Keynote Address: Towards a Different IR? or Towards Different IRs?

In our time, as in all previous eras, politics is experienced and enacted on multiple and sometimes conflicting time scales and tempos. Our intersubjective and multiple senses of time structure not only what we think of as priorities, but our understanding of what is legitimate, responsible, and possible in politics. How should International Relations Theory think about time at this time?

Keynote Speaker

Neta Crawford is Montague Burton Chair in International Relations and also holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. Her research focuses on war, ethics, normative change, emotions in world politics, and climate change. Neta was elected a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023. She received the Distinguished Scholar award from the International Ethics section of the International Studies Association in 2018. She was a co-winner of the 2003 American Political Science Association Jervis and Schroeder Award for best book in International History and Politics for her book Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, Humanitarian Intervention (CUP, 2002). Crawford is a co-founder and co-director of the Costs of War Project, based at Brown University.

Light refreshments will be served after the event. Registration is essential for this in-person only event.


This Address is held as part of a series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Department of International Relations, located within the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. You can find more information about the Department’s history and the other activities being held to mark the anniversary throughout 2024 here.