Speakers: Timothy Clarke, Antonio Negri, David Priestland

What kind of crisis are we in? With what can we compare it historically? How should we portray, research and combat it in our work? Are the powerful in society capable of rising to its challenges? How can the weak, who are most affected by it, organise themselves? Can we as symposium participants find a common language to help us move forward?

Speaker: Stephen Whitefield

What kind of crisis are we in? With what can we compare it historically? How should we portray, research and combat it in our work? Are the powerful in society capable of rising to its challenges? How can the weak, who are most affected by it, organise themselves? Can we as symposium participants find a common language to help us move forward?

Participants:

Professor Duncan Snidal (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Dr Alex Betts (Queen Elizabeth House)

Professor Nico Krisch (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)

Chair:

Professor Andrew Hurrell (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Professor Nico Krisch, Professor of International Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and ICREA Research Professor, IBEI, Barcelona, delivered the 2012 Lecture at 14.30 on Friday 12th October in the Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building.

Speaker:ProfessorNico Krisch

Chair: Professor Andrew Hurrell

Professor Nico Krisch, Professor of International Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and ICREA Research Professor, IBEI, Barcelona, delivered the 2012 Lecture at 14.30 on Friday 12th October in the Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building.

This was followed by a discussion forum, also in the Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building.

Discussion Forum Subject:

New Directions in the Study of Global Governance

Participants:

Iain McLean, Professor of Politics and fellow of Nuffield College, the British Academy and the Royal Society Edinburgh, has published widely on constitutional issues. His Whats wrong with the British Constitution? co-won the WJM Mackenzie Prize for the best politics book of the year, and he was a member of the Independent Expert Group advising the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution. McLean is joined by Professor Will Hutton.

Professor Marc Stears reflects on his experiences. Marc Stears is a Professor of Political Theory and fellow at University College. He is the author of Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics and is one of the co-editors of the widely discussed The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox. He is currently visiting fellow at Britains leading think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and he works closely with many of Britains most prominent politicians on questions of political strategy and communication.

Miriyam Aouragh examines the useful and useless roles of the internet in the Arab revolutions by critically revisiting mainstream narratives on its role.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.