Ideas of the Global in the Anticolonial Age Symposium

April 10 - April 11, 2025

Over two days, this symposium will bring together scholars from different institutions and disciplines to reflection on the ways in which political theorists and historians have been thinking about the problem of the global vis-à-vis the entwined modern history of empire and anticolonialism, particularly in the period between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth century. It will centre on five interrelated themes:  Intellectual exchange and circulation of ideas,  anticolonial vision of the global order, methodological nationalism and globalism, internationalism, and the global question in the history of political thought.

Find the symposium schedule here.

The RSVP deadline has now passed for this event and the event is full. To join a wait list, for more information about the Symposium, or to sign up for cluster emails, please contact Julia Greening at juliajg@student.ubc.ca

List of Speakers

 

 

Day one

David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University

Merve Fejzula, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri

David Temin, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan

Joshua Simon, Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

Kevin Duong, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Virginia 

Inder Marwah, Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University

 

 

Day Two 

Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University 

Rosario López Sánchez, Lecturer in Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Málga

Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor of History at Rice University

Glen Coulthard, Associate Professor of First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of British Columbia 

 

 

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that our research cluster and the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Global History of Anticolonial Thought

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