I. (Inanna) Hamati-Ataya, Prof

Education

PhD ( Doctorat ) in Political Science, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006. Dissertation title: Knowing and Judging in International Relations Theory: A Study of the Axiological Discourse of Three “Realisms” in Relation to their Epistemological Postulates (in French). (PhD Supervisor: Professor Michel Dobry).

B.A. (2000) & M.A. (2001) in Political Science, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Previous Positions

Principal Research Associate and ERC & UKRI Principal Investigator, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK (2018-2023).

Reader in International Politics, Dept. of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK (2013-2018).

Lecturer in Politics, Dept. of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK (2011-2013).

Head of Department, Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut, Lebanon (Sept. 2009- Feb. 2010 and 2010-2011).

Assistant Professor of Political and International Theory, Dept. of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut, Lebanon (2007-2011).

Awards

Teaching Excellence Award, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. 2010.

Merit Graduate Fellowship, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. 2000

Major Research Grants (PI)

ERC Horizon 2020 Consolidator Grant (€1,428,166). 2017-2023. Project ARTEFACT (#724451): The Global as Artefact: Understanding the Patterns of Global Political History Through an Anthropology of Knowledge – The Case of Agriculture in Four Global Systems from the Neolithic to the Present.

ERC Horizon Europe Proof of Concept Grant/UKRI Horizon Guarantee (€150,000). 2022-2023. Project NOAH (#101069168): A New Noah’s Ark: Securing the Transfer of Ancestral Agricultural Knowledges Across Europe’s Changing Regions of Environmental Suitability.

European Commission’s 7^th Framework Program, Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (€100,000). 2012-2017. Project SOCIO-UK-IR (#322146): A Sociology of International Relations Scholars and Scholarship in the United Kingdom.

Invited Talks (selected)

"Post-Agrarian Pathways in the Anthropocene: Anticipating New Structures of Global Inequality." Cambridge Global Food Security Symposium, University of Cambridge, 6 July 2023.

“Securing Global Knowledge in the Anthropocene.” Panel on Methodologies and Epistemologies in Global Security, Blavatnik School of Government (Minerva Global Security Programme), University of Oxford, 22 February 2023.

“Globalisation in Deep Time: Postdisciplinary Lessons from the ‘Palaeolithic’.” Department of Archaeology, Garrod Research Seminars, University of Cambridge, 16 February 2023. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zPIXxwRXk]

“Fermentation and Food Security: From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene.” Panel “How do we Feed the World,” at the Cambridge Zero Festival, 14 October 2022. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcBlJElJfJ0]

“Globality in Deep Time: Ontological Frames and Repertoires of Historicisation.” The Graduate Institute Geneva, Colloquium of the Department of International Relations and Political Science, 24 March 2022.

Contribution to the roundtable “The Global Re-Imagined: Fantasy and Reflexivity as Drivers of Alternative World-Making,” at the conference New Avenues of Global Cooperation Research, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg, 15-16 November 2021.

Contribution to the Symposium Series “The Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences,” roundtable on “Perspectives from the Sociology of Knowledge,” Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. 29 July 2021. [Video: https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/ai1ec_event/4422/]

“Anthropological Epistemology and its Implications for the Philosophy of Science: The Case of Palaeolithic Knowledges.” Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SoS), Bielefeld. 20 July 2021.

“The Global Palaeolithic: Processes and Orders of the First Human Globalisation.” History and Theory of International Relations Colloquium, University of Groningen. 20 May 2021.

“The Knowledge-Globality Nexus in Deep Time: Thermoregulatory Behaviour and the Logic of Palaeolithic Globalisation.” The New School for Social Research, Dpt. of Politics, New York. 23 March 2021.

“Global Epistemics and the Post-disciplinary Horizon: Inscribing the Sociology of Knowledge in the Deep Time of the Nature-Culture Complex.”  Collège d’Etudes Mondiales, Paris. 11 March 2021.

“The Traveling Pineapple: A Political Epistemology of Taste”: Paper presentation at the Conference Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, 20-21 February 2020. [audio recording]

“The Politics of Scale in the Study of Global ‘Knowledge-Production’.” Roundtable “The Politics, Production, and Praxis of Knowledge ‘Otherwise’.” Annual Conference of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, on the theme Extraction, expropriation, erasure? Knowledge production in International Relations, London School of Economics, 19-20 Oct. 2019.

“Public perceptions of genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms: Considerations on science-society relations in mediating public understanding and scientific responsibility.” Panel on “Improving Plants: Achieving Food Sustainability in a Changing Environment” at the conference Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK, 16 Oct. 2019.

“A New Framework for the Study of Knowledge?”: Workshop Science in the Forest, Science in the Past II, organised by Aparecida Vilaça, G.E.R. Lloyd, and Willard McCarty, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK, June 2019.

“Global Orders in Deep Anthropological Time”: Roundtable presentation at the 3rd Cambridge International Relations and History Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, May 2019.

“Deep-Historicising ‘the Global’: International Relations, the Anthropological Imagination, and the Rebirth of Grand Narratives”. Theory Seminar, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK, Oct. 2018.

“Knowledge and the Global”. International Theory Workshop, LSE, January 2017.

“What can IR scholars learn from Science Studies Scholars’ public engagement? The case of the court expert witness across Science Studies’ “three waves”’. Symposium “Borrowed Truths” – Cardiff University, October 2016.

Public Interventions & Outreach

“Transforming Global Futures,” Interview with Maria Leonard and Invented Futures at the Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics, Bristol, 22 March 2022.

“Domestication on a molecular level – how cultivated meat could affect our relationship to food,” interview with Lisa Neidhardt, Varsity 21 January 2022. [https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/22772]

Interview, “We Are What We Know,” CRASSH’s Thoughtlines Podcast, Cambridge TV. Spring 2021.

Interview, BBC Cambridgeshire (Radio) Jeremy Sallis show, on global food security. 25 September 2019.

Executive producer and scientific adviser, short-documentary series ‘Everyday Objects of Global Food Security’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbDUITYmcrU&list=PLZrYE6VVNyHowZvQM4sk0SUwiCXtW_zNU), 2018-19.