What matters? Population health sciences and setting priorities in public health
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Professor Sandro Galea, Columbia University, Chair of the Institute Scientific Advisory Committee
Date and time: Thursday 2 May 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: tba
Registration at: http://ihwmay2.eventbrite.co.uk
Psychology, Popular Culture and the Construction of the Identity in Yugoslavia
Central and East European Studies / Glasgow South-East Europe Research Network (GSERN) Joint Seminar (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia
Location: CEES Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
Psychology, Popular Culture and the Construction of the Identity in Yugoslavia
Central and East European Studies / Glasgow South-East Europe Research Network (GSERN) Joint Seminar (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia
Location: CEES Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
Public Health in an Uncertain Future
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Professor Hilary Graham, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
Date and time: 18 April 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: TBC
Further information and registration (places are limited): http://ihw18apr.eventbrite.co.uk
New Agendas on Youth and Young Adulthood
Youth Studies Conference 2013
Keynote speakers: Mary C. Brinton Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Departmental Chair, Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy and Head of the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, Guy Standing, Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath
Dates: 08-10 April, 2013
Venue: University of Glasgow
Scottish Centre for China Research / CR&DALL Joint Seminar
The development of a network of learning cities and a learning city index: rationale and objectives
Dr Yang Jin, UNESCO
Date and time: Thursday 28 March 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
The development of a network of learning cities and a learning city index: rationale, objectives and implications for a ‘Learning Town’ initiative
CR&DALL Seminar
Dr Jin Yang, Senior Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Hamburg; Dr Peter Kearns, Director, Global Learning Services, Australia, Co-director of PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE); Dr Roberta Piazza, University of Catania
Date and time: Wednesday 27 March 2013, 5.30-7.00pm
Location: Room 127, Rutherford McCowan Building, Crichton Campus, Dumfries
Opportunities in Kanagawa Prefecture
Europe-Japan Dialogue series 2012/13 - 'Opportunities in Japan', hosted and sponsored by the Adam Smith Business School
Ms Honami Yatagai, Representative of Kanagawa Prefecture Government
Venue: Clydesdale Bank Lecture Theatre
Date and time: Monday 25 March 2013, 5pm for 5.30pm
Adult and Lifelong Learning in the UK and Japan – the definition of 'a qualified HE entrance student'
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Professor Masaaki Yanagida, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Date and time: Monday 25 March 2013, 3.00-5.00pm (tea/coffee available from 1.15pm)
Location: Room 201, St Andrew's Building
How a Chinese community is lost in London: an analysis with lishang-wanglai model
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme
Dr Xiangoung Chang, London School of Economics
Date and time: Thursday 21 February 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
History, Memory and Conflict
Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) Conference
Keynote: Theories of cultural memory and the concept of 'afterlife' (Prof. Aleida Assmann)
Date and time: 18-19 March 2013 (Keynote: 18 March, 6.15pm)
Venue for Keynote: Gannochy Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building
Registration for this event is required as places are limited. Please register at <http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3276432899#>. (Please note that registration has been split into, Day 1, 18th March; Keynote Address, 18th March ; and Day 2, 19th March. Please register separately for each section.)
Volunteers, Entrepreneurs and Patriots: youth as new subjects of state policy in Putin’s Russia
Central and East European Studies / Politics Joint Seminar (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Julie Hemment, University of Massachusetts
Location: CEES Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
International Ethnic Conflict Mediation in Bosnia and Kosovar Response to the Dayton Agreement: What Went Wrong?
Central and East European Studies Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Ms Chiara Tessaris, PhD Reseacher, University of Columbia, and Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Visiting Scholar
Location: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
China's environmental politics [title to be confirmed]
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Professor Haifeng Huang, Peking University HSBC Business School
Date and time: Thursday 14 March, 4.00-5:30pm
Location: Room 718, Adam Smith Building
China's environmental politics [title to be confirmed]
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Professor Haifeng Huang, Peking University HSBC Business School
Date and time: Thursday 14 March, 4.00-5:30pm
Location: Room 718, Adam Smith Building
CIER (Community for Internationalisation and Entrepreneurship Research) Workshop
These workshops are linked to the "Globalisation, Competitiveness and Sustainability" theme of the College of Social Sciences.
Tanja Kontinen (International Networking Among Family SMEs); Haina Zhang (Contextualizing Charismatic Leadership in Chinese Organizations); Alfredo D' Angelo (The Impact of Foreign Competition on SMEs Internationalisation)
This is a paper developmental session, so we will be having one-hour slots for each: 20-25 min for the presentation of the paper; and 35-40 min for Q&As. All of you are invited to attend and provide feedback.
Date and time: Thursday 14 March 2013, 1.00-4.00pm
Location: Room 656E - Hewden Stewart, Level 6, Main Building
HEHTA Launch Event
Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment Research Group / Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Date and time: Tuesday 12 March 2013,
Venue: Senate Rooms, University of Glasgow
Register for the event here by Monday 25th February.
Obama and Transatlantic Relations: what happens next?
Politics Seminar Series (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Professor John Peterson (University of Edinburgh)
Date and time: 11 March 2013, 4.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT
Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Central and East European Studies Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Zharmukhamed Zardykhan, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Visiting Scholar
Location: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Central and East European Studies Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Zharmukhamed Zardykhan, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Visiting Scholar
Location: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Cannabis before the 'counter-culture': Control and consumption in Britain, 1928-1961
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme (Sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Jim Mills (University of Strathclyde)
Date and time: Thursday 7 March 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Cannabis before the 'counter-culture': Control and consumption in Britain, 1928-1961
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme (Sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Jim Mills (University of Strathclyde)
Date and time: Thursday 7 March 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
How a Chinese community is lost in London: an analysis with lishang-wanglai Model
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Xiangqun Chang, London School of Economics
Date and time: Thursday 7 March, 4-5:30pm
Location: Room 718, Adam Smith Building
Using electronic medical records for research – a new generation of case register
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology & Clinical Informatics Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Date and time: Wednesday 6 March 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building
Registration at: http://ihw6mar.eventbrite.co.uk
"Why don't you tell us about them rabbits, George?" The Just War Tradition and its Discontents
Politics Seminar Series (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Cian O'Drsicoll (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: 4 March 2013, 4.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT
Transforming Capitalism Through Real Utopias
David Frisby Memorial Lecture 2013
Professor Erik Olin Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Date and time: Friday 01 March 2013, 4.00-6.00pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 2
Criminal dons, police and security guards: Unconventional security assemblages in urban Jamaica
Urban Studies Seminar Series (sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Rivke Jaffe
Date and time: Friday 1 March 2013, 2.15-3.45pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Grant Applications: Developing a Proposal and Making the Case for Support
Joint Arts Lab/ASRF seminar for staff of both colleges
The seminar will be led by Jeremy Smith (Arts Lab) and Andrew Hoskins (College of Social Sciences, Director of the Adam Smith Research Foundation).
Date and time: Wednesday 27 March, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Venue: Room 711, Adam Smith Building
Please register via email to <anna.rosenfeldt@glasgow.ac.uk>
Current research in the Colleges of Arts and Social Sciences
Joint Arts Lab/ASRF seminar for staff of both colleges
The seminar will be led by Jeremy Smith (Arts Lab) and Andrew Hoskins (College of Social Sciences, Director of the Adam Smith Research Foundation).
Date and time: Thursday 28 February, 10.00am-12.00pm
Venue: Room 711, Adam Smith Building
Please register via email to <anna.rosenfeldt@glasgow.ac.uk>
Economic Challenges Facing an Independent Scotland
Glasgow Global Security Network Lecture Series on Security and an Independent Scotland.
Professor John Kay
Venue: Bute Hall (Main Building) at 5:15pm on 21 February 2013. Refreshments will be served from 4:45pm onwards.
Further details…
Please register via eventbrite: <http://www.eventbrite.com/org/3122298158?s=9992052>
Banking reform and competition in China
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme
Dr Chunxia Jiang, Middlesex University
Date and time: Thursday 21 February 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Torture and Terror: Balancing Human Rights with National Security?
