Rabindranath Tagore on International Relations
In our first session of the Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series join us in a discussion with P.K. Dutta from Jawaharlal Nehru University, to speak on the life and international thought of Rabindranath Tagore.
Will strong nation-states and a stronger United Nations guarantee a new global order?
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General Michael von der Schulenburg will speak about his new book On Building Peace – Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations, based on a lifetime working in countries with wars, conflict and social disintegration. He argues that preserving a global order for the future will need what many thought to be outmoded or even dead: strong nation-states and a stronger United Nations.
About the speaker
About the speaker
Beyond Victimhood? Experiences of New Vietnamese Migrants in Britain: Modern Slavery, Trafficking and the Cannabis Trade
In this paper, Tamsin Barber interrogates the role of recent debates around Modern Slavery and trafficking in framing and understanding the experience of new Vietnamese migrants working in the cannabis trade and nail salons in the UK. By reflecting upon wider aspects of the lived experience and biographical processes of migration, the speaker will argue that these frameworks can unintentionally become complicit in rendering these migrants more vulnerable by disregarding their agency (more broadly conceived) and pre-migratory conditions.
‘Photojournalism in the digital age’
Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled
Turning from the articulation of constitutional rule in terms of office, to the idea of rule itself as articulated in Aristotle and Xenophon, this lecture argues for the centrality of rule as hierarchical subordination requiring obedience not only to law but also to individual rulers as such. It then explores the psychosocial demands of willing obedience on the part of the ruled.
The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Three)
*Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled*
Turning from the articulation of constitutional rule in terms of office, to the idea of rule itself as articulated in Aristotle and Xenophon, this lecture argues for the centrality of rule as hierarchical subordination requiring obedience not only to law but also to individual rulers as such. It then explores the psychosocial demands of willing obedience on the part of the ruled.
_The Carlyle Lectures are a lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of History._
Turning from the articulation of constitutional rule in terms of office, to the idea of rule itself as articulated in Aristotle and Xenophon, this lecture argues for the centrality of rule as hierarchical subordination requiring obedience not only to law but also to individual rulers as such. It then explores the psychosocial demands of willing obedience on the part of the ruled.
_The Carlyle Lectures are a lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of History._
Health and well-being in Russia: new approaches, new challenges
Book Launch: We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicament of Belonging in Kenya (Joint event with the Horn of Africa seminar series)
Introduction to Mindfulness in Politics
DPIR invites all students and staff to take part in an introduction to evidence-based mindfulness, in two steps:
1) 29 January, 10am-12:30pm: Everyone is invited to an introductory session which will begin with an introduction to mindfulness in politics by a senior member of the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group in the UK Parliament. This will be followed by an interactive ‘how to’ workshop offering participants practical, effective mindfulness methods which can be incorporated into daily life to manage stress and promote resilience and wellbeing.
1) 29 January, 10am-12:30pm: Everyone is invited to an introductory session which will begin with an introduction to mindfulness in politics by a senior member of the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group in the UK Parliament. This will be followed by an interactive ‘how to’ workshop offering participants practical, effective mindfulness methods which can be incorporated into daily life to manage stress and promote resilience and wellbeing.