PIR seminar series

October 2012 (all talks will take place in FW101 at 17.15)

2 October                   Nicholas Allen (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Reshuffles in British government: reflections on recent changes’

9 October                   Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Mill on liberty'

16 October                 Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Insuring sovereignty’

23 October                 Peter Oborne (Daily Telegraph)

‘Politics and cricket in Pakistan’

30 October                 Christina Hellmich (University of Reading)

‘Whither al-Qaeda? The future of the Islamist threat’

Tuesday 6 March

Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck, University of London)

‘Performativity in diplomacy: the Bandung Conference of 1955’

Tuesday 13 March

Alasdair Pinkerton (Royal Holloway)

‘“Pressing” Canada’s Arctic claims: space, security and satire’

Tuesday 20 March

Ashley Jackson (King’s College London)

‘Military migrants in the Second World War: the British imperial experience in the Indian Ocean region’

'Many Europes' workshop, 17th February

Many Europes

Workshop hosted by the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics

Venue: Room FW 101, Founder’s Building, Royal Holloway, University of London

Date: 17^th February 2012

Convenors: Chris Rumford and Didem Buhari-Gulmez

 10.30-11.00 Arrival and Coffee

 11.00 – 11.30 Welcome and introduction to the ‘Many Europes’ workshop by Chris Rumford

 11.30-13.00: Panel 1: Identity, borders, and multiculturalism

S. Anne G. Bostancı (Surrey) - EUrope and other Europes

 Joanna Cagney (Royal Holloway) - Models of ‘Multiculturalism’: Identifying Difference, Differentiating Identity 

 Valentina Kostadinova (Birmingham) - The European Commission and the Configuration of Internal EU Borders: Passive and Active Contributions                                                                                                                                

 Chair: Chris Rumford

 13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30: Panel 2: Civil society, public sphere and democracy

 Cristian Nitoiu (Loughborough) - Fostering Union’s democratic identity through the European Public Sphere

Alistair Brisbourne (Royal Holloway) - Governing Civil Society in the Euro-Mediterranean – The Anna Lindh Foundation and EU Commission post-Arab Uprisings 

 Sezin Dereci (Bremen) - NGOs in the context of Turkey's accession to EU: Explaining their divergent patterns of engagement to Turkey's process of Europeanisation

Chair: Didem Buhari-Gulmez

 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00- 17.30: Panel 3: ‘Hard cases’ and cultural clashes

Tamás Scheibner (Budapest) - Globalization, National Paradigms, and the Unification of Eastern Europe: The Paradox of Postcolonialism as Applied to Post-Soviet Europe

Gozde Yilmaz (Berlin) - Multiplying ever differentiated Europe? The resistance of the EU against Turkish Accession

Didem Buhari-Gulmez (Royal Holloway) EU as a ‘heuristic device’: Three-dimensional Europeanization in Turkey

 Chair: Chris Rumford

PIR Seminar series

  February 2012  (all talks will take place in Room FW 101)

 Tuesday 7 February

 Michel Seymour (University of Montréal)

 ‘Secession and the self-determination of peoples’

 Tuesday 21 February

 Rasmus Kleis Nielson (Roskilde University)

‘Personalized political communication in American campaigns’

Tuesday 28 February

Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway)

‘Monumentalizing Europe’s borders: making cultural encounters visible’

PIR Seminar series

January 2012

Tuesday 10 January  

 Peter John (University College London)

 ‘Why do policy issues go in and out of fashion? The case of British politics’

 Tuesday 17 January

 Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway)

'Adorno on freedom'

 Tuesday 24 January

 Alan Renwick (University of Reading)

 ‘Are electoral systems becoming more personalized?’

 
Tuesday 31 January

 Michael Bacon (Royal Holloway)  

'Pragmatism and deliberative democracy'

PIR Seminar Series

Seminar series presentations for December 2011 

6 December 

 Sir Ivor Crewe (University College, Oxford)

 ‘Why are we so badly governed? Domestic policy blunders in the UK 1980-2010’

 Founders Lecture Theatre, 5.15pm