When: Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhere: G.O. Jones Lecture Theatre, Mile End
Speaker: Dr Justin Rosenberg
Join Global Politics Unbound as we hear from Dr Justin Rosenberg in conversation with two scholars working within the broad field of Critical IR, Judith Koch (Sussex) and Alex Stoffel (QMUL).
The discussion will zone in on the potentials and limits of the ‘Multiplicity’ approach to IR and historical sociology, and how attentiveness to multiplicity can help foster new avenues for understanding the current crisis of international order.
This event is organised by Global Politics Unbound (GPU) at the School of Politics and International Relations.
What is the idea of ‘Multiplicity’? And how convincing are the claims that it can be used to overcome longstanding problems in social and international theory? Since this idea was introduced in 2015, it has been the subject of numerous conference panels, roundtables, workshops, forums, edited volumes and publications by over fifty academics. And yet, arguably, it has also been quite widely misunderstood, even among some of those who have adopted it as a research focus. Why should this be, and what can be done about it? This talk poses these questions and attempts to present the idea afresh - a kind of ‘Multiplicity: Take Two’. Does this new presentation help clarify the idea? And if not, does that suggest that there are more fundamental problems with the idea itself?
Discussing these themes, the event brings into conversation two scholars working within the broad field of Critical IR: Judith Koch (Sussex) and Alex Stoffel (QMUL). The discussion will zone in on the potentials and limits of the ‘Multiplicity’ approach to IR and historical sociology, and how attentiveness to multiplicity can help foster new avenues for understanding the current crisis of international order.