Join us for the BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network’s second event, taking place at the University of St Andrews! With so much going on in the news, it can be hard to make sense of the headlines. This panel discussion event, examining 'The State of the World' will help decrypt the disinformation, untangle areas of political tension and will, hopefully(!), try to make sense of the world. Our panellists will offer their insights to the tumultuous times we find ourselves in.
Speakers (more tbc)
Professor Jo Sharp a feminist political geographer with varied research interests including postcolonialism, health, and critical geopolitics. Much of her early work sought to extend what is considered to be the geopolitical beyond the formal spheres of statecraft to include popular culture and the everyday, and this has continued through her more recent postcolonial work on subaltern geopolitics. In 2022 she was named Geographer Royal for Scotland.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is an interdisciplinary scholar of the international politics of the Middle East whose research brings critical theory, postcolonial studies, and interpretive social science into sustained conversation with regional and global politics. His work examines how revolutionary and post-revolutionary states conceptualise and engage the international, with particular focus on contemporary Iran and the wider Middle East. He is editor of the expanded 2024 edition of Fred Halliday’s Iran: Dictatorship and Development (Oneworld) and co-editor of Political Parties in the Middle East (Routledge, 2019). He regularly writes on Middle East politics and international affairs for New Left Review: Sidecar, London Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Phenomenal World, Jadaliyya, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, and The Guardian.
The panel will take place from 5-6.30pm with a networking reception to follow from 6.30-7.30pm.
If you are a current BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network member attendance, at this event is included with your membership - just complete the registration form so we know you are coming.
Non-members are also welcome to attend the event. Either join the Undergraduate Network for just £10.50 for a whole year - which gives you access to the whole UGN event programme for the duration of your membership - or register and pay a one-off £3.50 fee for this lecture.
Space is limited so please register and complete any payment needed as soon as possible to secure your attendance.