This presentation will outline the main arguments of The Ideal River (Manchester University Press, 2022), which examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned the international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. It will focus on the ways these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the 19th...
Why does the spread of capitalism often seem 'natural' or inevitable? How do perpetrators of capitalist violence via primitive accumulation justify their disproportionate harm against particular groups and landscapes?
In this presentation and dialogue, we examine these questions through the relationship between primitive accumulation and temporality. Mr. Suell argues that primitive accumulation should be rethought not only as creating a capitalist material order but as reproducing ‘capitalist time.’ Illustrating this argument through conflicts over conservation lands in Kenya and Tanzania, he proposes a framework for primitive accumulation that describes how the material and symbolic dimensions of racial capitalism intertwine and that clarifies the role of temporality in domination and potential resistance. The paper presentation will be followed by comments from Dr. Simon Luo and audience discussion.
Mr. Suell is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Dr. Luo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Civics Initiative.
In this presentation, Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López will address how critical historical analysis and qualitative methods offer us a compass to chart intangible variables, e.g. the instilment of time perceptions in political communication strategies. These approaches can enhance our understanding of myths and perceptions as a compelling power with which to build our own future(s) in conversation.
Dr. Blanco Sío-López is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow and PI at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice / UDC, and PI of the EU H-2020 "NAVCSHEN" project.
Professor Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg) will present her paper, "Translating Blackness and Questions of (African) Indigeneity." Title may be subject to change.
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Professor Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Wesleyan University) presents his paper, "Internationalism as Decadence: Raymond Aron's Early Critique of Pacifism." Title may be subject to further change. Simon Luo (Indiana University) will discuss.
This event is generously funded with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard.
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Professor Durba Mitra (Harvard University) presents her paper, "Third World Women and the Rise of the Status of Women Report." Yi Ning Chang (Harvard University) will respond. Justin Brooks (Harvard University) chairs.
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*TIME UPDATE: This event will be taking place at 7–8.30pm EST on 31 March, not 6pm as previously stated.*
Professor Oguma Eiji (Keio University, Japan) presents his paper, "The indigenization of the concept of race in modern East Asia: What was/is minzu (民族)?" Joshua Freedman (Harvard University) will discuss.
Please note the special timing of the event (Thursday, 31 March, 7–8.30pm EST / Friday, 1 April, 8–9.30am JST).
This event is generously funded by the Asia Center at Harvard.
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Professor Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University) presents his ongoing work on Ibn al-Jawzi, "'I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You': The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought". Title may be subject to further change.
Professor Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) presents his paper, "Alterity and Identity: Two Paths for Post-(Neo)LIberal Politics." Please note that the tite is subject to further change.