Global Theory Forum April Symposium

Please join us for Global Theory Forum’s inaugural Spring Symposium and a day of conversational theorising speaking relating to a series of conjunctures that speak to pressing matters in global political theory. Each conjuncture will feature two to three Early Career Researchers accompanied by an invited senior discussant who will also be speaking to the conjunctural topic. The day will finish with a roundtable discussion featuring said senior discussants before resounding off with a drinks reception hosted by Global Theory Forum and thanks to the support of the LISS-DTP.

We welcome scholars/researchers/theorists of any persuasion!

Please note that certain talk titles are liable to change/be updated. For any enquiries do reach to either Rhiannon Emm or Luke Lavender at [email protected].

9-10 Ethics and Ethical Thinking from a Global Perspective

Senior Discussant: Prof. Kim Hutchings (QMUL)

Dr. Timothy J. Huzar (KCL) - Caring Across Traditions: A Methodological Reflection

Albert C. Cano (LSE) - ‘God is Dead (in International Relations)!’–Thoughts on a Fourth Ideological Position à propos Genocide

10:15-11:15 Architectures of (Dis)Order and (Mis)Recognition

Senior Discussant: Dr. Jenna Marshall (KCL)

Caice Jin (University of Exeter) - Liberal Ordering and Stigma Dynamic: A Gramsci Perspective

Jamie Laurence Doughty (SOAS) - A Social Disorder or a Disordering of the Social? Anxiety as the Foundation of our Being Political

11:30 - 12:30 From the Postcolony, Challenging Global Theorising

Senior Discussant: Dr. Musab Younis (Univeristy of Oxford)

Anil Kaan Yildirim (University of Exeter) - Biopolitics Re-Placed: Situating a New Paradigm of Power and Life

Victoria Allen Stainsby (SOAS) - The Intractability of Time: history, politics and human rights in the postcolony

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Everyday Resistance and Political Exceptionality

Senior Discussant: Dr. Shubranshu Mishra (University of Exeter)

DanIela Fazio Vargas (University of Manchester) - Resonating with Music: Singing for the Past, the Present and the Future in the 2019 Chilean Uprising

Laya Hooshyari (University of Manchester) - Interpretation or Change? Why Don’t We Focus on Understanding Everyday Life and Social Movements?

2:45-3:45 Hope, Cynicism, and the Politics of Despair

Senior Discussant: Prof. Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)

Dr. Jonjo Brady (QMUL) - The Ambivalence of hope, fear and cynicism

Dr. Kennedy Mbeva (University of Cambridge) - Negritude and Catastrophe

Alexander James (Northeastern University of London) - A Timely Hope? Making Historical Sense of More-than-Human Political Struggle in the Anthropocene

4:00–5 Recovery, Reparation, and Practices of Repair

Senior Discussant: Prof. Mihaela Mihai (University of Edinburgh)

Dr. Guari Wagle (RHUL) - Reparations, Climate Change, and Invisible Activists

Robin Lockyer von Dorrien (UCL) - The Puzzle of Migration in Reparative Debates

5:15-6 Roundtable with Senior Discussants

6-8 Drinks reception (Location: Strand Building S-1.27)

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