Dan and I spent the last few days in London doing a variety of talks that might be of some interest to the general Duck readership.
On Wednesday I gave a book talk at SOAS; I’m quite pleased at the way this one turned out. Podcast here; q and a here. And the sci-fi author part of the session is available to listen to here.
On Thursday Dan and I participated in the LSE’s Literary Festival on a pair of roundtables entitled “Science Fiction an International orders.” Liveblog by Stephanie (as most of you probably already know) here; my contribution podcast here; Dan’s contribution here.
On Friday Dan and I did a joint talk at the LSE entitled “Conducting Inquiry in IR,” which ran the gamut from philosophy of science to techniques for relational social inquiry. The talk is here; the q and a is here.
All in all, a very ducky few days in grey and chilly England.
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service, and also Director of the AU Honors program. He previously taught at Columbia University and New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2001. In 2003-4, he served as President of the International Studies Association-Northeast; in 2012-2013, he did so again. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development, and is currently Series Editor of the University of Michigan Press' book series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics. He was named the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year for the District of Columbia by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Jackson's research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory (particularly the intersection of realism and constructivism), scientific methodology, the role of rhetoric in public life, civilizations in world politics, the sociology of academic knowledge, popular culture and IR, and the formation of subjectivity both in the classroom and in the broader social sphere. Jackson is also a devoted (some might say “obsessive”) baseball fan, and a self-proclaimed sci-fi geek.
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