The 10th Annual IPT Conference
at
University of St Andrews
Programme Friday 15th July 2022
Order and Chaos in International Political Theory
8.50-9:00 – Welcome and Introduction
9:00-10:45: Panel I:
Chaired by Prof Anthony F. Lang Jr. (University of St Andrews)
Discussed by Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos (University of St Andrews)
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9:00-9:15 “Obligation and right: Simone Weil’s reading of the Iliad as a political and historical text” – Isabelle Baucum (University of St Andrews)
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9:15-9:30 “Edmund Burke, the Body Politic and Arbitrary Power” – Frankie Ward (University of Durham)
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9:30-9:45 “Covenantal Pluralism: comparative study of Buddhism and Catholic education in Vietnam” – Chi-Tran Phuong (National Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics, Vietnam)
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9:45-10:00 “On the tides of just war” – Dr Christian Nikolaus Braun (Radboud University)
10:00 -10:45 – Discussion and Q+A
10:45 -11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00-12:45 Panel II:
Chaired by Dr Natasha Saunders (University of St Andrews)
Discussed by Theo Poward (University of St Andrews)
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11:00-11:15 “Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia: Legitimacy construction in a post-Soviet world” – Maria Kostylew (University of St Andrews)
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11:15-11:30 “The International Thought of Regina Kägi-Fuchsmann” – Katharina Engel (University of St Andrews)
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11:30-11:45 “The role of protests in creating humanizing discourses for black women: Case study of the Black Panther Movement” – Aarushi Sharma (University of St Andrews)
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11:45-12:00 “The Birds and the Bees: Exploring the Tension between Parental and Children’s Right through Sex Ed” – Allison Sijgers (University of St Andrews)
12:00 -12:45 – Discussion and Q+A
12:45 -13:30 – Lunch
13:30-15:15 Panel III
Chaired by Prof Gabriella Slomp (University of St Andrews)
Discussed by Dr Alastair Emmett (University of Bristol)
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13:30-13:45 Revisiting Eastern Concept of Power in the time of Order and Chaos: Ben Anderson and “The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture” – Stania Puspawardhani (IPB University, Indonesia)
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13:45-14:00 “Pluriversal Reconciliation and the Design of New Worlds” – Camilo Ardila (University of Edinburgh)
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14:00-14:15 “Pragmatist logic of experimentation: pathways for intellectual renewal in international political thought” – Marija Antanaviciute (Queen Mary University of London)
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14:15-14:30 “The Athenian precepts of a political inclusion of moral rights” – Stratis Guillaume Chomenidis (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France)
14:30 -15:15 – Discussion and Q+A
15:15 -15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30: Guest Speaker + Q&A
Professor Adrian Pabst (University of Kent)
16:30 - 17:00: Concluding Remarks
Hosted by the School of International Relations
Organising team: Theo Poward & Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
About us
The School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews is one of the few in the UK solely dedicated to international studies and the only one of its kind in Scotland. It is recognised globally for the exceptional quality of its research and teaching.
In addition to an MLitt programme in International Political Theory (IPT), the School of IR is home to a vibrant community of research students who work on the international dimensions of various political and social theories. Faculty members and postgraduate students are currently conducting research on a wide range of topics and thinkers. The School of IR is also home to a leading journal in the field, Journal of International Political Theory, and the Centre for Global Constitutionalism.
The Conference is organised by St Andrews students. The organisers aim to offer fellow postgraduate students and early career researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work in a stimulating and friendly academic environment, among peers with similarly oriented research interests.
Organising team 2022: Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos & Theo Poward.
