Politics Research Seminars
The Politics Department sponsors a regular Research Seminar Series, which meets every two weeks during term time and brings together academic staff and postgraduate and undergraduate students from our university. The purpose of the research seminars is to provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research papers and to increase awareness among or students about developments in diverse themes of research in the field today. We invite high-profile UK and international scholars who present their work and invite discussions with the audience. All members of the university community are welcome to participate.
Year 2010/11
10th March 2010
Claudio Radaeli University of Exeter, 4:30pm
Year 2009/10
11th November 2009
Prof. Peter Willetts, City University London, 4:30pm, 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
"NGOs and the Creation of the Internet"
18th November 2009
Alex Braithwaite, University College London, 4:30pm, 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
"Territorial Motivations for Terrorism"
1st December 2009
Sherrill Stroschein, University College London, 4:30pm, 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
"Demography in Ethnic Party Fragmentation: Hungarian Local Voting in Romania"
20th January 2010
Jane Green, University of Manchester, 4:30pm, 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
17th February 2010
Renske Doorenspleet, University of Warwick, 5:00pm 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
Critical Citizens, Democratic Support and Satisfaction in African Democracies
12th May 2009
Rosie Campbell, Birbeck College, 4:30pm, 02DK02 (Duke of Kent)
'The resurgence of Tory women? Gender and the 2010 British general election'
28th April 2010
Milena Büchs, University of Southampton 4:30pm
5th May 2010
Christine Reh, University College London, 4:30pm
Year 2008/9
22nd October 2008
Susan Banducci, University of Exeter
"Gender Stereotypes of Political Candidates: A Meta Analysis"
12th November 2008
Scott Blinder, Oxford University
19th November 2008
Marco Steenbergen, University of Bern
"Ambivalent Citizens: Partisan Ambivalence in U.S. Elections"
10th December 2008
Rob Ford, Manchester University
"Britain coming to terms with diversity: changing attitudes to ethnic minorities and immigrants"
25th February 2009
David Chandler, University of Westminster
"What do we mean when we say that we live in a Global World or participate in Global Politics?"
4th March 2009
Chris Wlezien, Temple University
"Markets vs. Polls as Predictors: An Historical Assessment of US Presidential Elections."
18th March 2009
Petr Kopecky, Leiden University
"Party Patronage in Contemporary Democracies"
Semester 2007/8
23rd January 2008
Combined CMC/PIPS Seminar - Professor Robert Fine, University of Warwick
"Hannah Arendt's critical cosmopolitanism".
27th February 2008
Dr Naomi Head, Department of Political and International Studies, University of Leeds
"Communicative violence: deliberative legitimacy and a reappraisal of the intervention in Kosovo in 1999".
12th March 2008
Professor Neil Renwick, University of Coventry
"China's African Adventure".
16th April 2008
Combined CMC/PIPS Seminar - Dr Neil Gavin, Department of Politics, School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool
"Global Warming and the British Media: The Emergence of an Issue and its Political Implications".
30th April 2008
Combined CMC/PIPS Seminar - Dr Samantha Ashenden, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London
"On Luhmann: Social Power and Knowledge".
14th May 2008
PIPS Seminar - Lord David Hannay of Chiswick
"New World Disorder: How Can the International Community Best Respond".
