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February
Drawings of Genocide: Darfur through the eyes of its children
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies will host a display of drawings from Darfuri refugee children in Chad, which describe attacks on their villages. These drawings have been accepted by the International Criminal Court as contextual evidence of the crimes committed in Darfur.
The exhibition will be launched on Monday 8th February 2010 at 5.30pm with a lecture from Olivia Warham member of both Article 1 and Waging Peace, followed by a reception.
The drawings will be available to view from the launch through to Friday 12th February in Senate House, University of London.
Speakers: Olivia Warham, Article 1 and Waging Peace
Date:
Monday 8 February
Time:17:30
Venue:The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Decolonization Research Seminar
A Round Table discussion on new directions in the study of decolonization.
Convened by Professor Philip Murphy and Dr Sarah Stockwell
Speakers: Dr Ashley Jackson (King’s College London) 'When did British imperialism end? Empire and influence, 1960-2010'
Respondent Prof Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth) ‘Reflections on the French experience’
Date:
Monday 8 February
Time:17:30
Venue:The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Limits to Human Rights
Speakers: Dr Steve Hopgood, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, SOAS
Date:
Wednesday 3 February
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: The price of Emancipation: the slave compensation records as a resource in Caribbean histories
The records of the Commissioners for Slave Compensation - detailing payments to all slave-owners made under the 1833 Abolition Act - represent an exceptional resources for historians of British colonial slavery. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at UCL is making systematic use of the records to explore slave-ownership and its consequences in Britain, and this paper aims (1) to summarise that work and (2) set out how the data gathered by the project can be made available to historians of the Caribbean and applied to problems of Caribbean history.
Speakers: Nick Draper, University College London
Dr Nick Draper is a Research Associate in the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College, London. His The Price of Emancipation will be published by Cambridge University Press early in 2010. He acted as consultant to the Museum of London Docklands' Slavers of Harley Street exhibition in 2008-9. Prior to returning to academia, he worked for 25 years in the City.
Date:
Wednesday 3 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
January
Black Britain Seminar Series: Walter Tull - Britain's First Black War Hero?
Professional footballer Walter Tull enlisted in 1914. Military regulations forbade Black infantry officers in the British Army but he died a Second Lieutenant during the German spring offensive of 1918 after leading White troops into battle and being recommended for a Military Cross. So why wont the MoD posthumously award his medal?
Speakers: Phil Vasili
Date:
Thursday 21 January
Time:18:00
Venue:Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: The EU and Crisis Management
Chatham House Rules Apply
Speakers: Adam Sambrook, Head of European Defence Policy, Institutions and Capabilities Team, Security Policy Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Date:
Wednesday 20 January
Time:17:30
Venue:Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: British Radicals and the Haitian Revolution: John Thelwall & Robert Wedderburn
As the only successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution provoked a highly polarised global response from the contemporary Western public. Pro-slavery narratives evoked the spectre of anarchy and cultural regression, whereas some abolitionists enthusiastically endorsed the revolution as a heroic struggle for universal liberation. British radical opinion also remained starkly divided. Irrespective of their disagreement on the Haitian Revolution, however, it is conspicuous that most radicals used it to draw comparisons between the rebellious slaves and the exploited British labouring classes. In this paper I want to focus on two radical late 18th-/ early 19th-century figures and their treatment of the Haitian Revolution: John Thelwall (1764–1834), who was a co-founder of the London Corresponding Society and defendant in the 1794 trial for high treason, and Robert Wedderburn (1762-1833?). The latter, who was the son of Scottish slaveholder and a Jamaican slave woman, gained notoriety as an incendiary underground preacher in London. As I will argue, to investigate the parallels that they construct between the slaves in Caribbean and the labouring classes in Britain is key to elucidating not merely their respective stance on the Haitian Revolution, but also on lower-class revolution in Britain.
Speakers: Raphael Hörmann, University of Rostock, Germany
Raphael Hörmann studied English and American Literature at the Universities of Constance and Edinburgh. In 2007 he graduated with a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow. Since then he has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Rostock and at the German Historical Institute in London. His current research project is on Anglophone narratives of the Haitian Revolution. Publications include essays on German and English 18th and 19th century revolutionary literature, on Marx, and on English contemporary representations of the Haitian Revolution.
Date:
Wednesday 20 January
Time:17:00
Venue:Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: National Human Rights Institutions, State Compliance and Social Change
Speakers: Thomas Pegram, Research Fellow, New York University School of Law
Date:
Wednesday 13 January
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
ICwS Research Seminar Series
Speakers: James Chiriyankandath (Senior Fellow at ICwS)
Zionists and Indian nationalists: imagining nations, creating states
Shantanu Majumder (ICwS PhD Student)
Decay of Secularism: A Study of the Main Liberal Political Party in Bangladesh
Date:
Wednesday 13 January
Time:13:30
Venue:Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
December
Witness Seminar: The Palace and the Commonwealth
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has arranged an afternoon witness seminar on the theme of 'The Palace and the Commonwealth' at Senate House. The three previous royal secretaries will be joined on the panel by a couple of academic commentators.
Possible topics for discussion will be circulated in advance to participants. The sessions will be held under Chatham House rules. A summary, not specifying individual contributions, will be produced.
There will be two sessions. The first (2.00-3.30pm) will be on 'The Commonwealth Realms', and the second (4.00-5.30pm) on 'The Crown and the Modern Commonwealth'.
