Keynote speech on planetary politics by Professor Nicolaidis

The School of Research in cooperation with CERI is pleased to be hosting an event about one of the most exciting new developments within the field of International Relations: planetary politics. 

Planetary politics promises to redefine the scope of the international scene, the range and type of its actors, the significance of their connections, and the meaning of the events that are taking place on it. It transforms some core areas of IR such as security, cooperation and governance. To help us in this endeavour, we are pleased to host a world-leading scholar in International Relations as well as pioneer of the concept of planetary to shed light on the promises and perils of planetary politics

Introductory remarks: Dina Waked, Dean of the School of Research (TBC) and Hugo Meijer, Deputy Director of CERI.

Keynote speaker: Kalypso Nicolaidis, Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute) and Professor at the University of Oxford.

Moderator: Chiara Ruffa

Organizers of the events: Karoline Postel-Vinay, Frédéric Ramel et Chiara Ruffa (CERI)

Biography of Kalypso Nicolaidis

Kalypso Nicolaidis is professorial Chair of Global Affairs at the EUI School of Transnational Governance in Florence, where she chairs the Programmes on Transnational Democracy and Global Peace Tech, and convenes the EUI inter-disciplinary cluster on Transnational democracy in the 21st century including the EUI Democracy Forum. She is Emeritus professor at Oxford University and was professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at ENA. She has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council’s high level group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González (2008-10) and is a Council member of ECFR. Her research revolves around the connections between global and European governance regarding issues of legitimacy, mutual recognition, legal empathy, social solidarity, democracy with foresight, sustainable integration, post-colonialism, myth and politics and the import of new technologies on for peace and democracy. She is the founder of the demoi-cratic theory school and explores the use of immersive debating and teaching, through arts and the ”theater of recognition.” Her last books are: A Citizen’s Guide to the Rule of Law - Why We Need to Fight for the Most Precious Human Inventions of All Time (with Adis Merdzanovic, 2021) and Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit (2019). 

Her website: http://kalypsonicolaidis.com/