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Global Political Thought Conference (April 8-9)
April 9 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Day 2: Saturday April 9
CGIS South S010 Tsai Auditorium
Panel 5: Political Thought in Action: Resistance, Deception, Subversion
9:00-10:15 | CGIS South S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
Niklas Plaetzer (University of Chicago) “Fear of a Black Commune: Luiz Gama on Resistance as Civic Virtue”
Prof. Kevin Pham (Gettysburg College) “Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance”
Anna Wherry (Yale Law School) “Narrowing Responsibility: Colombia’s Violence Commissions and the Politics of Human Rights, 1958-2011”
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Doris Sommer (Harvard University) Moderated by Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)
Tea Break
Panel 6 New Methods in Political Theory: Beyond & Between Analytic and Critical Approaches
10:30-11:45 | CGIS South S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
Ritwik Bhattacharjee (University of British Columbia): “Towards Learning to Let Go – Diagnosing the Psychopathology of Settler-colonial Canada”
Daniel Zimmer (Cornell University): “The Blind Spot in Biopolitics: Michel Foucault and the Power to Kill Life Itself”
Dr. Shuk Ying Chan (Oxford University): “Towards A Postcolonial Global Justice: The Egalitarian Face of Decolonization”
Chair and discussant: Dr. Bo-Mi Choi (Harvard University), moderated by Bulelani Jili (Harvard University)
For any questions, please reach out to Hansong Li (hansongli@fas.harvard.edu) & the AGPT organising committee (globalpoliticalthought@g.harvard.edu)