Over the next days I will be attending the workshop “Studying International Relations Beyond the West: Between Divides and Diversity” in Berlin. The workshop organized by Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Ingo Peters from the Free University Berlin, brings together a range of authors interested in the sociology of the discipline and how IR practices differ across locales and sites. The workshop documents how thriving the sociology of the discipline has become, and as the workshop’s paper document how familiar and strange IR is at different places around the world. Contributions to the workshop discuss IR in places ranging from China to Africa and Russia, and discuss problems such as gatekeeping, publishing, or gender.