5 March                      Kristi Winters (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences)

‘“I went with what I always do…”: A qualitative analysis of “Cleggmania” and vote choice in the 2010 British general election’

12 March                   Evelyn Goh (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Hegemony, resistance and order transition in post-Cold War East Asia’

19 March                    Tom Dyson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘European defence cooperation and the shifting regional and global balance of power’

All meetings will be held in FW101 at 5.15 pm

5 February                Paul Whiteley (University of Essex)

‘The electoral consequences of continuing austerity policies in Britain'

19 February               Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘The new mass: the return of political collectivity’

26 February               Mike Spagat (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Measuring and memorializing the war dead in Kosovo'

8 January                   Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London)

‘What voters want: reactions to candidate characteristics in a survey experiment’

15 January                 Alex Warleigh-Lack (University of Surrey)

‘Greening Integration Theory’

22 January                 Tsering Topgyal (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Reaping the fruits of securitization? Tibetan self-immolations and the Sino-Tibetan conflict’

29 January                 Sylvester Akhaine (Lagos State University, Nigeria)

‘Churg Strauss syndrome, death and the politics of succession in Nigeria’

‘Travels with Alexis de Tocqueville’

11 December            Doerthe Rosenow (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘Occupy Wall Street and political resistance in the 21st century’

FW101 at 5.15pm - all welcome

'Election 2012: The War on Terror and foreign policy challenges'

20 November            James Sloam (Royal Holloway, University of London)

‘“Democratic Deficit” or “Democratic Phoenix”? The participation      of young people in British democracy’

27 November            Gerry Stoker (Southampton University)

‘Folk theories of democracy’

All sessions are in FW101 and start at 5.15pm.  All welcome!

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’

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

 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’

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'

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