INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES
[Due to COVID19, we had to cancel most of 2020 events]
The seminar series was convened by Dr Giovanni Mantilla (POLIS) during the 2019-20 Academic Year.
Michaelmas 2019
The seminar series was convened by Dr Giovanni Mantilla (POLIS) during the 2019-20 Academic Year.
Michaelmas 2019
- Surabhi Ranganathan (Cambridge), “Sea Change”, Thursday 17 October,1–2pm, Alison Richard Building, Room SG2
- Jacinta O’Hagan (University of Queensland), “"Ordering Compassion: Humanitarianism and the Rules-based Order", Tuesday 5 November, 1–2 pm, Alison Richard Building, Room S1
- Arjun Chowdhury (University of British Columbia), “The Myth of International Order”, Friday 15 November, 1–2pm, , Alison Richard Building, Room 138
- Rose Sydney Parfitt (Kent Law), Title TBD, Tuesday 3 December, 1–2pm, Alison Richard Building, Room S1
Convenor: Maja Spanu
Easter 2019 Location: POLIS, ARB S1; Meeting Time: 16:30-18:00 Book Panel Culture and Order in World Politics Panelists: Maja Spanu, Chris Reus-Smit, Maria Birnbaum, Ayse Zarakol, George Lawson Lent 2019 Location: POLIS, ARB 138; Meeting Time: 13:00-14:00 January 29, Tuesday
LENT BONUS TALK 1: February 7, Thursday Location: POLIS, ARB 138; Meeting Time: 13:00-14:00
LENT BONUS TALK 2: March 6, Wednesday Location: POLIS, ARB S1; Meeting Time: 13:00-14:00
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Michaelmas 2018
Location: POLIS, ARB 138; Meeting Time: 13:00-14:00 October 16, Tuesday
MICHAELMAS BONUS TALK November 2, Friday Location: POLIS, ARB S3; Meeting Time: 16:00-17:00
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Convenors: Or Rosenboim, Maja Spanu
MICHAELMAS
October 5, 2017
LENT
February 20, 2018
Sessions of March 6 with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University) and March 13 with Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University) were cancelled due to strike action.
MICHAELMAS
October 5, 2017
- Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
- 'On Hitler’s Biography'
- Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
- 'Go East: Sovereignty and System Questions in IR Revisited'
- Marco Duranti (University of Sydney)
- Writing the History of Transnational Spaces: A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms
LENT
February 20, 2018
- Yale Ferguson (Rutgers University)
- 'Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalisation'
Sessions of March 6 with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University) and March 13 with Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University) were cancelled due to strike action.
Convenors: Or Rosenboim, Maja Spanu
MICHAELMAS
November 2, 2016
LENT
January 31, 2017
OUT OF TERM
March 23, 2017
EASTER
June 1, 2017
MICHAELMAS
November 2, 2016
- Maja Spanu (University of Cambridge)
- 'Recovering Meaning in the History of the International: what does constructivism have to say?'
- Stephen Wertheim (University of Cambridge; Birkbeck - University of London)
- 'Reading the International Mind International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought'
LENT
January 31, 2017
- Jamie Martin (Georgetown University)
- 'Allied Wartime Cooperation, the Foundation of the League of Nations, and the Myth of a Depoliticized Internationalism'
- Natasha Wheatley (Princeton University)
- 'Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: on New Ways of Not Being a State'
- Eddie Keene (University of Oxford)
- 'International intellectual history and International Relations: contexts, canons and mediocrities'
OUT OF TERM
March 23, 2017
- Christian Reus-Smit (University of Queensland)
- 'On Cultural Diversity and International Order'
EASTER
June 1, 2017
- Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
- 'The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/Private Divide, and Company States' (co-authored with Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland) [Joint session with Legal History Working Group]
- Megan Donaldson (University of Cambridge)
- 'Making and Unmaking States: Ethiopia and the League of Nations'
The seminar series is convened by Dr Giovanni Mantilla (POLIS) during the 2020-21 Academic Year. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, we expect that our events will be online for the foreseeable future.
MICHAELMAS
Jesse Dillon Savage (Trinity College, Dublin), 20 October 2020, 1-2pm BST, “Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations”
Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge History), 26 November 2020, 1-2pm BST, “Statelessness: A Modern History”
LENT
Duncan Bell (Cambridge POLIS), 28 January 2021, 1-2pm BST, “Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America”.
Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University), February 2021 TBD
Andrew Preston (Cambridge History), March 2021, TBD
MICHAELMAS
Jesse Dillon Savage (Trinity College, Dublin), 20 October 2020, 1-2pm BST, “Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations”
Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge History), 26 November 2020, 1-2pm BST, “Statelessness: A Modern History”
LENT
Duncan Bell (Cambridge POLIS), 28 January 2021, 1-2pm BST, “Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America”.
Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University), February 2021 TBD
Andrew Preston (Cambridge History), March 2021, TBD