School of Law Seminar
Shaheed Fatima, Blackstone Chambers
Date and time: 21 February 2013, 5.30pm (Tea and coffee available from 5pm. The seminar will be followed by a wine reception)
Venue: John McIntyre Building, Rooms 201 (Refreshments in 208)
Please register in advance here: <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5449934902>
Risk Management Strategies in International Business
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme (Sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Teresa da Silva Lopes (University of York)
Date and time: Thursday 21 February 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Japan, an Ambassador’s and Hitachi Group Chairman’s view
Europe-Japan Dialogue series 2012/13 - 'Opportunities in Japan', hosted and sponsored by the Adam Smith Business School
Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG, Director and Group Chairman of Hitachi Europe
Venue: Clydesdale Bank Lecture Theatre
Date and time: Monday 18 February, 5pm for 5.30pm
Please reserve your place by registering online at http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/newsandevents/europejapan/europe-japanseries201213registration/
Mad Women: Gender and Sexuality Perspectives on Advertising in Sweden 1850-1980
Economic and Social History Seminar Series (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University
Date and time: Thursday 14 February 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House
Testosterone, Immunocompetence Handicaps and Political Order
Politics Seminar Series (supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Dr Paul Graham (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: 11 February 2013, 4.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QF
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme
Dr Sai Ding, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday 7 February 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Justice in a Globalizing World: Resolving Conflicts Between Workers’ Rights Beyond the Nation State
School of Law Seminar Series
Judy Fudge, University of Victoria
Date and time: Wednesday, 6th February 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment at University of Glasgow
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Professor Andrew Briggs, Chair in Health Economics, Health Economics and Health Technology, HEHTA
Date and time: Wednesday 6 February 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building
Registration at: http://ihw6feb.eventbrite.co.uk
Transitional Justice in Cambodia: The Coincidence of Power and Principle
Glasgow Human Rights Network Events Programme 2012/13
Dr Kirsten Ainley, Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics
Date and time: Tuesday 5 February 2013, 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Basement Seminar Rooms (E15)
Irregular Marriage: Official Attitudes and Popular Practice
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme (Sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Eleanor Gordon (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday 31 January 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Direct investment from China and economic growth in host developing countries
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme
Dr Xiaolan Fu, University of Oxford
Date and time: Thursday 31 January 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
The Middle East and North Africa
Glasgow Human Rights Network Annual Keynote Lecture 2013
Kate Allen, UK Director of Amnesty International
Date and time: Thursday 31 January 2013, 4.00-8.00pm
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Building, Seminar Room 257 (Hugh Fraser) (C8)
Struggles for movement, new forms of disconnect. Roma migrations from Central Eastern Europe to Great Britain
Central and East European Studies / GRAMNet Joint Seminar
Dr Jan Grill, University of Manchester
Date and time: Wednesday 30th January 2013, 5.30pm (tea/coffee available from 5.00pm)
Venue: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Postponed: Exploring reasons for different health outcomes in identically deprived post-industrial UK cities
Urban Studies Seminar Series (sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
David Walsh (Public Health Programme Manager, Glasgow Centre for Population Health)
Date and time: Friday 25 January 2013, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Class consciousness amongst Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK
Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme
Dr Bin Wu, University of Nottingham
Date and time: Thursday 24 January 2013, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Precarious Work and the Fragmentation of International Labour Law
School of Law Seminar Series
Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto
Date and time: Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Converting History in Literature: The Case of Trotsky´s Exile in Mexico
Central and East European Studies Seminar Series
Dr Christine Hüttinger, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, México
Date and time: Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 5.30pm (tea/coffee available from 5.00pm)
Venue: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Democracy, Citizenship and World Government
Carnegie Lecture in International Relations (Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Professor Chris Brown (London School of Economics)
Date and time: 23 January 2013, 5.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Cities, Risks and the Nation-state in the 21st Century
Joint Adam Smith Business School and School of Social and Political Sciences Seminar
Professor Josef Konvitz, Honorary Professor of Education, University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor with King’s College, London
Date and time: Friday 18 January 2013, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 305, Main Building, Adam Smith Business School
To register for this event, please contact Donna.Crawford@glasgow.ac.uk
"A London Plague that must be Swept Away": Reassessing Late Victorian and Edwardian Youth Gangs
Joint Seminar with Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Economic and Social History Seminar Programme (Sponsored by the MacFie Bequest)
Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Date and time: Thursday 17 January 2013, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Resorting to Crime
Regius Chair of Law Inaugural Lecture and Wine Reception
Professor James Chalmers, Regius Chair of Law, University of Glasgow
Date and time: 17 January 2013, 6.00pm
Venue: Bute Hall (with drinks reception after the lecture in the Hunterian Museum)
Whilst this is a free event, pre-registration is required. To register please click here: http://regiusprofessor.eventbrite.co.uk
Social Media in an Academic Environment
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series 2012/13
Ms Jenny Foreman, Information Literacy Librarian and Mrs Morag Higgison, Librarian, Information Literacy & Knowledge Hub Librarians, Scottish Government Library
Chair: Rich Mitchell, Professor of Health and Environment, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 16 January 2013, 3.30pm (refreshments beforehand)
Venue: (provisionally) Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw16jan.eventbrite.co.uk/
School of Education Theory and Methods Seminar
Orchestrating Personal Inquiry: a contradiction in terms?
Professor Eileen Scanlon, Professor of Educational Technology and Associate Director of Research and Scholarship in the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK.
Inter-Life - a novel Technology Enhanced Learning tool that supports Life Transition Skills Learning.
Dr. Alison Devlin, Research Associate, School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.
Date and time: Wednesday 16 January 2013, 1.30-4.00pm
Venue: Room N201, North Wing, St. Andrew's Building
Mobilising knowledge: how ideas can influence policy
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Des Mcnulty, College of Social Sciences Knowlege Exchange Officer
Date and time: Friday 11 January 2013, 2.30-4.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Residential Research Methods Workshop for PhD Students in the College of Social Sciences
Keynote speaker: Professor Graham Crow, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Research Methods
Dates: Friday 14 – Sunday 16 December 2012
Location: Dumfries Campus, University of Glasgow
Please contact Mrs Ann Mulholland for further details or if you wish to apply for a place. Application deadline: Friday 2 November 2012. Places are limited to 30 students.
Positive Leadership in Universities – Mission Impossible?
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Professor Jari Stenvall and Professor Antti Syväjärvi, University of Lapland
Date and time: Thursday 13 December, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: St. Andrews Building, Room 101
How did a Scottish banker enhance the development of Japan? : Alexander Allan Shand, 1844-1930
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Eiji Hotori (Yokohama National University and University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday 18 October, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Making and demonstrating research impact
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Sandra Nutley (Professor of Public Policy and Management, University of St Andrews)
Date and time: Friday 07 December 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Cyberwar and Rivalry: The Dynamics of Cyber Conflict between Antagonists, 2001-2011
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Dr Brandon Valeriano, University of Glasgow
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 03 December 2012, 4pm
Japanese Risk, Quality and Trust Traits
Europe-Japan Dialogue series 2012/13 - 'Opportunities in Japan', hosted and sponsored by the Adam Smith Business School
Mr Vaughan Turner, Managing Director, Terasaki Electric Europe
Venue: Clydesdale Bank Lecture Theatre
Date and time: Monday 3 December, 5pm for 5.30pm
Planning under Urban-Rural Integration: the case of Nanjing, China
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Cecilia Wong (Professor of Spatial Planning, University of Manchester)
Date and time: Friday 30 November 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Women resist exploitation in Central America and South Africa: what lessons can we learn?
Glasgow Human Rights Network lecture series (Joint event with Central American Women's Network)
Reyna Quintanilla & Patricia Dyata
Date and time: Friday 30 November, 2.00-5.00pm
Venue: tbc
Glasgow ILA Lecture: International Law and imperial logics
School of Law Seminar Series
Professor Matt Craven, SOAS, London
Date and time: Thursday 22 November 2012, 5.00pm
Venue: Melville Room, Main Building
Reasons and consequences of regional divergence in East Central Europe in the transition process ‐ an East Central European mosaic
West Coast Seminars Series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Dániel Kuttor, University of Miskolc, Hungary, and Central and East European Studies Visiting Research Fellow
Date and time: Wednesday 21 November 2012, 5.30pm
Location: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Supported by the MacFie Bequest
Global Governance of Financial Markets
School of Law Seminar Series
Professor Emilios Avgouleas, Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Wednesday 21 November 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
The development of a network of learning cities and a learning city index: rationale and objectives POSTPONED
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Jin Yang, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Hamburg
Date and time: Tuesday 20 November 2012, 2.00-4.00pm. New date in 2013 tba.
Venue: Room tbc, St. Andrew's Building
The social construction of press freedom in new democracies: between universal norms and local practices
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Dr Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 19 November 2012, 3pm
Lessons from history? Charity, mutual aid and the origins of the "Big Society"
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Bernard Harris (University of Southampton)
Date and time: Thursday 15 November, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Indivisible Human Rights: A Discursive History
Politics Seminar Series, co-hosted with Glasgow Human Rights Network
Professor Daniel Whelan, Hendrix College
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 12 November 2012, 4pm
Indivisible Human Rights: A Discursive History
Glasgow Human Rights Network lecture series
Prof. Daniel Whelan, Hendrix College, University of London
Date and time: Monday 12 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 916, D8
Evidencing social and cultural impacts of migration
ESRC Festival of Social Science event
Organised by: Rebecca Kay, University of Glasgow and COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership
Location: COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH
Date and time: 9 November, 9.30am-2.00pm
Advance registration is required, please register online.
Tim Butler (Professor of Human Geography, Kings College, London)
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Title tbc
Date and time: Friday 09 November 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: tbc
The Soviet Model of Modernity and the Political Transformations in Post-Communist
West Coast Seminars Series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Professor Mikhail Maslovski, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Visiting Scholar
Date and time: Thursday 15 November 2012, 5.30pm
Location: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Supported by the MacFie Bequest
Behaviour change in 160 characters: developing a mobile phone intervention to reduce binge drinking among disadvantaged men
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Presenter: Professor Iain K Crombie, University of Dundee, School of Medicine
Chair: Rich Mitchell, Professor of Health and Environment, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 7 November, 3.30pm
Venue: Level 5 Seminar Room, Sir Alwyn Williams Building
For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw7nov.eventbrite.co.uk/
Mining and Human Rights in Colombia
Glasgow Human Rights Network lecture series, co-sponsored with SCIAF, featuring individuals from ABColombia and the indigenous Awá people
Date and time: Wednesday 7 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Seminar Room 3 (Gannochy), Location C8
Economic crisis in central and eastern Europe
ESRC Festival of Social Science event
Organised by: Jon Oldfield, Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES)
Date and time: 5 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Location: University of Glasgow
Please register your interest by email to Ms Ann Mulholland
Investment Funds in China
Adam Smith Business School Guest Lecture
Stuart H. Leckie, OBE, JP, FIA, FSA
Date and time: Monday 5 November 2012, 5pm for 5.30pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building
Diffusion and Non-violent Protest
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex & PRIO
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 05 November 2012, 4pm
Scotland's Constitutional Future: so where are we now?
Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum seminar
Alan Page (Professor of Public Law, University of Dundee) and Stephen Tierney (Professor of Constitutional Theory, University of Edinburgh)
Date and time: Friday 02 November 2012, 2.00-4.30pm (registration from 1.30pm)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hunterian Art Gallery, Hillhead Street
If you would like to attend this event, please contact Ms Lilian Wright, School of Law (Tel: 0141 330 5864)
Citizenship, association and professionalization: the use of urban space in Glasgow, 1896-1946
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Lucy Hewitt (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday 01 November, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Experiences of studying and learning for adult learners on access course programmes: findings from the research/practice dialogue
Joint Seminar organised by the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde, in Association with CRADALL, University of Glasgow
Tony Anderson (School of Psychological Sciences and Health), Bill Johnston (Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, Alix McDonald (Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde)
Date and time: Wednesday 31 October 2012, 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Seminar in room GH232, Centre for Lifelong Learning, Level 7, Graham Hills Building, 40 George St, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Please email Katy Anderson to advise if you will be attending the seminar
China and the EU: Perceptions and Policies
Scotland in Conversation with China Lecture Series
Prof Lisheng Dong, Prof Xinping Guan & George Cunningham
Date and time: Wednesday 31 October, 2.00-5:30pm
Venue: Confucius Institute, University of Glasgow
Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Comparative perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe and Scotland
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Dennis Rodgers (Professor of Urban Social and Political Research, University of Glasgow); Gareth Jones (Reader in Development Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science); Jo Beal (Director, Education and Society, British Council and Colleagues from Urban Studies
Date and time: Friday 26 October 2012, 2.30-5.30pm
Venue: Senate Room
Opportunities in Japan
Europe-Japan Dialogue series 2012/13 - 'Opportunities in Japan', hosted and sponsored by the Adam Smith Business School
Mr Naoki Ito, Minister (Economic), Embassy of Japan in the UK
Venue: Clydesdale Bank Lecture Theatre
Date and time: Monday 22 October, 5pm for 5.30pm
Political Self Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Professor Karin Fierke, University of St Andrews
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 22 October 2012, 4pm
Glasgow ILA Lecture: The Crime of Aggression in International Law
School of Law Seminar Series
Professor Claus Kress, University of Cologne
Date and time: Thursday 18 October 2012, 5.00pm
Venue: Turnbull Room, Main Building
Loss of control or loss of production? The question of rationality in the punishment of eighteenth and nineteenth-century child workers
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Peter Kirby (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Date and time: Thursday 18 October, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
The Old & New Easterhouse Mosaic (and everything in between)
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Alex Frost (Glasgow artist, <http://www.alexfrost.com/>)
Date and time: Friday 05 October 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 27 Bute Gardens (Entry through number 25)
Ageing, Epigenetics and Glasgow
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Dr. Paul Shiels, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 3 October2012, 3.30pm (refreshments beforehand)
Venue: Lecture Room 203, No. 10 University Gardens, University of Glasgow
Register at: http://ihw3oct.eventbrite.co.uk/
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland
Politics Seminar Series: Annual Mackenzie lecture
Dr Eric Shaw, University of Stirling and Gerry Hassan
Venue: ASRF Seminar Room, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Date and time: Monday 01 October 2012, 4pm
Responsibility and Trust in Health Research: What Do They Mean to Human Subjects and to Researchers?
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series 2012/13
Susan M Cox, PhD, Associate Professor, The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Date and time: Tuesday 11 September 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Level 5 Seminar Room, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow
For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw11sept.eventbrite.co.uk
Lessons from experience in using the arts in health research and public engagement
Arts, Health & Research Workshop
Co-organised by Dr. Hester Parr (School of Geography and Earth Sciences), Professor Alison Phipps (School of Education/GRAMNet) and Professor Sally Wyke (Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
Date: Tuesday 11 September 2012, 9.00am-12.45pm
Venue: Room 133, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow
For further information and registration (places are strictly limited to 40) please visit http://ihw11septws.eventbrite.co.uk/
In Memory of Alan Rodger: A Conference on Legal History and Roman Law
Date: 7-8 September 2012
Location: University of Glasgow
Shaping Places - Book launch and seminar
Seminar marking the publication of “Shaping Places” by Professor David Adams and the late Steve Tiesdell
Date and time: Thursday 06 September 2012, 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: A+DS Workshop, Level 2, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU
Places are limited so please reserve your place at the seminar and launch by emailing events@ads.org.uk before August 31st.
INCO (Grundtvig International Network of Course Organisers) Information and Training Day
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Contributors and facilitators: Guy Tilkin, Muir Houston, Sonia Shakir and Jaap van Lakerveld
Date and time: Tuesday 26 June, 2012, 10.00am-4.00pm
Venue: Room tbc, St Andrew’s Building
To register, email cradall@glasgow.ac.uk
Regional EU Framework Programme 7 Socio-Economic Sciences & Humanities and Science In Society Event
Date and time: Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 9:30am-1:30pm (lunch provided)
Venue: Seminar Room 101, Sir Charles Wilson Building, 1 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ
To book please email: Jill.Robertson@glasgow.ac.uk
Biomarkers of health and disease: What do we know, where are the gaps?
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Professor Naveed Sattar
Date and time: Thursday 21 June 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Building
For further information and registration please visit: http://ihw21june.eventbrite.co.uk
Association for Social Economics (ASE) World Congress 2012
Dates: Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 June 2012
Venue: University of Glasgow
Muslim Administration in Non-Arab Peripheries: China, India, Turkey and Russia
West Coast Seminar Series
Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Date and time: Tuesday 12 June 2012, 5.30pm
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
With financial support from the University of Glasgow MacFie Bequest
Law Postgraduate Colloquium on International Justice
School of Law in association with the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values at the University of Antwerp
One of the keynote speakers will be HE Judge Monageng, Vice President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the topic of ‘Functions and Cases of the Pre-Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court’.
Date: 07 June 2012
You must register for this event at: http://gusolmonageng.eventbrite.co.uk/
Violence and Civilization: States-Systems in the West
Carnegie Lecture in International Relations (Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Andrew Linklater (Aberystwyth University)
Date and time: Monday 28 May 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Religion and health: Is this still a relevant connection in a modern world?"
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Dr Dermot O'Reilly, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
Date and time: Thursday 24 May 2012, 4pm
Venue : Seminar Room 3, Level 3 Business School, Main Building, University of Glasgow
Food Security in an Insecure World: Research Challenges & Opportunities
CRAD&LL / Glasgow Centre for International Development
Date and time: Thursday 24 May 2012
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow
The event is free but places are limited and prior registration is required. For more information about this event please email: <foodsecurity@glasgow.ac.uk>
Leadership: New World - New Tactics
School of Education Theory and Method Seminars
The Minds We Need
John Pisapia, Professor of Leadership and Policy at Florida Atlantic University
From Leadership Through Instructions to Leadership for Learning
Tony Townsend, Chair of Public Service, Educational Leadership and Management, School of Education, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 23 May 2012, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: St Andrew's Building, Room 433
Economics Seminar Series
Harald Scheule (University of Technology, Sydney)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 22 May 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Riding the Tiger: Challenges of China’s Municipal Finance in the 21st Century
Confucius Institute Glasgow China Lecture 2012
Christine Wong, Professor of Chinese Public Finance, University of Oxford China Centre
Date and time: Monday 21 May 2012, 6.00-7.15pm (Lecture), 7.15-8.00pm (Networking)
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, 1 University Avenue
Registration: http://cichinalecture21may.eventbrite.co.uk
CRCEES V Annual Research Forum
Research Forum of the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies
Dates: 17-18 May 2011
Venue: Wolfson Medical Building
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/crcees/newsevents/headline_227448_en.html
Inequality in Britain, across society and in health: a slideshow
Urban Studies Joint Seminar with Geography and Health Institute
Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield
Date and time: Wednesday 16 May 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Boyd Orr, Lecture Theatre 1
The seminar is free, but to ensure we do not overfill the venue we would ask you to follow the eventbrite link below to register for this seminar.
<http://urbanstudiesglasgowprofdannydorling.eventbrite.co.uk>
“Lifelong learning driving universities’ ambitions? Dare we? Can we? Let’s!”: U21 Lifelong Learning & Research Workshop
Hosted by CRAD&LL (the Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning), University of Glasgow
Date and time: 14-15 May 2012
The two-day workshop is free but registration is required.
For further details, email cradall@glasgow.ac.uk
Drugs, Alcohol, Addictions and Recovery Project
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Event
Venue: Room 133, Hetherington Building
Date and time: Friday 04 May 2012, 9.30-12.30pm
Registration: Diane.McGrattan@glasgow.ac.uk
Forecasting in the Presence of Structural Change
SIRE/Economics Seminar
Simon Price (Bank of England)
Date and time: Thursday 03 May 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
The Genealogy of WHO and UNICEF and the Intersecting Careers of Melville Mackenzie (1889-1972) and Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965)
Centre for the History of Medicine Postgraduate Workshop
David Macfadyen (Postgraduate Research Student, CHM)
Date and time: Tuesday 01 May, 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Lilybank House, Ground Floor Seminar Room
Thinking in systems, looking for the causes of population health
Institute of Health and Wellbeing/GGPH/IFF Joint Seminar
Dr Sandro Galea, Gelman Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Date and time: Tuesday 01 May 2012, 4.30-6.00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2 (222) Boyd Orr Building
Registration: http://ihw1may.eventbrite.com/
Economics Seminar Series
Roland Hodler (University of Lucerne)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 26 April 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Learning from Popular Education in Latin America: What Role Can Universities Play?
