We are pleased to invite you to our international symposium centred on the recent political developments of the crisis of the liberal order.

Recent political developments in the United States have marked a new phase of the ongoing crisis of the liberal order, impacting institutional frameworks that used to ground global policymaking. From aid to trade to defence to climate change, and from international institutions to Canada, Europe, and the Global South, policymaking processes and potential futures have experienced profound disruptions.

We believe that significant opportunities exist to historicise and theorise these changes in a comparative, interdisciplinary way, exploring the intellectual developments that have driven them, their deeper historical roots and relevant historical analogues, the continuities and discontinuities they entail in policymaking.

The symposium takes place Tuesday 8 July from 9am to 5pm BST in the 248 Classroom of the Bower Building at the University of Glasgow. Lunch and refreshments will be provided to all participants who have booked a place.

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Keynote Speaker

Hannah Proctor (University of Strathclyde), author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) - 'A Common Craziness: Youth Revolt, Psychoanalysis and the 1968 Columbia University Uprisings'

Panellists:

  • Sotiria Grek (University of Glasgow) 'Extreme Numbers - Or how by counting we lost what counts'
  • Tom Boland (University College Cork) 'The Pathologisation of Unemployment: Foreclosing Political Possibilities and Formenting Reaction'
  • Tilman Schwarze (University of Glasgow) 'Inner-urban economic corridors and revanchist urbanism: Chicago's INVEST South/West Initiative'
  • Andrew Hoolachan (University of Glasgow) ''Bike lines are woke!' - City Planning Under the Far Right: Recent Reflections and Future Prospects'
  • Tabitha Beavitt & João Almeida (University of Glasgow) ''Where else would their paths have crossed?' - Crisis, Social Reproduction and Emerging Urban Subjectivities'
  • Luisa Gandolfo (University of Aberdeen) 'The 'profoundly perturbed and perturbing question': Re/Locating Crisis Amidst Genocide'
  • Rebecca Tapscott (University of Glasgow) 'Gendered Citizenship and the Circulation of Sovereign Power'
  • Nadar Talebi (Humboldt University of Berlin) 'From Revolution for Life to Regime of War'

First published: 26 June 2025

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