We are pleased to announce the full program for the Seventh Global Conference of WISC, which will be held in Warsaw on 24-26 July 2024. For your convenience, a directory of confirmed participants is also available for consultation. You can browse the list here. Additionally, you can download a PDF copy here.
FD09: The Gaze of Copernicus: Postcolonialism, Serendipity, and International Relations
Time:
Friday, 26/July/2024:
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Session Chair: Prof. Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University
Location:Room 1.014
Ul.
Dobra 55
Book Roundtable
Presentations
ID: 911 136 – Conference Theme: "International Relations in a World of Flux: Understanding Continuity, Change and Contestation" Roundtable WISC Member Associations: Not Applicable Preferred Date: Available any day Keywords: Postcolonialism, Serendipity, and International Relations
Book Roundtable: "The Gaze of Copernicus: Postcolonialism, Serendipity, and International Relations"
Chair(s): Prof. Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University)
Presenter(s): Prof. Ching-Chang Chen (Ryukoku University), Prof. Marta Regina Fernández y Garcia (IRI, Brazil), Dr. Ekta Manhas (Central University of Jammu), Dr. Valeria Korablyova (Charles University), Prof. Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui (Cornell University)
This book is a genealogy of the social sciences based on illustrations taken mostly from the field of ‘International Relations’. It centers on the disciplinary constitution of truth and the modern construction of social facts, evidence, and proof as condition of canon, archives, and methods. Its aim to examine the ‘past’ of international relations with particular regard to the identities, values, and roles of multiple agents, subjects, and actors in bringing about international society. While it extensively discusses the institutionalization of Western power, interests, and identity in IR discourses, the project makes a case for a separation of the historically expressed Western wills, desires, and subjectivities from those projected or embraced by other constituent members of international society. Specifically, the project reconsiders the idea of ‘international relations,’ particularly its manifestation as a field of study, in light of postcolonial contestations of modern subjectivity and resulting identities and political economies. Related ‘findings’ are the bases for envisaging a new ethics as well as future political possibilities.
Author: Prof. Siba N. Grovogui | Cornell University | Department of Political Science
