Annual Conference 2025/2026

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Prof. Alfredo Saad Filho, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast. Alfredo Saad Filho is Professor of International Political Economy at Queen’s University Belfast, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Visiting Professor at LUT University (Finland), Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ (Italy), Senior Associate Researcher at the University of Brasília (Brazil) and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London (UK). He was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in Geneva. He has taught in universities and research institutions in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK. His publications include 18 books, 80 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and 30 reports for UN and other international agencies. His most recent books include The Age of Crisis: Neoliberalism, the Collapse of Democracy, and the Pandemic (London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2022) and Progressive Policies for Economic Development: Economic Diversification and Social Inclusion after Climate Change (London: Routledge, 2022).

Assoc. Prof. Divine Fuh, Director of the Institute for Humanities Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town where he is also HOD for and associate professor of social anthropology. His research focuses on the politics of suffering and smiling, particularly on how people seek ways of smiling in the midst of their suffering. He is currently interested in the life of ideas, the political economy of African knowledge production, and centring African epistemologies. He has done work in Cameroon, Botswana, Senegal and South Africa. 

Assoc. Prof. Su-Ming Khoo,  Su-ming Khoo is Professor in Sociology, in the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway and Visiting Professor in Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is Editor-in-Chief with Sophie Woodward and Harriet Shortt of the Journal of Creative Research Methods, published by Bristol University Press. 

Prof. Owen Worth, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick.Professor Owen Worth is based in the Deaprtment of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He works, teaches and publishes in the wide areas of International Political Economy, Global Politics and has published on class, hegemony, resistance, political movement from both the right and left and on International Relations (IR) and Development theory. He is course leader for the long running MA International Studies and teaches the Graduate Seminar in IR for post-graduate students within the department as well as a number of interchangeable IR/IPE/Politics undergraduate and postgraduate modules. He is the author of 4 books, a co-editor of a number of collections and has published in several journals throughout his career. He has also been a visiting academic at a number of universities across Europe and North America and has sat and continues to sit on the board of a number of networks and academic committees. He is the Managing Editor of the long-standing journal Capital & Class, which is published by Sage.