Simon will be talking at the Graduate Institute in Geneva as part of the International History and Politics Fall seminar series.
In the age of working from home and the great digital pivot, we are more than ever at the mercy of large corporations whose management of our data is defining a new economic order: the surveillance economy. Join Simon in conversation with her at the Institute fo Humanities and Social Sciences.
Simon joins Save the Children’s Juliano Fiori for a discussion on the contemporary politics of aid, social justice, and political minimalism. Where does the international will-to-care merge with a will-to-order, and what is left of justice at that point?
For fifty years two histories have run parallel to one another: the institutionalisation of the neoliberal ascendancy domestically and the consolidation of a liberal international order globally. Today both are in some state of disarray. To what extent did each project rely on the other? What have been the crossovers and the switching points between these two histories? And how have they been managed diplomatically?
If you’re in Cambridge come listen to this discussion of Empire of Democracy with Julian Huppert at Jesus College’s Intellectual Forum in Cambridge, in November. Do come and join if you are in town.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I’ll be asking “What is the story of democracy in our time?” for this evening lecture in Paris. ULIP is located on the grand Esplanade des Invalides, where it shares a building with the British Council. It is a wonderful institution, and proudly European. A good place, in other words, to explore the idea that a history of the post-Cold War present should start before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (and treat the decline of communism as part of the ongoing transformation of the institutions and the manners of the liberal democratic west).
The Hay Festival is a highlight of the literary calendar. This year I’ll be there on Saturday 01 June, in conversation with Katya Adler, the BBC’s Europe Editor.
I’ll be speaking on the parallel histories of accounts of injustice and inequality in a lecture and debate with Katrin Flikschuh and Michael Goodheart in London. For more information and to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confronting-injustice-critical-and-realistic-approaches-to-global-inequality-tickets-60744848477
Simon is invited to the Agence Francaise de Développement to discuss his work on inequality as part of the two-day event at Le Mistral and the Instutute du monde arabe. More information here: https://www.afd.fr/en/international-conference-inequality-and-social-cohesion-2018