A reception will follow this event at 5.30pm.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Speakers: We are honoured to be joined by the three previous royal private secretaries;
Sir William Heseltine (1986-90)
Lord Fellowes (1990-99)
Lord Janvrin (1999-2007)
Date:
Thursday 17 December
Time:14:00
Venue:The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Witness Seminar: The Struggle against the Central African Federation in Northern Rhodesia
Speakers: Simon Zukas
Peter Fraenkel
Commentator: Hugh Macmillan
Date:
Monday 14 December
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: International Tribunals and Genocide Case Law
Speakers: Dr Gregory Kent, Lecturer at the School of Business and Social Sciences, Roehampton University
Date:
Thursday 10 December
Time:17:30
Venue:Room G16 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
ICwS Research Seminar Series
Speakers: Mandy Banton (Senior Fellow at ICwS)
'Constantly the Subject of Small Struggles': the development of labour legislation in the British Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries
Nelson Takon (ICwS PhD Student)
Oil and Conflict in Nigeria: Ijaw Politics and Violence in Bayelsa State since 1996
Date:
Wednesday 9 December
Time:13:30
Venue:Room G21a (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Human Rights Situation in Iran
Dr. Ebadi was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote human rights, in particular, the rights of women, children and political prisoners in Iran. As a lawyer, Dr. Ebadi has taken on many controversial cases defending political dissidents. In addition to being an internationally recognised advocate of human rights, she has also established many NGOs in Iran, including the Million Signatures Campaign to end the legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. She is a widely published author and her most recent book, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, was published in 2006 by Random House.
Speakers: Dr. Shirin Ebadi
2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Chaired by Professor Mike Edwards, Dean of The School of Advanced Study
Date:
Tuesday 8 December
Time:13:30
Venue:Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Black Britain Seminar Series: Black and Asian Community Voice and Local History – The Bexley Example
Speakers: Cliff Pereira
Date:
Wednesday 2 December
Time:18:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
November
Human Rights Seminar Series: The Art of Conflict or How to Stay Zen
The international mediator and conflict resolution expert Brigitte Kehrer, will be appearing exclusively at the SAS to introduce her latest book, The Art of Conflict or How to Stay Zen.
Brigitte Kehrer is a respected figure in the international field of conflict resolution, having previously worked for the International Red Cross in a number of post-conflict countries such as Mozambique, Rwanda, Bosnia and Thailand amongst many others. She is currently a consultant for the United Nations in peace building programs for post-conflict countries, alongside being a leading figure in a mediation capacity at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
Speakers: Brigitte Kehrer
Date:
Thursday 26 November
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: Parading the 'Crème de la Crème' for the national good: beauty contests, feminine spectacle and new masculinities in Barbados 1959-1966
This event will take place at the Institute of Education, Nunn Hall, Level 4, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
This paper examines the emergence of the beauty contest in Barbados, against the backdrop of the ‘crisis of decolonisation’ that shook the British West Indies through the mid-twentieth century. It considers the beauty contest as a parade of racialised femininities, a space for making and remaking paradigms of ideal womanhood, from which a new iconography of nationhood would emerge as Barbados left the British Empire in 1966.
The Caribbean beauty contest, immersed in the “business of feminine spectacle”, played a central role in essentialising a Caribbean glamour. This paper considers the role of the Jaycees, a youth movement favoured by socially aspirant men, in organising the contests, pairing business sponsors to beauty candidates. How was the making of male citizenship bound up with production of the parade of racialised, class-bound femininities on the beauty contest stage? The paper also considers the effects when this process was seen to lapse, as in the “Miss Ebony” beauty competition of 1964. It draws upon the testimony of three former contestants of Barbadian beauty shows, “Carnival Queen”, “Miss Independence” and “Miss Ebony”, and considers the competing allurements and pressures of participating in the beauty contest for female candidates, posited the “crème de la crème” of Barbadian womanhood.
Rochelle Rowe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the changing representations of femininity amidst the cultural ‘wars’ of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean. She is the author of "Glorifying the Jamaican Girl": The "Ten Types - One People" Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism, Radical History Review 2009(103): 36-58 (2009)
Speakers: Rochelle Rowe, Essex University
Date:
Wednesday 25 November
Time:17:30
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Decolonization Research Seminar
Inaugural meeting of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies 'Decolonization Research Seminar Series'. A Round Table discussion on new directions in the study of decolonization.
Speakers: Professor Wm Roger Louis
Professor Stephen Howe
Dr Yasmin Khan
Dr Martin Shipway
Chaired by:
Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
Dr Sarah Stockwell (KCL)
Date:
Tuesday 24 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Land issues in Uganda and their criminal background
Dr Gardner Thompson will talk on "Governing Uganda" during the period of British protectorate rule, with special reference to issues of debate in Uganda like land, at a meeting of the Friends of Makerere University in the UK.
Dr Thompson's book of the same title is published by Fountain Publishers in Kampala and currently he is very active in arranging and coordinating educational exchanges between British and African secondary schools, one scheme involving the Busia area of eastern Uganda.
This event is open to the public.
Speakers: Dr Gardner Thompson, author of 'Governing Uganda' and former ICwS student
Date:
Saturday 21 November
Time:15:00
Venue:Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
ICwS Research Seminar Series
Speakers: "Livelihood Diversification, Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Perspectives from an Indian Village"
Howard Jones (Senior Fellow at ICwS)
"Reconciliation and Repair: Rwanda 15 Years Later"
Jennifer Melvin (PhD Student at ICwS)
Date:
Wednesday 18 November
Time:13:30
Venue:STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: Accounting for Ghostly Presences: Caribbean Locale, Contemporary African Artists and the Legacies of Slavery
This event will take place in Room L103.
Speakers: Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire
Date:
Wednesday 11 November
Time:17:00
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Political Studies Association: Diversity Awareness Forum
The Forum will debate how to address the under-representation of non-white ethnic minorities in the political studies profession, as well as whether there is a need for greater awareness and sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity in politics teaching and research.
There is no attendance fee but places are strictly limited so those wanting to attend are urged to register their interest without delay by emailing the convenors, Dr Jacqui Briggs (jbriggs@lincoln.ac.uk), and Dr James Chiriyankandath (james_chiriyankandath@hotmail.co.uk).
Lunch will be provided.
