13 June 2024. Public Event: Populism, Anarchy and Empire: a conversation with Kojo Koram and James Martel
13 June 2024. 5 - 7 pm
Light Refreshments 5-5.30
Room G01 Ground Floor
Melbourne Law School
185 Pelham Street Carlton
At this free public event, join Dr Kojo Koram and Professor James Martel in conversation with Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja as they discuss populism’s connection to international law, history, and politics.
Kojo will speak about the material violence of empire and its abiding influence on our contemporary economic crisis. James will speak about reactionary politics in the United States and the possibilities for collective resistance. The panel will share findings from their long-term research project on international law and populism.
Kojo Koram is a Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray 2022) which was nominated for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Nation, Dissent and the New Statesman
James Martel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently Anarchist Prophets: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight (Duke University Press, 2022).
Richard Joyce is a Senior Lecturer at Monash Law School. He joins the Melbourne Law School in July as a Senior Lecturer. He is the author of Competing Sovereignties (Routledge, 2013) and lead Chief Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project: International Law and the Challenge of Populism.
Sundhya Pahuja is a Melbourne Laureate Professor, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and Director of the Laureate Research Program in Global Corporations and International Law. Her book, Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (CUP, 2011) was awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit in 2012 and the Woodward Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2014.
This event is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award: International Law and the Challenge of Populism. The investigators on the project are Dr Richard Joyce, Professor Sundhya Pahuja, Professor Andrew Benjamin, Professor James Martel and Dr Kojo Koram. We also acknowledge the support of the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law, and the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School.
For more details, see:
https://populismandinternationallaw.org
https://www.lpgcil.org
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/iilah