Events
Semester 1, 2012-2013
Tuesday 2 October
Guest Speaker
Major General Mungo Melvin CB OBE MA
'Tolstoy & Gordon at Sevastopol, 1855'
6.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Wednesday 3 October
Politics, Philosphy and International Thought (P0PIT)
2.00pm, West Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 4 October
Critical and Cultural Politics
Master Class with Sergei Prozorov
11.00-1.00pm, Steve Critcher Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 4 October
International Politics Research Seminar
Professor Sergei Prozorov
University of Helsinki,
‘Three Concepts of the World and the Possibility of Universalism’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Monday 8 October
Citizenship Studies Group
1.00-2.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 11 October
International Politics Research Seminar
Herman Salton,
‘Dangerous Diplomacy: Anatomy of the UN Failure in Rwanda’,
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 18 October
Social and Political Theory Research Group
2pm, Top Floor, Arts Centre
Thursday 18 October
International Politics Research Seminar
Professor Andrew Linklater, FBA.
‘Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 19 October
Global Development Research Group
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Wednesday 24 October
David Davies Memorial Institute (DDMI) Workshop
Nicholas J. Wheeler (Birmingham) - 'Nuclear Iran: Overcoming the trust deficit'
Vincent C. Keating (Durham) - 'Can Japan trust the United States?'
Jan Ruzicka (Aberystwyth) - 'Afghanistan: Who can be trusted?'
9.00-11.00am, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Wednesday 24 October
IWP Discussion Group
‘The Conservative Party and devolution in Scotland and Wales: A Tale of two Tories?’
1.00pm, West Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 25 October
International Politics Research Seminar
Aidan Condron
‘U.S.-Egyptian “Common Strategy” 1970-1976? Planning and Implementation’.
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 25 October
Carr Special Seminar
Dr. Madeline Carr
Cyber-power and International Relations
6.30-8.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 26 October
Environmental Politics Group
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Wednesday 31 October
Critical and Cultural Politics Group
Robbie Shilliam
Queen Mary, University of London
'Decolonizing the Twenty Years Crisis through the Lens of Ethiopianism'
6.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 1 November
Critical and Cultural Politics Group
Robbie Shilliam
Queen Mary, University of London
'Decolonizing the academy: Do we need to and how can we go about it?'
10.00am, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 1 November
DDMI Annual Lecture
Professor Norman Davies
‘Is the European Union a Vanishing Kingdom?’
6.00pm, Old Hall, Old College
Friday 2 November
GRIT
10.00am, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Friday 2 November
Environmental Politics Group
Professor Matthew Paterson
School of Political Science, Ottawa University.
'Global governance through transnational networks: the spread of carbon markets to deal with climate change’
5.30pm, Main Hall, Intrnational Politics Building
Monday 5 November
Citizenship Studies Group
Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz
Department of Law and Criminology
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Tuesday 6 November
ESRC festival of Social Science
'Negotiating Climate Change'
9.30am, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Tuesday 6 November
International Politics Research Group
Aidan Condron, Professor Campbell Craig, and Dr Andrew Priest
'What are the implications of the election for U.S. politics and the world?'
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Wednesday 7 November
International Poltics Research Group
Christoph Ploss
University of Hamburg
'Lord Davies, The New Commonwealth Society, and its German section'
12.10pm, IBERS new building in Room 0.32.
Wednesday 7 November
CIISS Annual Lecture
Thursday 8 November
International Politics Research Seminar
Dr Marcin Kaczmarski
Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw,
‘The Role of Domestic Power Relations in State’s Foreign Policy’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 9 November
Global Development Research Group
5.00pm, Steve Crichter Room, International Politics Building
Monday 12 November
Global Development Research Group
Dr Susan Park
University of Sydney
'Institutional Isomorphism, the Multilateral Development Banks and the Diffusion of Accountability Mechanisms'
11.00am, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Monday 12 November
The 2012 Institute of Welsh Politics Annual Lecture
Leanne Wood A.M., Leader of Plaid Cymru
'A Winning Wales'
7.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 15 November
International Politics Research Seminar
Dr Andrew Priest
‘Thinking About Empire: The U.S. Rise to Power in an Age of Imperialism’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 15 November
Carr Special Seminar
Dr. Haris Efstathopoulos
'The BRICS in Global Governance'
6.30-8.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Monday 19 November
Citizenship Studies Meeting
Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz
Department of Law and Criminology
'Empowerment: the Impact of Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia on the Lives of Trafficked People'
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Wednesday 21 November
Global Development Research Group
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 22 November
International Politics Research Seminar
Pola Zafra
‘Towards a Republican Peace: Security Threats bounding Organizational Risks’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 22 November
INSTITUTE OF WELSH POLITICS
Alan Trench
University College London
'The Scottish Independence Referendum and its Aftermath: Will there still be a United Kingdom in 2016?'
6.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 23 November
Environmental Politics Group
1.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 23 November
GRIT
1.10pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Friday 23 November
INSTITUTE OF WELSH POLITICS
Professor Michael Keating,
Aberdeen University
'Rescaling Europe: The Rise of the Meso Level'
5.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Monday 26 November
Performance and Politics Research Group
Coriolan/us – A one-day symposium
9.15am-4.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Tuesday 27 November
The Body Reading Group
2.00pm, Confeence Room, International Politics Building
Tuesday 27 November
Security Research Group (SRG)
Dr Jan Ruzicka
'Two failures of securitization: Why it matters'
4.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 29 November
International Politics Research Seminar
Tomas Kucera
‘The Soldier and Society: Liberalism and Societal Civil-Military Relations’
4.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 30 November
Global Development Research Group
1.00pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Friday 30 November
Centre for Intelligence and National Security
Barry Gilder
‘Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance’
3.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Security Research Group
Prof. Michael Sheehan
Swansea University
'The inevitability of war in outer space'
5:30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 6 December
Global Development Research Group
3.15pm, Meetings Room, International Politics Building
Thursday 6 December
International History Research Group
Benoit Pelopidas
University of Bristol
‘Innovation in nuclear thinking: incompetent, dangerous or futile?’
12.00noon, Main Hall, International Politics Building
Thursday 6 December
Professorial Inaugural Lecture
Professor Campbell Craig
‘Prescribing the Nuclear Future: Three Exercises in Absurdity’
Main Hall, International Politics Building
Friday 7 December
Environmental Politics Group
Dr Kevin Grove
Geography Department, Aberystwyth University
‘Adaptation Machines and the Politics of Catastrophe in Jamaica’
1.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building