GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO NEWS - Everyone is invited to join Global Justice NPO, RUNN on Wednesday 25 October from 18:30 - 20:30 (GMT) on Zoom for a most interesting talk by Professor Robbie Shilliam, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland.
The SA branch of RUNN (Reform The United Nations Now) - founded last year by Ras Hein Scheepers from George, who is its SA Lead - regularly engages with intellectuals who have fresh perspectives on the world and current affairs.
Their first webinar was in June with the Institute for Security Studies - a well-known South African think tank.
Scheepers says they invited Shilliam to partake in the webinar as he is an expert on the history of race, eugenics, neoliberalism and empire while recontextualising and reconceptualising the intellectual roots and routes of political science.
To join the webinar next Wednesday, click on the following link: Click here for webinar to join via Zoom or visit RUNN SA on Facebook to listen via Facebook Live.
Shilliams recent book, Decolonizing Politics, explores the colonial and racist logics enfolded within the history of political thought while also identifying decolonising moves within the discipline.
Shilliam researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. He is the author of Decolonizing Politics and co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series, Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Question.
Robbie was a co-founder of the Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial working group of the British International Studies Association and is a long-standing active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association.
Professor Robbie Shilliam is an established Academic authority on political sciences.
Shilliam is also the author of The Black Pacific (2014) , Race and the Undeserving Poor (2018) and Decolonizing Politics (2021). He is a leading authority in postcolonial and decolonial studies and has written prolifically on this and many overlapping themes epistemic historical justice surrounding the colonial question more generally.
Currently Shilliam is working on two strands of inquiry: firstly, a collective project to rethink the discipline of Political Science as to expose its abiding racial logics, and, alternatively, to retrieve and expand the anti-racist ethos of some of its less canonised practitioners; and secondly, a critical consideration of the "free thinkers" of the black radical tradition - especially Rastafari intellectuals - and their contributions to what academia call "political economy".
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