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Professor Rudolfo Hachén. Director of the Centre of Ethnolinguistics in the National University of Rosario, Argentina
Date and time: Thursday 26 April 2012, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 433, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon St, Glasgow
The changing boundaries of the welfare state: The public/private mix in welfare activity from Thatcher to Cameron
Urban Studies Seminar Series
John Hills, London School of Economics
Date and time: Friday 20 April 2012, 3-4.30pm
Venue: Adam Smith Lecture Theatre (Room 1115)
Please register if you intend to come along: http://urbanstudiesglasgowprofjohnhills.eventbrite.co.uk/
Young People and Inclusion
School of Education Theory and Method Seminars
Food, Passion and Marginalised Young People: Technologies of the Self in Jamie’s Kitchen
Peter Kelly, Associated Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute in Australia
Beyond the School: youth transitions and processes of social inclusion
Andy Furlong, Professor of Social Inclusion and Education
Date and time: Monday 16 April 2012, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: St Andrew's Building, Room 433
University of Glasgow Research Staff Conference 2012
A Conference for University of Glasgow's Researchers
Date and time: Wednesday 04 April 2012, 2.00-5.00pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building
Book a place and select your workshops here: http://researchstaffconference2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
CANCELLED - Organizational Complexity and Public Administration Education: combining social processes, experiences and Complexity Theory in teaching
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Dr. Jari Stenvall, Professor in Administrative Sciences,
University of Lapland
Date and time: Tuesday 03 April 2012, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 433, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon St, Glasgow
Tracking Scottish Lives via the Birth Cohort Studies
An Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) Event Supporting the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative
Date: 29 March 2012
Location: University of Glasgow, Glasgow
http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/news/eventdetail.asp?id=3140
Academic Writing
School of Education Theory and Method Seminars
Dr. Rowena Murray, University of Strathclyde, plus School of Education PhD Students
Date and time: Wednesday 28 March 2012, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: St Andrew's Building, Room 432
China and Inner Asia: new frontiers and new challenges
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research
Dr David Kerr, University of Durham
Date and time: Thursday, 22 March 2012, 4.00-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1103, Adam Smith Building
Global Challenges to End of Life Care Improvement
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar Series
Professor David Clark, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday 22 March 2012, 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Building
For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw22mar.eventbrite.co.uk/
Deportation and State Violence
Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest
Dr Liza Schuster (City University)
Date and time: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Gender, altruism and welfare state transformation: Some perspectives on volunteering in the Czech Republic
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Dr Rosie Read, Bournemouth University
Date and time: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Joint Economics & Economic and Social History Seminar:
Tim Barmby (University of Aberdeen)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 15 March 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Romano-canonical influence on the development of the law of civil procedure
School of Law Seminar Series
Remco van Rhee, Maastricht University
Date and time: Friday 16 March 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Squaring the Circle: Detention-principles and practice
Glasgow Human Rights Network Public Seminar
Lt Col Alasdair Morrison (UK Army Legal Services)
Date and time: Wednesday 14 March 2012, 5.30-7.30
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
If you plan to attend, please register at: http://ghrn-morrison.eventbrite.com
For the Ummah or Humanity? Islamic Humanitarianism between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest, and co-sponsored by the Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN)
Fiona Adamson (University of London, SOAS)
Date and time: Monday 12 March 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Learning From The Past, Looking To the Future
A seminar to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Scottish Women’s Aid, organised by The Centre For Gender History, University of Glasgow and Scottish Women’s Aid
Date: Thursday 08 March (International Women’s Day) 2012
Venue: tbc (Glasgow)
The treatment of political speech in the Russian law of defamation
School of Law Seminar Series
Professor Elspeth Christie Reid, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Wednesday 08 March 2012, 1.00pm
Venue: Room 251, Gilbert Scott Suite
Masculinities and HIV/AIDS in Zambia: A Role for Anthropology?
Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest
Dr Tony Simpson (Manchester University)
Date and time: Wednesday 07 March 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Local content, regulation and household opinion in Kazakhstan
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Christian Nygaard, School of Economics, University of Reading
Date and time: Wednesday 07 March 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Cultural Texts and Artefacts in Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Place-related Identities and Reading Spaces
School of Education Theory and Method Seminars
Dr. Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and Mr. Alan Britton, School of Education, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 07 March 2012, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: St Andrew's Building, Room 432
Political Identity and the Social Contract
Mackenzie Lecture in Politics (Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest)
Albert Weale (University College London)
Date and time: Monday 05 March 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Scotland’s Constitution: A means to an end
School of Law Lecture
Deputy First Minister for Scotland, Ms Nicola Sturgeon
Date and time: Monday 05 March 2012, 5.30pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Lecture to be followed by a Q&A session. The event will finish at 6.45pm with a wine reception.
Attendance at the lecture is free of charge, but those wishing to attend should register with http://schooloflaw.eventbrite.co.uk
Centre for Internationalisation and Enterprise Research (CIER) Research Workshop
Micromultinational or not? International entrepreneurship, networking and learning
Pavlos Dimitratos (Business School)
Consumer dominance: The emergence of a paradigmatic anomaly and its theoretical underpinnings
Thomas Anker (Business School)
IE is Phenomenal: Why and how we conducted a systematic literature review
Marian V Jones (Business School)
Date and time: Monday 05 March, 1.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 406, Management
GRAMNet Conference: Engaging Research
Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network
Date and time: Friday 2 March 2012, 9.30am-5.00pm
Venue: University of Glasgow Senate Room
Places are limited – therefore attendance is by REGISTRATION ONLY at: https://gramnet-conference.eventbrite.com
Central and East European Energy Strategies: Creating a Sustainable Energy Future within the EU
Workshop hosted by the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies
Date: Friday 2nd March 2012
assessing accession, in conjunction with the EU-Russia Collaborative Research Network (Energy Study Group), will hold a 1 day workshop at the University of Glasgow.
Humanitarian ethics in war: ends, means, rights and dilemmas
Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN) Public Seminars
Dr Hugo Slim (Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford)
Date and time: Thursday 1 March 2012, 5.15 – 7.00pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Jointly organised by Glasgow Human Rights Network & Glasgow University Global Security Roundtable
Event will conclude with a wine reception in the Sir Charles Wilson Foyer. If you plan to attend please register at http://ghrn-slim.eventbrite.com
A life course approach of the determinants of health inequalities: findings from the GAZEL Cohort Study
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Professor Marcel Goldberg and Dr. Marie Zins
Date and time: Thursday 1 March 2012, 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Seminar Building
All are cordially invited to drinks and conversation following the seminar until 6.00pm
For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw1mar.eventbrite.co.uk/
The New Age of Russia (Occult and Esoteric Dimensions)
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Professor Birgit Menzel, University of Mainz
Date and time: Wednesday 29 February 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Knowledge regimes, public higher education and the future of the social sciences
Sociology Seminar Series (Co-organised with the Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements)
Professor John Holmwood (University of Nottingham)
Date and time: Wednesday 29 February 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Intoxication and Criminal Responsibility in England
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Phil Handler (Manchester)
Date and time: Wednesday 29 February 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Re-visiting female neurosis: women’s adaption to modern homes in post-war Scotland
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Lynn Abrahams, Professor of Gender History, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Friday 24 February 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Urban Studies Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Division of labour and sub-cultural differentiation among Swedish prison officers – towards division of occupational roles?
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Seminar
Anders Bruhn, Odd Lindberg & Per Åke Nylander (Örebro University, Sweden)
Date and time: Thursday 23 February 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 506
The Nation that Credit Built: 300 Years of Borrowing by American Businesses and Households
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Rowena Olegario (University of Oxford)
Date and time: Thursday 23 February, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Rural social assistance: Learning from the urban experience?
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research
Dr Daniel Hammond, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Thursday, 23 February, 4.00-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1103, Adam Smith Building
Facing misfortune: Expenditures on Magico-religious Powers for Cure and Protection in Benin
Economics Seminar Series
Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Heriot-Watt University (Co-authors: Joël Noret (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Vincent Somville (University of Namur))
Date and time: Thursday 23 February 2012
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
The Public Realm, a Century after Simmel
David Frisby Memorial Lecture (Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest)
Professor Richard Sennett (LSE)
Date and time: Wednesday 22 February 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1115, Adam Smith Building
EU integration and assistance projects - A lawyer's inside view of how they work in practice
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest. Joint Seminar with GSERN
André Bywater, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 22 February 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Estonian traditional culture and music
Central and East European Studies, Estonian Guest Lecture
Aleksander Sünter (University of Tartu, Viljandi Culture Academy)
Date and time: Tuesday 21 February, 5.00-8.00pm
Venue: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
‘We are legion’: The networked multitude and citizen insurgency
Adam Smith Research Foundation and Global Security Roundtable lecture
William Merrin, Swansea University
Date and time: Tuesday 21st February 2012, 6.00pm
Venue: Forehall (G256), Main Building
RSVP to matthew.allen@glasgow.ac.uk
Download the We Are Legion lecture flyer
Bombing as economic warfare in WWII
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Richard Overy (University of Exeter)
Date and time: Thursday 16 February, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens.
