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research seminar series
Our research seminar series attracts members of LSE faculty, doctoral students and researchers
from a broad spectrum of interests and disciplines. The seminars are open to all.
research seminar series 2007/8
18-Oct-2007, 11:00-12:00, Z225, LSE
The Impact of Commercialising Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Case of Landmine Clearance in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan
Speaker: Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton has recently returned from fieldwork researching foreign aid for demining in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan for his PhD in government at the LSE. Prior to becoming a graduate student he worked in humanitarian and development operations in ten countries, including Bosnia and Iraq. He has a MSc in development studies (research) from the LSE.
research seminar series 2007/8
23-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Human Security Analysis of the Ahtisaari Approach to Kosovo's Final Status
Speaker: Denisa Kostovicova
Denisa Kostovicova is a Lecturer at the Government Department and Development Studies Institute and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the LSE. Her research interests and the areas in which she has published include nationalism and democratisation in the global age, post-conflict reconstruction and security, and European integration of Western Balkans.
research seminar series 2007/8
30-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Strategy of Terrorism
Speaker: Peter R. Neumann
Peter R. Neumann is Director of the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London, and a member of the Club de Madrid's expert advisory committee. He was Academic Director of the Club de Madrid's International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in Madrid in March 2005, and served as senior advisor to the National Policy Forum on Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose in the United States in 2005.
research seminar series 2007/8
06-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Can development prevent conflict: lessons learned in Western Balkans
Speaker: Dr Rastislav Vrbensky
Rastislav Vrbensky works for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is currently on sabbatical with the Centre of the Study of Global Governance of LSE as a visiting fellow. He has been the Assistant Director of UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava and last three years the Deputy Resident Representative in UNDP Serbia. In this capacity, he has led the design and implementation of one of the largest UN assistance programmes in Western Balkans. His research interest is particularly focused on development and security in transitional economies and post-totalitarian societies.
research seminar series 2007/8
13-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Creative Commons - A Global Civil Society Movement or just a suite of licenses?
Speaker: Frances Pinter
Dr. Frances Pinter currently works in the area of Intellectual Property
Rights and has been a consultant to Creative Commons. She was previously
Publishing Director for the Soros Foundation Network and was the founder of
Pinter Publishers. In 2000/01 she was a visiting fellow at LSE¹s Centre for
Civil Society. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Global Civil Society
Yearbook and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance.
research seminar series 2007/8
20-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Constructing Global Democracy
Speaker: Jan Aart Scholte
research seminar series 2007/8
27-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The International Criminal Court’s investigation in the Central African Republic: Expectations of civil society and victims
Speaker: Marlies Glasius
Marlies Glasius is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a lecturer at LSE's Government Department.
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Dec-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Hiroshima the first global event
Speaker: Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is a sociologist, Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales and has been Visiting Professor in Roehampton, Cambridge, the LSE, Munich and the State University of New York. His books include Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory, Do Organizations Have Feelings?, Sociology: the Basics, and the prize-winning The Global Age. He was founder editor of the Journal International Sociology, President of the British Sociological Association and Chair of the Sociology Panel for the British universities Research Assessment Exercise. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a co-editor of Global Civil Society, 2006/7.
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research seminar series 2007/8
15-Jan-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Rise and Fall of Transnational Civil Society: The Evolution of INGOs since 1839
Speaker: Thomas Davies
Thomas Davies is Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London, and Research Associate of the University of Oxford's project on 'Civil Resistance and Power Politics'. His first book, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism, was published in October 2007.
research seminar series 2007/8
19-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Global Urbanity, War and the Securitisation of the 21st Century City
Speaker: Martin Coward
Marin Coward is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the nexus of identity, violence and territory. Currently he is investigating the manner in which this nexus is exhibited in the contemporary relationship between the city and war.
research seminar series 2007/8
26-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Representing Children’s Interests in Global Governance
Speaker: Anna Holzscheiter
Anna Holzscheiter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Change & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Mar-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Towards a Global Media Ethics
Speaker: Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book is Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave 2007, with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham).
research seminar series 2007/8
11-Mar-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Development and Conflict: Case Studies from the Balkans
Speaker: Rastislav Vrbensky
Rastislav Vrbensky works for the UNDP and is currently a visiting fellow at the Centre of the Study of Global Governance, LSE. In Serbia, he has led the design and implementation of one of the largest UN assistance programmes in the Balkans. His research interests include development and security in transitional economies and post-totalitarian societies.
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