Past Conferences
Friday, 24th September 2021
9.30 - 11.00: Panel I - Covid and Biopolitics
Chaired by Dr. Vassilios Paipais - University of St Andrews
Discussed by Aristidis Agoglossakis Foley - University of St Andrews
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09:30-09:45 Biopolitics as Political Humanism. Leftist and Neoliberal Insights of Puzzling Biopolitics in the Post - Dr. Oana Șerban - University of Bucharest
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09:45-10:00 The Biopolitics of Fear: Assessing Agamben’s Analysis of the COVID-19 Lockdowns - Paul Gorby - University of St Andrews
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10:00-10:15 Retracing China’s social credit system: sidestepping legitimacy issues through re-mediatedpastoral power - Jan Zahler - University of Jyväskylä
11:00 - 12:30: Panel II - The future of Liberal democratic capitalism and its critiques
Chaired by Dr Natasha Saunders - University of St Andrews
Discussed by Borislav Tsokov - University of St Andrews
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11:05-11:20 Space Colonies: Engineering New Space in Silicon Valley - Alina Utrata - University of Cambridge
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11:20-11:35 Populism and its relevance for International Politics: Redefining the concept to understand its influence for future developments at the international level - Hanah Corsini - University of Cambridge
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11:35-11:50 The Basilisk of Ideology - B.Bieganski - University of South Florida
14:00 - 15:30: Panel III - The world and future of (international) Politics
Chaired by Professor Anthony Lang - University of St Andrews
Discussed by Katharina Hunfeld - University of St Andrews
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14:10-14:25 Capabilities and Natural Resources - Virginia de Biasio - University of York
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14:25-14:40 Brexit referendum: the importance of Arguments of two Campaigns - Markéta Minářová - Charles University in Prague
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14:40-14:55 COVID-19 and Divided States of Europe Sino-European Relationship after the Covid-19 Pandemic and the EU’s attempt to re-evaluate the Sino-European relation - Keiko Ferradj-ota - University of Dundee
15:30 - 16:30: Guest Speaker + Q&A
After Consumerism: Utopianism for a Dying Planet
Professor Emeritus Gregory Claeys - University of London
16:30 - 17:00: Concluding Remarks
Hosted by the School of International Relations
Organising team: Aristidis Agoglossakis Foley & Borislav Tsokov
7th Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Hosted by the School of International Relations
Organising team: Mary Dodd, Katharina Hunfeld, Flaminia Incecchi, Christof Royer.
5th Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Theme: Rethinking the Politics of Freedom
Friday, 21st of April 2017
10:00-11:30 Panel I: Freedom through and under Religion
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Chair: Dr Caron Gentry, University of St Andrews
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Discussant: Rebecca Wilson, University of St Andrews
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Kirsty Campbell (University of St Andrews): In support of social capital: a civil society response to consociationalism in Northern Ireland
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Rabea Khan (University of St Andrews): Rethinking Religious Terrorism: A Feminist Discourse Analysis of the LTTE
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Rafal Mineski (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich): Liberal, Libertarian, and Dignitarian Perspectives on International Religious Freedom: Can Religious Freedom Become the First Freedom?
11:30-11:45 Coffee
11:45-13:15 Panel II: Sources and Limits of Freedom
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Chair: Professor Patrick Hayden, University of St Andrews
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Discussant: Chris Peys (University of St Andrews)
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Holly Marshall (University of St Andrews): An Existential Defence of Freedom “as”
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Speech
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Clementina Gentile Fusillo (University of Warwick): Comparing Arendt and Castoriadis: Freedom, its Space, its Time
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Önder Özden (University of St Andrews): Freedom and Bare-Life: The Notion of Freedom in the Work of Giorgio Agamben
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Panel III: Perspectives on Violence and Power
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Chair: Dr Vassilios Paipais, University of St Andrews
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Discussant: Dr Antonio Di Biagio, University of St Andrews
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Katarina Birkedal (University of St Andrews): Politics of Performance: The embodiment of violent narratives in cosplay
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Jenna Sapiano (University of St Andrews): Violence in a Constitutional Order
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Yu Akimoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Transformation of the “Doctrine of the Harmony of Interests” into “Balance of Power”: Re-examining the “Two” Realisms of E. H. Carr and Hans J. Morgenthau
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:15 Panel IV: Liberty and Political Obligation
Chair: Professor Anthony Lang, University of St Andrews
Discussant: Helga Haflidadottir, University of St Andrews
Stephanie Conway (Royal Holloway, University of London): On Liberty: Reconsidering Mill’s Road to Freedom
Jinyu Sun (University College London): Disaggregating Political Obligations
Mary Shiraef (University of Notre Dame): Locating Freedom between Schmitt and Habermas
17:15-17:30 Concluding remarks: Dr Natasha Saunders, University of St Andrews
18:00-19:30 Keynote Address: Dr Birgit Schippers, St Mary’s University College Belfast
Vulnerability, Freedom, and the Critique of Rights
19:45-21:30 Conference Dinner, Forgan’s, 110 Market Street, St Andrews
Hosted by the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Sponsored by the BISA working group in Contemporary International Political Theory (CRIPT)