Speakers: Vicky Randall (Chair, PSA, University of Essex)
Gargi Bhattacharya (Aston University)
Harinder Bahra (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Dr William Ackah (Birkbeck College
Date:
Wednesday 11 November
Time:12:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: james_chiriyankandath@hotmail.co.uk
Black Britain Seminar Series: Black People Don't Sail
Speakers: H.E.Ross
Date:
Wednesday 4 November
Time:18:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: Queer in the Time of Terror
Speakers: Dr Rahul Rao, Lecturer in International Security and Diplomacy, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS
Date:
Wednesday 4 November
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch: The Iconography of Independence - Freedoms at Midnight
4.30pm - 6.00pm:
Round Table Discussion including
Professor Sir David Cannadine
Dr Yasmin Khan
W P Kirkman
Professor Clem Seecharan
Followed at 6pm with a reception
PLEASE RSVP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND
Speakers: Robert Holland, Susan Williams and Terry Barringer (editors), with an introduction by Sir David Cannadine
Date:
Monday 2 November
Time:16:30
Venue:Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
October
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: Seminar & Book Launch: Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
Speakers: Christer Petley, University of Southampton
Professor Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
Date:
Wednesday 28 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
ICwS Research Seminar Series
Speakers: "Abolition in the Indian Ocean: Effects from the Atlantic Ocean"
Shihan de Silva (Senior Fellow at ICwS)
"Politics of Education in Cyprus during the British Administration: A short introduction"
Antigone Heraclidou (PhD Student at ICwS)
Date:
Wednesday 28 October
Time:13:30
Venue:Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Serving the Next Generation: The Commonwealth in the 21st Century - Poetry Reading
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH
This poetry reading is part of the series titled 'Serving the Next Generation:The Commonwealth in the 21st Century', organised by the Institute to mark the 60th anniversaries of the Modern Commonwealth and the Institute.
This event will be held at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS and is followed by a reception
Please RSVP to Troy Rutt if you would like to attend.
Speakers: Derek Walcott - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Date:
Monday 19 October
Time:18:00
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: Human Rights and the role of the photojournalist as witness
Speakers: Antonio Olmos - Photojournalist
Date:
Wednesday 14 October
Time:17:30
Venue:Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: Panel & Book Launch: Democratic Advance and Conflict Resolution in Post-Colonial Guyana by Judaman Seecomar
This event will take place in IALS, in Room L102 and L103, and is sponsored by the Seecoomar Trust.
Speakers: Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan University
Peter Fraser, London Metropolitan University
Jeremy Poynting, Peepal Tree Press
Date:
Wednesday 14 October
Time:16:00
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Serving the Next Generation: The Commonwealth in the 21st Century - 'The Commonwealth at 60 - facing the challenges of its times'
This Inaugural Lecture is part of a series titled 'Serving the Next Generation:The Commonwealth in the 21st Century', organised by the Institute to mark the 60th anniversaries of the Modern Commonwealth and the Institute.
This lecture will take place in the Dining Room of the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, and will be followed by a reception.
As places are limited, please RSVP to Troy Rutt, if you would like to attend.
The invitation can be found here
Speakers: Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
Date:
Monday 12 October
Time:17:30
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Crisis Forum: Climate Change and Violence Workshop Series - Workshop 3: Securing the State: Domestic Agendas
For further details on this workshop, and for details of how to register please click here
If you have any queries relating to this event please contact Marianne McKiggan (marianne@crisis-forum.org.uk)
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 9 October
Time:09:00
Venue:Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Black Britain Seminar Series: The "Academy" and Black Labour
Speakers: Bill Gulam
Date:
Wednesday 7 October
Time:18:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Seminar Series: The Australian Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Speakers: Dr Andrew Schapp, Lecturer in Politics, Exeter University
Dr Paul Muldoon, Lecturer in Politics, Monash University
Date:
Tuesday 6 October
Time:17:30
Venue:Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
September
Migrants and Diversity: Understanding Trends & Traditions
Please click here for further information.
A wine and cheese reception will follow proceedings at 5pm.
Speakers: Bryan Claxton, Institute of Historical Research
Shihan de Silva, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Faeeza Jasdanwalla, University of Aberystwyth
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
Richard Pankhurst, Addis Ababa University
Saurabh Gupta, London Metropolitan University
Richard Ennals, Kingston University
Date:
Wednesday 23 September
Time:09:45
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk
1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
For further details on this Conference please click here
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 17 September - Saturday 19 September
Time:09:00
Venue:Canada House
Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Black Britain Seminar Series: Uncle Tom, the Chinese Laundry Man, and ‘Justice’ in England and Wales, 1888–1905
Speakers: Jeff Green
Date:
Wednesday 16 September
Time:18:00
Venue:Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
June
CPSU Commonwealth Youth Conference 2009 - How can we change the world?
Programme can be found here
Please note that there are no more spaces available at this Summer Conference. For further information or any queries, please contact Mike Smith at mike.smith@sas.ac.uk
Speakers: Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of the Commonwealth
Dr Victoria te Velde, Director, CPSU
Richard Bourne, Research Associate, CPSU
Dr Purna Sen, Head of Human Rights, Commonwealth Secretariat
Vijay Krishnarayan, Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Foundation
Mike Gapes MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Adam Matthews, General Secretary of GLOBE
Peter Chowla, Bretton Woods Project
Leslie Abdela, Senior Partner, Eyecatcher/Shevolution
Iain Byrne, International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
Rita Payne, Chair of the Commonwealth Journalist’s Association
Keith Simpson MP, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister
Lord Chidgey, Chair of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit
Ms Gail P. Guy, Acting High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago
Mr Eldridge Stephens, High Commissioner for St Lucia
Tim Aldred, Advocacy Manager, Progressio (tbc)
Elizabeth Marsh, Senior Programme Manager, Commonwealth Foundation
Ms Marilyn Benjamin, Commonwealth Secretariat HR Officer
Jeff Riley, University of London Careers Service
Mike Smith, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit
Martin Kirk, Head of UK Campaigns, Oxfam UK
Professor James Manor (ICwS)(tbc)
Richard Hawkes, International Director, VSO
Dr Veronica Broomes, Research Associate, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit
Belinda Calaguas, Policy and Campaigns Director, ActionAid UK
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Date:
Monday 29 June - Wednesday 1 July
Time:09:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mike.smith@sas.ac.uk
The Origins and Implications of the Adoption by the Commonwealth of the Harare Principles in 1991
At the 1991 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Harare, a set of 'Principles' were adopted which changed the character of the Commonwealth in important ways.
Member governments were expected to meet new standards by maintaining democratic processes and respecting human rights.
