Seminar series
2011/12 Programme
Semester 2
[poster]Wednesday, 8 February, 2012, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place 2.210
Simon Manley (Head, Europe Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
British Influence in the European Union: challenges and prospects
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Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:00 @ Room 3.210, University Place
Dr Christine Agius (University of Salford)
Terrorism, safety, and identity: the state of Scandinavian security
Wednesday 7 March 2012, 14:00 @ Room 3.210, University Place
Roger Lawrence (Leader of the Wolverhampton City Council)
English local government, the cuts and Europe: are attitudes and actions changing?
Wednesday 21 March 2012, 14:00 @ Room 3.210, University Place
Dr. Diana Bozhilova (Kings College London)
EU-Russia Energy Negotiations: between Rational Self-Interest and Collective Action
Friday 23 March 2012, 16:00-18:00 @Samuel Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester
Is European Multiculturalism in Crisis? International Debate
Participants include Nicolas Bancel (Université de Lausanne) Mary Dejevsky (Chief Editorial Writer and Columnist, The Independent), Jon Gower Davies (writer), Kenan Malik (Writer, Broadcaster), Tariq Modood (Director of Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship), and Erik van Ree (University of Amsterdam). Further biographical details of each participant can be found below.
Nicolas Bancel is a historian and Professor at the University of Lausanne (on secondment from the University of Strasbourg). He has worked on the history of decolonisation in West Africa, the history of the colonial imaginary and of colonial practices in France, and the postcolonial status of contemporary France. He is currently working on the genesis of the scientific concept of ‘race’. His most recent publications and collaborations include: Ruptures postcoloniales. Les nouveaux visages de la société française (2010); Human Zoos. Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire (2009), De l’Indochine à l’Algérie. La jeunesse en mouvement des deux côtés du miroir colonial, 1940-1962, (2009), and Culture coloniale en France. De la révolution française à nos jours, (2008).
Mary Dejevsky is a columnist and editorial writer at The Independent. A past correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington, and special correspondent in Germany, she contributes to several specialist and online publications, and broadcasts regularly on British and US radio and television. She writes many of the main editorials at The Independent and columns on a wide range of subjects, including foreign affairs, British politics, and the media. A Russia specialist by training, Mary is a member of the Valdai Group (invited since 2004 to meet Russian leaders each autumn), an honorary fellow at the University of Buckingham, and a member of Chatham House, the leading British foreign affairs think-tank.
Jon Gower Davies was born in North Wales, educated in Kenya, England and the USA and, on retirement, was Head of Religious Studies at the University of Newcastle. For twenty years an elected member of Newcastle City Council, he is the author of (most recently) four books on multiculturalism: Bonfires on the Ice: the multicultural harrying of Britain (2007); In Search of the Moderate Muslim (2009) A New Inquisition: religious persecution in Britain today (2010): and Small Corroding Words; the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC (2011).
Tariq Madood is Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates in Britain, was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001 and was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. His recent publications include Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2007) and Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship (2010); and as co-editor, Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, (2009) Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness (2011) and European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (2011).
Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. His main academic interests are in the history of ideas, moral and political philosophy, and the history and sociology of race and immigration. His last book, From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orwell Book Prize. Other books include Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate (2007), Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell us about Human Nature (2000), and The Meaning of Race (1996). His new book, on the history of moral thought, will be published next year. He is a writer and presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Analysis programme, and a panellist on The Moral Maze. An archive of his work can be found at www.kenanmalik.com.
Erik van Ree teaches in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests mainly concern the history of Stalinism, communism and Marxism. He is author of numerous articles in academic journals and of several books, including The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin (RoutledgeCurzon 2002). He is a regular participant in debates in the Netherlands about issues concerning freedom (such as freedom of speech and the drug issue) and multiculturalism, liberalism and Islam. His articles on these issues have mainly appeared in the left-wing weekly De Groene Amsterdammer.
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