4th Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Theme: World (Dis)Order
Thursday, 26 May 2016
12:00-12:45 Coffee & Registration
13:00-14:30 Panel I: Theories of War, Enmity and Order
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Emil Archambault (University of St Andrews): Enmity and Global (Dis)Order: Carl Schmitt on the jus publicum Europaeum
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Louis Fletcher (University of Edinburgh): Egyptianism, Wishful Thinking, and Rhetorical Abuse: Democratic Peace and Liberal World Order
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Simon Taylor (University of St Andrews): The politics of Clausewitz's Wondrous Trinity: power, authority, and legitimacy
15:00-16:30 Panel II: Rights and Responsibility
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Helga Haflidadottir (University of St Andrews): Countermeasures and the Construction of a Multilateral Public Order
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Emanuela Koskimies (University of Helsinki): Taming power... and Back. International Human Rights Institutions and ‘Conditional Sovereignty’
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Lea Wisken (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies / WZB): Should we Call a Lawyer? How to Overcome Problems in the Conceptualization of Norm Conflicts
17:00-18:30 Keynote Address: Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University London
19:30-21:30 Conference Dinner
Friday 26th of May
9:00-11:00 Panel III: Global Justice and Order
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Fausto Corvino (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa)): A Minimum De-Commodification of Labour Power as a Cosmopolitan Principle of Justice
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Adelin Dumitru (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (Bucharest)): On the moral irrelevance of a global basic structure. Prospects for a satisficing sufficientarian theory of global justice
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Corrado Fumagalli (University of Milan): On the Right for Everyone to Have a Say
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Rebecca Wilson (University of St Andrews): Challenging the ‘Necessary Identity’ of Sweatshop Workers through a Feminist Relational Ontology
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Panel IV: Coming (Dis)Order?
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Christopher Flaherty (University of St Andrews): The Case for Collapse - Prospects for the Decline of Civilisation in the 21st Century
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Jack Robert Coopey (University of St Andrews): Halos, A Deconstruction of the Critiques of International Political Economy and its Discontents
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Publishing workshop
14:45-16:15 Panel V: Theory in Practice
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Peter Espersen & Michael Kyriacou (University of East Anglia): The (Dis)Ordered Polis: Öcalan, Bookchin & Rancière in International Political Theory
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Aurora Ganz (King’s College London): Fuelling (In)Security & (Dis)Order: The Securitization of Energy – The Case of Azerbaijan
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Montserrat Pintado (University of the Basque Country / Aberystwyth University): Rising Powers and Legitimacy: Beyond China’s Peaceful Rise Rhetoric
16:15-16:30 Concluding remarks
The venue for the conference is Arts Building Seminar Room 1: Arts Faculty Building, The Scores, KY16 9AX.
Hosted by the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Sponsored by the BISA working group in Contemporary International Political Theory (CRIPT)
3rd Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Theme: Political Responsibility
Thursday, 28 May 2015
13:00-14:30 Keynote Address: Emeritus Professor John Dunn, University of Cambridge
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Chair: Dr Gabriella Slomp
14:30-15:15 Coffee & Registration
15:15-16:45 Panel I: Problematising Responsibility
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Chair: Professor Anthony Lang
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Discussant: Christopher Peys
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Paula Zoido (London School of Economics): Bernard Williams, John Rawls and Isaiah Berlin: a proposal for transcending the conflicting claims of moral and political responsibility in contemporary liberalism
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Andreas Peter (Ludwigs-Maximilians University, Munich): Walking under the Eyes of the People: Reflections on Responsibility, Visibility and Authority
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Christian Pfenninger (University of Westminster): Anarchist Ethics and Agonistic Spatiality: Political Responsibility beyond the Pluriverse
17:00-18:30 Panel II: Rights and Responsibility
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Chair: Dr Maximilian Jaede
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Discussant: Hannah Partis-Jennings
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Gavin Morrison (Trinity College Dublin): Human Rights and Human Dignity: A Non-Political Justification
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Jack O. Griffiths (University of Exeter): Capability, Freedom, and Life: Towards a Metaphysics of Capability as a Conception of Freedom
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Christine Susienka (Columbia University): “It’s My Right!”: Invoking Rights in Personal Relationships and Political Contexts
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 29 May 2015
9:00-11:00 Panel III: Contemporary Issues of Responsibility
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Chair: Professor Nick Rengger
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Discussant: Helga Hafliðadóttir
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Marisha Tardif (Aberystwyth University): Common but Divided Meanings: An Investigation into the Idea of International Responsibility
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Rosemary Durward (King’s College London): The problem of responsibility in a ‘responsibility to protect’: a theological perspective
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Sissela Matzner (University of Edinburgh): Political actors and humanitarian intervention: a question of responsibility?
