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research seminar series 2008/9
18-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Finding Principles for Global Governance
Martin Albrow is a sociologist, honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales. He has taught and researched in the USA and Germany as well as in the UK. His books include 'Do Organizations have Feelings?' and the prize winning, 'The Global Age'.
ralph miliband public lecture series
18-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?
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Speakers: Lord Meghnad Desai, David Harvey, Leo Panitch
Chair: David Held
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This event brings together leading social and political thinkers to debate the contemporary meaning and relevance of Marx's legacy on the occasion of the republication of The Communist Manifesto, with an introduction by David Harvey.
Meghnad Desai (picture) is emeritus professor of economics at LSE. David Harvey is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University, Ontario.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
public discussion
13-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Can We Measure Democracy? The Political uses of Indexes of Democracy, Governance and Civil Society
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Speakers: Hania Farhan, Catherine Fieschi, Michael Hammer
Discussants: Helmut Anheier, Jeff Thindwa
Chair: Martin Albrow
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The panel will explore various attempts to measure the extent of democracy, the strength of civil society, and the accountability of powerful organisations. What purposes do such measurements serve and what effects do they have?
Helmut Anheier is director of the Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg and centennial professor at LSE. Hania Farhan is director of research at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Catherine Fieschi is a senior associate at Demos. Michael Hammer is executive director of the One World Trust. Jeff Thindwa is a senior civil society specialist at the World Bank.
seminar and book launch
12-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, D602, Clement House, LSE
Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy
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Presenters: Helmut
Anheier and Yudhihthir Raj Isar
Panelists: Mary Kaldor and Henrietta L. Moore
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Cultures and Globalization is a new book series that highlights contemporary cultural changes and their implications and aims to encourage debate about the relationship between culture and globalization. Each volume also includes an innovative presentation of indicator suites on
cultures and globalization. The inaugural theme in 2007 was Conflicts and Tensions. The second volume, The Cultural Economy, analyses the
dynamic relationship in which culture is a driver of the economic changes that in turn transform the conditions of culture.
This seminar brings together scholars from different disciplines to address culture in a globalizing world.
public discussion
11-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Kosovo's Independence and the Balkans: regional implications and challenges
Speakers: Jelena Bjelica, Anna Di Lellio, Enver Hoxhaj, Tim Judah
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova
Uncertainty over the status of Kosovo had undermined stability in the Balkans since the early 1990s. The panel of experts discusses Kosovo's declaration of independence and its political, economic and security impact on the Balkans.
Jelena Bjelica is the editor-in-chief of the weekly Gradjanski Glasnik, Kosovo. Anna Di Lellio is the editor of the book The Case for Kosova: passage to independence. Enver Hoxhaj is the current minister of education, science and technology of the Republic of Kosovo. Tim Judah is the author of the prize winning book The Serbs: history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia.
research seminar series 2008/9
11-Nov-2008, 13:30-14:30, M101, LSE
Human Rights Futures
Professor Francesca Klug, Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Director of the Human Rights
Futures Project, will discuss her research. The Human Rights Futures Project seeks to explore and analyse the future direction of human
rights in the UK and elsewhere and to monitor and evaluate the Human Rights Act. The Project has critically assessed proposals for a British
Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to evaluate claims that it builds on the Human Rights Act and does not undercut or rescind from it. The
Project's research on equality as a foundation principle of 'second wave' human rights, and on comparative models for domestic human rights
protection, have fed into Francesca's work on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), on which she sits as a Commissioner. Francesca is currently writing a sequel to her book Values for a Godless Age: the story of the UK Bill of Rights (Penguin, 2000), to be published by
Routledge, with a working title How Rights Went Wrong: time for a new Enlightenment? Francesca will discuss these and other aspects of the
Project. She will be joined by her research assistant, Helen Wildbore.
research seminar series 2008/9
10-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, NAB,
room: 1.15, LSE
Imagining the City (with excerpts from the film 'Naata')
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Speakers: K P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
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Mumbai has been represented in diverse ways in the media - a range of representations that create a field as complex and contested as the city itself. Every act of representation is an exercise of power and resistance that relates to the larger relations of power, to processes of exclusion and inclusion that underpin the city. The presentation will explore the strategies adopted and the dilemmas faced by the filmmakers in representing the city, drawing on their film Naata.
K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS in Mumbai. Monteiro has a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. Jayasankar has an M.A. in German language and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences. Both are involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of their work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. These range from the stories and paintings of indigenous peoples to the poetry of prison inmates. Jointly they have won twenty one national and international awards for their films.
The Film
NAATA (The Bond); English, 2003, 45 mins.