Novel interactions with technology and how they can be used to improve health and wellbeing
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar Series
Presenters: Professor Stephen Brewster and Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon
Date and time: Thursday 16 February 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Sir Hugh Fraser (Seminar Room 2) Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue
All are cordially invited to drinks and conversation following the seminar until 6.00pm. For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihwfeb.eventbrite.co.uk
Europe and Africa Relations: Beyond Wilberforce’s Experiment in Abolitionism, Unfree Labour and the Market
Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest (Co-organised by: Hispanic Studies, the Instituto Camões and Centre for Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism)
Dr José Lingna Nafafé (University of Birmingham)
Date and time: Wednesday 15 February 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Economics Seminar Series
Panicos Demetriades (University of Leicester)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Wednesday 15 February 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
The Judicial Character of the International Court of Justice
School of Law Seminar Series
Dr Gleider Hernandez, University of Durham
Date and time: Friday 10 February 2012, 5.30pm
Venue: Turnbull Room, Main Building
Economics Seminar Series
Roman Sustek (University of Nottingham)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 09 February 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Preventing Terrorism: The priority of prosecution and the perversion of criminal justice
Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest (Jointly sponsored by Sociology and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice)
Professor Lucia Zedner (University of Oxford)
Date and time: Wednesday 08 February 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 101, Sir Charles Wilson Building
Security in Central Asia [title tbc]
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Roger McDermott
Date and time: Wednesday 08 February 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
The Crichton Carbon Centre
School of Interdisciplinary Studies Event
Date and time: Wednesday 08 February 2012, 6.00-7.30pm
Venue: Rutherford/McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Can rules be more rational than the ruler?
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Luc Wintgens, University of Brussels
Date and time: Tuesday 07 February 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Melville Room, Main Building
Reclaiming Public Ownership; making space for economic democracy
Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar
Andy Cumbers (Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Date and time: 07 February 2012, 5.15pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 717
Urban Studies Joint Seminar
Health and its determinants in West Central Scotland compared to other parts of post-industrial Europe
David Walsh (Glasgow Centre for Population Health)
Socioeconomic inequality in Ostrava – past, present and future
Igor Ivan (Institute of Geoinformatics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava)
Date and time: Friday 03 February 2012, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Urban Studies Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Breaking the Mould? Market-oriented reforms in India since 1990
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Tom Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday 02 February, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens.
Media Frame Alignment: Studying strategies of urban news reporting on citizen collective action. A case study of Southern Metropolitan Daily
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research
Associate Professor Jinghong Nie, Sun Yat Sen University
(NB: this seminar will be delivered in Chinese)
Date and time: Thursday, 2 February, 4.00-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1103, Adam Smith Building
Food Security: A Perfect Storm?
A Global Security Roundtable Seminar
Confirmed Speakers: Mr Brian Harris (Head of Strategy for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council); Mr David Robson (Head of Energy and Environmental Foresight, Scottish Government); Professor Julie Fitzpatrick (Professor of Food Security, University of Glasgow and Scientific Director of Moredun Research Institute)
Date and time: 02 February, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Lecture Theatre D (513)
The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Post-communist Europe
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Professor Joanna Beata Michlic, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust at Brandeis University
Date and time: Wednesday 01 February 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Experimental Tests of Creativity and Innovation in Intellectual Property
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Christopher J. Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Date and time: Wednesday 01 February 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Post Neoliberalism: Rebuilding and Reclaiming the State in Latin America
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Jean Grugel (University of Sheffield)
Date and time: Monday 30 January 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Security, Prevention, Prediction: Impact on Human Rights
Glasgow Human Rights Network Seminar (jointly organised with Glasgow University Global Security Roundtable)
Professor Didier Bigo, Department of War studies, King's College London, MCU Research Professor, Sciences-Po Paris
Date and time: Monday 30 January 2011, 6.30-8.00pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 611 (LT E – Level 6)
Memory and the Witness in Chinese Language Cinema
Symposium organised by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Glasgow and Ricefield Chinese Arts and Cultural Centre
Date and time: Saturday 28 January 2012, 9.30am-4.15pm
Venue: Gilmorehill Centre, Glasgow University
China and the post-Kyoto Climate Change Policy: from Copenhagen to Durban
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research
Dr Janet Liao, University of Dundee
Date and time: Thursday, 26 January, 4.00-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1103, Adam Smith Building
The trials and tribulations of developing evidence based public health guidance: the experience of NICE
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar Series
Professor Mike Kelly
Date and time: Thursday 26 January 2012, 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Seminar Building
All are cordially invited to drinks and conversation following the seminar, 5.00-6.00pm. For further information and registration (places are limited) visit http://ihw.eventbrite.co.uk/
5-a-day: The mysterious emergence of ‘dose-response’ in public health
School of Interdisciplinary Studies Event
Dr Sandy Whitelaw, University of Glasgow Dumfries Campus
Date and time: Wednesday 25 January 2012, 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Rutherford/McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Global education policy networks
Organised by the School of Education Pedagogy, Policy and Practice Group / Adam Smith Research Foundation thematic group on Governance, Policy, Accountability and Risk
Dr Antonio Olmedo, Newton International Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London
Date and time: Wednesday 25 January 2012, 1.30-3.00pm.
Venue: Seminar Room 101A, Charles Wilson Building
Leaving prison behind? Women ex-prisoners in the Russian Federation
Central and East European Studies 'West Coast Seminars' series on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (with West of Scotland and Strathclyde Universities), supported by the Macfie Bequest
Dr Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham
Date and time: Wednesday 25 January 2012, 5.30pm (tea and coffee from 5.00pm)
Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
The Crisis, Austerity and Precarity
Sociology Seminar Series, supported by the Macfie Bequest
Professor Kevin Doogan (University of Bristol)
Date and time: Wednesday 25 January 2012, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Twenty-First-Century Terrorism: How Should We Respond?
Politics Seminar Series, supported by the MacFie Bequest
Richard English (University of St. Andrews)
Date and time: Monday 23 January 2012, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Scotland's Constitutional Future
School of Law Public Lecture
Rt Hon Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Advocate General for Scotland
Date and time: Friday 20 January 2012, 4.00-5.30pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Attendance at the lecture is free of charge, but those wishing to attend should register with Jennifer.Crawford@glasgow.ac.uk
China’s model of political development
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research Seminar Series
Professor Yang Long, Nankai University
Date and time: Thursday, 19 January, 4.00-5:30pm
Venue: Room 1103, Adam Smith Building
The Historical Geography of Philanthropy in Victorian and Pre-Victorian England and Wales
Economic and Social History Seminar Series, sponsored by the MacFie Bequest
Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire)
Date and time: Thursday 19th January, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens.
Economics Seminar Series
Andrzej Cieślik, Warsaw University (co-authors: Jan Jakub Michałek and Jerzy Mycielski (Warsaw University))
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 19 January 2012, 4.00pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Centre for Gender History Film Event
Screening and discussion of 'You Play Your Part' (Kirsten MacLeod, UK, 2010)
Date and time: Wednesday 18 January, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: 2 University Gardens
The film is a unique community-based, participatory documentary about women’s struggles in Govan and Greater Glasgow. Taking its inspiration from the Govan Rent strikes of 1915, the film tells the stories of campaigning women in the area.
The family rights of European children
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Gareth Davies, University of Amsterdam
Date and time: Wednesday 18th January 2012, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
CANCELLED Multimodal human-computer interaction
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Stephen Brewster and Marilyn McGee-Lennon
Date and time: Thursday 15 December 2011, 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3, Level 3, Business School, Main Building
All are cordially invited to drinks and conversation following the seminar.
Further information and registration (places are limited): http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2561856582
Deliberating Environmental Policy: Integrating Technical Expertise and Local Knowledge
Management Research Seminars (Business School)
Professor Frank Fischer, Professor of Politics and Global Affairs, Rutgers University
Date and time: Thursday 15 December 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Clydesdale Bank Lecture Theatre, Business School
If you would like to attend please contact Christine Haley by emailing christine.haley@glasgow.ac.uk
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
John Wilson, University of St. Andrews
Date and time: 14 December 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Local content, regulation and household opinion in Kazakhstan
(Postponed – New date and time tba)
‘West Coast Seminars’ on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Christian Nygaard, School of Economics, University of Reading
Date and time: Wednesday, 07 December 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Shaping Bereavement Care – A Framework for Action for Bereavement Care in NHS Scotland
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Paul Lyttle (University of the West of Scotland)
Date and time: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Media and Memory after the Connective Turn
Sociology Seminar Series
Prof Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
John Burns, University of Exeter
Date and time: 07 December 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Norms and the Pursuit of Power: French Policy Elites and the Doctrine of Self-Determination during the Paris Peace Conference
Politics Seminar Series
Peter Jackson, University of Strathclyde
Date and time: Monday 5 December 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 717, Adam Smith Building
Beyond the ‘Austinian Handicap’: Theorising Enforcement in International Law
School of Law / Glasgow ILA Workshop
with Bruno Simma (International Court of Justice), Robert Cryer (Birmingham), Jean d’Aspremont (Amsterdam), Jörg Kammerhofer (Freiburg), Lorna McGregor (Essex), Christian Tams (Glasgow), and Akbar Rasulov (Glasgow)
Date and time: Friday 02 December, 9.00am-1.00pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
Music in the Air: Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities
Urban Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
Stephan Heblich (Lecturer in Economics, Stirling Management School)
Date and time: Friday 2 December 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Reflections on A Decade at the World Court
School of Law Seminar Series
Date and time: Thursday, 01 December 2011, 5.30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 2, Wolfson Medical School Building
Estonian literature and literary translation
Central and East European Studies Seminar
Eric Dickens, translator
Thursday 1st December 2011
Estonian literature today
Venue: Central and East European Studies, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Time: 12.00-2.00pm
Venue: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Round table: Estonian literature abroad and online
Time: 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Estonian Library, Room 406, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Translating a culture
Time: 4.00-6.00pm
Venue: CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Reading 'Empire' by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Adam Smith Research Foundation Reading Group
Parts 3 and 4 of 'Empire': 1 December 2011, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 109, 66 Oakfield Avenue
For more information and to express interest, contact matthew.allen@glasgow.ac.uk
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Chris Veld, University of Glasgow
Date and time: 30 November 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
The Inevitability of the Big Society: But can it really work?
