On 21-22 August 2025 in Sheffield, there was a multidisciplinary workshop on cosmopolitanism, sponsored by the British Academy, and organized by Luke Ulas from the University of Sheffield and Joshua Hobbs from the University of Leeds. The work of our lab on global social identifications was presented by Katarzyna Hamer. It received considerable interest and positive feedback. There were a lot of other very interesting presentations (below) and a research network started to emerge. Very fruitful, inspiring meeting!
Thank you, organizers and panelists!
The presentations included:
JOSHUA HOBBS (UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS): ‘Between activism and apathy: global structural injustice and ordinary citizens’
KATARZYNA HAMER (INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES): ‘The psychological basis for global social identifications’
TADGH O’LAOGHAIRE (DURHAM UNIVERSITY): ‘Learning to live with China’
FERGAL LENEHAN (UNIVERSITY OF JENA): ‘Motivating postdigital cosmopolitanism: can online behaviour be theorised in terms of a conscious cosmopolitanism?’
IRENE SKOVGAARD SMITH (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA): ‘From office to global demos? Transnational professionals and the crafting of shared cosmopolitan identities’
OSCAR AGUSTIN (UNIVERSITY OF AALBORG): ‘Cosmopolitanism and intersectionality: the tension between particularism and universalism’
CHANDRACHUR SINGH (UNIVERSITY OF DELHI): ‘Ensuring cosmopolitan compliances in postcolonial democratic settings: the case of climate change impacts in India’
FARSAN GHASSIM (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): ‘Institutional design and international public attitudes toward global governance: a worldwide survey experiment’
LEE MICHAEL SHULTS (UNIVERSITY OF AGDER): ‘Gender Cosmopolitanism and Testimonial Incompetence’
