Farewell to Norms? Historical Perspectives on Global Reordering
This year's Cambridge IR and History Conference will centre on past, current, and future challenges to international norms.
Date: Friday 15, May 2026
Time: 10am to 6.30pm
Location: Bowett Room, Queens' College, Cambridge, England
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PROGRAMME:
10am. Welcome and Introductions (Carsten Schulz & Giovanni Mantilla)
10.15am. Panel 1. Diagnosing the Present (Chair: Jason Sharman)
- Antje Wiener (Hamburg/Cambridge)
- Nico Krisch (Geneva Graduate Institute)
- Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (Cambridge)
- Andrew Phillips (Queensland)
12-noon. Lunch.
1.30pm. Panel 2. Normative Pressures across Domains (Chair: Giovanni Mantilla)
- Kerry Goettlich (City University-St Georges)
- Elif Kalaycioglu (King’s College London)
- Yuan Yi Zhu (Leiden)
- Ann Towns (Gothenburg)
3.15pm. Break.
3.45pm. Panel 3. Imagining Futures (Chair: Carsten Schulz)
- Joseph O’Mahoney (Reading)
- Maria Mälksoo (Copenhagen)
- Stephanie Hofmann (Geneva Graduate Institute)
- Christian Reus-Smit (Melbourne)