Here is a selection from 100+ panels and RTs invited and/or sponsored by the conference theme (President + program chairs). While it is very important to discuss what one aspect of the program (i.e. the sapphire series of panels) does not offer, it may also be useful to consider what the rest of the program offers–in terms of both themes addressed and voices heard.
Presidential Theme Panel: Advancing Global IR (I): Challenges And Prospects
WA10: Wednesday 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Advancing Global IR (II): Challenges And Prospects
SA03: Saturday 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Presidential Theme Panel – 34 Ways To Say “International Relations”: The Teaching, Research And International Policy Project’s 2014 Worldwide Faculty Survey
SB57: Saturday 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Presidential Theme Panel – W.E.B. Du Bois: The Global Color Line
FD56: Friday 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Regional Institution Building In Comparative Perspective
SA07: Saturday 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Presidential Theme Panel – The Future Of The American-Led Liberal International Order
WD09: Wednesday 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
New Thinking on Religions and Civilizations in World Politics
WD08: Wednesday 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Presidential Theme Panel – Feminist International Relations Today: A Discipline Transformed?
TB30: Thursday 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Roundtable: Race and International Relations: A Debate Around John Hobson’s ‘The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics’
TA22: Thursday 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Presidential Theme Panel: Postcolonialism, Race and IR: War, Capitalism, Segregation, Tribes, Literature
FC57: Friday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Race and Racism in International Relations
TC02: Thursday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Three Decades of Worlding IR: A roundtable Retrospective
FC39: Friday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Bandung+60: Legacies and Contradictions
WB30: Wednesday 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Rethinking World History For a Global IR
SD29: Saturday 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Decolonizing the Western Academy: Postcolonial Challenges to Global IR
FB10: Friday 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
IR’s Eurocentric Limitations
TD09: Thursday 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Decolonial Methodologies: Critiques and Experiences from the Fieldwork
TC56: Thursday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Decolonizing the Discipline? Indigenous Contributions to the Study of Global Politics
SC57: Saturday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Presidential Theme Panel: Indigenous Peoples, Values and Sovereignty, In the Study of Global Politics
WA56: Wednesday 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
p.s. 1. for an excellent discussion on the Sapphire Series, please see Cindy Weber’s blogpost: http://duckofminerva.com/2015/02/isas-sapphire-series-is-blue-the-new-white.html
p.s. 2. for an update issued by the ISA, see: http://www.isanet.org/News/ID/4690/Sapphire-Series-Update
p.s. 3. here is another list offered by the Ruby Series group: http://occupyirtheory.info/?p=404
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