Somervillians are warmly invited to join Professor Patricia Owens for the launch of her new book Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
In Erased, Professor Owens tells readers how International Relations, a field built on the intellectual labour and expertise of women, nonetheless sought to erase women from its history. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including several prominent Somervillians, Owens argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. By recovering the history of a cohort of women whose ideas on international relations, including international organisations, anticolonial organising and colonial administration, shaped the development of the field, Professor Owens ultimately is able to point towards thrilling sources for its renewal.
1700-1815 – Panel Discussion and Q&A
1815–1930 – Drinks Reception
To attend this event, please email development.office@some.ox.ac.uk
Biography
Patricia Owens is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College. She is author of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton 2025), Economy of Force (Cambridge, 2015), and Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Oxford, 2007). She was Director of the multi-award winning and interdisciplinary Leverhulme Research Project on Women and the History of International Thought. With Katharina Rietzler, she co-edited, Women’s International Thought: A New History (Cambridge 2021) and with Kimberly Hutchings, Sarah C. Dunstan, and Rietzler, she co-edited Women’s International Thought: Towards A New Canon (Cambridge 2022). She has published articles in American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Modern Intellectual History, The International History Review, European Journal of International Relations, and others.