Friends and activists, Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, work with neighbourhood peace committees in Dharavi, Mumbai to promote conflict resolution through the collective production and use of visual media. Korde and Khan are both long-time residents of Dharavi and both first-generation migrants to the city. As Asia's largest slum, with a population of 800,000, Dharavi has often been represented as a breeding ground for filth, vice and poverty, full of immigrants whose right to live in the city is often questioned by vigilante citizens' groups and right-wing politicians. However, Dharavi's long history of immigration has created a creative, productive space which plays an important role in the economy of the city; it is one of the major hubs of the informal sector that produces commodities ranging from food products to leather goods catering to a large export market.
When the deadly riots of 1992-93 tore the city and their community apart, Korde and Khan were moved to act, working to change both the negative perception of Dharavi and erase religious and ethnic divisions. Naata follows these remarkable men as they work on their film, Ekta Sandesh - their work paralleling that of Naata's own filmmakers, another filmmaking pair who are immigrants to their city of Bombay. Traveling with a projector and a screen, Korde and Khan show the film at their own expense in communities savaged by distrust and prejudice. The two pairs of filmmakers join forces in this documentary to spread their important message even further.
Naata is the second in a series on the people and the city of Mumbai. It is a sequel to Saacha
(The Loom), 2001.
thinking like a social scientist lunchtime lecture series
05-Nov-2008, 13:05-14:00, U8, Tower 1, LSE
Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Mary Kaldor
In this lunchtime series lectures, a selection of LSE’s academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.
Mary Kaldor is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Kaldor is also affiliated with the Development Studies Institute at LSE. She previously worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the Science Policy Research Unit and the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex. Her books include The Baroque Arsenal (1982) The Imaginary War (1990) New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (1999) Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003). She was a founder member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly, and a member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis, established by the Swedish Prime Minister and chaired by Richard Goldstone, which published the Kosovo Report (Oxford: OUP) in autumn 2000. Mary Kaldor was also convenor of the study group on European Security Capabilities established at the request of Javier Solana, which produced the Barcelona report, 'A Human Security Doctrine for Europe' and in 2007 the follow-up report, A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the Human Security Study Group.
public lecture
04-Nov-2008, 18:45-20:15, New Theatre, LSE
Trends in war, peace and arms? SIPRI Yearbook 2008: international security, regional conflict, armament and disarmament in review
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Speaker: Bates Gill
Respondents: Lord Malloch-Brown, Sam Perlo-Freeman
Chair: Mary Kaldor
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The panel will examine the major findings of this year’s SIPRI Yearbook, the iconic compendium of analysis and information on international security, regional conflict, armament and disarmament.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent International Institute for research in to problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament. SIPRI was established in 19966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. The SIPRI yearbook was first published in 1969 and is now in its 39th edition. SIPRI Yearbook 2008 presents a combination of original data in areas such as world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production, nuclear forces, major armed conflicts, peace and international security. The yearbook is written by both SIPRI researchers and invited outside experts. .
Bates Gill is the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Before he came to SIPRI Dr Gill had the position of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution, where he was the inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has consulted for a number of multinational corporations and government agencies.
Mark Malloch Brown was appointed the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN in June 2007 and attends meetings of the Cabinet. He served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from April to December 2006. Before this, from January 2005, he had been the Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet. From July 1999 until August 2005 he was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. After stepping down from the UN, he briefly took up the role of Vice Chairman of Soros Fund Management. Before the UN, he worked at the World Bank, joining in 1994 as Director of External Affairs and subsequently serving as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs from 1996 to 1999
Sam Perlo-Freeman is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Production Project.
public lecture
03-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
European Integration of Bosnia-Herzegovina: the challenges ahead
Speaker: Miroslav Lajčákl
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Confrontational domestic politics and vulnerability to events in neighbouring countries makes progress difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Will the incentive of eventual European Union membership change anything?
Dr Miroslav Lajčák is a high representative and EU special representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
research seminar series 2008/9
04-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Face of Poverty in Serbia, Household Strategies to Cope With it and State Policy to Combat it
Speaker: Marija Babovic
After a decade of socio-economic crisis, deconstruction of basic social institutions and impoverishment of the majority of the population, in 2000 Serbian society started reforms, and renewed growth despite continuous political instability. Marija Babovic explores who are poor and what are the features of poverty in a changing social context, from the perspective of LSMS longitudinal data. Applying analytical approach of households’ economic strategies, she elaborates dynamics of adaptation to transforming context and coping with (risks of) poverty. Finally, reflecting on state policy to combat poverty, she argues necessity of shift in key policy focus from poverty reduction to sustainable development, while preserving poverty reduction, and social inclusion as significant parts of social cohesion pillar of SD strategy.
Dr Marija Babovic is an LSE/OSI visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She is Assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, member of The Institute for Sociological Research, consultant of UNDP and other international organizations in Serbia. She was member of expert teams responsible for drafting two important strategies in Serbia: Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Strategy for Sustainable Development.
research seminar series 2008/9
28-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Civil Society, Communication and Iran
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Speaker: Maximillian Hänska-Ahy
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Maximillian Hänska-Ahy explores the relationship between the public sphere as the (heuristic) space for public will formation, civil society and forms of governance. He argues that exploring these relationships is interesting on two counts:
1.) A better understanding of the domains of public opinions formation can lend theoretical traction to our thought on the contemporary nature of political space and national communities.
