Research centre events
Events & Seminars
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9 May 2013: CEES & GSERN Joint Seminar
Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj: ‘Between Byzantium and Brussels: The Politics of Orthodox Christianity in the European Union’
10 May 2013: Urban Studies Seminar
Keith Jacobs: 'The politics of housing: the role of interests groups and lobbyists in shaping policy agendas'
13 May 2013: Book Launch
Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound, by Malcolm Nicolson and John Fleming
16 May 2013: School Seminar
Dennis Rodgers: 'Global Ganglands: Towards a New Political Economy of Violence and Order in Most of the World'
22 May 2013: CEES Seminar
Dr Moreno Bonda: ‘Post-Soviet Trends n Lithuanian Historiography: the Cultural Construction of National Identity’
29 May 2013: CEES Seminar *NB change of date*
Professor Julia Szalai: 'The Shaken Middle-Class: The Rise and Decline of Hungarian Large Entrepreneurs'
Bodies in Translation - 7-8 September 2012
This event will explore aspects of performance and communication linked to the over-arching theme of ‘translating cultures’.
Central and East European Studies Seminar - 19 Sept 2012
Daglish Visiting Fellowship Seminar, Alexei Zinoviev: 'Applying participant observation to the practice of sports: the body of the researcher as “instrument of cognition”'
Sociology Seminar - 26 Sept 2012
Dr Paul Higate: 'Identity Work as Material Practice: Men, Masculinities and the Private Military Contractor'
Intersectionality in the Study of Central and East Europe, BASEES Postgraduate Workshop, 28 Sept 2012, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Part of the Translating Russian and East European Cultures event.
Download the flyer for full details: BASEES Postgraduate Workshop, 28 September 2012 (PDF)
Translating Russian & East European Cultures, 28-29th September 2012, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
This event includes a major retrospective of Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid's video work curated by Katarzyna Kosmala, reflections on 'Approaches to community engagement through art' by Brendan Jackson, music by the Welsh-Estonian music collaboration SILD as well as a postgraduate workshop exploring 'Intersectionality in the study of Central and East Europe.'
Download flyer for full details: TREEC events 28-29 September 2012 (PDF)
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Masterclasses - 26 Sep and 3 Oct 2012
Professor Nino Javakhishvili (Ilia State University, Georgia) will deliver two masterclasses on gender issues.
Urban Studies Seminar - 5 Oct 2012
Alex Frost: 'The Old & New Easterhouse Mosaic (and everything in between)'
CEES Work in Progress Seminar - 10 Oct 2012
Lea Kreinin: "Working with the diaspora archives in Toronto, gaining experience and data for PhD"
Sociology Seminar - 10 Oct 2012
Dr Emma Jackson: 'Youth homelessness in the world city: Displacement, Mobilities and the Day Centre'
Politics Seminar - 22 Oct 2012
Professor Karin Fierke: 'Political Self Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations'
Sociology Seminar - 24 Oct 2012
Prof David Inglis: 'Cosmos and Globe: An Attempt at a Radical Rethinking of Globalization and Cosmopolitanism'
Urban Studies Book Launch & Panel Discussion - 26 Oct 2012
Dennis Rodgers, Gareth Jones & Jo Beal: 'Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Comparative perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe and Scotland'
1 Nov 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar
Lucy Hewitt: 'The Civic Survey of Greater London: social mapping, planners and urban space in the early twentieth century'
Politics Seminar - 5 Nov 2012
Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch: 'Inequality, Grievances and Civil War'
Sociology Seminar - 7 Nov 2012
Dr Vanessa May: 'On the Outside Looking In: Mass Observation Project Accounts of Non-Belonging'
Urban Studies Seminar - 9 Nov 2012
Tim Butler (Professor of Human Geography, Kings College, London): 'Gentrification, education and exclusionary displacement in East London'
Politics Seminar - 12 Nov 2012
Professor Daniel Whelan: 'Indivisible Human Rights: A Discursive History'
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Masterclasses - 7 & 14 Nov 2012
Professor Maslovskiy (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod) will deliver 2 masterclasses on Political Transformations in Post-Soviet Russia.
15 Nov 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar
Bernard Harris: 'Lessons from history? Charity, mutual aid and the origins of the "Big Society"'
CEES West Coast Seminar - 15 Nov 2012
Professor Mikhail Maslovski: 'The Soviet Model of Modernity and the Political Transformations in Post-Communist Russia'
Politics Seminar - 19 Nov 2012
Dr Katrin Voltmer: 'The social construction of press freedom in new democracies: between universal norms and local practices'
Sociology Seminar - 21 Nov 2012
Dr Jo Ferrie: 'Biographical Disruption and Delays in Diagnosis: The Barriers Facing Adults with Motor Neurone Disease'
CEES West Coast Seminar - 21 Nov 2012
Dániel Kuttor: 'Reasons and consequences of regional divergence in East Central Europe in the transition process ‐ an East Central European mosaic'
CEES Work in Progress Seminar - 28 Nov 2012
Brendan McGeever: 'Early Bolshevik and Soviet government propaganda against pogroms and antisemitism in 1918-1919'
CEES West Coast Seminar - 28 Nov 2012
Steven Gordon: 'Kosovo; Europe's young country or old problem?'
