International Research Seminar (IRS)
International Research Seminar by Professor Goldstone on Security Implications of Global Population Change
The Department of Political Science invites you to the International Research Seminar by Professor Dr. J. A. Goldstone.
Professor Goldstone will give a lecture on Security Implications of Global Population Change.
Thursday 9 February 2012
15.00 - 17.00, Z-009 (Metropolitan Building)
Professor Goldstone is Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor and Director of Center for Global Policy at George Mason School of Public Policy.
International Research Seminar by Professor Lipschutz on Decarbonisation, Climate Change and Sustainable Society
Getting out of the CAR: Decarbonisation, Climate Change and Sustainable Society
Thursday 3 November 2011
15.00 - 17.00, Z-209 (Metropolitan)
The search for a sustainable civilisation – an essential concomitant of dealing with global warming – will be driven, in part, by the ‘normalisation’ of a low-carbon lifestyle. To date, most research and discussion of this transition have centred on technological fixes and their economic equivalent, ‘getting prices right’. Although both approaches seem to point to reduced levels of consumption as a result of more ‘efficient’ processes and practices, neither really addresses the material and cognitive changes associated with need for drastic reductions in carbon burning. There is a glaring contradiction between the impetus for high rates of economic growth and the major modifications of ‘lifestyle’ necessitated by environmental crisis. ‘Lifestyle’ is usually approached as an individual attribute. This disregards the governmentalisation of consumption through advertising and other forms of preference-shaping, which serve to link lifestyle to ‘identities’.
Professor Lipschutz is Professor of Politics at the University of California Santa Cruz and Velux Visiting Professor at the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.
Please join us for the presentation, discussion and drinks afterwards!
28 October 2011 Brian Pollins (Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University)
7 October 2011 Aidan Regan (University College Dublin)
23 June 2011 Adrienne Roberts (Queen's University Canada)
21 June 2011 Juan R.I Cole (University of Michigan)
8 June 2011 Gareth Dale (Brunel University London)
8 April 2011 John Kannankulam (Philipps-University Marburg)
23 March 2011 Moira Nelson (University of Bern)
10 January 2011 Kenneth Thomas (University of Missouri-St.Louis)
8 October 2010 Herman Schwartz
9 April 2010 Cliff van der Linden (University of Toronto)
19 March 2010 James Bratt (Calvin College, Grand Rapids)
17 February 2010 Howard Rosen (Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington)
11 January 2010 Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College)
16 October 2009 Uwe Becker (University of Amsterdam)
25 September Amy Verdun (University of Victoria)
10 July 2009 Herman Schwartz ( University of Virginia)
15 May 2009 Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick)
11 May 2009 John D. Stephens (UNC Chapel Hill)
23 April 2009 Ulrich Schneckener (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin)
23 March 2009 Stuart Shields (Manchester University)
28 November 2008 Ian Bruff (Edge Hill University)
29 February 2008 Clare Hutchinson (former Head of Office, UNMIK Gender Department)
14 November 2007 Branko Milanovic (Worldbank)
8 December 2006 Ryan Bakker and David Armstrong (Nuffield College, Oxford)
31 March 2006 Chad Nilson (New Orleans)
9 December 2005 Paul Taggart (Sussex)
6 December 2005 Pieter Vanhuysse (Haifa)
16 September 2005 Klaus-Dieter Wolf (Darmstadt)
10 June 2005 Philip Manow (Max Planck Institut Koln)
3 June 2005 Evelyne Huber and John Stephens (Chapel Hill)
13 May 2005 Magnus Ryner (Birmingham)
8 April 2005 Manfred Schmidt (Heidelberg)
11 March 2005 Kris Deschouwer (VU Brussel)
11 February 2005 Jean-Christophe Graz (Lausanne)
12 November 2004 Adrienne Héritier (EUI Florence)
28 October 2004 James Caporaso (Seattle)
15 september 2004 Gerald Schneider (Konstanz)
11 June 2004 Simon Hix (LSE)
14 May 2004 Ian Budge (Essex)
7 May 2004 David Cameron (Yale University)
23 April 2004 Bob Jessop (University of Lancaster)
3 february 2004 Tanja Börzel (University of Heidelberg) and Thomas Risse (Free University of Berlin)
