'Haunting Histories'

This symposium invites participants to reflect on the role of history in shaping world politics and the ways we understand, (re)construct, and are moved by the past. Questions to be explored include: How do legacies of empire and colonialism continue to haunt world politics in the twenty-first century? How can historical analogies illuminate contemporary political problems by resurrecting the spectre of the past, and what are the limits of analogical thinking? How might histories be animated by more-than-human forces from the natural to the supernatural to capitalism? How can we balance fine-grained historical scholarship with interconnected histories that cut across spatial or temporal boundaries? This symposium brings together an interdisciplinary, international team of senior and early career scholars working at the cutting edge of these questions.

The symposium is co-organised with the Research Group on International Political Sociology, the LTDS programme Mobile People: Mobility as a Way of Life, and the School of Politics and IR at Queen Mary University of London..

Organisers: Jaakko Heiskanen and Joanne Yao

Where: Queen Mary University of London, Queens Building, Colette Bowe Room, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

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Programme: TBC