Webinar Series: The International System of Power (Friday, 19th February 2021)

“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 (GMT).

1. 19 February: “The liberal international order – how liberal, international, and orderly?”

   Speakers:

   Randolph B. Persaud (American University, DC)

   Mick Cox (LSE)

   Leonardo Ramos (PUC-Minas, Brazil)

2. 26 February: “The United Nations – global organisation, colonial roots, metropolitan control?”

   Speakers:

   Karim Makdisi (American U, Beirut)

   Jasmine Gani (St Andrews)

   Laust Schouenborg (City, UoL)

3. 5 March: “Brexit, Modi, Trump, Bolsonaro – British, Brazilian, and Indian perspectives”

   Speakers:

   Madura Rasaratnam (City, UoL)

   Moyukh Chatterjee (Middlebury College, Vermont)

   Felipe Louriero (U of Sao Paulo)

   Rima Saini (Middlesex U)

4. 12 March: “The IMF, World Bank, OECD, and ‘Development’”

   Speakers:

   Flavia Mello (PUC – Sao Paulo)

   Omar Dahi (UMass, Amherst)

5. 19 March: “Race and racism in understandings of world order”

   Speakers:

   Amitav Acharya (American U, DC)

   Barry Buzan (LSE)

   Maribel Morey (Miami Institute for the Social Sciences)

6. 26 March: “Empires of the Mind: The nexus of knowledge and power in world politics”

Speakers: Urvashi Sarkar (New Delhi)

Tatiana Teixeira (INEU-OPEU, Brazil)

Ferran Perez Mena (Sussex U)

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