidst social alienation emerged in the early-20th century to grapple with epochal transformations and war. Yet today, many of existentialist patterns of thought and action have evolved to destabilize our life in common while imbuing daily existence with a pervasive sense of dread. Birthed as diagnosis of and antidote to crisis, existentialism ended up convincing many that every uncertainty or difference marks a full-blown existential threat. Today, a similar but overlooked thread runs through a number of mass casualty events — namely, that the perpetrators claim to be confronting an existential crisis in the only way possible (or the only way left to them): through spasmodic violence. From involuntary celibates (‘incels’), to so-called ‘lone wolf’ attackers, to white power and other right wing terrorists, violent men rehearse a narrative infused with existential problems and, I argue, a ‘solution’ to those problems that owes more to the existentialist tradition than we might think. Drawing in particular on Heidegger’s politics of authenticity and philosophy of time, I will argue that privileged, highly individuated, and deeply anxious men find in existentialist thought and culture a number of lessons about how to use symbolic and unapologetic violence to distinguish themselves amidst social alienation. On this view, for some people and ‘ways of life’ to exist authentically, others groups and cultures cannot survive.
Research seminar information
Time: Friday, 30.5.2025, 13:00-14:00 (UTC +3)
Place: Room 247 (2nd floor), Unioninkatu 33 (inner courtyard), you can also join in by Zoom, Passcode: 791038
About the speaker
Andrew Hom is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Hom is co-Lead Editor of the Review of International Studies (2024-2027) and author of the monograph International Relations and the Problem of Time (Oxford University Press). From 2024-27, he is undertaking the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, ‘Temporal Struggles for Existence. ’His research interests include international relations, social constructivism, narratives and temporality, disciplinary history and classical realism.