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Below is a selection of presentations that includes the keynote and LMSAI’s affiliated faculty. View the full conference schedule here.

Friday, April 8:

Lunch: 12:00-1:15 PM (Brazilian cuisine) | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)

AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, Prof. Durba Mitra: “Third World Women and the Rise of the Status of Women Report” will be streamed during lunch break.

Keynote Speech: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Conversation, Q&A

“The ‘Decolonial Moment’ in Contemporary  Global Political Thought”

4:30-6:00 PM, Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)

Dinner 6:00 PM (Himalayan & East Asian cuisine), CGIS Knafel Building – K111 Fischer Commons Cafe


Saturday, April 9

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)