[IMCnetwork] FW: Thursday's SPIR Seminar | Global Citizenship and World Order | April Biccum

[April Biccum]

Dear IMCers,

Come and hear my talk this Thursday at 11 am in the SPIR seminar series. You can also join via zoom for those who don’t want to make the walk across campus. 😊

April

From: Richard Frank <Richard.Frank at anu.edu.au>
Date: Monday, 20 October 2025 at 8:00 am
To: Richard Frank <Richard.Frank at anu.edu.au>
Cc: RSSS Events & Bookings <events.rsss at anu.edu.au>
Subject: Thursday's SPIR Seminar | Global Citizenship and World Order | April Biccum


[Australian National University]
School of Politics and International Relations
Global Citizenship and World Order? Educational Multilateralism and the History of International Relations
April Biccum   
Australian National University (SPIR)

Thursday 23 October 2025
11:00am–12:15pm
RSSS Building (146) Room 3.72 and Zoom

Meeting ID: 528 504 2235
Password: 8675309
Many new disciplinary histories of both Political Science and IR demonstrate their implications in empire and race science. At the same time, historical scholarship has recently turned its attention to the origins of liberal internationalism, fleshing out the political thought and careers of the imperial scholars and colonial administrators involved in the planning and negotiations for both the League of Nations and the UN. The liberal internationalists of this cohort were also responsible for the establishment of IR as a discipline. They were keen educationalists, with education central to their thought and politics. Comparative Education scholars argue that education has always been integral to the building of world order. Those same IOs with their origins in liberal internationalism are now advocating for Global Citizenship Education. Protagonists of this education reform argue that it will solve problems of world order, such as development, inequality, sustainability and security. The relationship between education and world order is more salient than ever. Through a genealogy that connects Global Citizenship Education to the interwar Council for Education on World Citizenship, this paper contributes to the new disciplinary histories of IR and the histories of liberal internationalism by elucidating IR’s foundational connections with educational multilateralism and subsequently Global Citizenship Education.
Presenter Bio
[April Biccum.jpg]
April Biccum’s research is situated in Global Knowledge Politics with a combined focus on how the concepts empire/imperialism and Global Citizenship are used, theorised and understood in both the public and scholarly domain. Recent work on empire theorising in the Social Sciences has appeared in Interventions (2018) and Australian Journal of Politics and History (2023). Recent work on Global Citizenship has appeared in Globalisation, Societies and Education (2024) and Australian Journal of Political Science (2024). Forthcoming work detailing the colonial origins of Global Citizenship will appear in the Yearbook of Development History. April is co-convener of the Interpretation Method Critique Network at the Australian National University and the newly founded Interpretive Methods Research Group at the Australian Political Studies Association.
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