2.) Contextualising the public sphere in relation to a particular socio-institutional context (rather than assuming a Habermasian ideal type) can add edifying caveats to our understanding of the role of media development in the promotion of good governance.
Currently at an early stage of his research, the proposed case study explores practitioner-conceptions of public communication from an Iranian local and exile perspective.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
22-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Politics of Climate Change
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Speaker: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens
Chair: Professor David Held
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There is a clear link between global warming and increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The challenge is a collective global response for action before it is too late.
Anthony Giddens is professor emeritus of sociology at LSE and former School director.
research seminar series 2008/9
21-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
From the Cold War to the War on Terror: Gulf Security in a Changing World
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Speaker: Kristian Ulrichsen
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Three major inter-state wars in the Gulf in the past three decades demonstrate that the region has not benefited from improved security following the ending of the Cold War. Indeed the US-led declaration of a ‘War on Terror’ in 2001 thrust the region back into the cockpit of conflict and instability, amid lingering fears that military strikes on Iran could lead to a fourth major war since 1980. Nevertheless, processes of political reform and economic liberalisation are underway at varying speeds in each of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and a range of new security challenges have emerged, requiring new responses from regional and international policy-makers.
This paper will argue that the concept of ‘Gulf security’ is evolving in response to these new challenges which link internal security to external stability and international events in the region. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of climate change, rapidly rising populations and the youth bulge, structural economic deficiencies and spiralling inflation, and progressive state failure in Yemen require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear proliferation and trans-national terrorism remain strong, these new challenges to Gulf security have the potential to strike at the heart of the social contract and redistributive mechanisms that bind state and society in the Arab oil monarchies.
This paper will examine the relationship between ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ security challenges and the ongoing processes of political reform and economic liberalisation and diversification in the Gulf. It will explore how regimes are anticipating and reacting to the shifting security paradigm, and contextualise these changes within the broader political, economic, social and demographic framework. It will argue that a holistic approach to security is necessary for regimes to renew their sources of legitimacy in a globalising world.
Kristian Ulrichsen is a Post-doctoral
Research Fellow on the Kuwait Research Programme on
Development, Governance and Globalisation in the
Gulf States.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
20-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Global Financial Crisis
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Will Hutton and Martin Wolf in conversation with David Held
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Will Hutton is Chief Executive of the Work Foundation. Prior, he spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Observer and continues to write a weekly column for the paper. Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.
The videocast of the event is available on LSE's website.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
13-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Challenge of Climate Change
Speaker: Sir David King
Chair: David Held
Without a new deal between rich and poor countries, climate change will continue to accelerate. How can this be tackled?
David King, former chief scientific adviser to the government, is director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University.
research seminar series 2008/9
14-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, New
Academic Building 1.15, LSE
The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgical Culture
From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage, and now on a global scale.
This paper considers the global rise of cosmetic surgery, and situates the economy of the makeover industries in the context of recent debates on globalization. Elliott argues that cosmetic surgical culturehas become increasingly global in our own time as a result of major institutional changes dominating public life in Western societies. He further contends that personal vulnerabilities have reached the point where people turn to surgical culture in an effort to reinvent themselves and improve their life prospects.
Anthony Elliott was appointed Professor of Sociology at Flinders University in 2006, where he has also served as Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He also holds a Visiting Research Professorship in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, UK. He was formerly Chair of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and prior to that Foundation Director of the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. Professor Elliott's writings have been translated into seventeen languages. He has lectured at about one hundred academic institutions worldwide.
His recent books include with Charles Lemert THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM (2006), THE CONTEMPORARY BAUMAN (2007), MAKING THE CUT: HOW COSMETIC SURGERY IS TRANSFORMING OUR LIVES (2008), with Paul Du Gay IDENTITY IN QUESTION (2008) and CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION (2008).
public lecture
Monday, 12-May-2008,
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
McMafia: Crime without frontiers
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Speaker: Misha Glenny
Chair: Mary Kaldor
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International journalist Misha Glenny talks about his investigation into the world of organised crime. He reveals how conventional policing cannot cope with globalised crime which is corrupting governments and fuelling human rights abuses and suffering.
