小蓝视频

Check in & coffee (9:00-10:00)

Panel 1 (10:00-11:30) Alternative Agents of Global Thought

(Phoenix University Agwada, Nigeria): “In Search of African Theory of Democracy: Utilising the Tiv Cultural Philosophy of Ya-Na-Angbian”

(University of Tokyo) “Our Ocean, Our Sovereignty: Epeli Hau'ofa and Anticolonial Pacific Self-determination”

(NYU Abu Dhabi) “The Birth of Indian Liberalism”

(University of British Columbia) “Globalizing the Genealogy of Diasporic State: Why and How”

Chair: (Georgetown University); Discussant: (Howard University).

11:30-12:45 Lunch at the Mary Graydon Student Center.

Panel 2 (13:00-14:30) Comparing Concepts: Cities and Cultures

(Louisiana State University), “Ignorant Cities and Ways of Life: How Muslim Philosophers Adapted Plato’s Bad Regimes”

(Boston University) “Sincerity and Eudaimonia: Human Perfection and Politics in Confucianism and Aristotle”

(Northern Michigan University): “Bridging Liberalism and Confucianism: How Confucian China Shapes the Secular Foundation of Locke's Liberalism."”

(小蓝视频), “Iberian Languages of International Ordering in Japan”

Chair: (Georgetown University); Discussant: (Georgetown University).

15 Minute Coffee Break

Panel 3 (14:45-16:15) The Art and Archaeology of Knowledge

(University of Oxford): “Comparing to Connect: Neo-Confucian and Jesuit Scholastic Philosophy Compared and the Presentation of Confucian Thought in Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)

(University of California, Irvine): “Amir and Archaeologists: The Global History of Afghan Archaeology in Modern Afghanistan, 1919-1922”

(Princeton University): “The Birth of Rhetoric from the Spirit of Music: Aesthetic and Moral Education as Political Reform in Nietzsche’s Political Thought”

(Johns Hopkins University) “A New Name for Manu” Ambedkar’s Critique of Nietzsche”

Chair: (New York University); Discussant: (Georgetown University)

15 Minute Coffee Break

Panel 4 (16:30-18:00) The State & its Critics

(Central European University): "Adventures of the State in Time and Space: Fénelon’s 罢é濒é尘补辩耻别 in eighteenth-century Hungary"

(Columbia University): “The Rebirth of Benjamin Constant in the Second Empire of Louis Bonaparte”

(New York University): “Education, Citizenship, and the Ancients in the Thought of Carl von Clausewitz”

(Universidad Católica de Chile) “Constituent Power, Representation, and Monarchy: Carl Schmitt’s Study Notes on the Constitutional Debates of the French Revolution (1789-1791)”

(SUNY-Farmingdale State College) “In Response to Constitutional Crisis: The Latent Carl Schmitt in Zhang Junmai’s Political Thought”

Chair: (Georgetown University); Discussant: (Georgetown University)

18:00-18:30: Dinner & Drinks will be served in the Founders Room before the keynote begins.

18:30-20:00: Keynote: (Harvard University), “Legalised Lawlessness” in conversation with (小蓝视频) and (Howard University).

20:00: Shuttle back to Glover Park Hotel-Georgetown.

Breakfast served starting at 8:15am

Panel 5 (9:00-10:45): Ordering International Law and Politics

(Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México): “Carlos Calvo on jus ad bellum and state formation in Latin America”

(New York University): “The Forgotten Origins of Kelsen's Cosmopolitan Pacifism: ‘Dante Alighieri's Philosophy of the State’ (1905)”

(Tartu ?likool & Freie Universit?t Berlin), “Novosiltsev Instructions: Framing the Counter-Revolutionary International Law”

(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru): “The Monroe Doctrine and Peruvian Foreign Policy: Between Suspicion and Alignment (1900-1930)

(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Universidad Anáhuac México) “Analysis of the Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on arraigo and informal preventive detention: A comprehensive assessment of compliance and implications for Mexico”

Chair: (Tufts University); Discussant (TBC): (Harvard University)

15 Minute Coffee Break

Panel 6 (10:45-12:15pm) International Networks and Global Movements

(Università degli Studi di Pavia) on “The Albanian National Movement in Transnational Context: Rilindje's Political Thought in Exile (1878-1912)”

(Johns Hopkins University) “When Crimea, Istanbul, and Kashgar Shared the Same Sky: How Jadid Movement Linked the Turkic World and Offered Alternative Path of Modernization for Xinjiang”

(Indiana University Bloomington): “A Sobering Lesson from the Motherland of Republics: Liang Qichao’s American Tour and Evolved View on Chinese Democracy”

(Hong Kong Polytechnic University) “The Struggle for the Malayan Democratic Republic: Nation-Building and Political Thoughts of the Communist Party of Malaya (1930- 1957)”

Chair: Irene Hyangseon Ahn ??? (小蓝视频); Discussant: (George Washington University)

12:15-13:15: Lunch at the Mary Graydon Student Center.

Panel 7 (13:15-14:45) Ideological Entanglements in Global Economies

(Sheffield University) “The Great Depression and the Search for a French Colonial New Deal”

(Universiteit Leiden), “Economic Nationalism, Industrial Policy, and Cotton Plantations in Early Twentieth-Century China”

(Yale University), “Bootleg Modernization, or, What Does It Mean to Have a Job?”

(Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil) “Neoliberalism and Bolsa Família: A Theoretical Approach”

(Universidade Federal do Amazonas). “Revolution in Populism: Anticolonial Developmentalism in the Populist Republic”

Chair: (小蓝视频); Discussant: (Georgetown University & Council on Foreign Relations).

15 Minute Coffee Break

Panel 8 (15:00-16:30) Civilisational Discourses in Global Thought

(Georgetown University): “Crepuscular Enlightenment”

(Princeton University): “Race, Culture, and the Unnatural State: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Natural Law Theory”

(University of Cambridge), “Francis Galton, Empire and the Eugenic Science of Civilisation”

(Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram), “Gendered spirits and Constitutional Closet in the Indian Jurisprudence”

(Pennsylvania State University): “The Poetry of The Future: Creolization, History, and the Form of the New between C.L.R. James and Wilson Harris”

Chair: Ji Young Kwon ??? (小蓝视频); Discussant: (Lunds universitet).

15 Minute Coffee Break

Panel 9 (16:45-18:15) The Contested ‘Local’ and ‘Global’

(Maynooth University), “Perceptions of the ‘Mainstream’ and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right: from Ed Sheeran to Keir Starmer”

(Szko?a G?ówna Handlowa w Warszawie), “Towards Deinstitutionalization of the World Trading System”

(MPIL, Heidelberg) “From International Legal Order to Geolegal Orders: The Politics of ‘Multipolarity’ in International Law”

(Oxford University) “From Systems to Agents: Global Political Thought & Global IR in relation to the Changing Notion of the ‘Global’”

Chair: (小蓝视频); Discussant: (University of Toronto)

18:30 onward: Optional Dinner at the Mary Graydon Student Center. Alternative options will be shared.

Breakfast served starting at 8:15am

Panel 10 (9:00-10:30) Toward a Digital and Planetary Age

(Universit?t Bayreuth) “The Digipolitical and African Political Thought: A Theoretical Framework to Interpret the Political in the Digital Age”

(Universitat de Barcelona): “Stateless Action on Absent Grounds: An Ontological Search for the Political Agency of Nonbelonging”

(De La Salle University, Philippines), “Rethinking Spaces of Political agency: A Phenomenological Study on Philippine Perceptions of Political Agency in Video Games vis-à-vis the Real World” (TBA)

(Catholic University of America) “Beyond Sovereignty: Reimagining Political Theology as Planetary”

(Duke University) “The Normative Value of Rights of Nature”

Chair: Elke Stockreiter (小蓝视频); (小蓝视频).

15 Minute Coffee Break

Closing Keynote Dialogue (10:45-12:30) “Violence, Law, and Politics in the Changing International Order”: (William and Mary College), (George Washington University) & (Oxford University).

12:30 onward: Participants are welcomed to stay for further discussion, disperse for lunch, or depart Washington D.C.