Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)
www.sussex.ac.uk/cait
BISA Working Group on Historical Sociology & IR
www.historical-sociology.org
‘The Historical Sociology of International Theory’
One day workshop, Thursday 13th September 2012, University of Sussex
Programme
11.00-13.00 Session 1
Chair: Beate Jahn
Antonio Cerella (Sussex)
The Cage, the Agent and the End of History: Remarks for an “Unchained” International Historical Sociology
Philip G. Cerny (Rutgers)
Conceptions of Pluralism in International Relations Theory: From State-Centrism to Sociological Complexity
Andrew Davenport (CAIT)
History and Theory in IR Marxism
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 2
Chair: Kamran Matin
Robbie Shilliam (QMUL)
“Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate”: Caribbean Slavery and Hermeneutic Tensions in the Sociology of
Knowledge Tradition
Julian Saurin (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus)
An Environmental Sociological Imagination: Arguments for a Historical Environmental Sociology of
International Relations.
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-18.00 Roundtable
Beate Jahn (Sussex), Kamran Matin (Sussex), Louiza Odysseos (Sussex), Benno Teschke (Sussex)
Dinner