In Harare and thereafter, the Commonwealth created instruments through which peer pressure could be applied to government which paid too little heed to this principles - not least, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG).
The workshop will consider the origins and the implications of the adoption of the Harare Principles. Participants will include scholars, present day practitioners at the Commonwealth Secretariat who live with the implications, and some of the key figures involved in 1991 - including Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the then Secretary General. Ideas provided by other key figures who cannot attend the meeting will also be presented.
Chatham House rules will apply. A rapporteur will develop a distillation of the discussion for dissemination after the workshop.
Please RSVP to Troy Rutt (troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk) if you wish to attend.
Speakers: Chief Anyaoku
Professor James Mayall
Professor McIntyre
Amitav Banerji (Commonwealth Secretariat)
Richard Bourne (ICwS)
Professor James Manor (ICwS)
Date:
Friday 26 June
Time:10:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Indian General Election: The Outcome and its Implications
The workshop will focus on state-based results and analyse general trends. This workshop, unlike all others outside India, will have present three people who did field research and worked with the National Election Study at CSDS in Delhi. We anticipate that this event should be lively and interesting, with plenty of opportunities for audience participation. Moreover, a sandwich lunch and coffee will be provided. The event is free, but due to space limitations, you will be required to RSVP. To confirm your attendance, please email Dr Lawrence Saez at ls4@soas.ac.uk
The workshop is funded by the PSA's Politics of South Asia Specialist Group and is co-sponsored by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the SOAS Centre for South Asian Studies.
This workshop will take place in Room 116 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Speakers: Oliver Heath (Royal Holloway)
James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Alistair McMillan (University of Sheffield)
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury (International Institute of Strategic Studies, IISS)
Gurharpal Singh (University of Birmingham)
Carole Spary (University of Warwick)
Louise Tillin (Institute of Development Studies)
Date:
Thursday 25 June
Time:10:00
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
International Rescue Committee UK Lecture
Global financial pressurs have added urgency to the debate around issues of aid effectiveness. On 22nd June 2009, the International Rescue Committee UK is hosting a debate between Dambisa Moyo, author of the controversial Dead Aid, Yash Tandon, author of Ending Aid Dependence, and IRC Afghanistan's coutnry director will discuss Foreign Aid: Dead Right or Dead Wrong?, hosted by BBC World Affairs correspondent MikeWooldridge at the Royal Geographical Society in London
Speakers:
Date:
Monday 22 June
Time:13:35
Contact: spider@ulcc.ac.uk
ICEA: “Private money for public water: a safe haven in the midst of a financial storm?”
High hopes were invested in private sector participation in water supply in the 1990s. With some exceptions this proved to be a false dawn: the burden of increasing access in line with population growth now rests firmly on public sector shoulders, albeit with some participation by domestic and small scale private operators. Access to long term finance has always been problematic for the water sector in developing countries, but the financial crisis has of course made the situation worse: project finance deals have ground to a halt and even UK water companies have faced restricted access to capital markets.
Despite this negative outlook, Sophie will explore ways in which the crisis may increase flows to the sector.
Sophie Trémolet is an experienced water and sanitation economist. She worked for NERA and ERM, amongst other consultancies, before setting up her own practice in 2004. She is a member of the technical advisory committee to the WHO’s Global Sanitation Fund and has recently completed research for OECD on innovative financing for the water sector.
Non-members and guests welcome
Charges (including drinks/refreshments): Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
NOTE: meetings last about 1½ hours with an initial presentation by the principal speaker (or speakers) followed by questions and contributions from the floor.
Speakers: Sophie Trémolet
Date:
Tuesday 16 June
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Easier Said Than Done: 20 Years of Children's Rights between Law and Practice
This conference marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and seeks to; evaluate theory and practice, assess the value of the CRC on the ground, and devise multi-faceted approaches to meet new challenges.
By sharing experiences among international organisations, NGOs, lawyers, policy-makers, academics, experts, practitioners, and professionals working with children, it aims to identify greater synergies between all players and reach recommendations for more responsive implementation measures.
Speakers: Please click here for further information about this conference.
Date:
Thursday 11 June - Friday 12 June
Time:10:00
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Black and Asian Community voice and Local History - The Bexley example
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)(STB6)
Speakers: Cliff Pereira
Date:
Wednesday 10 June
Time:18:00
Venue:STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
When and why did Haiti fall behind? From Independence to US Occupation
Speakers: Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Date:
Wednesday 3 June
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
May
Human Rights Trends in the Supreme Court of India
Speakers: Colin Gonsalves, Founder Director of the Human Rights Law Network and a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India
Date:
Wednesday 20 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Room NG14
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch: George Padmore; Pan-African Revolutionary, edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis
Speakers: Hakim Adi, Reader, Middlesex University
Christian Hogsbjerg, writing his PhD on 'CLR James in Imperial Britain, 1932-1938' at the University of York
Leslie James, writing PhD 'A Biography on George Padmore' at the International History Department, LSE
Marika Sherwood, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Tuesday 19 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Dispersed or destroyed: archives, the West Indian Students' Union and public memory
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: David Clover, Librarian, ICwS
Date:
Wednesday 13 May
Time:18:00
Venue:Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Speakers: Presentation by Peter Boyce (University of Tasmania), followed by commentaries by Frank Bongiorno (Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King‘s College), Phillip Buckner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), and Andrew Sharp (Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck College).
Chair: Sir David Cannadine, Institute of Historical Research
Date:
Wednesday 13 May
Time:15:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
International Consulting Economists’ Association: “Happiness and Economic Policy”
Andrew Oswald will talk about the latest research on the economics of happiness and mental health, and especially about the Easterlin Paradox (the finding that happiness survey responses do not rise as countries grow richer). The talk will cover data from many countries.
Open house meeting
Non-members and guests welcome
Charges (including drinks/refreshments): Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
NOTE: meetings last about 1½ hours with an initial presentation by the principal speaker (or speakers) followed by questions and contributions from the floor.
Speakers: Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick
Andrew Oswald is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick in the U.K. He has previously held permanent and visiting posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Cornell, and Zurich. Andrew Oswald has won a variety of awards for contributions to economics and social science. His current research lies at the borders between psychology, epidemiology, and economics.
Date:
Tuesday 12 May
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Recovering Stolen Generations, Land, and Culture: Indigenous Rights & Transitional Justice
Please click for flyer and schedule of the conference
This event was recorded. To view the film click here
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 1 May
Time:08:30
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
April
The Unsung Villains: British Criminals in Occupied Egypt, 1882-1922
Studies of the British in Egypt during the British occupation (1882-1922) have generally focused on the lives and exploits of the upper and middle class British officials who worked for the military or the civil service. Historical accounts have generally portrayed them as law-abiding. However, further investigation of primarily the Consular court records of both Cairo and Alexandria indicate that certain Britons in Egypt, whether officials or not, engaged in a wide array of criminal activity. This paper seeks to draw attention to both the identity of the perpetrators and the nature of their crimes–such as domestic violence, rape, bigamy, libel, fraud, theft and extortion. It contributes to not only the histories of Egypt and British imperialism but also to the burgeoning field of the social history of crime.
Please register for this event with Troy Rutt (troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk) by Friday 24th April 2009
Speakers: Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Thursday 30 April
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The return of the Black Knight: the African in the construction medieval and renaissance European identity
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: Maghan Keita, Villanova University
Date:
Wednesday 15 April
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
March
Healing the Wounds: Speech, Identity and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Avenue), New York , NY 10003
This conference is sponsored by Cardozo's Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, the Centre for International Human Rights (ICwS), and the Institute for the Study of Genocide
Please click here for further information.
Speakers:
Date:
Monday 30 March
Time:08:45
Contact: phhrs2009conference@gmail.com
Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment
Speakers: Peter Hallward, Middlesex University and Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University
Date:
Wednesday 25 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Reconstructing Rwanda: 15 Years After Genocide. A Tribute to Alison Des Forges
The Conference includes the Premiere Screening of "The Notebooks of Memory", plus Q&A with award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion
Please click here for the conference flyer and schedule
This event was recorded. To view the film click here
Speakers: Speakers include:
Tom Porteous (Human Rights Watch)
Anneke Van Woudenberg Human Rights Watch)
Carla Ferstman (REDRESS)
Paul Gready (University of York)
Kersty McCourt (Danish Institute of Human Rights)
Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard)
Karen Murphy, Facing History
Don Webster (ICTR Prosecutor)
Date:
Friday 20 March
Time:09:00
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The African Presence in Britain 1500-1640
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: Miranda Kaufmann, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Date:
Wednesday 18 March
Time:18:00
Venue:Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
CIHR Seminar Series: Art after Auschwitz: Ethics, the Artist, and Representations of Genocide
Kyriakides is an international artist and was awarded the Saatchi and Saatchi Prize for Painting. She has exhibited in London at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Art, and the Whitechapel Gallery. She is the author of My Czech Grandmother: A Story.
Speakers: Yvonne Kyriakides, Oxford University
Date:
Tuesday 17 March
Time:17:30
Venue:STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Studies & Publishing
In the current financial climate, subject areas considered to be ‘minority’ interests are increasingly vulnerable within mainstream publishing. This symposium brings together scholars and publishers to discuss the place of the Caribbean & Caribbean Studies within publishing and to examine the role that can be played by regional and specialist publishers in disseminating valuable work on this region.
Speakers: Speakers include:
Professor Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Ian Randle, founder, Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica
Professor Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
Professor Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary’s University
Jeremy Poynting, founder, Peepal Tree Press
Other speakers TBC – details will be announced shortly
Date:
Friday 13 March
Time:14:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch - Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
You are invited to the launch of Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya's two books - Portuguese in the East: Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire & African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration. This will be followed by a reception where food and drink will be served. Please RSVP to this event at troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Speakers: Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Thursday 12 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
February
Sovereignty, Slavery and Power in the Colonial City: The Slave Conspiracy of Cartagena de Indias in 1693
In April 1693, the citizens and authorities of Cartagena feared an imminent insurrection of slaves in the city. To confront this threat, the city's military forces were put on an immediate state of alert, and magistrates instructed to arrest suspects. This action and the ensuring investigation cast some fresh light on the character of both slavery and governance in Cartagena and, as Cartagena was one of the major centres of slavery in the Greater Caribbean region, prompts questions about the stability of slave societies in the region in the later seventeenth century. This paper enquires into the nature of slave resistance on the Spanish Main, the evolution of Spanish policy towards maroon communities, and the extent to which the Spanish crown was able to enforce its orders in slave societies.
Anthony McFarlane is Professor of Latin American History in the History Department and School of Comparative American Studies, at the University of Warwick. His research interests have focused primarily on the histories of Colombia and Ecuador during the Bourbon and early independence periods, with particular attention to political culture, popular participation in politics and slave resistance. He has also published work on the British colonial world in the Americas and comparative essays on Euro-American empires. He is currently finishing a book on the Spanish American wars of independence.
Speakers: Tony McFarlane, University of Warwick
Date:
Wednesday 25 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Sharing the Past: community historians at work
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: Julia Bush, Northants Black History Association and University of Northampton
Date:
Thursday 19 February
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
War Crimes: Retrospectives and Prospects
This conference is an initiative between SOLON, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the IHR Centre for Contemporary British History to consider war crimes in their legal and historical contexts. The conference will include sessions addressing: the Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal; Ad Hoc Tribunals; Guatanamo and the American System; theoretical conceptions; the challenges in bringing war crimes to trial both internationally and within national jurisdictions and who should be prosecuted.
Click here for the full programme and booking form
Speakers: Lesley Abdela,
Jose Pablo Baraybar, EPAF, Peru
David Fraser, University of Nottingham;
Michael Kandiah, Centre for Contemporary British History, London;
Konrad Kweit, University of Sydney;
Frank McDonough, Liverpool John Moores University;
Dr. Cissa Wa Numbe, Director, UN Association of the Dem. Rep. of Congo
Aisling Reidy, Human Rights Watch, New York
David Seymour, University of Lancaster;
David Sugarman, University of Lancaster;
Juan Santos Vara, University of Salamanca
Date:
Thursday 19 February - Saturday 21 February
Time:10:00
Venue:IALS
Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Open Evening
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies welcomes you to its annual Open Evening for prospective students for entry in September 2009. Meet with our staff, explore our library and learn more about this unique institution.