29 Nov 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Peter Kirby: 'Loss of control or loss of production? The question of rationality in the punishment of eighteenth and nineteenth-century child workers'
Urban Studies Seminar - 30 Nov 2012
Cecilia Wong: 'Planning under Urban-Rural Integration: the case of Nanjing, China'
3 Dec 2012: Politics Seminar
Dr Brandon Valeriano: 'Cyberwar and Rivalry: The Dynamics of Cyber Conflict between Antagonists, 2001-2011'
13 Dec 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar
Eiji Hotori: 'How did a Scottish banker enhance the development of Japan? : Alexander Allan Shand, 1844-1930'
14-16 Dec 2012: Residential Research Methods Workshop for PhD Students
An intensive two day programme of interactive events to be held at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries campus. The Workshop is open to registered PhD students in the College of Social Sciences. 30 places available. Deadline for applications: Friday 2 Nov 2012.
11 Jan 2013: Urban Studies Seminar
Des McNulty: 'Mobilising knowledge: how ideas can influence policy'
17 Jan 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Heather Shore: "A London Plague that must be Swept Away": Reassessing Late Victorian and Edwardian Youth Gangs
23 Jan 2013: Carnegie Lecture in International Relations
Professor Chris Brown: 'Democracy, Citizenship and World Government'
23 Jan 2013: CEES Seminar
Dr Christine Hüttinger: 'Converting History in Literature: The Case of Trotsky´s Exile in Mexico'
23 Jan 2013: Sociology Seminar
Professor David Bindman: 'Representing Africans in Art: The Image of the Black series'
30 Jan 2013: CEES Seminar
Dr Jan Grill: 'Struggles for movement, new forms of disconnect. Roma migrations from Central Eastern Europe to Great Britain'
31 Jan 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Eleanor Gordon: 'Irregular Marriage: Official Attitudes and Popular Practice'
6 Feb 2013: Sociology Seminar
Dr Ruth McManus: 'Watching Real Death is Good? Mediating Representations of Mortality in a Global Age'
8 Feb 2013: Urban Studies Seminar
David Walsh: 'Exploring reasons for different health outcomes in identically deprived post-industrial UK cities' - rescheduled from 25 January
11 Feb 2013: Politics Seminar
Dr Paul Graham: 'Testosterone, Immunocompetence Handicaps and Political Order'
14 Feb 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Klara Arnberg: 'Mad Women: Gender and Sexuality Perspectives on Advertising in Sweden 1850-1980'
20 Feb 2013: CEES Seminar
Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj: ‘Will Ukraine's political regime (again) soon change? Analysis of elite circulation after parliamentary elections’
20 Feb 2013: Sociology Seminar
Dr Kevin Paterson: 'Ageing With a Lifelong Condition: The Greying of Cerebral Palsy'
21 Feb 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Teresa da Silva Lopes: 'Risk Management Strategies in International Business'
28 Feb 2013: CEES Seminar
Professor Ghia Nodia: ‘Democratization, Modernity and Identity in Georgia: Power Change in Georgia and Its Aftermath’
1 Mar 2013: Frisby Memorial Lecture
Professor Erik Olin Wright: 'Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias'
1 Mar 2013: Urban Studies Seminar
Rivke Jaffe: 'Criminal dons, police and security guards: Unconventional security assemblages in urban Jamaica'
4 Mar 2013: Politics Seminar
Dr Cian O'Drsicoll: '"Why don't you tell us about them rabbits, George?" The Just War Tradition and its Discontents'
7 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar
Dr Zharmukhamed Zardykhan: 'Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia'
7 Mar 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar
Jim Mills: 'Cannabis before the 'counter-culture': Control and consumption in Britain, 1928-1961'
11 Mar 2013: Politics Seminar
Professor John Peterson: 'Obama and Transatlantic Relations: what happens next?'
13 Mar 2013: After the coup: Politics and contestation in Chile and Latin America 1973-2013
A public lecture by Professor Manuel Antonio Garreton (Universidad de Chile and Simon Bolivar Chair, University of Cambridge)
14 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar
Ms Chiara Tessaris: ‘International Ethnic Conflict Mediation in Bosnia and Kosovar Response to the Dayton Agreement: What Went Wrong?’
15 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar
Professor Anar Valiyev: 'Urban development in Post-Soviet city: Case of Baku'
18 Mar 2013: CEES & Politics Joint Seminar
Professor Julie Hemment: 'Volunteers, Entrepreneurs and Patriots: youth as new subjects of state policy in Putin’s Russia'
20 Mar 2013: Global Security Master Class Seminar Series
Ambassador Károly Grúber (Hungary): "European Foreign and Security Policy in Practice After the Lisbon Treaty"
20 Mar 2013: Sociology Seminar
Dr Lisa Williams: 'At the Crossroads: When Life Journeys and Drug Journeys Collide'
26 Apr 2013: Urban Studies Seminar
Andy Furlong: Are 'cultures of worklessness' passed down the generations?
30 Apr 2013: CEES & GSREN Joint Seminar
Dr Cathie Carmichael: 'Psychology, Popular Culture and the Construction of the Identity in Yugoslavia'