# 2022 Conference Schedule (Harvard University) ## expand\_more **Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference** **April 8-9 2022** **Day 1: Friday April 8** **Location:** [Boylston Hall](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boylston%20Hall,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37743174149b9:0xd263cad05aef504f?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY8MfGwNX2AhUMUt8KHenNBbwQ8gF6BAgwEAE) [110 (Fong Auditorium](http://imsroombook.fas.harvard.edu/room.php?rm=rm0003)) **Panel 1: The Bounds of the Political: Between the National and the International** **9:00-10:30 AM | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** [Omer Topal](/people/omer-topal?) (Princeton University) "Ottoman Internationalism" [Sheng Zhang](/people/sheng-zhang) (張晟, Harvard University) "Negative Identity Interdependence in the Triadic Nationalist Narratives: Contradictory Korean and Chinese Historical Memories in Transformation Process to Nation-States" [Chris Chambers](https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/chris-chambers) (Yale University) "Between Anarchy and Empire: Lionel Robbins and the Colonial Dilemmas of International (Neo-)Liberalism" *Chair and Discussant: [Dr. Amsale (Amy) Alemu](/people/amsale-alemu) (Harvard University), moderated by [Théophile Deslauriers](/people/th%C3%A9ophile-deslauriers) (Princeton University)* **Tea Break** **Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought** **10:45AM-12:00 PM | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** [Prof. Eileen Hunt](/people/eileen-hunt) (University of Notre Dame) "Going Global with Democracy: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and the International Politics of Popular Independence" [Prof. Shoufu Yin](/people/shoufu-yin) (殷守甫, University of British Columbia) "Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-Century Globalization and Political Thought" [Sergio Leos](/people/sergio-leos) (Harvard University) "'*Americae sive Novi Orbis*: The Spanish Indies and the Language of Contested Global Geography" *Chair and Discussant: [Prof. James Hankins](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jameshankins/home) (Harvard University), moderated by [Yidi Wu 吳一笛](/people/yidi-wu-%E5%90%B3%E4%B8%80%E7%AC%9B) (Boston University).* **Lunch: 12:00-1:15 PM (Brazilian cuisine) | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** *AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, [Prof. Durba Mitra](https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/people/durba-mitra): ["Third World Women and the Rise of the Status of Women Report"](/event/third-world-women-and-rise-status-women-report) will be streamed during lunch break.* **Panel 3: Social Critique in Global Contexts** **1:30-2:45 PM | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** [Théophile Deslauriers](/people/th%C3%A9ophile-deslauriers) (Princeton University) "Representative Government as Anti-Imperialism: Edward Carpenter’s Radical Critique of Victorian Civilization" [David Ragazzoni ](https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/david-ragazzoni)(Columbia University) "From Fascism to populism, between socialism and liberalism: Norberto Bobbio’s Democratic Thought (early 1940s-early 1990s)" [Simon Luo](/people/simon-sihang-luo) (駱斯航, Indiana University) "Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory" *Chair and Discussant: [Dr. Eric Fabri](https://harvard.academia.edu/EricFabri) (Université libre de Bruxelles), moderated by [Josh Freedman 費哲明](/people/josh-freedman) (Harvard University)* **Tea Break** **Panel 4: Anticolonialism: Networks, Diaspora, and Transnational Comparisons** **3:00-4:15 PM | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** [Sandeep Bhardwaj](/people/sandeep-bhardwaj) (Ashoka University): "Defining Colonialism: Debates Between Nehru, Sukarno and Kotelawala (1954-1961)" [Yasmin Dualeh](/people/yasmin-dualeh) (Cambridge University): "Diasporic Vanguardism and Reverend Abraham Rihbany’s Anticolonial Thought c.1917-1922" [David Suell](/people/david-suell) (University of Michigan): "History, Democracy, Socialism: Revisiting the “Untimely Continuities” in Nyerere and Cabral" *Chair and Discussant: [Dr. Mohammed Marzuq Abubakari](https://www.modernghana.com/author/AbubakarMohammedMarzuqAzindoo) (University of Applied Management, Ghana) and moderated by [Ying Wu 吳瀛](/people/ying-wu-%E5%90%B3%E7%80%9B) (Shanghai Jiaotong University)* **Tea Break** **Keynote Speech by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Conversation, Q&A** **"The 'Decolonial Moment' in Contemporary Global Political Thought"** **4:30-6:00 PM | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)** **Dinner 6:00 PM (Himalayan & East Asian cuisine) | CGIS Knafel Building - K111 Fischer Commons Cafe** **Day 2: Saturday April 9** [**CGIS South**](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cgis%20South,%201730%20Cambridge%20St,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/@42.3750154,-71.1153363,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e37744397bb925:0xcf4f795206016674!8m2!3d42.3750154!4d-71.1131476) [**S010 Tsai Auditorium**](http://imsroombook.fas.harvard.edu/room.php?rm=rm0307) **Panel 5: Political Thought in Action: Resistance, Deception, Subversion** **9:00-10:15 | CGIS South S010 (Tsai Auditorium)** [Niklas Plaetzer ](/people/niklas-plaetzer)(University of Chicago) "Fear of a Black Commune: Luiz Gama on Resistance as Civic Virtue" [Prof. Kevin Pham](/people/kevin-d-pham) (Gettysburg College) "Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance" [Anna Wherry](/people/anna-wherry) (Yale Law School) "Narrowing Responsibility: Colombia’s Violence Commissions and the Politics of Human Rights, 1958-2011" *Chair and Discussant: [Prof. Doris Sommer](/people/doris-sommer) (Harvard University) Moderated by [Sama Mammadova](/people/sama-mammadova) (Harvard University)* **Tea Break** **Panel 6 New Methods in Political Theory: Beyond & Between Analytic and Critical Approaches** **10:30-11:45 | CGIS South S010 (Tsai Auditorium)** [Ritwik Bhattacharjee](/people/ritwik-bhattacharjee) (University of British Columbia): "Towards Learning to Let Go – Diagnosing the Psychopathology of Settler-colonial Canada" [Daniel Zimmer](https://government.cornell.edu/daniel-zimmer) (Cornell University): "The Blind Spot in Biopolitics: Michel Foucault and the Power to Kill Life Itself" [Dr. Shuk Ying Chan](/people/shuk-ying-chan) (Oxford University): "Towards A Postcolonial Global Justice: The Egalitarian Face of Decolonization" *Chair and discussant: [Dr. Bo-Mi Choi ](https://socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu/people/bo-mi-choi)(Harvard University), moderated by [Bulelani Jili](/people/bulelani-jili) (Harvard University)* ***For any questions, please reach out to Hansong Li () & the AGPT organising committee ()*** [Click here to download the PDF version of the 2022 Annual Conference schedule.](/file_url/290) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf 2022\_spring\_conference\_schedule\_apr\_3\_version.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/globalpoliticalthought/files/2022_spring_conference_schedule_apr_3_version.pdf) ---