Following Cynthia Weber’s recent post over at Duck of Minerva, there has been a lot of debate about the International Studies Association’s planned ‘Saphire Series’ for the upcoming annual conference in New Orleans. Some of that debate has been taking place at the #occupyirtheory/ipe Facebook group. With now over 175 comments, there have been a wide ranging set of proposals and ideas about the issues raised by the Series, and how to respond to them. Many will be using the #Ruby hashtag on Twitter to maintain communications on these issues as the conference proceeds. Another idea has been for people to list any panels they feel might offer the possibility of institutionally balancing the dominant ‘white, male and tenured’ voices the Series is showcasing. Interested readers can also follow the Twitter hashtag #RubySeries for updates on these panels.

Disclaimer: this list is based on suggestions made in context of an open and ongoing discussion at the OccupyIR group on Facebook, among other places, about ISA’s Sapphire Series. It is not intended as a way of ‘promoting’ select panels. It is merely a way for people to link their panels together in an expression of solidarity in response to the perceived elitism of the Sapphire series. If you are part of a panel that you do want listed, let me know. Similarly, if you do not want your panel listed, I am happy to remove it for you.

Ruby Series: Celebrating Multiple Voices in Conversation

Current as of  02/17/15 — 71 Panels!

Wednesday

1. WA10: Presidential Theme Panel: Advancing Global IR (I): Challenges And Prospects
2. WA11: Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Feminist Approaches to Security
3. WA21: Local Actors and the Diffusion of Gender Norms in Developing Regions
4. WA41: Decolonizing Methods: New Tools for Global IR
5. WA52: Anti-Colonial Poetics and the Lived Experience of Politics
6. WA 56: Presidential Theme Panel – Indigenous Peoples, Values And Sovereignty, In The Study Of Global Politics
7. WB30: Presidential Theme Panel: Bandung+60: Legacies and Contradictions
8. WB31: Postcolonialism, Feminism And Global International Relations: Remembering The Legacy Of Geeta Chowdhry
9. WB78: Women’s Activism in Revolutions and Crises
10. WC18: Embodiment, Experience and War: Methodological Challenges and Reflections
11. WC19: Do We Know Gender in Peacebuilding? (I) Gender Mainstreaming and UNSCR 1325
12. WC40: Girls, Gender and the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda
13. WC60: Women in Conflict: Perspectives
14. WD02: FTGS Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Shirin M. Rai
15. WD08: New Thinking on Religions and Civilizations in World Politics
16. WD52: Representation and Practice: Bodies, Borders and Orders of Security
17. WD58: Living Globalisation: Female Academics at Home and Abroad

Thursday

1. TA10: What’s Wrong with a Singular World?
2. TA11: Gendering International Organisations
3. TA 22: Race And International Relaons: A Debate Around John Hobson’s “The Eurocentric Conception Of World Politics”
4. TA30: Borders and Belonging: Gender, Nation, Ethnicity in Transnational Relations
5. TA29: roundtable on “(Everyday) Sexism in the Academy: Stories & Strategies”
6. TA38: roundtable: Does Russell Brand Have A Point, Or Does Being Cheeky Count As Revolution?
7. TA50: The End of Militarized Masculinity? Global Perspectives on Gender and Traveling Concepts
8. TA51: Is the Personal-National Globally Political? Theorizing the International Diffusion of LGBTQ Rights
9. TA69 Claiming a Voice: Politics in a World of Inequality.
10. TB30 Presidential Theme Panel – Feminist International Relations Today: A Discipline Transformed?
11. TB50: Global Feminist IR
12. TC02 Race and Racism in International Relations
13. TC06: Presidential Theme Panel – How The Search For ‘Non-Western IR’ Led To A Reflection Of The ‘Self’: (Un)Learning IR In And Beyond The Classroom
14. TC07: Globalizing International Studies Pedagogies
15. TC16: Gender and Human Rights, 1:45pm
16. TC21: Art as Subject, Art as Method
17. TC56: Decolonial Methodologies: Critiques and Experiences from the Fieldwork
18. TC72: Critical Friends and De(Con)Structure Critics: How Should Feminist Academics Engage with Global Institutions?
19. TD09: IR’s Eurocentric Limitations TD21: roundtable on “After Deepwater Horizon: Rebuilding Indigenous Communities After the BP Gulf Oil Disaster”
20. TD14: Colonial Legacies and Decolonizing Trajectories
21. TD33: Making Sense of Emotions, Politics and War
22. TD52: Global Human Trafficking and Gender
23. TD57: Global Masculinities in a Transnational World

Friday

1. FA13: Conceptualising the Use of Sexual Violence and Rape in War
2. FA22: Do Something: Activism, Responsibility and the Politics of ‘Helping’
3. FA47: Gendering the Global Political Economy
4. FB10: Presidential Theme Panel: Decolonizing the Western Academy: Postcolonial Challenges to Global IR
5. FB27: LGBT Issues and Diffusion
6. FB34: Queering/Querying Global Political Economy
7. FC01: Angela Davis honored as IPE section’s 2015 Outstanding Activist Scholar in New Orleans. (co-chaired by J. Ann Tickner and Hasmet M. Uluorta. More information will be coming shortly. If you have any questions please contact Hasmet — huluorta@trentu.ca )
8. FC19: Deconstructing Silence and Agency in Sites of Insecurity
9. FC26: Political Engagement and Political Alternatives in The Age of Austerity In Europe
10. FC27: Queering Global Politics: Destabilization or Disciplinarity
11. FC39 Presidential Theme Panel: Three Decades of Worlding IR: A roundtable Retrospective
12. FC55: Addressing Gender-Based Violence: Issues and Responses
13. FC57: Presidential Theme Panel “Postcolonialism, Race And IR: War, Capitalism, Segregation, Tribes, Literature”
14. FC72: Women in Conflict: Agency and Human Security
15. FC74: Sex Gender Violence Desire?
16. FD36: Queering IR Theory
17. FD37 Presidential Theme Panel/Global Development Distinguished Scholar Panel in Honors of Prof. Pal Ahluwalia
18. FD56: Presidential Theme Panel – W.E.B. Du Bois: The Global Color Line And North American IR
19. FD57: Making Bodies International
20. FD59: Gender-Based Violence in ‘War’ and ‘Peace’

Saturday

1. SA07: Regional Institution Building In Comparative Perspective
2. SA25: The Global Dead (II): Mourning, Suffering, Witnessing
3. SA31: Economic Development and Women’s (Dis)Empowerment
4. SA41: Art Matters: On the Aesthetics of Violence, Death and Memory
5. SA61: Queer Theory and the International
6. SA72: International Relations as the Crossroads of the Global and the Local
7. SB17: Beyond Biopolitics and Risk in Post 9/11 Critical Scholarship: The Affective Politics of the War on Terror and Beyond
8. SB47: Masculinities, Militarism and Feminist Security Studies
9. SB43: Bodies In/And/Of/For Global Health
10. SB54: Sexualised Violence, Surveillance and New Security Technologies
11. SB57: Presidential Theme Panel – 34 Ways To Say “International Relations”: The Teaching, Research And Interna