Sponsored by Centre for Modern History, City, the University of London and The University of Naples “Orientale”.
The aim of the seminars is to interrogate the history of the federal idea in a global perspective, putting together interventions from leading scholars whose work focuses on different parts of the world to reveal the varying interpretations of federalism in the twentieth century and the idea’s relevance to contemporary political debates.
Chair: Dr Or Rosenboim, Director of the Centre for Modern History
Programme
- The Federal Moment between Europe and Decolonization
- The Inevitability of Federalism in Neoliberal Thought
- Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty in India
Speaker: Anne-Isabelle Richard, University Lecturer, Institute for History, Leiden University
Speaker: Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Associate Professor of Global and European History, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University.
Speaker: Nazmul S. Sultan, Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
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