Join us for the Brian Barry Memorial Lecture, an annual event honouring the work of political philosopher and former colleague, Professor Brian Barry.
We are delighted to host renowned political scholar and intellectual, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in conversation with Lea Ypi. This lecture will offer reflections on the enterprise of global political thought. Do the different frameworks we bring to thinking about global political theory – national, comparative, interconnected, decolonial – adequately describe the nature of our predicament? In engaging with this question, the lecture hopes to shed light on the nature of the legitimation crisis that different parts of the world are experiencing.
Meet the speaker and chair
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is the Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University, and President of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi. He has previously taught at Harvard, Ashoka University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been Global Faculty at NYU Law School. He has published widely in political theory, history of ideas, Indian constitutional law and politics in India. He is the author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin 2003) and has produced several edited volumes. He is (most recently) co-editor with Madhav Khosla and Sujit Choudhary of The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution. His forthcoming work looks at philosophical ideas about religion in 20th-century India. He is also a fellow of the British Academy and SSRC Fellow for 2020.
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department at LSE, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD. She has degrees in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and has held visiting and research positions at Sciences Po, the University of Frankfurt, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Australian National University and the Italian Institute for Historical Studies. She is also a fellow of the British Academy.
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