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Politics, International Relations & Philosophy

Research Events at SPIRE

Staff and students regularly organise research events, which provide important opportunities for learning, networking and collegial debate on contemporary political and philosophical issues. For example, we host an annual Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series, a bi-annual European Consortium on Political Research environmental politics PhD summer school, and in recent years have organised several ESRC-funded seminar series. 

There are regular guest lectures and research colloquia that are open to all members of the university and to the wider community.  This includes Keele’s longstanding and very successful World Affairs lecture series.

See here for an  overview of SPIRE events and seminars in 2012-13.

 

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Forthcoming and Recent Events

1 May 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Sorin Baiasu (SPIRE) ‘Kant's Guarantee of Perpetual Peace’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

27 March 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Sherilyn Macgregor (SPIRE) Title TBC

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

20 March 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

David Dunn, ‘Whatever happened to international relations?’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

13 March 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Colonel David Benest (Chatham House Rules Apply)

‘2 Para in the Falklands: 30 Years On’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

12 March 2013: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Dr Michelle Montague, University of Bristol

‘The Intentionality and Phenomenology and Perception’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

27 February 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Prof. Bülent Gökay (SPIRE) ‘The Political Economy of the Arab Spring’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

26 February 2013: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Prof. Geoffrey Scarre, University of Durham

'Sapient Trouble-tombs'? Archeologists' Moral Responsibilities Towards the Dead’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

13 February 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Prof. Andy Dobson (SPIRE) ‘From Deliberative to Dialogic Democracy’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

12 February 2013: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Prof. Marcia Baron, University of St Andrews/Indiana, Bloomington

‘Reasonableness’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

6 February 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Brian Doherty (SPIRE) and Graeme Hayes (Aston University),

‘Criminal Trials of Protest Activists’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

5 February 2013: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Dr Sam Coleman, University of Hertfordshire

‘Qualia and Awareness’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

30 January 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Phil Catney (SPIRE) ‘The Politics of Blame’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

16 January 2013: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Liz Carter (SPIRE) ‘Right-wing extremism: trying to make sense of the jumble of terms and concepts’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

12th December 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr Barry Ryan (SPIRE)   ‘Maritime Assemblages and the Maritime War on Terror’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

5th December 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Ilya Xypolia, ‘Divide, Propagate et Impera: Eastern Mediterranean between Wars and Empires’

CM0.12b, 12:00-13:00

5th December 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Ian Gardner, University of Bangor

‘Not just Conservatives and Right Wing Bastards. Anti-Wind farm Opposition in the UK and Europe’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

28th November 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Prof. Tim Doyle (SPIRE) ‘Realignments in the Indo-Pacific Region’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

27 November 2012: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Dr Lilian O'Brien, University College Cork

‘Beyond Psychologism and Anti-psychologism’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

2012 J.-J. ROUSSEAU ANNUAL LECTURE AND CONFERENCE

Claus Moser Research Centre

23 November 2012
'J.-J. ROUSSEAU' ANNUAL LECTURE:

Professor Alan Montefiore (LSE/Oxford) : 'Frontiers of Philosophy'

24 November 2012 : CONFERENCE: KANT AND SARTRE

  • Professor Peter Poellner (Warwick) : 'Sartre, Freedom and Practical Reason' (TBC)
  • Dr Daniel Herbert (Sheffield) : 'Kant and Sartre on Temporality'
  • Dr Justin Alam (Bristol) : 'Kantian Radical Evil and Self-deception'
  • Dr Sorin Baiasu (Keele) : '(Self)-Consciousness and Transcendental Unity of Apperception'

21st November 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Mustapha Demir, ‘Turkish State and Securitisation of the Kurdish Identity’

CM1.24, 12:00-13:00

20 November 2012: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Prof. John Hyman, University of Oxford

‘Desire, Intention and the Will’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

14th November 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series     

Robert Emerton Tiananmen, ‘Visibility and Sublimity’

CM1.24, 12:00-13:00

14 November 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr. Jon Herbert, Dr. Jon Parker & Prof. Chris Bailey (all SPIRE)

