Conference Participation
Team members regularly give papers and presentations to conferences and external bodies.
Including:
Dr Hugh Dyer convened a panel on 'Theorising Global Environmental Politics' for the International Studies Association annual convention in San Francisco (2008), at which he presented a paper relating theory to practice in GEP. He also gave a paper on international relations and the environment at the British International Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference, Cambridge, in December 2007. He convened the panel on 'The High Politics of the Environment' at the British International Studies Association 31st Annual Conference, Cork, December 2006;
Dr John Schwarzmantel organised 'section' of panels for ECPR conference, Pisa, September 2007 and presented a paper on community and democratic theory to the IPSA conference in Fukuoka, Japan in 2006. He is currently organising a seminar series on 'Democracy and Violence' for which he is applying for ESRC funding;
Dr Maureen Ramsay contributed to the ECPR conference in Pisa (2007), and gave a keynote address on the ethics of torture to the members of the Dutch military and Ministry of Defence in 2007 which was subsequently used by the 'Public Committee Against Torture' in Israel’s education programme.
Both Dr Ramsay and Dr Schwarzmantel were participants in the Dublin conference (2006) of the Association for the Study of Legal and Social Philosophy, presenting papers on justifications of torture and republican theories of social justice respectively.
Dr Nick Robinson presented papers on conceptions and applications of power in EU research to the ECPR joint sessions in Cyprus (2006) and on informal governance in the EU in Athens (2006). The participants in these workshops are presently developing their work as the basis of a more formal research network. He also gave a paper at the UACES research conference in Portsmouth on the need for mutual dialogue between EU and non-EU scholars (2007).
Dr Charlie Dannreuther has recently provided specialist training on the for key policy stakeholders in Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Macedonia, and representatives from the UN and British Embassies. He is also managing two programmes for the Foreign Office disseminating the EU's Lisbon Agenda in Turkey and Bosnia. In 2007, he presented papers on 'The Service Directive and the EU's Social Question' in Turin and on 'Turkish transition: European Accession and the Political Economy of "otherness" at EAEPE in Porto.
Dr Naomi Head co-convened a series of panels and presented a paper on 'Habermas and Violence' at the Fourth Annual Political Theory Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2007.
Professor Gordon Crawford gave a paper entitled 'Decentralisation and Grassroots Struggles for Human Rights in Ghana' at a conference organised by the University of Oslo on 'Human Rights and Extreme Poverty in Africa' in Kampala, Uganda in October 2007 and was the keynote speaker at a conference in Ottawa on Canada's Approach to Democratic Development, organised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Democracy Council, in February 2007. He was also the keynote speaker at a public event organised by Dr Jorge Sampaio, the Portuguese President, on 'Thinking Democracy', held in Lisbon in November 2005, and again at a conference on 'The Quandaries of Promoting Democracy in Central Asia' organised by the Centre for OSCE Research, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg in February 2007.
Dr Stuart McAnulla presented a paper using Third Way theory to examine the direction of David Cameron's Conservative Party at the UK Political Ideologies Conference at the University of Liverpool in July 2007.
Dr Derek Edyvane will deliver a paper at the 2008 PSA conference on 'Britishness, Belonging and the Metaphysics of Conflict.'
Dr Ricardo Blaug presented a paper on 'Perspectives on Participation' to the Work Foundation in November, 2007 and a keynote speech at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund and National Trust sponsored conference on Capturing the Public Value of Heritage in 2006.