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Carol Hill (University of Glasgow, SIS)
Date and time: Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
World Trade Law and Human Rights After Neoliberalism: the Evolution of the Structures of Knowledge. Glasgow Conversations in International Law
School of Law Seminar Series: Half-day Symposium
Andrew Lang (LSE), Chantal Thomas (Cornell), Grietje Baars (UCL), Paavo Kotiaho (Helsinki), Robert Knox (LSE)
Date and time: Tuesday 29 November 2011, 3.00-6.00pm
Venue: Gilbert Scott Suite, Room 355
Old Challenges and New: Why nuclear deterrence is a barrier to liberal internationalism in the 21st Century
Adam Smith Research Foundation Annual Lecture Series
Lord Browne of Ladyton, former Secretary of State for Defence
Date and time: Monday, 28 November 2011, 6.00pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
Lecture to be followed by a drinks reception in the Melville Room. There is no charge for the lecture, but advance registration is requested by emailing adamsmith-asrf@glasgow.ac.uk
The Responsibility to Prevent: The Possibilities and Challenges of Mass Atrocity Prevention
A Glasgow Human Rights Network / Glasgow University Global Security Roundtable Public Seminar
Jennifer M. Welsh, Professor in International Relations, University of Oxford
Date and time: Thursday 24 November 2011, 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, 1 University Avenue
The event will conclude with a wine reception in the Foyer. All are welcome – free of charge. To attend please email GHRNadmin@glasgow.ac.uk
Lectures by Estonian artist Marko Mäetamm
Central and East European Studies / Estonian Institute Lectures
Date and time: Thursday 24 November 2011, 12-2 pm and 5-7 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
The Abduction of women in nineteenth-century Ireland
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme
Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)
Date and time: Thursday, 24 November, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Yvonne Joyce, University of Glasgow
Date and time: 23 November 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Everyday Life in Austerity Britain
Sociology Seminar Series
Dr Will Atkinson (University of Bristol)
Date and time: Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
On Finding Hope on a Dark Night: the Latin American Contribution
Society for Latin American Studies Annual Lecture
Professor John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
Date and time: Friday 18 November, 6pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 507 (LT C), University of Glasgow.
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Learning cities and regions revisited: The R3L+ project
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Paul Carroll (Dundee City), Karen Cunningham (Glasgow City), Ciprian Fartusnic (Romania), Norman Longworth, Randolph Preisinger-Kleine (Germany), Martin Yarnit, Stephanie Young (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday 17 November 2011, 2.00-5.00pm
Venue: Room 227, St Andrew's Building
Please email cradall@educ.gla.ac.uk to reserve a place.
Reading 'Empire' by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Adam Smith Research Foundation Reading Group
Parts 1 and 2 of 'Empire': 17 November 2011, 2.00-4.00pm
Parts 3 and 4 of 'Empire': 1 December 2011, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 109, 66 Oakfield Avenue
For more information and to express interest, contact matthew.allen@glasgow.ac.uk
The historical politics and geography of Roma leadership in socialist and postsocialist Romania
‘West Coast Seminars’ on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Cerasela Voiculescu, Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Wednesday 16 November 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Housing and Governance
Adam Smith Research Foundation Seminar
Prof. Josef Konvitz, Directorate of Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD, and Honorary Professor in the School of Education, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday 16 November 2011, 4.00-6.00pm
Seminar Venue: Seminar Room 109, 66 Oakfield Avenue
An informal lunch meeting will also be held with Prof. Konvitz on 8 November. Further details…
Please indicate your intention to attend either event by emailing adamsmith-asrf@glasgow.ac.uk
Young People's Aspirations in Disadvantaged Areas: Evidence from Three British Cities
Urban Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
Keith Kintrea (Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow), Ralf Sinclair (Professor, School of Education, University of Glasgow) and Muir Houston (Research Associate, School of Education, University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Friday 11 November 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
The Economic Impact of Higher Education in Devolved Administrations: The case of Catalonia
An Adam Smith Research Foundation ‘People, Places, Engagement and Change’ Research Cluster Lecture
Marti Parellada Sabata, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Barcelona, and Coordinator of the CYD Foundation
Date and time: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 4.00-6.00pm
Venue: Room 101, Sir Charles Wilson Building, Kelvin Way
Please email frances.gaughan@glasgow.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Catriona Paisley, University of Stirling
Date and time: 09 November 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Restoring Political Subjectivity – interest and identity formation in trade union activism
Sociology Seminar Series
Dr Sian Moore (London Metropolitan University)
Date and time: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
* CANCELLED * Properties of Taste: Intellectual Property, Fashion and Aesthetic Development
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary University of London
Date and time: Wednesday 09 November, 3.30 pm
Finland's public diplomacy before and after the independence
‘West Coast Seminars’ on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Louis Clerc, University of Turku, Visiting Fellow in CEES, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday, 09 November 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Prof. Josef Konvitz: Informal Lunch Meeting
Adam Smith Research Foundation
The ASRF will host an informal greeting for Professor Konvitz, with lunch provided, at which he will be able to discuss his work for the OECD, and other issues around public policy.
Date and time: Tuesday 8 November 2011, 12.00-1.30pm
Lunch Venue: Seminar Room 109, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Prof. Konvitz will also be giving a Seminar paper on 'Housing and Governance' on 16 November. Further details…
Please indicate your intention to attend either event by emailing adamsmith-asrf@glasgow.ac.uk
‘Leaner and Meaner?’ The Great Management Revolution in UK Central Government Reconsidered
Politics Seminars Series
Christopher Hood, University of Oxford
Date and time: Monday 7 November 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Making a market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the later eighteenth century
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme
Anne Murphy (University of Hertfordshire)
Date and time: Thursday, 3 November 2011, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Representing Disability
Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research / Institute of Health and Wellbeing Day-seminar
Date and time: Thursday 03 November 2011, from 9.00am, all day.
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building
The Equalities Cluster of the Glasgow Human Rights Network will be sponsoring a short reception at the end of the day when tea and coffee will be served.
Please email Jo.Ferrie@glasgow.ac.uk or telephone 0141 330 3175, if you would like to attend this seminar.
Crisis and New Communications Media
Adam Smith Research Foundation Symposium
Participants: Prof. Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow); Prof. Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway University); Dr Pieter Verdegem (Uppsala University); Dr Jennifer Giroux (ETH Zurich); Dr Karen Renaud (University of Glasgow); Prof. Michele Burman (University of Glasgow (TBC))
Date and time: Thursday 3 November 2011, 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 109, 66 Oakfield Avenue
Enkinaesthesia, Biosemiotics and the Ethiosphere
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow, HATII)
Date and time: Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Centre for internationalization and Enterprise (CIER) Research Workshop
An informal research gathering to discuss and provide feedback on three presentations/papers presented by colleagues. These works are at different stages of development. The three presentations are:
'Understanding the impact an economic development agency can make on internationalising businesses'
Jonathan Slow (Scottish Enterprise & CIER), 1.00pm
'Internationalisation knowledge for SME market entry and international growth'
Margaret Fletcher (CIER), 2.00pm
'International entrepreneurship, decision-making rationality and SME performance'
Pavlos Dimitratos (CIER), 3.00pm
Date and time: Wednesday 2 November 2011, 1.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 406, Business School, Main Building
Leprosy: Challenges for public health policy and social justice
CR&DALL / Glasgow Centre for International Development Public Lecture
Cairns Smith (Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of Aberdeen)
Date and time: Tuesday 1 November 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue
This event is open to all. Please email Lauren Currie or call 0141 330 1989 if you plan to attend.
The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union
Politics Seminar Series
Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen
Date and time: Monday 31 October 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Drivers and outcomes of suburban renewal in Australian cities
Urban Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
Simon Pinnegar (Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, University of South Wales)
Date and time: Friday 28 October 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
From the ‘Godly Commonwealth to the Big Society’? Poverty, pauperism and the continuing influence of Thomas Chalmers
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme
Jim Smyth (University of Stirling)
Date and time: Thursday, 27 October 2011, 1.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Igor Loncarski, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date and time: 26 October 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
School of Education Theory and Method Seminar
Avoiding Harm and Doing No Wrong? Research Governance and Ethical Practice
Professor Pat Sikes (University of Sheffield)
Inter-Life: Community, Identity and Transition through Creative Engagement
Professor Vic Lally (University of Glasgow)
Chaired by Professor Vivienne Baumfield (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Wednesday 26 October 2011, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: Room 337, St Andrew’s Building
Sub Cultural Division among Swedish Prison Officers
Sociology Seminar Series (Jointly sponsored by Sociology and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice)
Dr Odd Lindberg and Dr Anders Bruhn (Örebro University)
Date and time: Monday, 24 October 2011, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
Rising China and Global Justice
Politics Seminar Series
Ian Holliday, University of Hong Kong
Date and time: Monday 24 October 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Cyber War and International Law
School of Law Seminar Series: Workshop
Prof Nicholas Tsagourias, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Friday, 21 October 2011, 9am-4pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
'A History of Finland'
English language-version book launch hosted by Central and Eastern European Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences
Professor Henrik Meinander, University of Helsinki (author)
Date and time: Thursday 20 October 2011, 11.00am
Venue: Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University Avenue
Email Maggie.Baister@glasgow.ac.uk by 17 October if you wish to attend
Considering Adult Literacies: Education as empowerment or emancipation
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Sarah Galloway (Stirling University)
Date and time: Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Romania and the European Union after 2000: Lessons from an unconsummated partnership
‘West Coast Seminars’ on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (Joint seminar with the Glasgow South-East Europe Research Network (GSERN)
Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Date and time: Wednesday 19 October 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
British business and the rise of neoliberalism in post-war Britain
Economic and Social History Seminar Programme
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday, 13 October 2011, 11.00am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
The Meanings of Mobilisation: Popular Politcs and Resistance Movements in Post Apartheid South Africa
Sociology Seminar Series
Carin Runciman, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 4.30pm
Venue: Room 916, Adam Smith Building
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Craig Murray (former Ambassador to Uzbekistan)
Title: tbc
Date and time: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Legal Intentionality and the Politics of A-Legality
School of Law Seminar Series
Prof Hans Lindahl, University of Tilburg
Date and time: Wednesday 12 October 2011, 3.30 pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Private Power and Transnational Law
School of Law / Glasgow ILA Seminar Series
Prof Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall, York University, Canada
Date and time: Tuesday 11 October, 5.30pm
Venue: Melville Room, Main Building
Behavioral Finance: Panic and euphoria in efficient markets
Urban Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
Eric Levin (Honorary Research Fellow, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow) and Daniel Levin (Statistician, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee)
Date and time: Friday 7 October 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Hassan Yazdifar, University of Glasgow
Date and time: 05 October 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Torture: Thinking, Brokenness and Well Being
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' Series
Tony Wright (author of 'Freedom from Torture')
Date and time: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 3.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
GRAMNet Collaborative Masters Dissertation Pilot Project Degree Show
The 2011 collaborative dissertation projects were developed at the University of Glasgow by the Glasgow Refugee Asylum Migration Network (GRAMNet) and Central and East European Studies based on the research needs and proposals from a range of public and third sector organisations.
