Events & Seminars 2012-13

7-8 Sep 2012: Bodies in Translation

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:39:00 BST

This event will explore aspects of performance and communication linked to the over-arching theme of ‘translating cultures’.

19 Sep 2012: Central and East European Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Daglish Visiting Fellowship Seminar, Alexei Zinoviev: 'Applying participant observation to the practice of sports: the body of the researcher as “instrument of cognition”'

26 Sep & 3 Oct 2012: Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Masterclasses

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:10:00 BST

Professor Nino Javakhishvili (Ilia State University, Georgia) will deliver two masterclasses on gender issues.

26 Sep 2012: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Paul Higate: 'Identity Work as Material Practice: Men, Masculinities and the Private Military Contractor'

28 Sep 2012: Intersectionality in the Study of Central and East Europe, BASEES Postgraduate Workshop, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

Part of the Translating Russian and East European Cultures event.

Download the flyer for full details: BASEES Postgraduate Workshop, 28 September 2012 (PDF)

28-29 Sep 2012: Translating Russian & East European Cultures, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

This event includes a major retrospective of Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid's video work curated by Katarzyna Kosmala, reflections on 'Approaches to community engagement through art' by Brendan Jackson, music by the Welsh-Estonian music collaboration SILD as well as a postgraduate workshop exploring 'Intersectionality in the study of Central and East Europe.'

Download flyer for full details: TREEC events 28-29 September 2012 (PDF)

1 Oct 2012: Politics Annual Mackenzie Lecture

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Eric Shaw: 'The Strange Death of Labour Scotland'

5 Oct 2012: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Alex Frost: 'The Old & New Easterhouse Mosaic (and everything in between)'

10 Oct 2012: CEES Work in Progress Seminar

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:25:00 GMT

Lea Kreinin: "Working with the diaspora archives in Toronto, gaining experience and data for PhD"

10 Oct 2012: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Emma Jackson: 'Youth homelessness in the world city: Displacement, Mobilities and the Day Centre'

22 Oct 2012: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Karin Fierke: 'Political Self Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations'

24 Oct 2012: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Prof David Inglis: 'Cosmos and Globe: An Attempt at a Radical Rethinking of Globalization and Cosmopolitanism'

26 Oct 2012: Urban Studies Book Launch & Panel Discussion

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dennis Rodgers, Gareth Jones & Jo Beal: 'Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Comparative perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe and Scotland'

31 Oct 2012: CEES Work in Progress Seminar

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:25:00 GMT

Zuleykha Mail Zada: 'Should Methodology Matter?'

1 Nov 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Lucy Hewitt: 'The Civic Survey of Greater London: social mapping, planners and urban space in the early twentieth century'

5 Nov 2012: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch: 'Inequality, Grievances and Civil War'

7 & 14 Nov 2012: Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Masterclasses

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:10:00 BST

Professor Maslovskiy (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod) will deliver 2 masterclasses on Political Transformations in Post-Soviet Russia.

7 Nov 2012: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Vanessa May: 'On the Outside Looking In: Mass Observation Project Accounts of Non-Belonging'

9 Nov 2012: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Tim Butler (Professor of Human Geography, Kings College, London): 'Gentrification, education and exclusionary displacement in East London'

12 Nov 2012: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Daniel Whelan: 'Indivisible Human Rights: A Discursive History'

15 Nov 2012: CEES West Coast Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Mikhail Maslovski: 'The Soviet Model of Modernity and the Political Transformations in Post-Communist Russia'

15 Nov 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Bernard Harris: 'Lessons from history? Charity, mutual aid and the origins of the "Big Society"'

19 Nov 2012: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Katrin Voltmer: 'The social construction of press freedom in new democracies: between universal norms and local practices'

21 Nov 2012: CEES West Coast Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dániel Kuttor: 'Reasons and consequences of regional divergence in East Central Europe in the transition process ‐ an East Central European mosaic'

21 Nov 2012: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Jo Ferrie: 'Biographical Disruption and Delays in Diagnosis: The Barriers Facing Adults with Motor Neurone Disease'

28 Nov 2012: CEES West Coast Seminar

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:21:00 GMT

Steven Gordon: 'Kosovo; Europe's young country or old problem?'

28 Nov 2012: CEES Work in Progress Seminar

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:25:00 GMT

Brendan McGeever: 'Early Bolshevik and Soviet government propaganda against pogroms and antisemitism in 1918-1919'

29 Nov 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Peter Kirby: 'Loss of control or loss of production? The question of rationality in the punishment of eighteenth and nineteenth-century child workers'

30 Nov 2012: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Cecilia Wong: 'Planning under Urban-Rural Integration: the case of Nanjing, China'

3 Dec 2012: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Brandon Valeriano: 'Cyberwar and Rivalry: The Dynamics of Cyber Conflict between Antagonists, 2001-2011'

7 Dec 2012: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Sandra Nutley: 'Making and demonstrating research impact'

13 Dec 2012: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Eiji Hotori: 'How did a Scottish banker enhance the development of Japan? : Alexander Allan Shand, 1844-1930'

14-16 Dec 2012: Residential Research Methods Workshop for PhD Students

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:41:00 BST

An intensive two day programme of interactive events to be held at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries campus. The Workshop is open to registered PhD students in the College of Social Sciences. 30 places available. Deadline for applications: Friday 2 Nov 2012.

