Speaker：Leigh K. Jenco
TSE Visiting Professor; Professor of of Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Leigh Jenco (BA, Bard College; MA and PhD, University of Chicago) joined LSE in 2012, after teaching at the National University of Singapore. She has held visiting positions at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; the Department of History, National Taiwan University; and the University of Heidelberg. She was associate editor of the flagship journal American Political Science Review (2016-2020) and principal investigator for the Humanities in the European Research Area grant project "East Asian Uses of the European Past," funded by the European Commission. She is currently Project Lead for the three-year, £1.5 million global convening project Chinese Global Orders funded by the British Academy.
Topic: Doing Political Theory from a Global Perspective: Perils and Potentials
This talk explores how China, alongside other non-Western intellectual traditions across different historical and geographical contexts, can be incorporated into political theory and philosophy from the ground up. It examines the possibilities and challenges of bringing non-Western perspectives into established canons of teaching and theorizing, while considering why such an undertaking is more complex than it might initially appear. In doing so, the talk invites us to rethink how political theory is studied, taught, and developed beyond its conventional Western boundaries. |
