Farewell to Norms? Historical Perspectives on Global Reordering

Schedule

Fri May 15 2026 at 10:00 am to 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bowett Room, Queens' College | Cambridge, EN

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This year's Cambridge IR and History Conference will centre on past, current, and future challenges to international norms.
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PROGRAMME



10am. Welcome and Introductions (Carsten Schulz & Giovanni Mantilla)



10.15am. Panel 1. Diagnosing the Present (Chair: Jason Sharman)

Antje Wiener (Hamburg/Cambridge)

Nico Krisch (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (Cambridge)

Andrew Phillips (Queensland)


12-noon lunch.



1.30pm. Panel 2. Normative Pressures across Domains (Chair: Giovanni Mantilla)

Kerry Goettlich (City University-St Georges)

Elif Kalaycioglu (King’s College London)

Yuan Yi Zhu (Leiden)

Ann Towns (Gothenburg)


3.15pm Break



3.45pm. Panel 3. Imagining Futures (Chair: Carsten Schulz)

Joseph O’Mahoney (Reading)

Maria Mälksoo (Copenhagen)

Stephanie Hofmann (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Christian Reus-Smit (Melbourne)



5.30pm. Reception
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Bowett Room, Queens' College, Silver Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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