Programme

We’re confirming new speakers every week.

30 April: What will the new world order look like?
What is the future for US imperialism? What are China’s global aspirations? Can the global South be a collective agent for progressive change?

• Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at University of Massachusetts

• Aziz Rana, author of the Two faces of American freedom

• Ho-Fung Hung, author of Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’

7 May: Is the ‘liberal’ post-WWII international order dying? 
What was the promise and reality of the liberal order? Did it deserve to die? What is the future for international law and multilateralism? What will replace it? What should we demand in its place?

• Aslı Ü. Bâli, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School

• Shahd Hammouri, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

• Co-Moderator: Meena Jagganath, Movement Law Lab

14 May: Do we still live in a neoliberal world? 
How are the dynamics of capital and class changing? How is Big Tech reshaping capitalism? How does muscular state capitalism and trade wars reshape neoliberalism? How should we articulate public democratic economic alternatives? Can we re-create a democratic state, which has been so delegitimised by corporate take-over, cronyism and corruption?

• Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right

21 May: Why is the far-right on the rise?
What is the agenda of the far-right? How has the far-right secured the support of anti-elite anger – and appeased by the traditional right? Where did the left go wrong? How can we survive authoritarian rule and best resist misogyny and racism? Where are the fractures in the Right that need to be broken open?

• Achin Vanaik, author of The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism: Secular Claims, Communal Realities

28 May: Are we headed to World War III?
How did global armament become hegemonic? What are the intentions of global powers? How do we slow down the arms race? How will tech change warfare? How can we rebuild the global peace movement?

• Niamh Ni Bhriain, coordinator of TNI's War and Pacification programme

4 June: Amidst these global fractures, can we save our planet?
Why has the existential threat of climate crisis been cast aside by so many centrist and far-right political leaders? Why is climate denialism on the rise? What are the paths today towards ecological and climate justice?

• Tasneem Essop, Executive Director of Climate Action Network International

11 June: How do we win?
What will social movements look like in the newly emerging era? What does global resistance look like? How do we build a new common sense in an age of internet eco-chambers? What can we learn from recent and past uprisings and movements to sustain them and take power?

18 June: How do we build liberated futures?
What are our imagined liberated futures? How can we build these within and beyond a fractured world? What are the alternatives that social movements are investing time, energy, resources and solidarity into building and sustaining?