2024 Conference Schedule

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DAY 1 - FRIDAY, APRIL 26  B60A Louis A. Simpson International Building

For panelists staying at the Double Tree, Shuttle leaves at 8:45

9:00 - 9:30 — Breakfast

9:30 - 11:00 — PANEL 1: Political Thought in Global Genealogies

Diego Lazzarich (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale), “Political Gratitude in a Global Context. Notes on a Category for Global Political Thought”

Shoufu Yin 殷守甫 (University of British Columbia), “The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts”

Allan M. Hillani (New School for Social Research) “On Sovereign Alterity: Stranger- Kingship and the Otherness of Popular Power”

Evgeny Roshchin (Princeton University, formerly RANEPA St. Petersburg), “The Moral Agency of International Community: A Genealogy”

Chair: Hansong Li 李漢松 (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

15 Minutes break

11:15 - 12:45 — PANEL 2: The Civil, The Sovereign, and the Politics of History

Nicholas Tampio (Fordham University), "The Right to Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Pragmatist Faith in Racial Progress"

Jason Maurice Yonover (Princeton University) "King and Hegel on History and Contradiction"

Mayaki Kimba (Columbia University), “Narrate to Unite: Anton de Kom on Solidarity and Anticolonial Politics of History”

Ryoya Mizuno 水野良哉 (London School of Economics), "Stronghold of a Bygone Age? Arnold J. Toynbee on the Commonwealth in the age of Decolonisation and the Cold War"

Chair: Utku Cansu (Princeton University)

 

Lunch

 

13:45 - 15:15 — PANEL 3: Individuals and Borders in Global Contexts

Duncan Stuart (New School for Social Research) "Is ‘Rights’ A Problematic Word? Beyond the Metapolitics of Rights Discourse"

Md Mizanur Rahman (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Abul Hashim’s Theory of the Individual: Cultivating the Self in the Spirit of God"

Kristin Lauren Zuhone (University of California, Berkeley) & Joseph Warren (University of Alaska Anchorage) "Democracy without Borders"

Torsten Menge (Northwestern University, Qatar) "How Far Does Occupancy Extend? Global Supply Chains, Foreign Land Acquisitions, and Territorial Sovereignty"

Chair: Elaine Lok Lam Yim (Princeton University)

 

15 Minutes break

 

15:30 - 17:00 — Keynote Lecture by Anna Stilz, “Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice”

 

6:30 — Conference Dinner for panelists at the “Elements”

 

DAY 2 - SATURDAY, APRIL 27  Corwin Hall 127

For panelists staying at Double Tree, the shuttle leaves at 8:45

9:00 - 9:30 — Breakfast

9:30 - 11:00 — PANEL 4: Intercultural Languages in International Politics

Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford University) "Whig History and the Global Enlightenment: the Manchu Conquest of China, the ‘Tartar Yoke’, and eighteenth-century British answers to the Needham Question"

Nayeli Riano (Georgetown University), "Juan-Jacobo’s Paradox: the 1750 Discourse on the Arts and Sciences in Spanish American Political Thought"

Simon Luo 駱斯航 (Stanford Civics Initiative) "Mao Zedong and the Art of Mourning"

Josh Freedman 費哲明 (Harvard University) "The Charisma of Science: Max Weber and Chinese scientists"

Richard Yarrow ริชาร์ด แยรโร่ว์ (Princeton University & Mahawitthayalai Thammasat), "Do contemporary Chinese scientists have a political theory?"

Chair: Théophile Deslauriers (Amherst College)

 

15 Minutes break

11:15 - 12:45 — PANEL 5: From Ideas to Institutions

Merisa Bahar Sahin (University of Michigan), “The Young Turks and International Law: Carving an Anticolonial Cosmopolitanism”

Arnab Dutta (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) "Going off the Liberal Script: The Bengali Trope of an Oriental League of Nations, 1920s-40s"

Ewa Nizalowska (Cornell University), "Building “A People’s Democracy on a Universal Scale”: The Politics of Race and Empire in Midcentury US Activists’ Appeals to the United Nations"

Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Universidade da Coruña), “Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Historical Foundations of Global Ideas of Peace and Freedom from the European Integration Experience”

Discussant: Gülin Ustabaş (Princeton University) & Chair Théophile Deslauriers (Amherst College)

 

13:00 — Group Picture

 

13:15 — Shuttle leaves for Double Tree for panelists returning to hotel

 

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