The 2011 projects are: Russian Language Teaching in Scottish Schools; Social and Economic Integration of Russian-speaking Women; Education of Bilingual Children in Russian-speaking Communities; Public Perception of A8 Migrants; Migration and Settlement in Glasgow; An Early Intervention Rights-Based Approach to the Protection and Support of People Entering the Asylum System in Glasgow.
Date and time: Wednesday 05 October 2011, 3.00-5.30pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building, University of Glasgow
Please contact Paul Jordan by 28th September 2011 if you wish to attend.
Energy resources as tools to preserve and expand Russia’s interests: the cases of the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Belarus
‘West Coast Seminars’ on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Giedrius Česnakas, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Venue: Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Date and time: Wednesday, 05 October 2011, 5.30pm
Curriculum, care and justice: Perspectives from England and Scotland
School of Education/ Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Glasgow Branch Seminar
The possibility of justice? Two case studies of school Humanities curricula in England (Dr. Christine Winter, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Sheffield)
Putting care to work in Currriculum for Excellence: Concepts, confusions and contestations (Dr. Nicki Hedge (Director of PG Taught Programmes) and Alison McKenzie (PT Curriculum, St. Andrews HS, Kirkcaldy and PG research student), School of Education, University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Thursday, 29 Sept 2011, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: Room 337, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon Street
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Øyvind Norli, Norwegian Business School, Norway
Date and time: 28 September 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Land Leverage Dynamics in Housing Markets
Urban Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
Greg Costello (Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Australia)
Date and time: Friday 23 September 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Wards Seminar Series 2011-12 (title: tbc)
Chinyere Uche, University of Glasgow
Date and time: 21 September 2011, 3.00-4.30pm
Venue: Room 678, Gilbert Scott Building, West Quadrangle
Tertiary lifelong learning as tool for the management of social vulnerability
CR&DALL Seminar Series 2011-2012
Dr. Karsten Krüger, Foundation CYD, Barcelona, and Dr. Michele Mariani, Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Date and time: Thursday, 8 September 2011, 3-5pm
Venue: Room 433, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon St, Glasgow
International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) 38th Annual Conference
Dates: 2-7 August 2011
Location: University of Glasgow
Programme and other details available at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/icohtec2011/
Introduction to variance based Structural Equation Modelling: Partial Least Squares Path Modelling (PLSPM)
Professor Joaquin Aldas-Manzano, Department of Marketing, University of Valencia, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Research Foundation, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday, 14 July 2011, 9.00am-5.30pm
Venue: Room 305, Business School
Download details of this event: 20110714 Aldas-Manzano
If you wish to attend this event, please contact Wendy Weaver as soon as possible as numbers are limited.
55th ICET (International Council on Education for Teaching) World Assembly
Teachers and Teacher Education: Towards excellence in curriculum, pedagogy and leadership
Date and time: July 11-14 2011
Venue: Hosted by University of Glasgow
The 2011 State of South African Cities Report: Towards Resilient Cities
Urban Studies Seminar
Ivan Turok (Professor, Human Sciences Research Council)
Date and time: Friday, 1 July 2011, 3-5pm.
Venue: Teaching Room, Urban Studies, 25 Bute Gardens
FACE 2011 Annual Conference: Lifelong Learning and Community Development
Hosted by the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL), University of Glasgow
Dates: Wednesday 29 June - Friday 01 July 2011
‘Listening to the Still Small Voice’ - Understanding Compassion at End-of-Life
'Pallium' Workshop
Professor Philip Larkin, University College Dublin (Facilitator), with Professor David Clark, University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus; Tom Pow, poet and author
Date: 28 - 29 June 2011
Venue: Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton Campus, Dumfries
Further details available from: Audrey Clowe (Audrey.Clowe@glasgow.ac.uk, Tel: 01387 702043)
Wards Research Trust Seminar (title tbc)
Dr Abe de Jong, Erasmus University
Date and time: 10 June 2011, 2.00-3:15pm
Venue: Gilbert Scott Building, room 540A, (West Quadrangle)
Cultural Relocation
School of Education Theory and Method Seminar
Professor Lourdes Arizpe, Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
and Former Assistant Director General for Culture at UNESCO: Building Cultural Pluralism in a Cosmopolitan World
Dr Stephen McKinney, Senior Lecturer, Creativity, Culture and Faith Research and Knowledge Transfer Group, School of Education, University of Glasgow: Immigrant groups: Religious and Cultural Retention and Integration
Date and time: Wednesday 8 June, 1.30-3.30pm
Venue: Room 337, St. Andrew's Building
Voices from Colombia's Internal Armed Conflict
Glasgow Human Rights Network / SCIAF Public Seminar
Speakers: Monseñor Héctor Fabio Henao (Caritas Colombia); Mrs Mélida Esther Guevara (COCOMOPOCA); Mr Jesús Alberto Castilla (CISCA)
Date and time: Monday, 6 June 2011, 18.00-20.00
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, Room 101
Optimal Dynamic Taxes
Economics Seminar Series
Professor Mikhail Golosov, Yale University (Paper co-authored with Maxim Troshkin, University of Minnesota and Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University)
Date and time: 3 June 2011, 4.00pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 513 (D)
Jurisprudence of the ECHR
Law Seminar Series
Professor Jose Luis Llaquet Deentrambasaguas, University of Abat Oliba CEU, Barelona
Date and time: Friday, 27 May 2011, 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Gloag Lecture Theatre, School of Law
Fair Society, Healthy Lives
Institute for Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Date and time: Thursday, 26 May 2011, 4pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
To reserve your place at this seminar, please reply to cphsadmin@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 13th May.
Conscientious Objection
Law Seminar Series
Professor Jose Luis Llaquet Deentrambasaguas, University of Abat Oliba CEU, Barelona
Date and time: Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Gloag Lecture Theatre, School of Law
Proposals for an economic transition to socialism in the EU
Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar
Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow
Date and time: Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 5.00-6.30pm
Venue: Room T915, Adam Smith Building
Freedom of Religion
Law Seminar Series
Professor Jose Luis Llaquet Deentrambasaguas, University of Abat Oliba CEU, Barelona
Date and time: Monday, 23 May 2011, 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Gloag Lecture Theatre, School of Law
Innovation and Change in Adult Education Organisations
CR&DALL Seminar Series
Professor Alan B. Knox, University of Wisconsin
Date and time: Monday, 23 May 2011, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 432, St Andrew's Building
Centre for Internationalisation and Enterprise Research (CIER) Workshop
Presentations from: Catherine Welch (Explaining the internationalisation process of the firm: From variance to process approaches); Robert MacIntosh (The dark side of RBV: Core incompetence); Alfredo D'Angelo (Surfing the market for patents: A content analysis of IP intermediaries websites in Europe)
Date and time: Monday, 23 May 2011, 1.00-3.30pm
Venue: Room 407 (Management - Business School)
Urban Studies Seminar Series
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) Housing Market Taskforce: towards a socially sustainable housing market
Mark Stephens (Professor in Urban Economics, University of Glasgow)
Delivering affordable housing in Scotland: National Report from the JRF Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor
Ken Gibb (Professor of Housing Economics, University of Glasgow).
Date and time: Friday, 20 May 2011, 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Urban Studies Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Improving Access to Pain Relief: A Global Health Issue?
