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Assistant Prof in History and Theory of IR @University of Groningen.
Historical international relations; medieval law; Iberian encounters; politics of history
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Now looking forward to welcoming a great group of Historical IR scholars next week, to continue our discussion on encounters and communities in IR!
Encounters and Communities in Historical IR (Groningen, 2nd and 3rd of December 2024) The goal of this is to explore the potential of two concepts in the study of historical IR: encounters and communities. It starts from the perspective that, although these concepts are central to how historical IR has developed, they have very rarely been explicitly reflected upon in this body of scholarship. On the one hand, scholars have proposed that the notion of community provides a more nuanced analytics from which to approach the historicity and variability of international relations (Keene 2005; similarly but through the concept of polity, Ferguson and Mansbach 1999). In this perspective, international relations concern relations between communities, however historically understood, and one of the core tasks of historical research is to reconstruct these various constructions of community and their implications. And yet, what exactly is implied in the notion of community, which communities would be relevant, and what assumptions may underpin this approach have rarely been unpacked. Similarly, an important driver in bringing empire into the center of historical IR research has been the notion of the (colonial) encounter. Whether to highlight the formative nature of encounters for international political thought (Jahn 1999), or as sites of violence but also identity formation (Inayatullah and Blaney 2004, Sajed 2013, Grovogui 2006), the idea of encounter lays at the center of a burgeoning body of literature. And yet, at the same time, there are important selectivities: first, what exactly constitutes an encounter and what dynamics surround it are rarely discussed, most of it being modeled on the imaginary of 1492. In this sense, our historical exploration of encounters remains centered on modern encounters between 'Europeans' and 'non-Europeans'. In what way can a more developed notion of encounter productively open up avenues for research in historical IR? The workshop bring…
November 25, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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Energized after the first of two final workshops for my NWO Veni project, co-organised with Jenny Pelletier. We discussed different approaches and perspectives to Medieval and Early Modern entangled communities with a highly interdisciplinary group. Looking forward to continuing the conversation!
Medieval and Early Modern Entangled Communities: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue 21st and 22nd of November 2024 Groningen, the Netherlands Organisers: Julia Costa Lopez (University of Groningen) and Jenny Pelletier (University of Leuven) Funded by: university of groningen NWO faculty of arts Programme Thursday 21st of November Coffice and tea will be served from 8,15am 09.00 - 09.50 Welcome and Introductions 09.30 - 11.00 Session 1| Lidia Lanza: Community Boundaries; Luis de Molina on Unbelievers, Heretics and Apostates Alessandro Mulicri: Theorizing Otherness in Early Modern Political Thought. Can Exclusion be an Art of Government? 11.00 - 11.30 Coffoc break 11.30 - 18.00 Sexsion 2 Josephine van der Bent: The Notion of Jinsiyya: Ethnic and Other Solidaritics in the Premodern Islamicate world (ca. 1100-1300) Gianluca Kaccagni: Military Service and Inter-Ethnic Entanglement on the Eve of the Crusades: the Case of Harakd Hardrada in the Moditerrancan 15.00 - 15.00 Lunch 15.00 - 16.30 Session 3 Bert de Munck: Reassembling Capitalism, or How to Remove Structural Factors from the Historical Laboratory Chloe Ircton: Cartographies of Social and Intelloctual Networks of the Enslaved and Froc Black Communities in Sixtoenth-century Sevilla and the Atlantic World. 16.30 - 17.00 Coffoe break 17.00 - 18.30 Session 4| Clair Wooda: The Biopolitics of Race: Care and Categorization of Muslim Galley Slaves in Sixtenth-Century Malta Julia Costa Lopez: Community Claims and Counterelaims in the Late-Mcdieval Canary Islands Friday 22nd of November Coffice and tea will be served from 8.15 09.00 - 10.30 Session 5 Ana Fouto: Totas orbis, qui aliquo modo est una respublica - Visions of the Workd: the Acknowlodgement of Alterity and the Overcoming of Difference in 16th century Legal Discourse Joan Pau Rubiés: The Various Meanings of Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance in the Early Modern World: a Comparative Approach 10.50 - 11.00 Coffoc break 11.00 - 12.90 Session 6 Serena Mari Difies aim dries Church Uniny and Roberto Lambertini: Master and Friar at the Same Time: Conflicts and Solution between Paris and Bologna 12.30 - 11.30 Lunch 14.90 - 1609 Session 7 Cary Nederman: Supremacy without Sovereignty? The Problem of Jurisdictional Conflict in Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor pacis Megan Williams - Contra jus omnium gentium: Dischtangling Early Sixteenth- Century Conflicts over Legitimate Mobility Betwcen Commonwealths 16.00 - 17.00 Wrap-up discussion 17.00 Borrell
November 25, 2024 at 8:57 AM