AGPT Conference 2022 — Harvard

Panel 1: The Bounds of the Political: Between the National and the International

• Omer Topal (Princeton University), “Ottoman Internationalism”
• 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 (Yale University), “Between Anarchy and Empire: Lionel Robbins and the Colonial Dilemmas of International (Neo-)Liberalism”

Chair and discussant: Amsale (Amy) Alemu (Harvard University); moderated by Théophile Deslauriers (Princeton University)

Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought

• Eileen Hunt (University of Notre Dame), “Going Global with Democracy: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and the International Politics of Popular Independence”
• 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 (Harvard University), “Americae sive Novi Orbis: The Spanish Indies and the Language of Contested Global Geography”

Chair and discussant: James Hankins (Harvard University); moderated by Yidi Wu 吳一笛 (Boston University)

Panel 3: Social Critique in Global Contexts

• Théophile Deslauriers (Princeton University), “Representative Government as Anti-Imperialism: Edward Carpenter’s Radical Critique of Victorian Civilization”
• David Ragazzoni (Columbia University), “From Fascism to Populism, between Socialism and Liberalism: Norberto Bobbio’s Democratic Thought (early 1940s–early 1990s)”
• Simon Luo 駱斯航 (Indiana University), “Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory”

Chair and discussant: Eric Fabri (Université libre de Bruxelles); moderated by Josh Freedman 費哲明 (Harvard University)

Panel 4: Anticolonialism: Networks, Diaspora, and Transnational Comparisons

• Sandeep Bhardwaj (Ashoka University), “Defining Colonialism: Debates Between Nehru, Sukarno and Kotelawala (1954–1961)”
• Yasmin Dualeh (Cambridge University), “Diasporic Vanguardism and Reverend Abraham Rihbany’s Anticolonial Thought c.1917–1922”
• David Suell (University of Michigan), “History, Democracy, Socialism: Revisiting the “Untimely Continuities” in Nyerere and Cabral”

Chair and discussant: Mohammed Marzuq Abubakari (University of Applied Management, Ghana); moderated by Ying Wu 吳瀛 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Keynote: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, “The ‘Decolonial Moment’ in Contemporary Global Political Thought”

Followed by conversation and questions.

Panel 5: Political Thought in Action: Resistance, Deception, Subversion

• Niklas Plaetzer (University of Chicago), “Fear of a Black Commune: Luiz Gama on Resistance as Civic Virtue”
• Kevin Pham (Gettysburg College), “Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance”
• Anna Wherry (Yale Law School), “Narrowing Responsibility: Colombia’s Violence Commissions and the Politics of Human Rights, 1958–2011”

Chair and discussant: Doris Sommer (Harvard University); moderated by Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)

Panel 6: New Methods in Political Theory: Beyond and Between Analytic and Critical Approaches

• Ritwik Bhattacharjee (University of British Columbia), “Towards Learning to Let Go: Diagnosing the Psychopathology of Settler-colonial Canada”
• Daniel Zimmer (Cornell University), “The Blind Spot in Biopolitics: Michel Foucault and the Power to Kill Life Itself”
• Shuk Ying Chan (Oxford University), “Towards a Postcolonial Global Justice: The Egalitarian Face of Decolonization”

Chair and discussant: Bo-Mi Choi (Harvard University); moderated by Bulelani Jili (Harvard University)