GEORGE NEWS - Everyone is invited to join the global justice NPO, RUNN, on Wednesday 25 October from 18:30 to 20:30 (GMT) on Zoom for a most interesting talk by Professor Robbie Shilliam, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The SA branch of RUNN - founded last year by Ras Hein Scheepers from George, who is its SA Lead - regularly engages with intellectuals who have fresh perspectives on the world and current affairs.
Scheepers says they invited Shilliam to do the live webinar as he is an expert on the history of race, eugenics, neoliberalism and empire, who recontextualises and reconceptualises the intellectual roots and routes of political science.
Shilliam is a leading authority in postcolonial and decolonial studies and has written prolifically on this and many overlapping themes. His 2021 book, Decolonizing Politics, researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order.
He has also authored Black Pacific (2014), Race and the Undeserving Poor (2018), and is co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series, Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Question.
He is a co-founder of the Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial working group of the British International Studies Association and is a long-standing active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association. Professor Robbie Shilliam is an established Academic authority on political sciences.
Currently Shilliam is working on two strands of inquiry: firstly, a collective project to rethink the discipline of Political Science so as to expose its abiding racial logics or alternatively to retrieve and expand the anti-racist ethos of some of its less-canonised practitioners; and secondly, a critical consideration of the "free thinkers" of the black radical tradition - especially Rastafari intellectuals - and their contributions to what academia call "political economy".
To join the Zoom webinar, click on this link or visit RUNN SA on Facebook to listen via Facebook Live.
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