AGPT Conference 2024 — Princeton

Panel 1: Political Thought in Global Genealogies

• Diego Lazzarich (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale), “Political Gratitude in a Global Context. Notes on a Category for Global Political Thought”
• Shoufu Yin 殷守甫 (University of British Columbia), “The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts”
• Allan M. Hillani (New School for Social Research), “On Sovereign Alterity: Stranger-Kingship and the Otherness of Popular Power”
• Evgeny Roshchin (Princeton University, formerly RANEPA St. Petersburg), “The Moral Agency of International Community: A Genealogy”

Chair: Hansong Li 李漢松 (Freie Universität Berlin)

Panel 2: The Civil, the Sovereign, and the Politics of History

• Nicholas Tampio (Fordham University), “The Right to Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Pragmatist Faith in Racial Progress”
• Jason Maurice Yonover (Princeton University), “King and Hegel on History and Contradiction”
• Mayaki Kimba (Columbia University), “Narrate to Unite: Anton de Kom on Solidarity and Anticolonial Politics of History”
• Ryoya Mizuno 水野良哉 (London School of Economics), “Stronghold of a Bygone Age? Arnold J. Toynbee on the Commonwealth in the Age of Decolonisation and the Cold War”

Chair: Utku Cansu (Princeton University)

Panel 3: Individuals and Borders in Global Contexts

• Duncan Stuart (New School for Social Research), “Is ‘Rights’ a Problematic Word? Beyond the Metapolitics of Rights Discourse”
• Md Mizanur Rahman (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Abul Hashim’s Theory of the Individual: Cultivating the Self in the Spirit of God”
• Kristin Lauren Zuhone (University of California, Berkeley) and Joseph Warren (University of Alaska Anchorage), “Democracy without Borders”
• Torsten Menge (Northwestern University, Qatar), “How Far Does Occupancy Extend? Global Supply Chains, Foreign Land Acquisitions, and Territorial Sovereignty”

Chair: Elaine Lok Lam Yim (Princeton University)

Keynote lecture: Anna Stilz, “Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice”

Panel 4: Intercultural Languages in International Politics

• Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford University), “Whig History and the Global Enlightenment: the Manchu Conquest of China, the ‘Tartar Yoke’, and Eighteenth-Century British Answers to the Needham Question”
• Nayeli Riano (Georgetown University), “Juan-Jacobo’s Paradox: the 1750 Discourse on the Arts and Sciences in Spanish American Political Thought”
• Simon Luo 駱斯航 (Stanford Civics Initiative), “Mao Zedong and the Art of Mourning”
• Josh Freedman 費哲明 (Harvard University), “The Charisma of Science: Max Weber and Chinese Scientists”
• Richard Yarrow ริชาร์ด แยร์โรว์ (Princeton University and Mahawitthayalai Thammasat), “Do Contemporary Chinese Scientists Have a Political Theory?”

Chair: Théophile Deslauriers (Amherst College)

Panel 5: From Ideas to Institutions

• Merisa Bahar Sahin (University of Michigan), “The Young Turks and International Law: Carving an Anticolonial Cosmopolitanism”
• Arnab Dutta (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), “Going off the Liberal Script: The Bengali Trope of an Oriental League of Nations, 1920s–40s”
• Ewa Nizalowska (Cornell University), “Building “A People’s Democracy on a Universal Scale”: The Politics of Race and Empire in Midcentury US Activists’ Appeals to the United Nations”
• Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Universidade da Coruña), “Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Historical Foundations of Global Ideas of Peace and Freedom from the European Integration Experience”

Discussant: Gülin Ustabaş (Princeton University); chair: Théophile Deslauriers (Amherst College)