Speakers: Staff of the ICwS
Date:
Wednesday 18 February
Time:16:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
CIHR Seminar Series: A Partnership Approach: Multi-stakeholder organisations and labour rights in global supply chains
Ethical Trading Initiative is a UK-based alliance of companies, NGOs and trade union organisations working together to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions.
Speakers: Dean Jones, Ethical Trading Initiative
Date:
Wednesday 11 February
Time:17:30
Venue:STB2 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Lost to Africa, world revolution and the United States of America or cultivating the West Indian garden? George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Oliver C. Cox and Eric Williams, 1930s to 1960s
Speakers: Peter Fraser, ISA
Date:
Wednesday 11 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
January
Gender, ethnicity, and class in 20th-century Suriname: a case study of Grace Schneiders-Howard
Suriname is often portrayed as a multicultural paradise and an example to the rest of the world. The emphasis is on the harmonious co-existence of different ethnic and religious groups, while gender or class remain out of the equation. In other words: the plural society model is still very much alive in Suriname but the question is whether it is still valid. A case study of the life of Grace Schneiders-Howard shows the importance of ethnicity, class, and gender in colonial Suriname. Grace Schneiders-Howard (1869-1968) was the first female politician in Suriname. An examination of her working life leads to a portrait of a woman who contributed more to Surinamese society through her involvement in public health care than through her elected membership of the Colonial States (legislature). Schneiders-Howard was an exceptional woman with remarkable drive and energy, one without equal in Suriname. Yet she is virtually unacknowledged in books on the history of twentieth-century Suriname surface. What role did gender, ethnicity, and class play in her life and in the legacy she left behind?
Rosemarijn Hoefte is head of the department of Collections and coordinator of the Caribbean Expert Centre at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. She is the managing editor of the New West Indian Guide. She is currently working on a biography of the first female politician in Suriname and a socio-cultural history of twentieth-century Suriname.
Remembered with affection by Pierrotins not in residence at the time of the obliteration, something of the city’s character can be gauged both by events in its history, and reactions to its annihilation. Utilizing the resources of newspaper reports, tourist recollections, and historical discussions, elements of the municipality’s past will be explored in an endeavour to give shape to the romanticism of its ethos.
Speakers: Rosemarijne Hoefte, Leiden University
Date:
Wednesday 28 January
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Food Security
This talk will examine climate change implications for food security.
Patrick Holden has been director of the Soil Association since 1995. He has been involved in the organic movement for 30 years, initially as a full time organic farmer and for the last 15 years working firstly for British Organic Farmers and then for the Soil Association. He has a 93 hectare mixed organic farm in west Wales. He was awarded the CBE in 2005 for services to organic farming.
Speakers: Patrick Holden CBE, Director of the Soil Association
Date:
Tuesday 27 January
Time:15:00
Venue:Room N336
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Negro Welfare Association
Black Britain Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: Hakim Adi, Middlesex University
Date:
Wednesday 21 January
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
From the 'Paris of the West Indies' to the Antillean Pompeii: St. Pierre, Martinique, at the time of its decimation in 1902
Saint-Pierre, Martinique, was already an important trading centre at the time San Domingue broke from France to become Haiti, in 1802. Sustained metropolitan contact made city the much more open to radical ideas, and it became a focus for the black population’s opposition to slavery and also for defiant expressions of free association by the island’s ‘mixed-race’ inhabitants. By the time slavery was abolished in France’s overseas possessions (1848) these groups had come to dominate the municipal population, though primary power remained with the French colonial elite. The inhabitants called themselves Pierrotins. Full of its own self confidence, the settlement was sometimes called ‘the Paris of the West Indies.’ The locality was also a fount for black Caribbean-French cultural manifestations, including an influential creole carnival, and its musical associate, the biguine. Destroyed in the space of three minutes by the volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée on 8 May 1902, the city suddenly became an emblem of fatalism and, for some commentators, the epitome of wickedness, thereby decimated by a revengeful God. Others blamed ‘la catastrophe’ on maladministration.
Remembered with affection by Pierrotins not in residence at the time of the obliteration, something of the city’s character can be gauged both by events in its history, and reactions to its annihilation. Utilizing the resources of newspaper reports, tourist recollections, and historical discussions, elements of the municipality’s past will be explored in an endeavour to give shape to the romanticism of its ethos.
Speakers: John Cowley, ICwS
Date:
Wednesday 14 January
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
December
Autobiographical Fictions, Religions, and Transcultured Writers: The Text in the World in Canadian/Quebecois novels of the 1990s
Marie Vautier teaches comparative Canadian/Qu�b�cois literature and contemporary literary theory at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada, where she is the Director of a specialised programme in comparative Canadian literature and culture.
She is the author of New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction (McGill-Queen's, 1998), the co-author of Art as an Early Warning System (CSRS, 2000) and the co-translator of the poetry anthology Paris/Qu�bec (Ekstasis Editions, 2003).
She has published many refereed articles on the contemporary literatures of French-speaking Quebec and English-speaking Canada, with a focus on postmodernism, postcolonialism, femininsm, mythologies, spirituality, migrant writing and transculturalism.
Her present research investigates the work of transcultured authors and the ways in which their novels work on the imaginary to produce social change.
Speakers: Marie Vautier, University of Victoria
Date:
Tuesday 9 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Hard Lessons: Rethinking Human Rights Practice
This event is being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Further information can be found here.
Speakers: Please see attached event programme for the full list of speakers. Further information can be found here.
Date:
Tuesday 9 December
Time:12:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Politics of Privatisation in Uganda
Friends of Makere University in the UK are invited to a joint meeting with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where Dr James Akampumuza will be speaking on the 'Politics of Privatisation in Uganda'. All are invited.
