2024 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ by Ayşe Zarakol

jean-felix.caron@mcgill.ca — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:42:56 +0000

The Lin Centre’s 2024 Annual Lecture, ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ was delivered by Professor Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, on March 27^th. Professor Zarakol’s lecture was exemplary of the kind of cross-disciplinary, cross-era, cross-regional research on social and political ideas, orders and transformation that the Lin Centre seeks to encourage and promote!

Drawing on her recent, award-winning book, Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Professor Zarakol advanced a new history of (Eur)asian international relations that focuses on world order developments from the 13^th to the 16^th centuries in Asia, expanding conceptions of world orders and sovereignty, and the processes of their decline and transformation.

Zarakol also shared her exciting new research, supported by the British Academy, on the decline of world orders. Whereas much of the study of International Relations focuses on transitions between great powers or the decline hegemonic states, Zarakol shows that there are different levels of decline, including deeper levels of the decline of world orders, as well as ecumenical decline. Investigating structural crises and ecumenical shifts that led to the decline and transformation of world orders in history, Zarakol shared with the audience a thought-provoking and timely research agenda for our times.

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Ayşe Zarakol’s lecture is now available on Youtube

Ayşe Zarakol

Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also holds an appointment as a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of historical sociology and International Relations, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, the history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge University Press, 2011), also published in Turkish (2012). Her most recent book, Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge University Press 2022) advances an alternative global history for International Relations focused on (Eur)asia. The book has won book prizes and recognition from the Social Science History Association, International Studies Association (ISA) Northeast Conference, ISA History section, ISA Theory section, and the American Political Science Association International Politics and History section.

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Publié: 10 April 2024

Annual Lecture: Bruno Latour

jacob.levy@mcgill.ca — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:54:29 +0000

Jeudi, 8 avril, 2021 16:30à18:00

Virtual Lecture

The Yan P. Lin Centre Annual Lecture 2021 will be given by Bruno Latour.

Bruno Latour is one of the world’s leading sociologists, anthropologists, and social theorists. He has been on the faculty at the École des Mines in Paris and at Sciences Po Paris, where he also served as vice president for research, and has been a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. His many awards and honors include the Holberg Prize and the Legion of Honor. He has written and edited more than twenty books and published more than one hundred and fifty articles.

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Academic seminars and lectures, Academic talks and conferences

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