Roundtable on millennium's special Issue 'Traversing memories in global politics'

Tuesday 17 Mar 2026, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/London

Zoom

Please join us on Tuesday 17 March at 5pm (UK time) for a roundtable on ‘Traversing Memories in Global Politics’, the most recent special issue from Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 53, Issue 3). We will be joined by four contributors to the SI, Arthur Duhé (Université Paris 8, France); Phuong Anh Nguyen (SOAS); Giorgio Shani (International Christian University, Japan); Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews); as well as one of the editors, Kinti Orellana (QMUL).

This roundtable will explore the entanglements between memory, trauma, temporality and activism in global politics. Across diverse empirical and theoretical contexts, the conversation will focus on how the past is mobilised, contested and projected into the future in ways that shape political identities, solidarities and forms of (in)security. How do temporal framings of trauma structure claims to justice and recognition? In what ways can collective memory serve as a resource for transnational activism rather than nationalist exclusion? And how are sites of memory reconfigured across territorial and diasporic spaces? 

 

Bringing together scholars working at the intersection of memory studies and International Relations, the conversation reflects on the politics of time itself: how states and movements manage traumatic pasts and anticipated futures, how gendered experiences of harm are situated within competing temporal narratives, and how memorial practices travel across borders to generate new forms of solidarity. By situating memory and trauma within broader struggles over nationhood, diaspora and international activism, the roundtable foregrounds temporality as a constitutive dimension of contemporary political life.

Registration will close two hours before the event begins