Beyond Genealogies:  
Historicizing Universality and Reimagining the Discipline  
 

Date: October 30-31, 2025  
Venue: Room 903, 9F, Teaching Complex Building, NCHU  
Hosts:  
Advanced Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences (ARCHS)  
National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan  

Day 1: October 30, 2025  
09:30-09:50 Registration  
09:50-10:00 Opening Remarks  
Tung-Chieh Tsai, National Chung Hsing University    
10:00-11:00  Keynote I: Bandung’s Burdens  
Moderator:  
Chung-Chian Teng, National Cheng Chi University  
Speaker:  
Vineet Thakur, Leiden University    

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break  

11:15-12:45  Panel A: The Global South as a Site of Theoretical Innovation? Rethinking Knowledge Production and the Historicity of Universality  
Moderator:  
Jung-Min Seo, Yonsei University  
Speakers:  
Karen Smith, Leiden University  
Mari Nakamura, Tung Hai University  
Young-Chul Cho, Kangwon National University  

12:45-14:00 Lunch Break    

14:00-15:30  Panel B: Reconstructing Disciplinary Genealogies: Coloniality, Region, and Resistance  
Moderator:  
Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, LSE  
Speakers:  
Chiung-Chiu Huang, National Cheng Chi University  
Rumi Aoyama, Waseda University  
Chung-Chian Teng, National Cheng Chi University
Wan-Ping Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University   

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break    

15:45-17:15  Panel C: Global IR Revisited: Expanding the Canon or Reproducing the Core?  
Moderator:  
Karen Smith, Leiden University  
Speakers:  
Jung-Min Seo, Yonsei University  
Yih-Jye Hwang, Leiden University  
Lindsay Black, Leiden University    

Day 2: October 31, 2025  
09:10-09:30 Registration  
09:30-10:30  Keynote II: The End of International Relations Theory: Anarchy Versus Ethical Governance  
Moderator:  
Tung-Chieh Tsai, National Chung Hsing University  
Speaker:  
Chih-Yu Shih, Tong Ji University    

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break    

10:45-12:15  Roundtable: Toward a Pluriversal Discipline  
Moderator:  
Chiung-Chiu Huang, National Cheng Chi University
Panelists:  
Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, LSE  
Chin-Kuei Tsui, National Cheng Chi University  
Lindsay Black, Leiden University  
Tai-Ting Liu, National Chung Hsing University  
Karen Smith, Leiden University    

12:15-12:30  Closing Reflections and Future Collaboration  
Tung-Chieh Tsai, National Chung Hsing University