Centre for Global and Transnational Politics

The second issue of the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, a special issue dealing with ‘Transnational Militancy in the 21st Century’, will be launched with a roundtable at Goldsmiths College on 25th February (www.criticalglobalisation.com). Participants: Faisal Devji, Saul Newman, Kevin McDonald and Nathan Coombs. Chris Perkins will Chair.

Norface-funded seminar on 'Globalization and Europe's borders', Royal Holloway, 29-30 March 2010

This is the final seminar in the series. The seminar will comprise invited presentations from 12 PhD students working in the field of border studies. The students are drawn from various Norface partner countries including Sweden, UK, The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark and Canada.

CANCELLED

Wednesday 11 November at 5pm (Room FW 101)

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles - title of talk to follow

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles is currently the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Britain’s opposite number to Richard Holbrook), and was until recently HM Ambassador to Afghanistan.

Details of events planned for the new academic year will follow shortly.

Andrew Whitehead – ‘A Mission in Kashmir'

Wednesday 13 May at 5pm in Room FW 101

Andrew Whitehead first reported from Kashmir for the BBC in 1993 and has been a Delhi correspondent and editor of History Workshop Journal. A Mission in Kashmir, an account of the start of the Kashmir conflict, was published in 2007 by Penguin India. ‘The account is brilliant and moving, and first-rate by the standards of both a journalist and a social historian…The recovery of these accounts may not only contribute to generating a richer social history of the land and its people that does not privilege just a few, but may eventually also help in the resolution of Kashmir’s problem’ India Today