Professors Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) and Taomo Zhou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) discuss their ongoing work to reframe China's Reform and Opening as a process of transnational knowledge production, paying special attention to dam building and the construction of special economic zones in the 1970s. Kelvin Ng (Yale University) will briefly respond; all attendees are warmly invited to participate in the discussion of Professors Ghosh and Zhou's early ideas.
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In this roundtable, Professors Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge) and David Armitage (Harvard University) return with Professor Joshua Simon (Johns Hopkins University) to explore what the "global" is, could be, and perhaps should be, in the theory and practice of global political thought.
Joshua Simon shares perspectives of his pioneering research on Latin American political theory; Shruti Kapila discusses the past and present of South Asian political thought; David Armitage surveys the landscape and seascape of international thought in the age of global transformations.
Professor Robbie Shilliam (Political Science Department, Johns Hopkins University) will present his paper “The Politics of 'Social Death': Social Anthropology Versus Rastafari Reason."
Professor Teren Sevea (Harvard University, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies) will present his ongoing work, "Islamic Socialism: Visions of Islamic Statehood and an Islamic International from the East".
Dr. Or Rosenboim (Director of the Centre for Modern History, Department of International Politics at City, University of London) will present her paper, “A Food Utopia? Ideas of Plenty and Italian Colonialism in Libya before WWI."