News / events

November 2022 Global Governance Forum – “Re-imagining Global Security and the Role of International Institutions in the 21st Century – “The nature of conflict and cooperation are changing fundamentally, as well as the understanding of what kind of adaptations in security policy would promote the wellbeing of sovereign states and the human collectivity, inclusively conceived. Particularly important is the desirability and feasibility of enhanced roles for international institutions, especially those within the UN System as framed by its Charter and evolution since 1945.” 

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October 2022 “Who Are My People?” by Emmanuel Katongole | Book Launch – “In “Who Are My People?”, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole explores the ethnic, religious, and ecological violence of African modernity and shares the inspiring stories of Christian individuals who have overcome these fault lines by nurturing new forms of community. This event featured a panel conversation on modern violence and the kind of prophetic visions that can lead us towards positive peace and integral ecology.”

 

2021 New Books Network Podcast with Nick Cheesman – “Interpreting International Politics (Routledge, 2014) is a short and lively account of how international relations was founded and developed as an interpretivist discipline, and why it matters that it was. Its author, Cecelia Lynch, joins this episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science to discuss the interplay between interpretivist philosophies and realist, critical and feminist traditions in studies of international politics; the epistemological stakes for IR scholars embarking on new projects; and, the book’s location at a nexus between substantive questions, conceptual articulations, and ethical reflections about the role of the researcher in the study of international politics. Rather than a guide for how to interpret international politics and relations, this is a book that encourages researchers who feel a kinship or have an aesthetic inclination towards interpretive methods to identify and work with the rich materials that their discipline offers for robust and trustworthy interpretive social science.“

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interpreting International Politics (ROUTLEDGE 2014)

 

2021 Wrestling with God Symposium at University of Notre Dame – “Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations is a historically and thematically sweeping account of the role of Christian traditions in shaping the modern field of international relations. In it, Cecelia Lynch engages with the past in ways that make the arguments of previous theologians and political theorists available for thinking with in the present. By situating each of the interlocutors with whom she engages within their social and historical context, Lynch is able to show what constraints the contingencies of their day placed on their own arguments so that we might also recognize the contingency of our own claims today, and formulate ways to address them.

In this essay, Cecelia Lynch responds to each of the contributors to the symposium focusing especially on the themes of “staying with the trouble,” essentialism, and the possibilities and limits of decolonial visions for humanitarism in the future.”

Response to Wrestling with God Symposium

 

2020 at JLI Faith & Local Communities – “The 8th webinar in a series of webinars for the Religions, Humanitarianism, and Development Research Reading Group. Presentation by Cecelia Lynch, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, on her new book, “Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations.” Response by Professor Alastair Ager, Director of the Institute of Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.”