Rethinking Global Political Thought
Central European University (CEU)
May 24-26, 2018
May 24, Thursday – Venue: CEU N15 room 106
15:30-17:30 – Narratives of Governance:
Andrew March (Harvard University and Law School): Post-Sovereigntist Islamist Thought: Pluralism, Consensus, Law
Albert Kasanda (Czech Academy of Sciences): The African Youth Civic Movements and Governance
May 25, Friday – Venue: CEU N15 room 106
10:00-12:00 – Rethinking (Non-)Domination
Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Sun Yat-sen University): Reappraisal of Tianxia (All under Heaven) with Nondomination
Rinku Lamba (Jawaharlal Nehru University & Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University): Beyond East and West? An Analysis of the Views of Rabindranath Tagore
14:00-16:00 – Narratives of Tradition and Community:
Nadia Al-Bagdadi (CEU): Narratives of Order in Arab Thought: the Case of Placing Gender
Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina): Imagining Ummah as a Narrative and a Political Space, 1880s to 1980s
16:30-17:30 – Narratives of Space:
Sanjay Kumar (CEU): Narratives of Displaced Spaces: Gandhi and Ray’s Imaginations of the Rural in Indian Political Thought and Cinema
May 26, Saturday – Venue: CEU N15 room 106
10:00-12:00 – Narratives of a Golden Age:
Alexandra Medzibrodszky (CEU): The Early Church as a Social and Political Ideal in Russian Orthodox Thought
Bettina Koch (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University): HākimiyyaContested: Past Experiences and Contemporary Debates on the Quest for an Islamic State
14:00-16:00 – Narratives of Power:
Sara Marzagora (SOAS): Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the 19th and 20th Century: an Intellectual History
Ute Falasch (CEU): Perceptions of Legitimate and Just Rule: Narratives from 15th Century North-India
16:30-17:30 – Rethinking concepts:
Loubna El Amine (Northwestern University): Outside (European) Feudalism: Political Order in Pre-modern China
The event is open to public. Please RSVP to event coordinator Alexandra Medzibrodszky at Medzibrodszky_Alexandra@phd.ceu.edu.
