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The "Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism" workshop was the third event in the "Rethinking Internationalism: Histories and Pluralities" project. Below is a summary of the discussions that took place over the two days, organized under the headings of the six thematic panels. Many of the overarching themes and discussions extended well beyond the bounds of the individual panels.

Join us for a series of events throughout March 2026 to conclude our 'Rethinking Internationalism' grant project, including an in-person conference hosted at Birkbeck, a public lecture, and a publishing workshop!

Our team was invited to contribute to the UAI conference on 21st November in Brussels

Lunchtime seminar by Dr Emma Kluge (Exeter) on “Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific” What: The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of...

Building on the previous two events of our ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ network, this online workshop will focus on key absences from these recent discussions on histories of internationalism.

You are invited to attend online as an audience-participant for a series of panel-based discussions on approaches to internationalism’s histories that go beyond the confines of traditional, state, and institution-centred archives in the Global North.

This conference explores ways in which particular internationalist visions have spawned and sustained movements that have subverted predominant discourses, challenged existing power asymmetries or sought to overcome socio-economic inequalities.

We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.

Rethinking Internationalism proposes the creation of a new network of researchers working on the role and nature of internationalism and international organisations in modern history.

In this post, Daniel Stinsky writes about his new book, out with Bloomsbury this week.

Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan report on the launch of a new book series, Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism, and a lively discussion about the future shape of research on internationalism.

On Friday, 26 June the Centre for the Study of Internationalism hosted an online discussion about internationalism. Here are a few thoughts about the outcome...