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Departmental Seminars
POLIS Departmental Research Seminar
This Seminar Series returns this term
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The Cambridge IR and History Working Group
Alena Drieschova (University of Cambridge): “From a European Hierarchy Enshrined in Diplomatic Precedence to a Territorial Balance of Power Upheld by the Concert of Europe”
Thursday 28 October, 13:00-14:00. Refreshments will follow.
Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Department of Politics and International Studies.
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98334089351?pwd=a2lRUXFJTEJ3VWJHVUtQL05WZWVEQT09
Margot Tudor (University of Exeter): “Testing the Waters: Experiments in an International Military, 1946-1955”
Tuesday 16 November, 13:00-14:00. Refreshments will follow.
Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Department of Politics and International Studies.
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97234652536?pwd=WGVEazhYc3pqVFNXWXBuaDBmTFJpdz09
Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London): “The Silence of Empire: Territoriality, Geographic Imaginaries, and the 1884-5 Berlin Conference.”
Tuesday 30 November, 13:00-14:00. Refreshments will follow.
Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Department of Politics and International Studies.
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94970998313?pwd=a0ZyQ2JYaE85dlJKSFYwTkNaekNOZz09
The Cambridge seminar on the future of the island of Ireland
18 October
The future of the island of Ireland with Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach (Fianna Fáil) & Dr Barry Colfer, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
25 October
Uniting people from the grassroots with Eileen Weir (Shankhill Women’s Centre) & Prof Bronwen Walter, Anglia Ruskin University
8 November
The future of the island of Ireland with John Bruton (Fine Gael) & Prof Kalypso Nicolaides, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
15 November
The future of the island of Ireland with Lord Robin Eames (former Archbishop of Armagh and Anglican Primate of All Ireland)
22 November
The future of the Island of Ireland with Matt Carthy TD (Sinn Féin)
29 November
The future of the Island of Ireland with Ivana Bacik TD (Labour)
6 December
The future of the Island of Ireland with Doug Beattie MLA (Leader of the UUP)
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POLIS Political Economy Seminar Series
All in-person seminars will be in room 138 of the Alison Richard Building at 5 pm.
Wednesday 17 November at 5 pm (online)
'Financialised Capitalism and the Subordination of Emerging Capitalist Economies’
with Dr Anina Kaltenbrunner (Leeds)
Wednesday 26 January at 5 pm (In Person)
'Seeking Refuge in Mathematised Free Market Models? The Febrile Political Backdrop to Ricardo’s Principles’
with Professor Matthew Watson (Warwick)
Wednesday 23 February at 5 pm (In Person)
‘Guardians of Right and Reason? The Climate Problem of Politics and the Role of Courts and Central Banks in Greening the Economy’
Dr Hjalte Lokdam (LSE)
Wednesday 9 March at 5 pm (In Person)
Dr Victoria Paniagua (LSE) Title TBC
Wednesday 25 May at 5 pm (In Person)
Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford) Title TBC
Centre for Development Studies Seminar Series
Thursday 28 October at 3:30 pm (online)
Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg
Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development
Thursday 11 November at 4 pm (online)
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver
Farming the Floodplain: Gendered Surplus People and Climate Change Maladaptation in Northern Ghana
Thursday 25 November at 4 pm (online)
Benjamin Selwyn, University of Sussex
World Development Under Monopoly Capitalism
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