Listen to mp3
public lecture
Thursday, 08-May-2008, 18:00-20:00,
G108, LSE
Addressing the Asymmetry of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict through the Current Negotiations
Speaker: Fuad Bateh
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Mr Fuad Bateh is Legal Advisor on Water and Environment in the Negotiations Support Unit, the DFID-funded project to support Palestinian negotiators. Mr Bateh’s work with the World's Bank International and Environmental Law Unit included support of Global Environment Facility grants and advising on the application of the World's Bank Environmental and Social (Safeguard) Operational Policies. Since joining the NSU, he has provided legal advice on the Palestinian Permanent Status issues on water and environment, and specifically provides guidance to the Palestinian delegation in the Technical Steering Committee in the processing of the Red Sea- Dead Sea studies program. His talk – on the 60th anniversary of the nakba and the creation of the Israeli state – will highlight the asymmetric allocation of waters that Palestinians and Israelis share, and present the Palestinian positive-sum proposal for ending the conflict.
ralph miliband lecture
Wednesday, 07-May-2008, 18:30-20:00
Green Peace: Energy, Europe and the Global Order
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Speaker: Rt Hon David Miliband
Chair: David Held
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David Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in June 2007.
Read a transcript of the lecture
public debate
Tuesday, 29-April-2008, Old
Theatre, LSE
The New Politics of Identity
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Speakers: Professor Lord Bikhu Parekh, David Goodhart, Professor John Keane
Chair: Professor Lord Tony Giddens
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The panel will discuss Bhikhu Parekh’s new book, A New Politics of Identity (Palgrave, March 2008) covering the impact of globalisation on ethnic, religious and national identities.
David Goodhart is editor of Prospect. John Keane is professor of politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. Bhikhu Parekh is professor of political philosophy, University of Westminster.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket
required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Mar-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Towards a Global Media Ethics
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book is Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave 2007, with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham).
public seminar
28-Feb-2008, 14:00-16:00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Hamas and Fatah, Together or Apart?
Sari Nusseibeh Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and President of
Al- Quds University, East Jerusalem (1995-
present).
Born Damascus, 1949, MA Oxon, PhD Harvard,
1978). Professor of philosophy at Birzeit University
on the West Bank (’78-’91). Member of Steering
Committee to the Madrid Negotiations (’91-’93).
Co-founder, Fatah Higher Committee in the
Occupied Territories. Founder of HASHD
(Palestinian Campaign for Peace and Democracy
–Nusseibeh/Ayalon:2003-2005). Selected (October 2005) as one of the 100 World
Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect
Magazines. Recipient of several prizes and awards, including, (2004),cowinner
of the Prima Catalunya Prize with Israeli writer Amos Oz. Author of
several books and articles in philosophy and politics, including, in 1991, No
Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(with Israeli co-author Mark Heller), and, in 1995, “On The Limits of Freedom”
(Arabic, London). Lectured widely in Europe and the United States, and was
Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2004-05).
Served briefly as the PLO's representative in East Jerusalem in 2001, and
was controversially outspoken against suicide-attacks and the use of violence,
calling for an immediate resolution of final-status issues (Jerusalem, refugees,
settlements), as a prerequisite for a successful Road-Map initiative.
Nusseibeh's recent book "Once upon a Country: a Palestinian Life" an
Autobiography (written with Anthony David; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
publishers; New York) has received numerous positive reviews; currently
Nussiebeh is working on the moral underpinnings of a future Palestinian
State (What's A Palestinian State Worth?) which is excepted to be published
next year by Harvard University Press.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2007/8
26-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Representing Children’s Interests in Global Governance
Speaker: Anna Holzscheiter
Anna Holzscheiter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Change & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
public lecture
25-Feb-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The $3 Trillion War: the true cost of the war in Iraq
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Speaker: Joseph E Stiglitz
Discussant: Mary Kaldor
Chair: David Held
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This event marks the launch of Professor Stiglitz's new book
The $3 Trillion War (Allen Lane, February 2007). This new book is a devastating rekoning of the true cost of the Iraq war.
Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor of the Columbia Business School. Previous positions he has held include Chief Economist at the World Bank and Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Professor Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. For more information see the LSE Events site:
research seminar series 2007/8
19-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Global Urbanity, War and the Securitisation of the 21st Century City
Speaker: Martin Coward
Marin Coward is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the nexus of identity, violence and territory. Currently he is investigating the manner in which this nexus is exhibited in the contemporary relationship between the city and war.
public lecture
18-Feb-2008, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance: enlarging democracy or confirming hegemony?
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Speaker: Jan Aart Scholte
Chair: Marlies Glasius
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Professor Scholte examines whether, as is often supposed, civil society activism is an answer to shortfalls of democratic accountability in global governance.
Jan Aart Scholte is centennial professor at the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, LSE.
public lecture
15-Feb-2008, 18:00-19:30, Old Theatre, LSE
Creating a World Without Poverty: how social business can transform our lives
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Speaker: Muhammad Yunus
Chair: Mary Kaldor
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Professor Yunus will outline his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more human world – and tell the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. This event marks the launch of his new book Creating a World Without Poverty: how social business can transform our lives.
Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. For more information see the LSE Events site:
international conference
1-2-Feb-2008, LSE
Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance in association with the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) at the LSE and Free University of Amsterdam will host an international conference titled, ‘Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond’.