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Ben Murphy (University of Liverpool): Between Responsibility and Accountability: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes and the United Nations Security Council
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Panel IV: Questioning the Grounds of Responsibility
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Chair: Dr Gabriella Slomp
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Discussant: Natasha Saunders
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Simon Lambek (University of Toronto): Good Judgment, Responsibility and the Importance of Dissonance
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Adam Lindsay (University of Nottingham): Arendt, Responsibility and Constitutional Foundation, or: How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum
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Rachelle Bascara (Birkbeck College): Responsibility for Oppression
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Publishing Workshop
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Professor Patrick Hayden, University of St Andrews (also chairing)
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Michelle Houston, Edinburgh University Press
15:15-16:45 Panel V: Ethics of Responsibility
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Chair: Professor Patrick Hayden
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Discussant: François Sarah
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Ruairidh J. Brown (University of St Andrews): The Limits of Responsibility: A reflection through Kierkegaard on the Existential Ethics of Responsibility
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Ella Carpenter Street (University of Toronto): Tragic Responsibility: Democratic Judgment at the Theatre and in the Courts of Democratic Athens
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King-Ho Leung (University of Nottingham): ‘Responsibility’: Command or Habit? The Logics of Preservation and Perfection in Natural Law Theories
16:45-17:00 Concluding remarks: Professor Patrick Hayden
2nd Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Theme: Political Evil
Thursday, 22 May 2014
12.15-1.15pm Registration and lunch
1.15-2.15pm Panel 1: The ambiguity of political evil: in-between morality and politics
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Chair: Dr Gabriella Slomp (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Max Jaede (St Andrews)
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Dr Marios Filis (Exeter): The Inner Connection Between Politics and Morality: The Conflict between the Private, the Public and the Political
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2.30-4.00pm Panel 2: Postmetaphysical conceptions of political evil
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Chair: Dr Gabriella Slomp (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Maša Mrovlje (St Andrews)
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Špela Močnik (Sussex): (En)Countering evil: Primo Levi’s postmetaphysical thinking
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Jack Palmer (Leeds): Locating evil, ‘solid modern’ and ‘liquid-modern’: exploring the moral sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
4.00-4.30pm Coffee break
4.30-6.00pm Keynote address
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Chair: Natasha Saunders (St Andrews)
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Professor Patrick Hayden (St Andrews): “Evil, Genocide and the Limits of Recognition: Exploring the Neglected Role of World”
6.30pm Conference dinner
Friday, 23rd May 2014
10.00-11.30am Panel 3: Religious underpinnings to thinking evil
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Chair: Dr Vassilis Paipais (St Andrews)
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Discussant: John-Harmen Valk (St Andrews)
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Dr Lucas Freire (OBSERVARE, Portugal): Oaths, Curses and Evil in the International Relations of the Ancient Near East
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Alastair Emmett (Bristol): Niebuhr and the origins of evil in early IR
11.30-12.00am Coffee break
12.00-1.30pm Panel 4: Banality of evil
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Chair: Prof Patrick Hayden (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Chris Peys (St Andrews)
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Luke Neal (Birmingham): The Banality of Evil and Deficiencies of Speech
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Mary Shiraef (Emory): Unthinking Evil in Democracy: Arendt and Tocqueville on the Dangers of Anti-intellectualism
1.30-2.30pm Lunch break
2.30-4.00pm Panel 5: Responding to political evil: justice, revenge, forgiveness
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Chair: Max Jaede (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Andreas Papamichail (St Andrews)
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Claire Vergerio (Oxford): The Changing Face of the Universal Foe: Reconsidering the Conventional Tale of the ‘Enemy of Mankind’
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Chris Peys (St Andrews): Political Evil and the Hegemonic Rule of Revenge: Analyzing Revenge and Forgiveness through a Gramscian Lens
4.00-4.15pm Concluding remarks
The Conference venue is Castlecliffe (School of Economics & Finance), room F2, The Scores.