11 Jan 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Des McNulty: 'Mobilising knowledge: how ideas can influence policy'

17 Jan 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Heather Shore: "A London Plague that must be Swept Away": Reassessing Late Victorian and Edwardian Youth Gangs

23 Jan 2013: Carnegie Lecture in International Relations

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Chris Brown: 'Democracy, Citizenship and World Government'

23 Jan 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Christine Hüttinger: 'Converting History in Literature: The Case of Trotsky´s Exile in Mexico'

23 Jan 2013: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor David Bindman: 'Representing Africans in Art: The Image of the Black series'

30 Jan 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Jan Grill: 'Struggles for movement, new forms of disconnect. Roma migrations from Central Eastern Europe to Great Britain'

31 Jan 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Eleanor Gordon: 'Irregular Marriage: Official Attitudes and Popular Practice'

6 Feb 2013: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Ruth McManus: 'Watching Real Death is Good? Mediating Representations of Mortality in a Global Age'

8 Feb 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

David Walsh: 'Exploring reasons for different health outcomes in identically deprived post-industrial UK cities' - rescheduled from 25 January

11 Feb 2013: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Paul Graham: 'Testosterone, Immunocompetence Handicaps and Political Order'

14 Feb 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Klara Arnberg: 'Mad Women: Gender and Sexuality Perspectives on Advertising in Sweden 1850-1980'

20 Feb 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj: ‘Will Ukraine's political regime (again) soon change? Analysis of elite circulation after parliamentary elections’

20 Feb 2013: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Kevin Paterson: 'Ageing With a Lifelong Condition: The Greying of Cerebral Palsy'

21 Feb 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Teresa da Silva Lopes: 'Risk Management Strategies in International Business'

28 Feb 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Ghia Nodia: ‘Democratization, Modernity and Identity in Georgia: Power Change in Georgia and Its Aftermath’

1 Mar 2013: Frisby Memorial Lecture

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Erik Olin Wright: 'Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias'

1 Mar 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Rivke Jaffe: 'Criminal dons, police and security guards: Unconventional security assemblages in urban Jamaica'

4 Mar 2013: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Cian O'Drsicoll: '"Why don't you tell us about them rabbits, George?" The Just War Tradition and its Discontents'

7 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Zharmukhamed Zardykhan: 'Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia'

7 Mar 2013: Economic & Social History Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Jim Mills: 'Cannabis before the 'counter-culture': Control and consumption in Britain, 1928-1961'

11 Mar 2013: Politics Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor John Peterson: 'Obama and Transatlantic Relations: what happens next?'

13 Mar 2013: After the coup: Politics and contestation in Chile and Latin America 1973-2013

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:58:00 GMT

A public lecture by Professor Manuel Antonio Garreton (Universidad de Chile and Simon Bolivar Chair, University of Cambridge)

14 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Ms Chiara Tessaris: ‘International Ethnic Conflict Mediation in Bosnia and Kosovar Response to the Dayton Agreement: What Went Wrong?’

15 Mar 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Anar Valiyev: 'Urban development in Post-Soviet city: Case of Baku'

18 Mar 2013: CEES & Politics Joint Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Julie Hemment: 'Volunteers, Entrepreneurs and Patriots: youth as new subjects of state policy in Putin’s Russia'

20 Mar 2013: Global Security Master Class Seminar Series

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:51:00 GMT

Ambassador Károly Grúber (Hungary): "European Foreign and Security Policy in Practice After the Lisbon Treaty"

20 Mar 2013: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Lisa Williams: 'At the Crossroads: When Life Journeys and Drug Journeys Collide'

23 Apr 2013: Sociology Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Terry Barker: 'Neoclassical Economics as a Pseudo-science'

26 Apr 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Andy Furlong: Are 'cultures of worklessness' passed down the generations?

30 Apr 2013: CEES & GSREN Joint Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Cathie Carmichael: 'Psychology, Popular Culture and the Construction of the Identity in Yugoslavia'

9 May 2013: CEES & GSERN Joint Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj: ‘Between Byzantium and Brussels: The Politics of Orthodox Christianity in the European Union’

10 May 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Keith Jacobs: 'The politics of Australian housing: the role of lobbyists and their influence in shaping policy'

13 May 2013: Book Launch

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:28:00 BST

Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound, by Malcolm Nicolson and John Fleming

16 May 2013: School Seminar

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:47:00 GMT

Dennis Rodgers: 'Global Ganglands: Towards a New Political Economy of Violence and Order in Most of the World'

22 May 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Dr Moreno Bonda: ‘Post-Soviet Trends in Lithuanian Historiography: the Cultural Construction of National Identity’

23 May 2013: Sociology & Urban Studies Joint Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Prof. James Nazroo: 'Ethnicity and Health: the role of inequality'

29 May 2013: CEES Seminar *NB change of date*

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Professor Julia Szalai: 'The Shaken Middle-Class: The Rise and Decline of Hungarian Large Entrepreneurs'

14 June 2013: Urban Studies Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Emma Baker: 'Housing and Health: small steps towards a big story?'

19 Jun 2013: CEES Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Nadya Nartova: 'Daughters - mothers: on the question of the research of (teen) motherhood’

27 Jun 2013: School Seminar

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:42:00 BST

Peter Brandon: 'Did American Welfare Reform Really End Welfare as We Knew It?'