Department of International Relations Literary Festival roundtable discussion
Date: Thursday 17 February 2011
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: NAB 2.04, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Iver Neumann, Professor Daniel Nexon
Chair: Professor Barry Buzan
A roundtable discussion on the uses- and limitations- of imaginative fiction in the study of International Relations. This event follows a more general discussion with three celebrated authors of imaginative fiction, Science Fiction and International Orders.
Barry Buzan is Professor of International Relations at LSE, author most recently of The Evolution of International Security Studies (2009) and ‘America in Space: The International Relations of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica’ Millennium - Journal of International Studies August 2010 Vol. 39: 175-180.
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Associate Professor of International Relations at American University, Washington DC and author of The Conduct of Enquiry in International Relations (2010), and "Outside Context Problems: Liberalism and the Other in the Work of Iain M. Banks" (co-authored with James Heilman), in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, ed. Clyde Wilcox and Donald Hassler (2008).
Iver Neumann is Research Director of NUPI in Oslo, and author, with Ole Jacob Sending, of Governing the Global Polity (2010), and co-editor, with Dan Nexon, of Harry Potter and International Relations (2006).
Daniel H Nexon is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, and author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe (2009), with Patrick Jackson, “Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism in the Post-Cold War Era,” in To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics, edited Jutta Weldes (2003) and, with Iver Neumann, co-editor of Harry Potter and International Relations (2006).
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