Speakers: Dr James Akampumuza
Date:
Saturday 6 December
Time:15:00
Venue:Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Tripping on his own Banana Peel: Cheddi Jagan's "Struggle" for Guyana's Freedom, 1946-66
Cheddi Jagan’s doctrinaire Marxism was important in initiating a culture of reform on the sugar plantations of British Guiana (Guyana since 1966); but it was also his Achilles heel. In the context of the Cold War and in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, it was fatal to pursue the communist utopia, in which he firmly believed. His problem was compounded by the fact that Marxism-Leninism was anathema to the Fabian socialist politics of the Anglophone Caribbean. Yet freedom from British colonialism was there for the taking. The suspension of the constitution in October 1953 notwithstanding, after Jagan’s second electoral victory of 1957, the British were committed to giving him independence. It would take monumental folly to let the baton slip. But, dazzled by Castro’s rise in Cuba in 1959-60, Jagan came out on the side of the Soviet Union before he was granted the prize. He was doomed. Kennedy considered Latin America ‘the most dangerous area in the world’. He became obsessed with aborting another potential Cuba in the Hemisphere. The President applied relentless pressure on Macmillan to ensure that the prize was given to their man: Forbes Burnham, Jagan’s arch-enemy, deemed a pragmatic socialist.
Speakers: Clem Seecharan, Professor of Caribbean History and Head of Caribbean Studies at London Metropolitan University
Date:
Wednesday 3 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights, Loyalty & Cosmopolitan Solidarity
Using empirical data drawn from the Northern Ireland peace process, the author identifies three characteristics of human rights principles and practices that challenge particularist loyalties in post-conflict societies.
Speakers: Michele Lamb, University of Essex
Date:
Tuesday 2 December
Time:18:00
Venue:Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
November
Book Launch: Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives of the UK
Mandy Banton, Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives of the UK (Institute of Historical Research, London, in conjunction with The National Archives of the UK, 2008).
This important new guide is an introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs. It has been planned as a user-friendly guide concentrating on the organisation of the records, the information they are likely to provide and how to use the contemporary finding aids. It includes an outline of the expansion of the British Empire during the period and discusses the organisation of colonial governments.
Speakers: Mandy Banton, Author
Date:
Tuesday 25 November
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
What can be salvaged from the Ugandan Peace Process?
Centre for International Human Rights Seminar Series (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Speakers: Dr Phil Clark, Research Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and Co-editor of Courting Conflict: Justice, Peace and the International Criminal Court in Africa
Date:
Wednesday 19 November
Time:18:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Cuba 1955: the year the working class joined the revolution
Nineteen fifty-five was a year of intense class struggle in Cuba. Starting with a railway stoppage covering half the island and finishing with a strike by half a million sugar workers, the year also saw militant action by bank workers, telephonists, bus drivers, dockers, tobacco rollers, brewers and textile workers. In every case the cause of the dispute was the perception by employers that they needed to drastically increase productivity in order to maintain profit levels; a productivity drive that received the full support of the Batista dictatorship.
This paper explores how the events of 1955 impelled a significant group of Cuban trade unionists to bypass the corrupt official union federation and build a clandestine working class organisation that provided vital support for Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution.
Speakers: Steve Cushion, London Metropolitan University
Date:
Wednesday 19 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Globalisation and Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Speakers: Wendy Knepper
Date:
Wednesday 5 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
October
Panel on ‘British investment and the creation of Australia and Canada’
Following the panel, at 6.30pm, there will be a reception and a launch of Andrew Smith’s new book from McGill-Queen’s University Press: British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization . We are very grateful to The Baring Archive for agreeing to sponsor the reception.
The launch will be introduced by Professor David Cannadine (to be confirmed).
Please note that entry to the panel and to the book launch is open to the public (and that one may attend either without attending the other). We would be grateful, however, if you could let us know if you plan to come to the book launch so that we can estimate the numbers for catering purposes. If you do plan to attend, please send an email to: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Speakers: Bernard Attard, University of Leicester: 'Markets, Debt and British Imperialism in Australasia during the nineteenth century'
Andrew Dilley, University of Aberdeen: 'Thinking Imperially? Edwardian Finance, Australia and Canada, c. 1899-1914'
Andrew Smith, Laurentian University: 'How Imperialist Sentiments were turned into Grain Elevators and Railways: The City of London and the Anglo-Canadian Alliance, 1850-1914'
Date:
Tuesday 28 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Colonial Rule and Spiritual Power: Obeah, the State and Caribbean Culture
Diana Paton and Maarit Forde will present work based on their current collaborative project which examines the cultural, political and legal history of obeah in the Caribbean. Diana Paton's paper, 'Obeah Acts: Producing and Policing the Boundaries of Religion in the Caribbean' will examine obeah's status as a long-standing crime and ask why it has proved so difficult to write it into the category 'religion'. Maarit Forde's paper 'Money, Gifts, and Moralities: Obeah in Early 20th Century Trinidad' uses evidence from obeah cases from Trinidad in the early twentieth century to examine the significance of money and gifts in Caribbean culture.
Speakers: Diana Paton and Maarit Forde, Newcastle University
Date:
Wednesday 22 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Routes to Freedom: Migration and the Construction of Emancipation in the Eastern Caribbean
Migration was central to the constitution of post-emancipation society across the Eastern Caribbean, however its impact varied considerably between colonies and over time. Exploring the intersections and exchanges between disparate currents of internal migration, regional emigration and indentured immigration provides a new vision of the contested nature of these movements and the trans-national networks that shaped their development. From British Guiana to Martinique, from Puerto Rico to Trinidad, the routes to freedom that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s were the shifting products of regional relationships rather than over-determined by the internal forces celebrated in nationalist historiographies.
Speakers: Laurence Brown, Manchester University
Date:
Wednesday 8 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
July
Commonwealth Countries and Corporate Social Responsibility
Triple wins for shareholders, governments and communities -Achievable or Impossible?
The conference will be held between 9:30 am and 1:30pm in the Menzies Room at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS.
Participants will be drawn from international organisations, academia, business and Commonwealth diplomats.
