Sovereignty and Its Discontents (SAID) Workshop

Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 4pm to 6pm

Sovereignty and Its Discontents (SAID) is an interdisciplinary workshop that centers around emerging critical and historical scholarship in International Relations and Politics. The purpose of the workshop is to promote rich theoretical discussions on the limits and subjectivities of sovereignty through perspectives of political, racial, gendered, and historical ideas and practices.

Our sessions will be on Wednesdays (Week 1,3,5,7) beginning on 29/4/2026 from 4-6PM at Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building. In week 5, Deanndre Chen will present on "Food sovereignty movements and critical approaches to International Relations" and Joseph Ward will present on "An Activist's Anticolonial Federation."

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Please feel free to reach out to Shubhankar (shubhankar.kashyap@politics.ox.ac.uk) or Malin (malin.bornemann@politics.ox.ac.uk) for any queries.

Speaker(s): Deanndre Chen (University of Oxford), Joseph Ward (University of Oxford)

Series: Sovereignty and Its Discontents (SAID) Workshop

Venue: Manor Road Building - Manor Road OX1 3UQ - Manor Road OX1 3UQ Manor Road Building Manor Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3UQ United Kingdom

Department: Politics & Int Relations (Department)

Organiser: Shubhankar Kashyap and Malin Bornemann