The objective of this conference is to discuss and highlight the significance of peace movements during the Cold War era in order to draw conclusions for the analysis of contemporary socio-political reality and the evaluation and resolution of its conflicts and to encourage research and teaching on the history of peace movements. Traditional interpretations of the Cold War focus on nation-states and governments. An examination of the role and impact of citizen movements in both East and West is important not only for the depth it provides to the historical records of the Cold War, but also because it exposes the impact and significance of civil society in the resolution of conflicts more generally. It challenges the belief in the utility of ‘traditional’ military buildups and coercive pressure.
research seminar series 2007/8
15-Jan-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Rise and Fall of Transnational Civil Society: The Evolution of INGOs since 1839
Speaker: Thomas Davies
Thomas Davies is Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London, and Research Associate of the University of Oxford's project on 'Civil Resistance and Power Politics'. His first book, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism, was published in October 2007.
research seminar series 2007/8
11-Dec-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Revolution, Revolutionaries and Politics in Bihar
Speaker: Ashwani Kumar
Dr Kumar was born and brought up in the State of Bihar in India, did his MA and MPhil at the University of Delhi. After a brief stint of college teaching in Delhi, he went on to obtain a PhD in Political Science from University of Oklahoma (US). Currently he is Associate Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) and is also associated with Global Governance Research network at German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn. He has published articles and book chapters on political theory, politics in India, and Mahatma Gandhi. His book, Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar is forthcoming from Anthem Press (London).
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Dec-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Hiroshima the first global event
Martin Albrow is a sociologist, Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales and has been Visiting Professor in Roehampton, Cambridge, the LSE, Munich and the State University of New York. His books include Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory, Do Organizations Have Feelings?, Sociology: the Basics, and the prize-winning The Global Age. He was founder editor of the Journal International Sociology, President of the British Sociological Association and Chair of the Sociology Panel for the British universities Research Assessment Exercise. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a co-editor of Global Civil Society, 2006/7.
research seminar series 2007/8
27-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The International Criminal Court’s investigation in the Central African Republic: Expectations of civil society and victims
Marlies Glasius is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a lecturer at LSE's Government Department.
conference
24-Nov-2007, Lionel Robbins Building, Room R405, LSE
State Weakness in the Balkans: Context, Comparison and Implications
A conference organised by the Centre for the Study
of Global Governance.
Read the programme
panel debate
22-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, Hong
Kong Theatre, LSE
Can Democracy be bought? Democracy Promotion after 1989
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Speakers: Daniele Archibugi, Armine Ishkanian, Iain King
Chair: Mary Kaldor
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This debate will explore the success of democracy promotion efforts around the world and the impact and implications of foreign support on local processes of democratisation
More about the Global Civil Society 2007/8 Yearbook
panel debate
21-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Frivolous entertainment or potent tool of communication? The role of cartoons and graphic novels in a global age
In an interconnected world cartoons represent an increasingly significant political phenomenon. But their importance in the study of global civil society is easily overlooked. To what extent do cartoons influence people’s political priorities? What happens in the space between artistic intention and audience interpretation? To what extent can cartooning challenge power holders, particularly in illiberal regimes? Speakers include Steve Bell, cartoonist, Anita O'Brien, curator of the Cartoon Museum in London, and Bryan Talbot, graphic novelist and author of
The Tale of One Bad Rat.
More about the Global Civil Society 2007/8 Yearbook
research seminar series 2007/8
20-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Constructing Global Democracy
Speaker: Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies
and Co-Director
of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University
Warwick and Centennial Professor at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Professor Scholte is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005, 2nd ed.). His book Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity Press) is forthcoming in 2008.
panel discussion
19-Nov-2007, 16:30-18:00, Room
Y002, LSE
A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the
Human Security Study Group
On 8 November 2007 the Human Security Study Group, under the direction of Professor Mary Kaldor, professor of global governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE, launched its report A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the Human
Security Study Group in the presence of the EU High Representative Javier Solana in Madrid. The report is based on a year-long review of ESDP and human security, undertaken at the request of the 2006 Finnish presidency of the European Union.
This panel discussions presents findings from the
evaluation of EU missions in Kosovo, Democratic
Republic of Congo and the Middle East
ralph miliband lecture series 2007/8
13-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Past, Present and Future of Oil
Speaker: Lord John Browne
Chair: David Held
Based on his experience as former chief executive of BP, Lord Browne will share his thoughts about the future of oil, as it relates to its past and its present.
Lord Browne is a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
research seminar series 2007/8
13-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Creative Commons - A Global Civil Society Movement or just a suite of licenses?
