'The State We're In' - Windows on Empire: Perspectives from History, Culture and Political Economy

This BIH roundtable aims to take stock and contribute to the conceptualisation of contemporary Empire and imperialism.

At the beginning of the new century the notions of Empire and imperialism had all but disappeared from the lexicon of western humanities. Washington’s ‘war on terror’ and the accompanying invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, coupled with the publishing sensation that was Hardt and Negri’s Empire suddenly reversed this neglect. Questions of political hierarchy, military competition and socio-economic domination which had apparently disappeared from the world stage with the end of the Cold War have returned with a vengeance. In recent years, the most innovative scholarship and trenchant political interventions in the humanities have arguably emerged from engagements with such questions, offering a fresh range of concepts, analyses and interpretations on the place of Empire and imperialism in our world today.

This BIH roundtable aims to take stock and contribute to the conceptualisation of contemporary Empire and imperialism. An international panel of renowned scholars of Empire will debate the character of this phenomenon from various disciplinary and political angles. Among the questions to be addressed are: what is the nature of American empire? How have space, identity and power been re-articulated since the end of the Cold War? Can the notion of the ‘post-colonial’ illuminate the current global condition? What are the contemporary prospects of a viable anti-imperialism’?

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