Special Session on 2012 US Presidential Elections

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

7th November 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Corey Walker-Mortimer, ‘How design became a biopolitical problem, the 1835/6 Select Committee on Arts and their Connexion with Manufactures’

CM0.12b, 12:00-13:00

7 November 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

John Barry, Queen’s University, Belfast

‘The Topography of Green Thinking and Practice in Relation to Climate Change and Peak Oil: From Dark Mountains to Transition Towns’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

6 November 2012: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Dr Daniel Whiting, University of Southampton

‘What's So Bad About Bad Concepts?’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

31st October 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Pinar Akpinar    ‘Turkey’s Aid and Development Initiative in Somalia’

CM1.24, 12:00-13:00

31st October 2012: RC4SPIRE Research Seminars

Dr Helen Parr (SPIRE) ‘The parachute regiment, the 1982 Falklands war and after’

CBA 0.003, 16:00-17:30

24th October 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Phil Slann, ‘The Performative Securitisation of Outer Space’

CM1.24, 12:00-13:00

17th October 2012: Emerging Securities Seminar Series

Duncan Weaver (SPIRE) ‘The Aarhus Convention: Evolution or Revolution in the Greening of International Society?’

CM1.24, 12:00-13:00

16 October 2012: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture

Dr Alberto Vanzo, University of Birmingham
‘Kant on Existential Import’

CBA 0.060, 18:00-19:30

10th Annual Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium

Claus Moser Building, Keele University

14th-16th June 2012

The ALGC is a forum in which graduate students explore and discuss critical and post-structuralist approaches to global politics. The colloquium provides a friendly environment for students to present their ideas and receive feedback from other students and scholars in the field, as well as to engage in some lively debates about the future of critical scholarship. The ALGC is organised by students and for students with the support of academic staff.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Michael Shapiro (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Professor Mark Duffield (Bristol University)

A full outline for the event can be accessed here: ALGC programme

Political Parties and the European Project: Inaugural Lecture by Professor Robert Ladrech

Date: Tuesday 20 March 2012

The lecture was chaired by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Rama Thirunamachandran.

Abstract: Mainstream political parties in Western Europehave supported membership in the European Union as well as initiatives in further integration over the past several decades. However, these actions have not been complemented by a political discourse that justifies this continuing support to their respective electorates. This lecture addresses the question of 'what prevents mainstream parties from developing a legitimising discourse for their support of the EU and integration initiatives'. It situates the answer within the dynamics of national competitive party systems, though how long the status quo may persist, especially in light of the current crisis in the eurozone, is open to question.

Political Parties: Who Needs Them? Inaugural Lecture by Professor Kurt Richard Luther

Date: Monday 27 February 2012, 6.00pm

The lecture was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nick Foskett.

Abstract: Political parties have for over 100 years played a central role in the theory and practice of modern democracy, constituting a vital link between the demos and the politicians to whom the exercise of the affairs of the state is temporarily entrusted. There is thus much to be said for Schattschneider's 1942 dictum that 'democracy is unthinkable save in terms of parties'. Yet political parties have always been contested institutions. The media frequently portrays them as at best untrustworthy and at worst corrupt, whilst even nuanced academic analyses assert that they are becoming increasingly redundant. Drawing on his work on contemporary western European party politics, Professor Luther will explore current research into the changing role of political parties, identify the main challenges they face and consider their likely future shape.

Conference and Annual Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lecture : "Toleration and Prgmatism: Themes from the work of John Horton"

17 & 18 February 2012, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University

SPEAKERS:

  • Professor Sue Mendus (York)
  • Professor Albert Weale (UCL)
  • Professor Peter Jones (Newcastle)
  • Professor Rainer Forst (Frankfurt)
  • Professor Glen Newey (Brussels)


The event will be preceded by the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research Jean-Jacques Rousseau Annual Lecture, which will be given by Professor John Horton (Keele).

The events are organised by the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research with the support of the Research Centre for SPIRE and the School of Politics, IR and Philosophy (SPIRE).