16.10.2024

MAPIR Annual Lecture: IR, (De) Coloniality, and the Present Conjuncture

Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Professor Emeritus at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) Institutskolloquium / DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR Wednesday, 23 October 2024 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft Or join online via Zoom

This lecture will reflect on the present conjuncture, which is marked by contradictory currents embedded in notions of exceptionalism and colonial logics of difference and differentiation.
Exploring the paradoxical confluence between sovereignty and empire, the presentation highlights the difficulty of delinking sovereignty from empire.
In placing the two in contention, the lecture seeks to show the generative power of decolonial thought as well as its limitations in addressing recent dramatic events.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha is Professor Emeritus at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.  
His work is broadly located within Post-Western IR and draws from varied genealogies, including decolonial thought, critical theory, and political philosophy.
Widely published, Professor Pasha’s forthcoming book is Islam and Secular Reason (Palgrave 2025).
A recipient of numerous awards, he served as Vice-President of the International Studies Association in 2012-3.

via Zoom:  930 8975 0663 (Meeting ID), 142311 (Passcode)