Webinar Series: Global Knowledge, Global Conversations, Critical Issues

“Global Knowledge, Global Conversations, Critical Issues: A more critical global conversation on world politics”

Summary

How can we open up our minds and learn how to think differently about the world, its different regions and societies? How can we connect with streams of thought, ideas, thinkers, scholars, and experience, from around the world? How might we be better informed by intellectual currents beyond the global North and its circuits of knowledge? How can we have truly global conversations beyond the conventional elite circuits and boundaries of knowledge? What might truly global knowledge look like?

Sessions chaired by Prof Inderjeet Parmar and Dr Juvaria Jafri (City, UoL)

All webinars will take place between 16:00-17:30 (BST) other than webinar 2 on Friday 14th May which is 16:30-18:00 (BST)

1. Friday 7 May: “The idea of China“

   Speakers:

   Kori Cooper (Columbia Law School)
   Hilton Root (George Mason University)
   Oliver Turner (Edinburgh)
   Dr Sarah Liu (University of Edinburgh)
2. Friday 14th May [16:30-18:00 BST]: “Global Power Elite and World Politics”

   Speakers:

   Nana deGraaff/Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (Vrie U, Amsterdam)
   Matias Lopez Martinez (Geneva)
   Peter Phillips (UC, Sonoma, USA)
3. Friday 21st May: “Beyond Eurocentrism: Global South ideational and political agency in world affairs”

   Speakers:

   Milinda Banerjee (St. Andrews)
   Alanna O’Malley (Leiden)
   Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan)

4. Friday 28th May: “White Supremacy and Racial Capitalism in World Politics“

   Speakers:

   Robert Vitalis (UPenn)
   Zophia Edwards (Providence College)
   Srdjan Vucetic (Ottawa)
   Bobby Banerjee (Business School, CUoL)

5. Friday 4th June: “Periphery War, Global Impact – The Iraq Wars and World Order”

   Speakers:

   Bamo Nouri (U West London)
   Samuel Helfont (Naval Postgraduate School, CA)
   Zahra Ali (Rutgers University, NJ)

6. Friday 11th June: “Religion and World Politics”
   
   Speakers:
   
   Lee Marsden (UEA)
   Sara Silvestri (City UoL)
   Azza Karam (Religions for Peace)
   Siddharth Varadarajan (Editor, The Wire)

Please find here a playlist of the lectures which have taken place in this Webinar series.