Centre for International Studies
Everyday Life in World Politics and Economics

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Organised by Centre for International Studies, LSE

Place: LSE campus, London      Date: Friday, May 11, 2007


Programme

9:30 – 10:00    Registration, Coffee/Tea

10:00 – 10:15  Welcome Addresses

Andreas Antoniades (Convenor of the Conference)
John Kent (Chair of the Centre for International Studies – CIS, LSE)

10: 15 – 12:15  Panel A.  Everyday Life: a Different Approach to World Politics and Economics

Chair: Andreas Antoniades (LSE)

Gregory J. Seigworth (Millersville University)
Something More, Something Less and Something Else: Henri Lefebvre’s Virtual Ontology of the Everyday

Peter Bratsis (University of Salford)
Everyday Life as Object and as Method; or, Can Herni Lefebvre Save Us From Political Science?
[download as PDF]

John M. Hobson (University of Sheffield) & Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School)
The Case for an Everyday International Political Economy

Matt Davies (University of Newcastle)
Works, Products, and the Division of Labour: Notes for a Cultural and Political Economic Critique
[download as PDF]

 

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break

 

13:15 – 15:15 Panel B. Beyond the Barricades: The Everyday Politics of Social Change

Chair: Helen Drake (Loughborough University)

Michael E. Gardiner (University of Western Ontario)
The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Debord and the Problem of ‘Recuperation’ in Everyday Life”

Katharine Griffiths (University of Durham)
The Affirmation of the Everyday as Resistance to National Socialism
[download as PDF]

Elizabeth H. Super (University of Edinburgh)
As Water Splits Stone: Rationalizing Engagement in Everyday Political Activity
[download as PDF]

Sara C. Motta (LSE)
The Reinvention of the Political in Venezuela; the Case of the Urban Land Movement (CTU)
[download as PDF]

 

15:15 – 15:35   Coffee/Tea Break

 

15:35 – 17:35    Round Table. Everyday Politics and Contemporary Social Science Research

Chair: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

Jonathan Githens-Mazer (University of Exeter)
National Myths, Memories and Repertoires of Contentious Politics: On Nationalism and Social Movements
[download as PDF]

Jenny Carl (University of Southampton) & Patrick Stevenson (University of Southampton)
Everyday Life in Politics: Individual Language Practice Among German Speakers in Hungary and the Czech Republic
[download as PDF]

Jon E. Fox (University of Bristol) & Cynthia Miller-Idriss (New York University)
Everyday Nationhood
[download as PDF]

Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway)
Reassessing Audiences and Citizens: the Everyday Modulation of Terror News
[download as PDF]

Patrick R. Ireland  (American University of Beirut)
Immigration, Integration, and Everyday Life in Europe’s Neighbourhoods
[download as PDF]

 

TABLE PAPERS

Andreas Antoniades (LSE) Cave! Hic Everyday Life: Repetition, Hegemony and the Social [download as PDF]

Albena Azmanova (University of Kent) Public Perceptions of the Politically Relevant in the Times of the New Economy [download as PDF]

Helen Drake (Loughborough University) New Britons in a New France? A Case-Study of Migration and Mobility in the 21st Century European Union [download as PDF]

Vincent Pouliot (University of Toronto) The Logic of Practicality at the NATO-Russia Council

James Tobias (University of California, Riverside) Ethical Address in the Computational Design of Everyday Life  [download as PDF]

 

The Conference is sponsored by:

Contemporary Research in International Political Theory (CRIPT), BISA
Department of International Relations, LSE
Director’s Fund, LSE
International Political Economy Group (IPEG), BISA

International Political Sociology Section (IPS), ISA

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Participation
The registration to the conference is free, but places are limited.
To register please send your name and affiliation to: CIS@lse.ac.uk.

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