Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference (Hybrid)

"Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference"

Attend this event (advance registration required)

9:00-10:30 AM | Panel 1: The Bounds of the Political: Between the National and the International

• "Ottoman Internationalism"
  Omer Topal, Princeton University.
• "Negative Identity Interdependence in the Triadic Nationalist Narratives: Contradictory Korean and Chinese Historical Memories in Transformation Process to Nation-States"
  Sheng Zhang 張晟, Harvard University.
• "Between Anarchy and Empire: Lionel Robbins and the Colonial Dilemmas of International (Neo-)Liberalism"
  Chris Chambers, Yale University.
• Chair and Discussant: Dr. Amsale (Amy) Alemu, Harvard University.
• Moderator: Théophile Deslauriers, Princeton University.

10:45 AM-12:00 PM | Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought

• "Going Global with Democracy: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and the International Politics of Popular Independence"
  Prof. Eileen Hunt, University of Notre Dame.
• "Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-Century Globalization and Political Thought"
  Prof. Shoufu Yin, 殷守甫, University of British Columbia.
• "'Americae sive Novi Orbis: The Spanish Indies and the Language of Contested Global Geography"
  Sergio Leos, Harvard University.
• Chair and Discussant: Prof. James Hankins, Harvard University.
• Moderator: Yidi Wu 吳一笛, Boston University.

12:00-1:15 PM | Lunch

AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, Prof. Durba Mitra: "Third World Women and the Rise of the Status of Women Report" will be streamed during lunch break.

1:30-2:45 PM | Panel 3: Social Critique in Global Contexts

• "Representative Government as Anti-Imperialism: Edward Carpenter’s Radical Critique of Victorian Civilization"
  Théophile Deslauriers, Princeton University.
• "From Fascism to populism, between socialism and liberalism: Norberto Bobbio’s Democratic Thought (early 1940s-early 1990s)"
  David Ragazzoni, Columbia University.
• "Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory"
  Simon Luo 駱斯航, Indiana University.
• Chair and Discussant: Dr. Eric Fabri, Université libre de Bruxelles.
• Moderator: Josh Freedman 費哲明, Harvard University.

3:00-4:15 PM | Panel 4: Anticolonialism: Networks, Diaspora, and Transnational Comparisons

• "Defining Colonialism: Debates Between Nehru, Sukarno and Kotelawala (1954-1961)"
  Sandeep Bhardwaj, Ashoka University.
• "Diasporic Vanguardism and Reverend Abraham Rihbany’s Anticolonial Thought c.1917-1922"
  Yasmin Dualeh, Cambridge University.
• "History, Democracy, Socialism: Revisiting the “Untimely Continuities” in Nyerere and Cabral"
  David Suell, University of Michigan.
• Chair and Discussant: Dr. Mohammed Marzuq Abubakari, University of Applied Management, Ghana.
• Moderator: Ying Wu 吳瀛, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

4:30-6:00 PM | Keynote Speech by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Conversation, Q&A

• "The 'Decolonial Moment' in Contemporary Global Political Thought"

Contact:

Hansong Li
hansongli@fas.harvard.edu

AGPT Organizing Committee
globalpoliticalthought@g.harvard.edu

This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Attendance Information:

Please register to attend this conference either in person in Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Fong Auditorium (Room 110) or virtually via Zoom:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/globalpoliticalthought/2022-annual-conference-registration