In the context of contemporary debates surrounding globalization and global governance, this
conference will investigate the historical underpinnings of conceptions of global order. From
the classical to the modern age, travel, exploration, military expansion and commerce have
contributed to the emergence of international and transnational perspectives on politics. The
focus of this conference will be on the way in which these developments have led to the
transcending of political boundaries in a way that still reverberates in modern debates.

Keynote speakers:
Prof. James Tully (University of Victoria) ¡V chair: Prof. Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
Prof. Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge) ¡V chair: Prof. Richard Bourke (QMUL)

Proposals for papers and panels may wish to consider some of the following themes:
ľ Global governance, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship
ľ International law and transnational institutions
ľ Global conflict, interventionism and pacifism
ľ Empire and colonialism
ľ Exploration, travel and global encounters
ľ Migration, multiculturalism and diversity
ľ Cartography and visual representations of the global
ľ Federalism and devolution
ľ Capitalism, markets and technology
ľ Global commons and environmentalism
ľ Religion, church and state
ľ Internationalism and radicalism
ľ Human rights discourses
ľ Transnational social movements
We invite proposals from a diversity of fields that deal with the themes of global order and
disorder in a historical perspective, including the history of political thought, political theory,
geography, anthropology, international relations, philosophy, literary studies, classics and
other related fields. Participants will have the opportunity to publish their papers in our
online, peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of Intellectual History and Political Thought.