Speaker: Frances Pinter
Dr. Frances Pinter currently works in the area of Intellectual Property
Rights and has been a consultant to Creative Commons. She was previously
Publishing Director for the Soros Foundation Network and was the founder of
Pinter Publishers. In 2000/01 she was a visiting fellow at LSE¹s Centre for
Civil Society. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Global Civil Society
Yearbook and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance.
research seminar series 2007/8
06-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Can development prevent conflict: lessons learned from Western Balkans and the CIS, recommendations for a wider Europe"
Speaker: Rastislav Vrbensky
Rastislav Vrbensky works for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is currently on sabbatical with the Centre of the Study of Global Governance of LSE as a visiting fellow. He has been the Assistant Director of UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava and last three years the Deputy Resident Representative in UNDP Serbia. In this capacity, he has led the design and implementation of one of the largest UN assistance programmes in Western Balkans. His research interest is particularly focused on development and security in transitional economies and post-totalitarian societies.
research seminar series 2007/8
30-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Strategy of Terrorism
Peter R. Neumann is Director of the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London, and a member of the Club de Madrid's expert advisory committee. He was Academic Director of the Club de Madrid's International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in Madrid in March 2005, and served as senior advisor to the National Policy Forum on Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose in the United States in 2005.
public lecture
29-Oct-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Role of Inter-governmental, State and Non-governmental Players in Conflict Resolution
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Speaker: Marti Ahtisaari
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
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This lecture will draw attention to the challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder co-operation in conflict resolution. The role of inter-governmental, state and non-governmental players in conflict resolution. Mr. Ahtisaari will draw attention to both challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder co-operation in conflict resolution. Mr. Ahtisaari's lecture is based on his extensive experience as a peace mediator, civil servant and board member of a number of non-governmental organisations.
Mr. Martti Ahtisaari has been involved with the UN since 1977 in a variety of tasks dealing among others with Namibia, Iraq, Horn of Africa and the Balkans. In addition he was facilitating a peace process between the Government of Indonesia and Free Aceh Movement, and has been involved in international tasks concerning Central Asia, Northern Ireland and Austria. Mr. Ahtisaari is active in a number of non-governmental organisations (Crisis Management Initiative, InterPeace, East-West Institute, Balkan Children and Youth Foundation). Martti Ahtisaari was the President of Finland between the years of 1994 and 2000.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
research seminar series 2007/8
23-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Human Security Analysis of the Ahtisaari Approach to Kosovo's Final Status
Speaker: Denisa Kostovicova
Denisa Kostovicova is a Lecturer at the Government Department and Development Studies Institute and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the LSE. Her research interests and the areas in which she has published include nationalism and democratisation in the global age, post-conflict reconstruction and security, and European integration of Western Balkans.
research seminar series 2007/8
18-Oct-2007, 11:00-12:00, Z225, LSE
The Impact of Commercialising Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Case of Landmine Clearance in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan
Speaker: Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton has recently returned from fieldwork researching foreign aid for demining in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan for his PhD in government at the LSE. Prior to becoming a graduate student he worked in humanitarian and development operations in ten countries, including Bosnia and Iraq. He has a MSc in development studies (research) from the LSE.
book launch
10-Oct-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Global Civil Society 2007/8: Communicative Power and Democracy
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Speakers: Mary Kaldor, Nick Couldry, Abdul-Rehman Malik, James Deane
Chair: Isabel Hilton
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This panel debate will explore how activists and organisations are using new communications technologies to create spaces for debate, to influence decisions that affect ordinary people’s lives and to press for greater democracy. The speakers are Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at LSE, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, Q-News contributing Editor, Abdul-Rehman Malik, and James Deane, Head of Policy Development at the BBC World Service Trust. Isabel Hilton, Editor of chinadialogue.net will chair the discussion.
This panel debate marks the launch of Global Civil Society 2007/8, London: Sage.
Voices of Global Civil Society: Cartoonists, Comic Strip Artists and Graphic Novelists
Following the Yearbook launch panel discussion, there will be an invite-only reception and opening of the exhibition, Voices of Global Civil Society: Cartoonists, Comic Strip Artists and Graphic Novelists, in the Atrium, the Old Building, LSE. If you would like to attend this reception, which takes place 8-9.30pm on 10 October, please email f.c.holland@lse.ac.uk for a ticket – places are limited and issued on a first come first served basis.
public debate - book launch
09-Oct-2007, 17:30-19:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Resource Curse
Speakers: Joseph C Bell, Terry Lynn Karl, Karin Lissakers, George Soros
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
For the vast majority of people in most resource-rich countries, natural wealth does not translate into prosperity. Instead it often leads to environmental and economic devastation, and hampers democratic reform. According to the World Bank, about 60 developing or transition countries are plagued by this resource curse, largely dependent on oil, mining or gas for revenues. A groundbreaking new guide to managing resource wealth, Escaping the Resource Curse is aimed at improving the livelihood of millions of people affected by this problem. The book connects the academic, policymaker and activist communities by providing practical recommendations for ending the resource curse. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
George Soros is Chairman of the Open Society Institute; Terry Lynn Karl is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Joseph C. Bell is Senior partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson; Mary Kaldor is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance LSE and Karin Lissakers is Director of the Revenue Watch Institute.
This panel debate marks the launch of a new book entitled "Escaping the Resource Curse," edited by Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz, Published by Columbia University Press.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
public debate
04-July-2007, Peacock Theatre, LSE
Energy Crisis: Resource Scarcity, Oil Wars, and Climate Change
Speakers: Professor Mary Kaldor, Yahia Said, George Soros and Professor Sir Nicholas Stern
Chair: Howard Davies
This event seeks to encourage a more holistic approach towards thinking about energy security, and will mark the launch of the publication Oil Wars, edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Karl and Yahia Said.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Yahia Said is research fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE and head of the Middle East Revenue Watch Programme, Open Society Institute. George Soros is chairman of the Open Society Institute. Professor Sir Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government at LSE.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required.
See the LSE site for more information.
interdisciplinary workshop
17/18-June-2007, LSE
Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) will host a 2 day interdisciplinary workshop which aims to bring together 15-20 researchers from all academic discourses researching collective memory and collective knowledge in a ‘global age’. The workshop will provide an opportunity for an exciting and challenging discussion of the issue that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
seminar and book launch
22-May-2007, 17:30-19:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions
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Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions
London: Sage.
Anheier, Helmut K. and Yudhushthir Raj Isar (eds) (2007)
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Cultures and Globalization is a new book series that highlights contemporary cultural changes and their implications and aims to encourage debate about the relationship between culture and globalization. Each volume also includes an innovative presentation of indicator suites on cultures and globalization. The inaugural theme in 2007 will be Conflicts and Tensions.
This seminar brings together scholars from different disciplines to address culture in a globalizing world.
Chair:
Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Emeritus, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
Presenters:
Helmut K. Anheier, Director, Centre for Civil Society, UCLA; Centennial Professor, LSE
Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris
Panelists:
Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
Henrietta Moore, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director Culture and Globalization Programme, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. A reception in the Atrium will follow the seminar at 7pm.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
2006/7
22-May-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Challenge of Affluence: self-control, well-being and future shock
Speaker: Professor Avner Offer
Chair: Professor David Held
Affluence breeds impatience, and impatience undermines well-being. The flow of new rewards can undermine the capacity to enjoy them. When choice is myopic, planning for the future is intractable. Instead of calculation, we rely on proven commitment devices like education and politics which are undermined by novelty. Future global shocks like energy depletion and climate change present dilemmas of this kind.
Avner Offer is Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and author of The Challenge of Affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
lunchtime discussion
22-May-2007, 1:00-2:30pm, M101, LSE
Democracy as Translation: The Global Social Justice Movement
Speaker: Nicole Doerr
Nicole Doerr is PhD Candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
2006/7
08-May-2007, 13:00-14:30, Old Theatre, LSE
The Hydrogen Economy: preparing the world for a new energy era and the third industrial revolution
Speaker: Jeremy Rifkin
Chair: Professor David Held
This lecture critically examines the fossil fuel era and its consequences for industrial civilisation. It explores the nexus of politics, society and business and the massive potential for industry and capital investment. It also considers the future of renewable energy and the hydrogen economy, and how an integrated infrastructure and energy regime can be created in Europe.
Jeremy Rifkin is founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington DC. He is an economist, writer and activist
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
public debate at the institute of contemporary arts (ICA), london
15-Mar-2007, 7pm, ICA, London
Modern Erotics and the quest for intimacy
Professor Moore will be taking part in an debate at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on Thursday 15 March, 7pm, on Modern Erotics and the quest for intimacy .
Today everyone seems subject to the demand to enjoy, to make love and sex into a project that succeeds. But the demand that sexual relations should be at the basis both of self-understanding and self-realisation often puts our intimate lives under particular pressure. Psychoanalysts Susie Orbach and Darian Leader, anthropologist Henrietta Moore and psychoanalytic theorist Renata Salecl discuss contemporary sexualities and their uneasy relationship to love, fantasy and intimacy.
research seminar series 2006/7
13-Mar-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Culture and Politics
Speaker: Henrietta Moore
Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Previously she was LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999. She has written and lectured on Social Theory, Epistemology, Feminist Theory, Anthropology, Gender, Space, Development and Social Enterprise.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
7-Mar-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Human Security: a debate
Speaker: Professor Michael Clarke, Professor Mary Kaldor
Chair: Professor David Held
Two of the most important voices in the UK debate questions of defence and human security, focusing on terrorism, WMD, and how one can address these threats.
Michael Clarke is director of the Centre for Defence Studies and the International Policy Institute at King’s College, and senior specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee. Mary Kaldor is director of LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance and was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2006/7
06-Mar-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Can Global Europe be a Social Europe?
