Sri Lanka defaulted on its external debt for the first time in its postcolonial history…
A roundtable debate on “The Political Economy of Global Reparations in the 21st Century” Wednesday 27 September 2023 at 16h00 | At the main theatre (Aula B) of the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague
The event is convened by Development and Change in cooperation with Ndongo Samba Sylla, the Africa Director for Research and Policy of the International Development Economics Associates, and co-sponsored by ISS and CERES, The Dutch Research School for International Development. This event will be livestreamed.
For more information, see: https://www.iss.nl/en/events/
The speakers include five fantastic international scholars:
- Gurminder Bhambra
- Horace Campbell
- Lebohang Liepollo Pheko
- Hilbourne Watson and
- Peter James Hudson will moderate the event.
The new rector of ISS, Professor Ruard Ganzevoort, will give the introductory welcome remarks.
For Some Background:
Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). This year she published Rethinking modernity: Postcolonialism and the sociological imagination
Horace Campbell is an international peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. He has written extensively on Comparative politics of Africa and the Caribbean, African international relations, armaments culture, pan Africanism, peace studies, and political economy.
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko is the Senior Research Fellow at an activist feminist think tank called the Trade Collective, which is situated in South Africa. See a wonderful interview with her here.
Hilbourne Watson is (Emeritus) Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University in London, UK, and former president of the Caribbean Studies Association. He has written extensively on the Caribbean and Global Political Economy.
Peter James Hudson was recently appointed as Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada and was previously Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean.
Register here for the event : https://www.iss.nl/en/events/
