This workshop explores new interdisciplinary dimensions of agency and oppression in the history and theory of international law. It will consider questions such as: What forms of oppression are yet to be analyzed and discussed in the history of international law? What stories of resistance, engagement, and agency from the Global South and other marginalized perspectives are yet to be told? And what new methodological and disciplinary lenses could help broaden our historical horizons to encompass these new perspectives?
The workshop will open with a keynote address by Surabhi Ranganathan (Cambridge). A series of panels will follow, in which international legal scholars and historians will discuss the work of ten early career researchers. The workshop will then conclude with a roundtable, in which Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Megan Donaldson (UCL), Or Rosenboim (Bologna), Glenda Sluga (EUI), and Valentina Vadi (Florence) will tie up the themes of the workshop in a concluding roundtable.
Please note that this is a closed workshop. Those interested in attending are welcome to email the organizing committee.