Last week, the tri-annual Global International Studies Conference was convened for the 7th time, drawing attention to the theme of International Relations in a World of Flux: Understanding Continuity, Change and Contestation. The University of Warsaw, Poland, hosted the meeting of around 500 International Relations scholars from around the globe, bringing together experts in all fields of the discipline from Eastern and Western Europe, from the African continent, East and South Asia as well as North and South America.

Our colleague Katja Freistein attended one of three workshops (Absence – Silence – Temporalities) that discussed such timely questions of violence, trauma and governance, and was invited on a roundtable to discuss the new book by Pinar Bilgin and Karen Smith: Thinking Globally about World Politics. The book is a key contribution on the debate about how to render research on and teaching of International Relations more global and less Eurocentric in its claims. The mission of WISC resonates with the goals that AIA NRW also promotes, namely “to spread and share knowledge and expertise about international studies in all parts of the world, especially among and between countries allocated in a so-called “Global South” and “Global North” and to facilitate the creation of global and regional contacts among scholars and reach out, especially, to scholars in the Global South”.