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Past Workshops | since 2018

2024-2025

“Ecological Imperialism” (Samuel Lee, NSSR Politics)

Artificial Intelligence’s Past as Prologue: Technology as a Site for Nationalistic Politics.” (Lydia Nobbs, NSSR Politics)

“Militarized Conservation and Colonialism’s Remnants: The Necrotized Biopolitics of Ecotourist Conservation.”  (Iver Johnson, NSSR Politics)

“Stretching” the Definition of Democracy: Hungarian Country Conditions at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada” (Orsolya Lehotai, NSSR Politics)

“The Scales of Translocal Solidarity: Accompaniment, Mutuality and Flourishing, Here and There.” (Alexandra Délano Alonso, NSSR Politics)

“Pipeline Infrastructural Assemblage for “Frontier of Freedom” (Jiyoung Cho, NSSR Politics)

2023-2024

“Sovereignty Unbound” – Anne McNevin (NSSR Politics)

“Violent Ground” – Rafi Youatt (NSSR Politics)

“Platform Problems: Assessing Global Social Media Harms and Political Responsibility” – Swati Srivastava (Purdue University/Harvard University)

“Hungarian Illiberalism and the Cultivation of History” – Orsolya Lehotai (NSSR Politics)

2022-23

“Globalizing the Making of the GATT – Empires, Post-Colonies, and the Making of Multilateral Free Trade” Herman Derwanz (NSSR Politics)

“World Historical Thinking in Global Politics: The Case of Silk Roads Artifacts” Elif Kalaycioglu (University of Alabama)

“Liberal Order in Historical Perspective” Robert Shaver, (NSSR Politics)

“Hungarian-Canadian Relations, Diaspora Diplomacy, and the Securitization of Memory after 2010” Orsolya Lehotai (NSSR Politics)

“Interpreting the (Ontological) Security Politics of US Naval Ship Museums” Brent Steele (University of Utah)

2021-22

“Preventionist Obligations – The Campaigns and Tactics to Encounter, Heal, and Transform the Roma in Illiberal Hungary” (Patrick Ciaschi, NSSR)

“Extraction in Flexibility” (Na Fu, NSSR)

The Auto-Ethnographic State: 1857, Information Panics, and the Self–Making of a Global Change” (Eric Haney, University of Oxford)

“A Divisible Sovereignty: The Imperial British East Africa Company, the Crown, and the Sultanate in the Competitive World of Nineteenth-Century Eastern Africa” (Emma Park, NSSR)

“An Inquiry into Green Representation: Climate, Water, Forests, and Future People” (Benjamin Anders, NSSR)

2020-21

“The Knowledge-Globality Nexus in Deep Time: Thermoregulatory Behaviour and the Logic of Palaeolithic Globalisation” (Inanna Hamati-Ataya, University of Cambridge)

“‘We live the imprisonment of people’: Melancholia of legal workers and practitioners in detention centres in France” (Ioana Vrabiescu, University of Warwick)

“Taming the Wild Coast. Conservation, Adaptation, and the Magnetism of Mangroves in Suriname.” (Katinka Wijsman, NSSR)

“On Nativist Care – Rethinking Welfare Provisioning, Experimentation and Intervention in Illiberal Hungary.” (Patrick Ciaschi, NSSR)

“Flying Under The Radar: Assembling Politics in Public Sector Design” (Anke Gruendel, NSSR)

2019-20

“Interspecies Politics: Nature, Borders, States” (Rafi Youatt, NSSR)

“Trade, Treaties, and the Nineteenth Century Order” (Robert Shaver, NSSR)

“Building Development Laboratories: Politics of Data and Knowledge Production in Bihar” (Manjari Mahan, GPIA, The New School)

“Transeuropa: Agency Beyond Borders in Alter-European Activist Networks” (Antje Scharenberg, Goldsmiths, University of London)

“Rights of Nature, Legal Personality, and Indigenous Philosophies” (Mihnea Tanasescu, Free University of Brussels)

“Drones, Sirens, and Prayer Calls: Unheard Consequences of a Politics of Sound” (Michelle Weitzel, NSSR)

“Hegemony and Critique: An Investigation of Critical (Self-)Reflections by Men in Leading Positions in the Financial Sector” (Anika Thym, University of Basel)

“Imagining Resilience: Engineering, Design, and the Politics of Futuring the Coast” (Katinka Wijsman, NSSR)

2018-19

“Founding myths: theory and praxis in multilateral oil supply control, 1941-1949” (Michael Dobson, NSSR)

“The Mechanics of Empire: the Algorithm’s Atlantic Genealogies.” (Nicholas Fiori, NSSR)

“Making Resilient: The Politics of Design in Climate Governance.” (Katinka Wijsman, NSSR)