'Palium' Seminar Series
Dr Mike Basler
Date and time: Friday 20 May, 12.30-2.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries DG1 4ZL
Economics Seminar Series
Professor Paul Levine, University of Surrey
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 19 May 2011, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr 611 (Lecture Room E)
Inspiring Capital? Deconstructing Myths and Reconstructing Urban Environments, Edinburgh 1860-2010
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Rebecca Madgin, Lecturer in European Planning History, University of Leicester
Date and time: Friday, 13 May 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Urban Studies Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
The Fourth Annual Research Forum of the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies
Dates: Thursday 12 - Friday 13 May 2011
Venue: Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow
Economics Seminar Series
Dr Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 12 May 2011, 4.00pm-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 611 (Lecture Room E)
Class Divisions, Identities and Politics in the UK
Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar
Mike Savage (University of York)
Date and time: Tuesday 10 May 2011, 5pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 915
Economics Seminar Series
Professor Christopher Polk, London School of Economics
Date and time: 5 May 2011, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 611 (lecture room E)
Economics Series Seminar
Professor Miguel Costa-Gomes, University of Aberdeen
Title: tbc
Date and time: Thursday 28 April 2011, 4.00pm-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 611 (Lecture Room E)
Crime and House Price Effects: A new approach to evaluating the welfare impacts of amenities and disamenities
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Prof Chris Timmins, Duke University
Date and time: Wednesday 27th April, 3.30-5.00pm
Venue: Urban Studies Teaching Room, Bute Gardens
Economic and Social History Seminar Series
Alison Gilmour (Institute of Historical Research/University of Glasgow)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Thursday 21 April 2011, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Voices from the Community: Perspectives on ‘Preferred Priorities for Care’ and Advance Care Planning
'Pallium' Seminar Series
Dr Iris Finberg
Date and time: Friday 01 April, 12.30-2.00pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton University Campus
Leadership as lunacy and other metaphors of educational leadership
Education Seminar Series
Prof Jacky Lumby, Head of School of Education, University of Southampton
Date and time: Wednesday 30 March 2011, 1.30-3.30pm
Location: Room 432, St Andrew's Building
The Future of Finance After the Crisis
Sir Alec Cairncross Seminar 2011
Professor David Vines, University of Oxford
Date and time: Tuesday 29 March 2011, 4.00pm
Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Sir Charles Wilson Building
Lifelong Learning Strategy and Adult Education in Europe
CR&DALL Seminar Series 2011-2012
Guy Tilkin (Coordinator of the European Division in Alden Biesen, Belgium) and Professor George K. Zarifis (The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Date and time: Tuesday 29 March, 2.00-4.00pm
Venue: Room 227, St Andrew's Building, University of Glasgow
The Abduction of Women in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Economic and Social History Seminar
Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)
Date and time: Thursday 24th March 2011, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Animal Rights and Aesthetics
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' seminar
David Lamb (Southampton University)
Date and time: Wednesday 23 March 2011, 3pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Violence, victimisation and vulnerability: Exploring hidden elements of youth engagement in offending
Joint Urban Studies Seminar with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
Susan McVie (Professor of Quantitative Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh) and Lesley McAra (Professor of Penology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh)
Date and time: Friday 18 March 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Economics Seminar Series
Dr Chryssi Giannitsarou, University of Cambridge
Date and time: 17 March 2011, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 611 (lecture room E)
What Happens to Works When They Fall Into the Public Domain and Why it Matters
School of Law Research Seminar
Professor Paul Heald, University of Georgia,
Date and time: Wednesday 16 March 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' seminar
Tom Bristow (University of Edinburgh)
Title to be confirmed
Date and time: Wednesday 16 March 2011, 3pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
How do we make end of life care everybody’s business?
'Pallium' Seminar Series / Crichton Conversations
Barbara Monroe (Chief Executive, St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham)
Date and time: Tuesday, 15 March 2011 at 7.30 pm
Venue: Browne House, Crichton University Campus
For further details of cost and how to book attendance at a Crichton Conversation, please contact the Crichton Foundation Office: Tel 01387 702048; Email j.mclaren@crichtonfoundation.com
We are all on the Side of the Angels: United front, Popular Fronts and the fight against Fascism in Barking and Dagenham..Accepted
Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar
Stephen Ashe (Postgraduate, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Tuesday 15th March 2011, 5pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 915
** Cancelled **
The Guardian of Public Credit: the Bank of England and the enforcement of 'credible commitment’
Economic and Social History Seminar Series
Anne Murphy (University of Hertfordshire)
Date and time: Thursday 10 March 2011, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Economics Seminar Series
Professor Peter McAdam, European Central Bank/University of Surrey
Date and time: Thursday 10th March 2011, 4.00pm-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 611 (Lecture Room E)
Voicing Solidarity: Rhetorical Reflections on the Possibility of Linguistic Hospitality
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' seminar
Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 3pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Scholarship with Impact
Management Seminar
Professor Andrew Pettigrew, University of Oxford
Date and time: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 3pm
Venue: tbc
The Transformation of the Russian Military since the 2008 Georgian War
Global Security Roundtable / Scottish Centre for War Studies / Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies
Keir Giles, Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre
Date and time: Tuesday 08 March, 5.15pm
Venue: Lecture Room, 2 University Gardens
South Africa’s Rebellion of the Poor
Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar (Joint with Sociology)
Peter Alexander (Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg)
Date and time: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 5pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 915
Study on Housing Exclusion: Welfare Policies, Housing Provision and Labour Markets
Urban Studies Seminar Series
Mark Stephens (Professor of Urban Economics, University of Glasgow) and Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Professor of Housing and Social Policy, Herriot Watt University)
Date and time: Friday 25 February 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
International Law and the Use of Force: Are New Rules Needed?
School of Law Research Seminar
Sir Michael Wood, KCMG, 20 Essex Street
Date and time: Thursday 24 February 2011, 5.30pm
Venue: Melville Room, Main Building
Law and Civility as Languages of Claim-Making
Latin American Politics Lecture Series
Dr Trevor Stack, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen
Session Chaired by: Dr. Vikki Turbine
School of Social and Political Sciences
Date and time: Thursday 24 February 2011, 5pm
Veune: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
Bombing as economic warfare in WWII
Economic and Social History Seminar Series
Richard Overy (University of Exeter)
Date and time: Thursday 24 February 2011, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
** Cancelled **
Litigation in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
School of Law Research Seminar
Professor Roman Tomasic, Durham University
Date and time: Wednesday 23 February 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Vegetable Oil Research
School of Interdisciplinary Studies 'Cultural Currents' seminar
Anthony Berretti (Glentrool Microenegetics Development Trust)
Date and time: Wednesday 23 February 2011, 3pm
Venue: Room 120, Rutherford McCowan Building, Dumfries Campus
Scale, Location, and Human Capital: Evaluating Arts and Culture-based Regeneration in Four UK Cities
Joint Urban Studies seminar with School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
Ann Markusen (UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art and Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota)
Date and time: Friday 11 February 2011, 4pm
Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Water Use and Conflicts in Latin America: A Historical and Political Reassessment
Latin American Politics Lecture Series
Dr. Antonio Ioris, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
Session Chaired by: Dr. David Featherstone, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
Date and time: 10 February 2011, 5pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
**CANCELLED** The historical geography of philanthropy in Victorian and pre-Victorian England
Economic and Social History Seminar
Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire)
The Meaning of Bodily Integrity in Health Care Law
School of Law Research Seminar
Professor Marie Fox, University of Keele
Date and time: Wednesday 09 February 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Inveresk plc v Tullis Russell Papermakers Ltd - Retention of performance: clarity at last?
School of Law Research Seminar
Laura MacGregor, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Wednesday 02 February 2011, 3.30pm
Venue: Tartu Room, Stair Building
Translocal Solidarities of Climate Justice
Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar
Paul Routledge (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Date and time: Tuesday 01 February 2011, 5pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 915
Busy Burglars: Consumer and Industrious Revolutions as seen through Crime Statistics of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
Date and time: Thursday 27 January, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House, Bute Gardens
Financialisation, the “Great Recession” and the Stratification of the US Labour Market
Economics Seminars
Professor Giuseppe Fontana, Leeds University Business School (co-authored with Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge and Aurelie Charles, Leeds University Business School)
Date and time: 27 January 2011, 4pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 611 (Lecture Room E)
Narcotics, Violence and Counter Narcotics – linkages and drivers
Dr. Julia Buxton, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Session Chaired by: Dr. Alex Marshall, School of Humanities
Date and time: 27 January 2011, 5pm-7pm
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 1115
The paradox of urban informality: the case of land formalisation processes in the peri-urban zone of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Urban Studies Seminar
Libby Porter (Lecturer School of Social and Political Sciences) and John Briggs (Professor School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)
Date and time: Friday 21 January 2011, 3.30 pm
Venue: Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens
Economics Seminar Series
Mr Anthony Yates, Bank of England
Date and time: 20 January 2011, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 611 (lecture room E)
Rethinking the behavioural micro-foundations of strategic management: Insights from social cognitive neuroscience and neuroeconomics
Management Seminar
Professor Gerard Hodgkinson, University of Leeds
Date and time: 19 January 2011, 3pm
Does Religious Education Work? A launch-of-findings Conference for the AHRC/ESRC Study
Date and time: Wednesday, 8th December 2010, 9.30am-3.30pm
Venue: Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow
Does Religious Education Work? A launch-of-findings conference
Date and time: Wednesday, 8th December 2010, 9.30am-3.30pm
Venue: Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow
From Mortgages to Investments: Dundee and the New Deal
Charles Munn, University of Glasgow
Economic & Social History Seminar Programme
Date and time: 25th November 2010, 11am
Venue: Seminar Room, Lilybank House
Banking Extension of Arrow Debreu
Professor Max Gillman
Economics Seminar Series
Date and time: 25 November 2010, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 513 (lecture room D)
The European Court of Human Rights in Crisis
Philip Leach, London Metropolitan University
School of Law Research Seminar
24th November, 3:30 pm, Tartu Room, Stair Building
Discursive Strategies for Building Consensus around Strategic Issues
Professor Ian Clarke, Newcastle University Business School
Date and time: 24th November at 3.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3, Gilbert Scott Building
What’s Hate Got to Do, Got to Do with It? What’s Hate but a Second-Rate Emotive?
Neil Chakraborti, University of Leicester
Sociology Seminar Series
4.00-5.30pm, Room 916, Adam Smith Building
The Non-Transparency of Timeless Rules
Professor Joseph Pearlman, London Metropolitan University, co-authored with Brian Henry, NIESR
Economics Seminar Series
Date and time: 18 November 2010, 4.00-5.15pm
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, lecture room 513 (lecture room D)