16/01/2025 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Converging patterns, diverging scales? Comparing and connecting late-colonial and postcolonial Goa (India) and Macau (China) Abstract: This paper outlines a thematic and analytical basis for comparing the late-colonial and postcolonial experience of Goa and Macau, two former Portuguese enclaves and present-day leisure destinations in India and China respectively.

15/01/2025 (Wednesday) 11:00-12:30 E21B-G002 Political Theory from a Global Perspective Abstract: Underlying many of the dominant theories in the social sciences and humanities has been an implicit (and often explicit) teleology in which Euro-American concepts that arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are assumed to be normative.The goal of this talk