SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP DETAILS

Initial details of the seminars and workshops our Guest Professors will offer are now available. We have two workshops:

• The first, on Method, entitled Thinking the Event: Political Temporalities, and led by Michael J Shapiro, focuses on particular historical cases that can be interpreted with the help of a “critical philosophical trajectory”: The Hiroshima bombing, Hurricane Katrina, and the contemporary sweatshop factory. 
• The second, on Storytelling, entitled Worlding the Postcolonial and led by Himadeep Muppidi, explores how we write other worlds into the colonial field of international relations and focuses on the task of writing itself.  

Seminars include: 

• Image, Aesthetics, Politics, Jenny Edkins 
  
• Diplomatic Entanglements: Ethnology, Ethology and the Ethics of Cohabitation, Sam Okoth Opondo 
  
• Notes on Equality, Erzsebet Strausz
• International/Historical, Rob Walker 
  
• Violence, Creativity and Un/making the Self, Annick T.R. Wibben 
  
• Imagining future(s): boundary world(s), Marysia Zalewski 
  
• Resisting Subjectivity, Andreja Zevnik

Further details, including abstracts of the seminars and workshops and indicative reading, can be downloaded by clicking on the link 'Seminar and workshop details' to the right. Please note the deadline for reduced rate fees is fast approaching: get your booking form and payment to us by 30 January 2015!!

Three New Guest Professors

We are delighted to announce three new Guest Professors who will be joining us at Gregynog IV: Samson O. Opondo, Annick T. R. Wibben and Marysia Zalewski. Annick and Marysia were part of the original team at the first Ideas Lab; Sam is joining us for the first time.

·       Sam Opondo's research is guided by an interest in colonialism, race and the mediation of estrangement.  With an emphasis on violence, ethics and diplomacies of everyday life, he engages the problematics of humanitarianism, the politics of redemption and the popular culture in urban Africa.

·       Annick Wibben’s research straddles (critical) security studies, international theory, and feminist international relations. She is well known for her agenda-setting work in feminist security studies, and she also has a keen interest in issues of methodology, representation, and writing.

·       Marysia Zalewski has published widely in the area of feminist theory, gender and international relations. She is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and she has long been recognised as one of the leading critical voices in International Relations Theory.

These three join an already illustrious team:

·       Jenny Edkins (personhood, politics and aesthetics; image, photograph and face; trauma and memory; missing people)

·       Himadeep Muppidi (globalization, critical international relations, South Asian politics and postcolonial theory)

·       Michael J Shapiro (political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, cultural studies, media, indigenous politics, critical international studies)

·       Erzsebet Strausz (logics of thought underlying the contemporary epistemic order of the West and their potential transgression)

·       R. B. J. Walker (practices of spatiotemporality; modernity; sovereignty and subjectivity; liberty and security; governmentality; exceptionalism)

·       Andreja Zevnik (the intersection of political violence, psychoanalysis, political philosophy with critical theory and law)

Worldwide participants with wide-ranging interests

Bookings for the 2015 Ideas Lab are arriving from participants across the world--from Canada and the USA to Australia and New Zealand.  And participants' interests are wide-ranging as well. They include, so far, topics such as democratization; modernization in Japan, China and South Korea; the intersection between mobility and security; the politics of classification; contemporary protests such as Occupy and the 2013 protests in Turkey and Bulgaria; rationalities of the person; cosmopolitanism, humanitarianism and the UNHCR; the consequences of economic growth; and transitional justice. Approaches include Foucauldian governmentality; narrative and storytelling; Gramscian theory; post/decolonialism; genealogy; aesthetics; psychoanalysis...and many more.

Join us to meet and talk in a wonderful environment conducive to discussion and debate--and the forging of new collaborations--in the company of our eminent guest professors.

Early booking will allow you to take advantage of our reduced registration rates, and you can secure a place with a non-refundable deposit of £100 whilst you firm up funding arrangements.  For more details click on the information to the right on this page, and for help with booking or for further enquiries contact Yvonne Rinkart on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.