Speaker: Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond is Director of the international think-tank Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at LSE. He is also an adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality. He is a former Special Adviser in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit.
research seminar series 2006/7
27-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Britannia Pacificatrix: Constructing ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ during the First World War in Britain
Speaker: Slobodan G. Markovich
Slobodan G. Markovich is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
20-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
The Concept of Territory in a Global Era
Speaker: Mohammad Raoof Heidary Far
Mohammad Raoof Heidary Far is a PhD Candidate at the University of Tehran and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
13-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Russian Civil Society and Human Rights in the Military
Speaker: Margot Light and Andrey Kuvshinov
Margot Light is Programme Director of the Human Rights in the Russian Military project and Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Global Governance, LSE. Andrey Kuvshinov is Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE, and former Chairman of the Siberian Human Rights Network (Russia).
research seminar series 2006/7
06-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Neocolonialism or Human Security? The European Union in Congo
Speaker: Mary Martin
Mary Martin is Research Fellow and co-ordinator of CSGG’s Study Group on Human Security
public debate
1-Feb-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Do global and regional connections help or
hinder democracy?
Speakers:
Miguel Darcy
de Oliveira,
David Chandler, Shami Chakrabati,
Monroe Price,Hosam El Sokkari
Chair: Mary Kaldor
A diverse panel of speakers will discuss how global
civil society is using different forms of communication
to spread democracy and promote human rights around the
world. New spaces for debate – on web-based forums,
alternative media, satellite television and other
channels of communication – have been created. But to
what extent do these realms enable greater citizen
engagement in decision-making? How important are global
or regional links among civil society organisations and
individuals in catalysing or deepening democracy? Should
civil society actors seek to influence debates and
democracy in other countries?
The speakers:
Hosam El Sokkari, Head of the BBC Arabic service
Miguel Darcy de Oliveira, Director, Institute for Cultural Action
David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
Shami Chakrabati, Director, Liberty
Monroe Price, Director, Project for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania
research seminar series 2006/7
30-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Moving Forward: Personal and Social Goals of Serbian Youth
Speaker: Nebojsa Petrovic
Nebojsa Petrovic is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
23-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, D002, LSE
Options for Iraq
Speaker: Yahia Said
Yahia Said is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. A frequent traveller to Iraq for research and outreach purposes, he has recently returned from a contract advising the United Nations on options for Iraq. Yahia’s insights into the economics, politics and culture of the Middle East honed over years of involvement, spans periods both before and after conflicts and regime change.
research seminar series 2006/7
16-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
The Political Situation in Lebanon and Human Security
Speaker: Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is Professor for Global GOvernance and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
public discussion
12-Dec-2006, 13.00, Lecture Theatre U8, Tower 1, LSE
Israel and Palestine - Is peace possible?
Speakers: Akiva Eldar and Stephanie Koury
Akiva Eldar is a Haaretz senior columnist and former Haaretz Washington correspondent. Akiva Eldar has formerly been Track 2 negotiator and has recently written the book Settlements and Settlers.
Stephanie Koury is a Palestinian lawyer now with the Sir Joseph Hotung law programme at SOAS. She has formerly been with the Palestinian Authority team in a Separation Wall case at International Court of Justice, with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Negotiation Support Unit, and has been a Track 2 negotiator.
The event is organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians. It is hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
ralph miliband lecture series 2006/7
05-Dec-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Governing Disease: Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Speakers: Professor Tony Barnett, Professor Alan Whiteside
Infectious disease epidemics are above all social events. With its massive death rates and long term effects, HIV/AIDS poses enormous challenges to governments. Its length and depth of impact raises even greater challenges. This lecture looks at how we govern infectious disease nationally and internationally in a rapidly shrinking world?
Professor Tony Barnett is professorial research fellow in the Development Studies Institute. In 2003 he was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute Lucy Mair Medal in recognition of his contribution to practical anthropology. Alan Whitehead is director of director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2003 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as one of the commissioners on the Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis
research seminar series 2006/7
28-Nov-2006, 13.00-14.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Multiethnic Democracy: Dilemmas of Macedonian-Albanian Integration
Speaker: Petar Atanasov
Dr Petar Atanasov is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE. He is the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Sociology at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Legal Research in Skopje, Macedonia.
ralph miliband lecture series 2006/7
20-Nov-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Climate Change: Global Solutions for an International Problem
Speaker: Professor Sir David King
Chair: Professor David Held
The earth is heating up. Manifestations of this trend are: heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather, ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding, glaciers melting, arctic and Antarctic warming. The lecture will explore the nature and origins of these phenomena and will look for political solutions both inside and outside the domain of national states.
Professor Sir David King is chief scientific adviser to the UK government and head of the Office of Science and Technology. He is a professor of chemistry at University of Cambridge.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis
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seminar series 2006/7
7-Nov-2006, 13.00-14.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Kosovo: The Final Status Decision and Its Pitfalls
Speaker: Denisa Kostovicova
Dr Denisa Kostovicova is Lecturer at the Department of Government and DESTIN at LSE. Her most recent publication is Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (London: Routledge, 2005).
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