The Westminster (Politics and International Relations) Conversations are a programme of (term-time) events open to all, from new students to members of staff and external attendees. The format is relaxed and moves away from the formal lecture presentation. Leading academic experts explain in an accessible way the background and context to their argument or analysis as well as presenting their key findings. For example, they might discuss with the audience how they came to the research area, the major ideas and thinkers they work with and the issues at stake in their research.
The Conversations take place at 5pm, Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street. The talk and discussion will be followed by a reception to which everyone is invited. If you are not a member of the University, please register with Cvent.
About the speaker
Louiza Odysseos, University of Sussex
Louiza Odysseos is Professor Emeritus in International Relations in the School of Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sussex, where she co-directs The Centre for Rights, Reparations, and Anti-Colonial Justice. Prof Odysseos is an international political theorist, whose research interests lie at the junctures of international theory, continental philosophy and decolonial thought, with special emphasis on resistance, poetics and ethics. Her current book project, Rebellions of Livingness: Towards an Anti-Colonial, Insovereign Sociopoetics, probes the sociopoetic practices of colonised and enslaved people as well post/colonial subjects against social death and disposability, theorising historically situated poetic revolt. Related projects explore the possibilities of poetics for decolonising the subject of ethics, as well as interrogating critical understandings of disposability, fungibility and rightlessness in global politics on the basis of non-piratic examinations of disposable and rightless lives and struggles.
