Over the past twenty years, numerous publications have called upon scholars to consider all relevant contexts when analysing historical processes of knowledge production: many historians of ideas have claimed to “provincialize Europe” or moved to a “global  history,” thereby paying attention to the interactions between the global context and regional and/or imperial processes, in contrast to conventional accounts focusing on national legacies, intellectual or otherwise. In this conference we ambition to gather scholars from international law, history, sociology and anthropology, who have paved the way for the development of a global intellectual history of what we may call the “sciences of the international” in the twentieth century. It will fill a gap in the historical scholarship on the topic, as most historians of anthropology and sociology continue to ignore recent revisions of the history of international law; and reciprocally, historians of international law who pay attention to global processes between North and South have failed to notice the emerging sociology of colonial knowledge and new histories of sociology and anthropology in the interwar period.

This event is by invitation only.

The event is funded by: