The conference of EISA is the annual premier event for scholars working in the discipline of International Relations. This year’s conference was held in Lisbon, and brought more than one thousand scholars from Europe, but also from Australia, Southeast Asia, Africa and the North America together.

I had the pleasure to participate in three panels at the event focused on theories of practice and contemporary infrastructure debates. At the first roundtable we discussed Eva Johais‘ forthcoming book titled ‘Practicing Electoral Assistance’, a fascinating ethnographic exploration of a key international practice published with Michigan University Press.

I also participated in two roundtables on contemporary infrastructure studies, one of which focused on a recent forum published in International Political Sociology edited by Jutta Bakonyi. The second roundtable discussed the current draft of our book titled ” The Engineered Ocean. Global Politics in an Age of Infrastructure”, which is the main output of the Ocean Infrastructure Research Group at the University of Copenhagen.