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Gender Institute events
The Gender Institute hosts a seminar series, teach-in events, and other speakers and events relevant to the students and staff interested in gender and sexuality issues on campus; in classrooms; in their disciplines of work, study, or research; and in the world more broadly. For more details visit their website.
Research Seminar Series 2021/22
The department of Politics and IR host a weekly research seminar in which recognised academics from the UK and abroad present and discuss their work. This year, the series will be held online. If you are not a member of the department but are interested in attending, please contact Dr Sofia Collignon (email Sofia.Collignon@rhul.ac.uk)
Below is a list of confirmed speakers for the Autumn term:
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Date |
Speaker |
University |
Title |
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29/09/2021 |
Lauren Wilcox |
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies |
War Beyond the Human: Gender, Race, and Violence in a Posthuman Age |
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06/10/2021 |
Tariq Thachil |
University of Pennsylvania. |
How Patrons Select Brokers: Efficacy and Loyalty in Urban India’s Political Machines |
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13/10/2021 |
Chloe Thurston |
Northwestern University |
Political economy of American debt relief |
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20/10/2021 |
Mette Marie Harder |
Faculty at Karlstad University |
Representation of Unattached Interests. The case of Gender Equality |
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27/10/2021 |
Anca Gheaus |
Central European University |
What Kind of Surrogacy is Compatible With a Fiduciary Account of Parenting? |
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3/11/2021 |
Reading Week |
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10/11/2021 |
Nicole Martin |
University of Manchester |
Ethnic minority voters, Brexit and the 2019 general election |
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17/11/2021 |
Julian Garritzmann |
University of Frankfurt |
Welfare States in the Century of Knowledge: The Politics of Social Investment around the Globe |
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24/11/2021 |
Sean Fleming |
Christ's College Cambridge |
Return of the Luddites?: The Unabomber and the New Anti-Tech Radicals |
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01/12/2021 |
Vipin Narang (starts 3pm UK time) |
MIT |
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation |
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08/12/2021 |
End of Term Lunch |
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Below is a list of confirmed speakers for the Spring term:
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Date |
Speaker |
University |
Title |
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12/01/2022 |
Stephanie Reher |
Strathclyde |
Voting for Disabled Candidates: The Roles of Voter Preferences and Belief Stereotypes |
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19/01/2022 |
Kate Dommett |
Sheffield |
The Business of Elections: A deep dive into election spending returns |
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26/01/2022 |
Mette Marie Harder |
Faculty at Karlstad University |
Representation of Unattached Interests. The case of Gender Equality |
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02/02/2022 |
Vipin Narang (starts 3 pm UK time) |
MIT |
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation |
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09/02/2022 |
Jack Blumenau |
UCL |
Reasoning About Politics: Voters’ Justifications and Political Attitudes |
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Reading Week |
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23/02/2022 |
Sandra Ley |
CIDE |
The Logic of Criminal Governance |
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02/03/2022 |
Anne Irfan and Uttara Shahani |
UCL/Oxford |
is Post-partition refugee regimes as immobility regimes: Israel and India. |
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09/03/2022 |
Christel Koop |
Kings |
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16/03/2022 |
Julio Amador Garcia |
LSE |
Are polling predictions the way to go? Measuring public opinion through Bayesian data assimilation |
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23/03/2022 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Politics of the Environment and Climate Change (PECC) Lab
The PECC Lab runs a series of seminars on Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG). Below are the speakers for the Autumn term 2021/2022.
For more details visit: https://www.pecclab.com/
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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7th October |
Jamie M. Sommer (University of South Florida) |
Domestic Autonomy and Environmental International Non-Governmental Organizations: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss |
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Noah Zucker (Columbia University) |
Identity and the Structure of Climate Risk Preferences |
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21st October |
Jean Léon Boucher (Dublin City University) and Walter Mérida (University of British Columbia) |
Status Symbols in Social Space: Inflated Lives, Clean Tech Privilege, and Electric Cars in Washington State |
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Sanya Bery (Wesleyan University) and Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University) |
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans |
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4th November |
Alexander F. Gazmararian (Princeton University) and Helen V. Milner (Princeton University) |
Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming |
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Constantin Kaplaner (LMU Munich) and Yves Steinebach (LMU Munich) |
Coping Practices and the Spatial Dimension of Authority Design: The Case of Environmental Policy Enforcement |
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18th November |
Maria-Therese Gustafsson (Stockholm University), Jorge Ernesto Rodriguez Morales (Stockholm University), and Lisa M. Dellmuth (Stockholm University) |
Private adaptation to climate risks: Evidence from the world’s largest mining companies |
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Franziska Quoß (ETH Zürich) and Lukas Rudolph (LMU Munich) |
Local weather extremes and political attitudes on climate policy - Evidence from Switzerland |
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2nd December |
Lena Maria Schaffer (University of Lucerne) |
Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? Distributional consequences and inequality perceptions in ratcheting up for the Paris Agreement |
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Muzhou Zhang (University of Essex) |
No Diffusion at All: Trade, Free Riding, and Government Underspending on Environmental Innovation |
Sir Andrew Burns
Monday 15th November 6pm, Boilerhouse Auditorium
PIRSoc are hosting British Diplomat Sir Andrew Burns, who will be talking about his long and varied career followed by Q&A. Sir Andrew was British Consul-General in Hong Kong and Macau from 1997-2000 and British High Commissioner to Canada from 2000-2003, British Ambassador to Israel, Assistant Under Secretary of State for Asia from 1990-1992 and Deputy Under Secretary of State overseeing relations outside Europe together with trade and investment from 1995 to 1997. He remains a strategic advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
"Spinning and Winning: What today’s centre-left can learn from New Labour" - Lance Price
Monday 22 November 6 pm, MS Teams (details to be confirmed)
Lance Price is a former BBC journalist, special adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and Director of Communications for the Labour Party. He is the author of several books, including The Spin Doctor's Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour (2005), Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers V the Media (2010) and The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's Campaign to Transform India (2015). If you'd like to attend please contact Prof. Nicholas Allen.
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