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> > Panel Proposal for the ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, February 2015 > > > > *Of Copula, Quodlibets, and Liminal Spaces: Contingent Encounters of East > Asian Political Thought and International Relations* > > > > International Relations experiences a rising interest in political thought > beyond its putative Western confinements and particularly East Asian > political thought attracts IR-scholars. By aiming to open up spaces to > imagine alternative political orders, many of these contributions embark to > uncover the multitude and diversity of East Asian thought, as they argue > that this has been and is still being silenced through Western > knowledge-impositions and the Eurocentric worldview the discipline is > perpetuating. This panel aims to transcend the dichotomies, > path-dependencies, and incommensurabilities of this kind of thinking by > stressing a lacuna in it: contingent intellectual encounters have been an > important stimulus for 19th and 20th century East Asian scholars to > theorize about questions of subjectivity, community, and modernity and it > enabled them to provide distinctive contributions. As these encounters were > multi-dimensional, East Asia is not conceptualized logo-centrically, but it > is a vehicle to identify and recapture the amorphous knowledge-transfer. > Aiming to open up new spaces of political imagination finds, therefore, > less satisfaction in an enclosed, essentialist investigation, but in > reconsidering the moments of becoming by focusing on copula, quodlibets, > and liminal spaces that these encounters generated which enabled East Asian > scholars to rethink the political constellations of their time. > > > > If you are interested in contributing to this panel, please contact with > your paper-abstract (max. 200 words) by *7th May 2014* the latest: > > > > Atsuko Watanabe: [log in to unmask] > > > > and > > > > Felix Rösch: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > Dr. Felix Rösch > Senior Lecturer in International Relations > Department of International Studies and Social Science > Faculty of Business, Environment and Society > George Eliot Building > Coventry University > Priory Street > Coventry CV1 5FB > United Kingdom > Office: GE 109 > > E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > > Phone: 0044 (0)24 7765 7127 > > Academia.edu <http://coventry.academia.edu/FelixR%C3%B6sch> | Website<http://www.felixroesch.com/>| Staff > Profile<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/life-on-campus/faculties-and-schools/faculty-of-business-environment-and-society/schools-and-departments/department-of-international-studies-and-social-science/international-studies-and-social-science-staff-profiles/felix-roesch/> > > > > Published with Palgrave Macmillan: > > The Concept of the Political<http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=546256>| Emigre > Scholars and the Genesis of IR<http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=672490> > > > > Book Series with Palgrave Macmillan Pivot (edited with Hartmut Behr): Global > Political Thinkers<http://www.palgrave.com/products/SearchResults.aspx?s=GPT&fid=393271> > > > > Classical Realism meets Critical Theory (<http://research.ncl.ac.uk/classicalrealism>Leverhulme > Trust Research Network) > > > > BISA Working Group: International Relations as a Social Science<http://bisairsocialscience.wordpress.com/> > > >