We have an amazing group of people signed up
for Ideas Lab IV this year. Participants come from a range of places including North
America, Asia, Australia/New Zealand and various parts of Europe. So far—and
unusually—South America is not directly represented, but we hope this will change. If
you are thinking of joining us, places are still available, and bookings can be
made online.
To whet your appetite and give you a flavour
of the group this year, people’s interests range across, among other topics: the
international mobility regime; the politics of classification; post/decolonial
political thought; rationalities of the person/forms of political subjectivity;
the consequences of economic growth;
democratization; the use of the macabre; the
politics of historiography; belonging; truth
and justice; peace in the city; the security politics of counter-terrorism; the legal process; feminist IPE; post-conflict
interventions; internally
displaced persons; violence-trauma-violence
cycles; visuality, scripts, and remediation; memory
and memorialisation;
the maritime sphere.
Among the specific empirical
sites participants are working are protests in Turkey and Bulgaria; Japanese,
South Korean and Chinese modernization; Australian
immigration detention; Russian
media; the postwar cities of Belfast, Mostar and
Mitrovica; climate change in the Arctic; peacebuilding in East Asia; enforced
disappearances in Brazil; the mediation of atrocity in
Alfredo Jaar's Tonight No Poetry Will
Serve; contemporary memorialisation in
Mexico. The range of methodological/theoretical approaches is equally impressive:
narrative, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, genealogy, governmentality,
gender/queer
theory, feminism, ethics, Continental European social and political theory, deconstruction, trauma
theory, post-colonialism, African political thought.
For more
information about the programme and the Ideas Lab in general, see the links on
this site. For questions and
queries, contact Yvonne Rinkart by emailing gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.
We look forward
to seeing you in the summer!!
Jenny
