Thursday, 12 May, Lincoln College - 17:00-18:15
Paper: Luc Borot (Maison Franaise dOxford)
Chair: Peter Pulzer (All Souls College)
Discussant: Iain McLean (DPIR, Nuffield College)
This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.
Key note speech: 16.30 - 18:00
Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W. Norton 2007). She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press).
Session Three: 11.45-12.45
Chair: Professor Kalypso Nicoladis (DPIR and St Antony?s College)
Paper: Dr Edward Keene (DPIR and Christ Church), Social Status, Social Closure and Civilization: an Essay on the Idea of a Normative Power Europe
The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.
Speakers:
Session Two: 10.45-11.45
Chair: Professor Andrew Hurrell (DPIR and Balliol College)
Paper: Professor Iver B. Neumann (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Status is Cultural: Durkheimian Poles and Weberian Russians Seek Great Power Status
The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.
Speakers:
Session One: 9.30-10.30
Chair: Professor Yuen Foong Khong (DPIR and Nuffield College)
Paper: Professor Deborah Welch Larson (University of California, Los Angeles), Managing Rising Powers: The Role of Status Concerns
The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.
Speakers:
SATURDAY
12-1.30pm
Nigeria: Economy and Society
Chair: JDY Peel. Discussant: Bjorn Beckman
Ruth Watson:
Gavin, Garveyism, and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan
Kathryn Nwajiaku:
The politics of oil and identity in Nigeria: A political economy of ethnic nationalism
Gunilla Andrae:
Organising the Informal Economy: Union power and civil society in Nigeria
AR Mustapha:
Why there is Agrarian Capitalism in Nigeria: The Zimbabwean Farmers in the Nigerian Middlebelt