Organising team: Maximilian Jaede, Maša Mrovlje, Chris Peys, and Natasha Saunders
Hosted by the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Sponsored by the BISA working group in Contemporary International Political Theory (CRIPT)
1st Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Monday, 10th June 2013
11-11.30am Registration
11.30am-1pm Panel 1: Reconsiderations of the political
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Chair: Dr Gabriella Slomp (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro (St Andrews)
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David Ragazzoni (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa): Relocating ‘the political’: Carl Schmitt and the reassessment of international political theory at the dawn of the jus publicum Europaeum
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James Wakefield (Cardiff): The internal state and international politics: one case for post-Westphalian idealism
1-2.30pm Lunch break
2.30-4pm Panel 2: Issues of identity and otherness
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Chair: Prof. Patrick Hayden (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Natasha Saunders (St Andrews)
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Noirin MacNamara (Queen’s University Belfast): Judith Butler and responsibility in global politics
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Martin Deleixhe (Universite Libre de Bruxelles): Kant’s right to hospitality reinterpreted as a right to an integration process
4-4.30pm Refreshments
4.30-6.30pm Keynote address
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Prof. David Boucher (Cardiff): Raw and Cooked Savages: the background theory of colonialism and its modern legacy
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Chair: Max Jaede (St Andrews)
7pm Conference dinner
Tuesday, 11th June 2013
10-12am Panel 3: Global constitutionalism and international law
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Chair: Prof. Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Muhammad Ashfaq (St Andrews)
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Signe Blaabjerg Christoffersen (Copenhagen): Accountability Rediscovered: towards a multifaceted understanding of accountability
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Markus Patberg (TU Darmstadt/UCL): Constituent power and the democratic legitimacy of institution-building in the global realm
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Nele Kortendiek (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg): Democratising global social justice: a discourse-theoretical approach to transnational distributive justice and democracy
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Davide Orsi (Cardiff): Customary international law and the jus in law: some considerations from Michael Oakeshott’s theory of civil association
12-1pm Lunch break
1-2.30pm Panel 4: Issues of transitional justice
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Chair: Prof. Patrick Hayden (St Andrews)
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Discussant: Maša Mrovlje (St Andrews)
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Jesper Lærke Pedersen (Durham): Colonialism and special duties of redress
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Josh Bowsher (Nottingham): Staging the Post-Apartheid State: Post-conflict nationhood as the pedagogical narrative and performative iterations of truth and reconciliation
2.30-2.45pm Closing remarks
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Prof. Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews)
2.45pm Refreshments
Organising team 2013: Maša Mrovlje, Maximilian Jaede, Natasha Saunders
Hosted by the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Sponsored by the BISA working group in Contemporary International Political Theory (CRIPT)
8th Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in International Political Theory
Theme: The future of (International) Politics in times of uncertainty: Insights from (International) Political Theory
Plan your trip
St Andrews lies on the east coast of Scotland, approximately 50 miles north-east of Edinburgh, 80 miles east of Glasgow; and 470 miles north of London. Edinburgh Airport, which serves over 100 domestic and international destinations, can be easily reached from here. The nearby railway station in Leuchars is on the main line from London King’s Cross via Edinburgh to Aberdeen. Bus services connect St Andrews with all major cities in Scotland.
We do not provide accommodation for the participants. Yet, as a popular tourist destination, St Andrews offers plenty of options for all kinds of tastes and budgets, including many guest houses and B&Bs and a hostel in the centre of town. We recommend booking early as many places book out quickly over the summer months.
St Andrews is also a great place to visit, and it is definitely worth extending your stay for a day. Things to do and see include the medieval old town with its historic colleges, the ruins of a castle and cathedral, the world-famous Old Course, and three sandy beaches.
For more information visit the website of the St Andrews Tourist Information.