The Online Colloquium of the Winter Term 2024/25 by the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” will host a lecture by Dr. Felix BERENSKÖTTER. You are cordially invited to attend.

Dr. Felix BERENSKÖTTER (King’s College London)
Trust and Friendship in International Relations
Friday, December 13, 2024, 10 am – 12 pm (Central European Time)

Abstract
This talk explores the concept of trust in international friendship. Trust is generally accepted as intrinsic to and, perhaps, the key feature of friendship. Yet precisely because of its centrality, and because international friendship is not a straightforward phenomenon, we need to think carefully about how we situate and ‘see’ trust in such a configuration. The talk approaches this task in three steps: (i) reviewing different ways trust can be conceptualised in general, highlighting its future-orientation, (ii) offering a reading that is intertwined with an ontology of international friendship as shared being in time, and (iii) linking the concept to observable expressions in international politics, namely practices of solidarity, the sharing of private information/secrets, and critique.

Organizer
Research Training Group 2833 “East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales”, Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen.

Access to the Meeting
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/69470924627?pwd=W2GS7hSC5ZaVPLYfQktkBnhaBGX6l2.1
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