Postgraduate Colloquium: 8 November 2012

The Colloquium is run through the Graduate School, and is a key opportunity for postgraduate students to share and develop their research ideas and thinking. The day follows a mixed format of presentations, discussions and panel debates.

Papers can be downloaded on the right of this page.

Agenda

Lunch 12.15-13.00

Panel Session 1, 13.00-14.00

Panel 1a: Governance

Chair: Brian

Louise - "Meta-policy and the implementation gap"
Opal - “Chinese environmental governance”
Matt - “The Rule of Rescue: Explaining the Shadow of Hierarchy in Contemporary Governance”

Panel 1b Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Chair: Chris

Clara - “Immigration, Nationalism and Citizenship of Reciprocity”
Gemma - Does the concept of Justice, understood as a Kantian notion of Willkür, exist universally?
Joe - Rethinking the Nation as a Moral Space: Practices of Social and Cultural Citizenship in the Case of the UK.

Break 14.00-14.15

Panel session 2, 14.15-15.15

Panel 2a International Relations

Chair: Dan

Janosch - "What is political about political theory?"
Ramon - “The birth of Post-Communist Cuba”
Xavier - “From sovereignty as equality to sovereignty as hierarchy: the normative discourse of sovereignty in international relations”

Panel 2b Energy

Chair: Gemma

Gunay - "The Role of Energy in Foreign Policy: The case of Energy-Rich, but Security-Poor Azerbaijan".
Nuray - “The Complexity of Russian society and an interpretation of the Russian natural gas policy”
Faig - ‘Multidimensional Nature of the EU’s Energy Security: The Case of Caspian Basin Alternative Natural Gas Reserves’

Tea/Coffee break 15.15-15.45

Staff Led Q&A, 15.45-16.45

Chair: Graham