Speakers

Laleh Khalili

Laleh Khalili is a professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Sinews of War and Trade (Verso 2020), Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), and Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007), as well as the editor of Modern Arab Politics (Routledge 2008) and co-editor (with Jillian Schwedler) of Policing and Prisons in the Modern Middle East: Formations of Coercion (Hurst 2010).

Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. An interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism, she is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 1996), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke UP, 2015), and the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP, 1997).

Joanne Yao

Joanne Yao is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, Univesity of London. Previously, she taught at Durham University and the LSE, where she completed her PhD in 2017. In addition, she has worked in the US public sector and for international nongovernmental organizations including CARE International. Her research centers on environmental history and critical geopolitics (her current empirical projects focus on international rivers and Antarctica), historical international relations, and the 19th century development of international organizations and global order. Joanne was also one of three editors of Millennium: Journal of International Studies for Volume 43 (2014-2015).

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Professor Jackson is the author of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Her research explores the literary and figurative aspects of Western philosophical and scientific discourse and investigates the engagement of African diasporic literature and visual culture with the historical concerns, knowledge claims, and rhetoric of Western science and philosophy. Jackson’s work has appeared in Feminist Studies, e-flux, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience.

Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and Correspondences (2020).

Bentley Allen

Bentley B. Allan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has research interests in the history and theory of international order, global environmental politics, the role of science and expertise in global politics, and qualitative methods. His book, Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is the winner of the American Political Science Association’s Don K. Price Award for the best book in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics. He has published articles in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of International Relations, and Millennium.

Renisa Mawani

Renisa Mawani is Professor of Sociology at The University of British Columbia, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam Peoples. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and won the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, and Satwinder Bains, she is co-editor of Unmooring the Komagata Maru (University of British Columbia Press, 2019); and with Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary of Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020). 

Shine Choi

Shine Choi teaches Political Theory and International Relations at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research has focused on how an illiberal state like North Korea creates the international as a space of politics. Other research interest areas include non-western IR theory; intercultural relations; visuality and aesthetics; postcolonial feminist theory; and critical/creative methods. Recent publications include: Re-imagining North Korea in International Politics: Problems and Alternatives (Routledge, 2015), Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation co-edited with Anna Selmeczi and Erzsébet Strausz (Routledge 2019), ‘Art of Losing (in) the International’ (Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2017), and ‘Re-dressing International Problems: North Korean Nuclear Politics’ (Review of International Studies, 2020).  She co-edits of the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and serves as an Associate Editor for International Feminist Journal of Politics.

On Barak

On Barak a social and cultural historian of science and technology in non-Western settings. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, and the author of three books: Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (University of California Press, 2020), On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2013), and Names Without Faces: From Polemics to Flirtation in an Islamic Chat-Room (Uppsala University Press, 2006). Prior to joining Tel Aviv University, Barak was a member of the Princeton Society of Fellows and a lecturer at the history department at Princeton University.

Mel Y. Chen

Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at U.C. Berkeley. Since Chen's 2012 book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, their current book project concerns intoxication’s role in the interanimation of race and disability in histories and legacies of the transnational 19th century. Elsewhere, Chen has been thinking about and writing on slowness, agitation, gesture, inhumanisms, cognition and method. Chen co-edits the “Anima” book series at Duke, and is part of a small and sustaining queer-trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Claudia Leal

Claudia Leal is associate professor at the Department of History and Geography at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Landscapes of Freedom, Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (The University of Arizona Press, 2018) and coeditor of A Living Past, Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (Berghahn Books, 2018), along with John Soluri and José Augusto Pádua. She is writing a history of Colombian national parks as a form of territorial state building.   

Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa

Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (1979) is a Belgian/Rwandan IR scholar and senior lecturer in European and International (Development) Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She holds a PhD in Political Science/International Relations from Ghent University (2013, Belgium), following the doctoral training programme at the European University Institute (2001-6, Italy) and internships at the European Commission in Brussels and the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris (2003-4).

She is one of the 2020 Writing Fellows at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (JIAS). Her research and teaching focuses on ways to decolonise (international) solidarity. Building on epistemic Blackness, in her research she turns to recovering and reconnecting philosophies and practices of dignity and repair and retreat in the postcolony: autonomous recovery in Somaliland, Agaciro in Rwanda and Black Power in the US.

She is associate editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics and recently joined the editorial boards of International Politics Review and Review of International Studies.

Ayça Çubukçu

Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before LSE, Dr. Çubukçu taught at Columbia and Harvard universities. In 2020, she was a Senior Fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Çubukçu co-edits Humanity Journal and the LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press. She is the author of For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her recent essays include “Of Rebels and Disobedients: Reflections on Arendt, Race, Lawbreaking” (Law & Critique) and “Thinking Against Humanity” (London Review of International Law).

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, which he joined in 2009 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal. He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana. He is recipient of the ASAUK 2018 Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph for his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa, and editor of Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought.