FRIDAY
3-4.30pm
Weber & Marx
Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch. Discussant: Bob Shenton
Jeremy Seekings:
Webers ghost and the study of stratification in South Africa
Kate Meagher:
Weber meets Godzilla: Social Networks and the Spirit of Capitalism
Swagato Sarkar:
Marxs politics vis-a-vis post-Marxists
FRIDAY
1.30-2.30pm
Agrarian Societies
Chair: Peter Lawrence, Discussant: Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Barbara Harriss-White:
Taking the part of petty commodity producers
Judith Heyer:
The political economy of development in an industrialising rural area of South India
Lindsay Whitfield:
A New Kind of Agrarian Capitalism in Ghana: Capitalist farmers in the horticulture export industry.
FRIDAY
11-12.30pm
Political and Development Theories
Chair: Valpy Fitzgerald. Discussant: Martin Murray
Bjorn Beckman:
Where do effective institutions come from?
Sara Dorman:
Primary contradictions: thinking about state formation in post-colonial Africa
Alastair Frasier:
Participation, liberation and tyranny - from JS Mill to PRSPs
Deborah Bryceson:
Discovery and Denial: Social Science Theory and Interdisciplinarity in African Studies
FRIDAY
9.30-10.30 Opening Session:
Chair: Barbara Harriss-White.
Keynote Address: Lionel Cliffe.Gavin Williams: An Appreciation.
Messages from absent friends.
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke on The Turn: American Foreign Policy 2009 to 2011 on 18 May 2011. After introductions by Professor Sir Adam Roberts and Professor Andrew Hurrell. Professor Slaughter discussed how the nature of US foreign policy during the Obama administration has shifted from purely government government diplomacy to place far greater emphasis on government society relations and on society - society relations.
Dr Mark Stears (University of Oxford)
A CPI graduate workshop took place in the Manor Road Building on Saturday, 18 September 2010, entitled, Politics in strange places: breaking the boundaries of the definition of the political.
This event invited young researchers looking at unique topics within the discipline of political theory to discuss their work and respond to peers ideas.
