2024 GRADNAS Seminar Series
The GRADNAS Seminar Series in 2024 will showcase the emerging scholarship on the historical International Relations of Asia. There has been a “global” and a “historical” turn in International Relations scholarship in recent years. Scholars are increasingly looking at Asian history to enrich International Relations theory. What are the theoretical insights that emerge from studying Asian history? Does Asian history provide us with new concepts and new understandings of order? Does Asian history challenge the received metanarratives of International Relations theory? How were historical Asian polities connected with each other and with the world beyond Asia? Can the International Relations theoretical findings from Asian history shed light on other parts of the world? What, if anything, do these findings tell us about the emerging world order? Join us as we celebrate and showcase the excellent research by GRADNAS members and friends on the Historical International Relations of Asia.
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Events
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April 26, 2024 | 12 pm (AEST) | Seminar: Interconnected Asian History and “Open” World
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Speaker and Convenor: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
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May 22, 2024 | 6 pm (AEST) | Seminar: Peace-Making and State-Making: The Case of Early Modern Japan
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Convenor: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
Speaker: Naosuke Mukoyama (Associate Professor of Global Governance: The Institute for Future Initiatives, University of TokyoProfessor)
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Aug 29, 2024| 8 am (AEST) | Seminar: One Celestial Road, Two Messagings? Between Ancient and New Silk Road Nostalgias
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​ Convenor: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
Speaker: Lina Benabdallah (Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs: Wake Forest University)
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November 5, 2024| 6 am (AEST) | Seminar: The Rise and Fall of Status-Seekers: A View from Historical East Asia
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Convenor: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
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Speaker: Jaeyoung Kim (Assistant Professor: Department of Political Science, San Diego State University)
Discussant: Steven Ward (Assistant Professor: Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)
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November 15, 2024| 9 am (AEST) | Seminar: Rising Powers and international order
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Convenor: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
Speaker: Jaeyoung Kim (Assistant Professor: Department of Political Science, San Diego State University)
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August 22, 2023| 9.30 am (AEST) | Book Discussion: ​Reliability and Alliance Interdependence:
​ The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969 (Cornell University Press, 2022)
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Author: Iain Henry (Senior Lecturer: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
Discussant: Fiona Cunningham (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
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