Events
Cosponsors
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Sciences Po
Organizer
- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Contact
email address [email protected]
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required. See details.
The emerging literature on peripheral approaches to the global order has sparked debates on the contingent character of the so-called ‘Liberal International Order’. It has retrieved less visible or forgotten voices in world politics, as well as reconstructed the ways in which these voices have contested international norms and institutions. However, much of this literature has focused on recovering the different forms of resistance by a so-called ‘non-West’ to the dominant order imposed by ‘the West’. How these actors have acted beyond responding to Western scripts and practices calls for more exploration.
This conference aims is to investigate the full spectrum of agency beyond the West, with a focus on how different actors have shaped and contested the normative structure of the world order, as well as imagined and constructed alternatives to it. It will seek to shed light on how a variety of actors have articulated their own visions of the relationship between states as well as the relationship between the state and the individual. It will explore the diversity of visions from peripheries, the ways in which they have been pursued, and the degree to which they have been realized.
The workshop puts together contributions from the disciplines of International Relations, History, Sociology and Philosophy, as well as multidisciplinary approaches, speaking to the following core dimensions of global order:
i) The political: distribution and regulation of power
ii) The normative/legal: shared norms and rules that should form the basis for all countries to act on their own or collectively in pursuit of their self-interest or collective interest
iii) The economic: (re)distribution of resources and wealth
Image credit: Walid Siti
Program
time8:00am - 9:00am EST
Breakfast
time9:00am - 9:15am EST
Introduction
Marina Calculli
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University & Centre de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po Paris
time9:15am - 10:15am EST
Keynote Lecture (I)
Social Death and Rastafari Reason
Robbie Shilliam
Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
time10:15am - 12:00pm EST
Panel I — The Political
Chair & Discussant
Sami Al-Daghistani
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Research Scholar
Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society & Middle East Institute, Columbia University
The Strongest Bond: Islamic Theories of Solidarity in Anticolonial Thought across South Asia and Egypy
Poorvi Bellur
PhD Candidate in the Department of History
Middle East Institute, Columbia University.
Middle Eastern Communists and Visions for a post-Ottoman World
Burak Sayim
Humanities Research Fellow
New York University Abu Dhabi
Anarchist worldviews: Reflecting on solidarity, freedom, and the meanings of violence, through lives and ideas of 20th Century Asian anarchists
Priya Dixit
Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science
Virginia Tech University
Izetbegović’s Islamic Declaration and Pan-Islamist Visions of Decoloniality
Piro Rexhepi
Researcher
University College London
time12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Lunch
time1:00pm - 2:45pm EST
Panel II - The Normative
Chair & Discussant
Burak Sayim
Humanities Reserach Fellow
New York University Abu Dhabi
The Trope of an Oriental League of Nations: A Bengali Vision of a Normative World Society in the Interwar Years
Arnab Dutta
Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts
University of Groningen
With might and right - Celal Nuri (Ileri) on the relationship of international law and war on the eve of World War I
Emre Susamci
PhD Candidate in the Department of History
Cornell University
The Rwenzururu Movement and its Articulations for an Alternative Global Ordering
Yusra Abdullahi
Faculty of Humanities
Leiden University
'At Long Last’: Integrating the Continent in Bogotá (1948) and Addis Ababa (1961) at the Dusk of Empire
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarin
PhD Candidate
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá & Geneva Graduate Institute
time2:45pm - 3:00pm EST
Coffee Break
time3:00pm - 4:45pm EST
Panel III — The Economic
Chair & Discussant
Clara Mattei
Associate Professor in the Economics Department
The New School for Social Research
Kiyoshi Kojima in Latin America: Reimagining the World Economic System from the Pacific Rim
Joanna Gautier Morin
Postdoctoral Fellow
European University Institute
Decolonizing Economics: Epistemology, Ethics, and Islamic Traditions
Sami Al-Daghistani
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Research Scholar
Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society & Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Seeds of subversion: Peasant communities, food sovereignty and vernacular imaginaries of the global (legal) order
Theodora Valkanou
PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law
Middle East Institute, Columbia University.
Making Money Work for Development: Ismail-Sabri Abdalla, Samir Amin and the Third World Forum on Alternative Models of the International Monetary Order
Michael Leger
PhD Candidate in the Politics Department
University of Cambridge
time4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Keynote lecture (II)
Recovering non-Western agency: implications and dilemmas
Ayse Zarakol
Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge
time5:45pm - 6:00pm EST
Closing Remarks
Hamid Dabashi
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University