Politics Seminars & Events
Seminars will be held in Room 916, Adam Smith Building, 3.00 pm
This Semester's Seminar programme is sponsored by the MacFie Bequest.
Alec Lawrence Macfie (1898-1980), Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University from 1945 to 1958, is commemorated in the name of the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy. His collection of 19-20C Scottish art was donated to the Hunterian Museum.
Macfie was born in Glasgow, served in the First World War and then studied at the University. In 1930 he became lecturer in Political Economy and then held the Adam Smith Chair from 1945 until he retired in 1958. He was Dean of Faculties, 1974-1978 and was awarded an LLD in 1959.
The James Bonar Chair of Economics was renamed the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy in 1990.
From more information please see: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0079&type=P
Carnegie Lecture in International Relations Monday 28 May 2012
Andrew Linklater: 'Violence and Civilization: States-Systems in the West'
Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN) Seminar 5 October 2011
From Tunis to Tripoli - Analysing the Arab Spring
Society for Latin American Studies Annual Lecture 18 November 2011
John Holloway: 'On Finding Hope on a Dark Night: the Latin American Contribution' now available online
Politics Seminar Monday 23 January 2012
Richard English: 'Twenty-First-Century Terrorism: How Should We Respond?'
Politics Seminar Monday 30 January 2012
Jean Grugel: 'Post Neoliberalism: Rebuilding and Reclaiming the State in Latin America'
Mackenzie Lecture in Politics Monday 5 March 2012
Albert Weale: 'Political Identity and the Social Contract'
Politics Seminar Monday 12 March 2012
Fiona Adamson: 'For the Ummah or Humanity? Islamic Humanitarianism between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism'