How can we open up our minds and learn how to think differently about the world, its different regions and societies? How can we connect with streams of thought, ideas, thinkers, scholars, and experience, from around the world? How might we be better informed by intellectual currents beyond the global North and its circuits of knowledge? How can we have truly global conversations beyond the conventional elite circuits and boundaries of knowledge? What might truly global knowledge look like?

All webinars will take place between 16:00-17:30 (BST) other than webinar 2 on Friday 14th May which is 16:30-18:00 (BST)

1. Friday 7 May
The Idea of China
Kori Cooper (Columbia Law School – confirmed); Oliver Turner (Edinburgh- confirmed); Hilton Root (George Mason U – confirmed)

2. Friday 14 May [NB – start 4.30pm]
Global Power Elite and World Politics
Nana deGraaff/Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (Vrie U, Amsterdam – confirmed); Matias Lopez Martinez (Geneva – confirmed); Peter Phillips (UC, Sonoma, USA – confirmed)

3. Friday 21 May
“Beyond Eurocentrism: Global South ideational and political agency in world affairs”
Milinda Banerjee (St. Andrews; confirmed); Alanna O’Malley (Leiden- confirmed); Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan- confirmed)

4. Friday 28 May
“White Supremacy and Racial Capitalism in World Politics” 

Robert Vitalis (UPenn – confirmed); Zophia Edwards (confirmed – Providence U); Srdjan Vucetic (Ottawa- confirmed); Bobby Banerjee (confirmed- Business School, CUoL)

5. Friday 4 June
“Periphery War, Global Impact – The Iraq Wars and World Order” 

Bamo Nouri (U West London – confirmed); Samuel Helfont (US Naval Academy, CA – confirmed); Zahra Ali (LSE – confirmed)

6. Friday 11 June
Religion and World Politics 

Lee Marsden (UEA – confirmed); Sara Silvestri (City UoL- confirmed); Azza Karam (Religions for Peace – confirmed); Siddharth Varadarajan (The Wire, New Delhi – confirmed) 

The registration link is the same as before for anyone who wishes to attend any of the webinars: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2021/02/webinar-series-the-international-system-of-power.

It’s a one-time registration that gives access to all 6 webinars.

Please find here a playlist of the lectures which have taken place in this Webinar series.