To register for the conference or further information, please email Veronica Broomes (veronica.broomes@sas.ac.uk) or Trevor Maylen (trevor.maylen@sas.ac.uk). For telephone enquiries, telephone 020 7862 8860
Speakers:
Date:
Wednesday 16 July
Time:09:30
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: veronica.broomes@sas.ac.uk
Dynamics of African Migration across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Please RSVP to Shihan de Silva at shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk
Places are limited and there is a registration fee of £5 payable on arrival
Speakers: Richard Pankhurst (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), Shihan de Silva (ICws), Iain Walker (SOAS) and John McAleer (National Maritime Museum)
Date:
Wednesday 9 July
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk
CPSU: Law Ministers’ Meeting Policy Brief Launch 2008; "Transforming Commonwealth societies to achieve Political, Economic and Human Development as essential to how people realise their potential: the Role of the Law Ministers in Engendering Legal Reform
The Commonwealth Law Ministers’ meeting defines the legal reform agenda for the 53 Commonwealth countries triennially, within the spirit of fundamental Commonwealth political values as asserted by Commonwealth Heads of State in consultation with Commonwealth Civil Society. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007, the Heads of Government reiterated their commitment to the Commonwealth’s fundamental political values of tolerance, respect, international peace and security, democracy, good governance, human rights, gender equality, rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, a balance of power between Executive, Legislature and Judiciary as recognised in the Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles, freedom of expression, a political culture that promotes transparency and accountability and sustainable development. The Law Ministers’ mandate is to transform these political tenets into legal reform and legal policy that is aligned to these articulated values. Ultimately, the Law Ministers’ meeting is best placed to translate the policy agenda as taken up by the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting into legal reform strategy for action by Member States.
The Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU) is a think-tank for the Commonwealth of fifty three nations and nearly two billion citizens. The only think-tank to focus on issues of Commonwealth policy, the CPSU is based at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in Russell Square. The CPSU works on policy and development issues of globalisation, democracy, civil society and human rights. The Unit conducts research studies to inform and influence policy makers in over a quarter of the world’s countries.
The CPSU’s Commonwealth Ministers’ Briefing series provides decision-makers around the Commonwealth with up-to-date, key analysis of the issues that will be discussed during various Ministerial meetings. The Series includes an in-depth policy brief ahead of all Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs) as well as the various Commonwealth Ministers’ Meetings.
The conference on the LMM will explore the following themes:
*Carving a more definitive niche for civil society participation in defining legal reform policy
*The role of culture and diversity in enhancing the legal reform agenda
*A way forward towards actively engaging Law Ministers
For further information and to register, kindly contact: Miss Tomesha Campbell (tomesha.campbell@sas.ac.uk)
Speakers:
Date:
Wednesday 2 July
Time:09:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: tomesha.campbell@sas.ac.uk
May
'Privacy and the Public Man: The Strange Story of the Mackenzie King Diaries'
Chris Dummitt was the Lecturer in Canadian Studies at ISA from 2005 to 2007 when he returned to Canada to become a member of the History Department at Trent University. In 2007 he published 'The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Post-War Canada'.
Please note that this event is being held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, 35 Tavistock Square.
Speakers: Christopher Dummitt
Date:
Thursday 15 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Changed International System and Implications for the Caribbean in the 21st Century
Speakers: Professor Horace Campbell, Syracuse University
Date:
Wednesday 14 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: olga.jiminez@sas.ac.uk
Palestine, Britain & Empire: 1841 - 1948
A two-day public conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the British withdrawal from the Palestine mandate, held at King’s College London.
Leading international speakers, academics and historians will discuss and debate one of the most violent conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. The events and consequences of this history will be considered in relation to themes of religion, gender, imperialism, violence, governance, decolonisation and memory, each illuminating wider currents in imperial history. The conference aims to bring to together a range of Arab, Jewish and British perspectives. Drawing upon the extensive oral, photographic and document collections of the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, extraordinary personal testimonies will also be presented, culminating in a discussion on the human experience of this episode.
The conference is being organised in a partnership between King’s College London www.kcl.ac.uk/history , the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies ) and is kindly supported by the MBI Al Jaber Foundation (www.mbifoundation.com).
A full programme and registration details will be available shortly. Please address any immediate enquiries to Ms Marylyn Whaymand
Programme
Registration
Speakers: Simon Anglim (Reading), Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben Gurion), Martin Bunton (Victoria, Australia), Antoine Capet (Rouen), Motti Golani (Haifa), Matthew Hughes (Brunel), John Knight (Eastern Michigan University), William Roger Louis (Austin), Michael Martin, Rory Miller (King’s College London), Heleen Murre Van Den Berg (Leiden), Susan Pedersen (Columbia), El-Eina Roza, Avi Schlaim (Oxford), Penny Sinanonglou (Harvard)
Date:
Wednesday 14 May - Thursday 15 May
Time:09:00
Venue:Other
Contact: mwhaymand@mbifoundation.com
Kenya Workshop
This workshop will bring together academic analysts, journalists and development specialists to consider the current crisis in Kenya and the events leading to it – the character of the first Kibaki government, the election campaign and its disputed outcome, and post-election developments. Presentations by several Kenya specialists will be made, and a number of documents submitted by analysts in and beyond Kenya will be discussed. A diversity of views will be presented and welcomed.
Chatham House rules will apply. A rapporteur will keep a record of the arguments presented, and a distillation of the discussion will then be disseminated.
The number of places available will be somewhat limited, so potential participants are asked to declare their interest to the Institute’s Events Officer, Troy Rutt
[ www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/Event Doc's/kenya.agenda | Programme ]
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 9 May
Time:10:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
April
Face/Off: Hong Kong's Autonomy and Universal Suffrage
This event will take place in Room L103 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Speakers: Phil.C.W.Chan, Senior Visiting Scholar in Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Date:
Wednesday 16 April
Time:17:30
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
'What History for what future of Quebec?'
Jocelyn Létourneau is a Professor at Université Laval and holds a Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Political History and Economy in Quebec. An expert in interpreting Quebec history, in examining relations between Quebec and Canada and in analyzing modern-day Western societies, Professor Létourneau's work, focusing mainly on community memory and community perceptions of identity and on the role of intellectuals in society, has a broad international dimension because, around the world, community memory determines how communities relate to each other and perceive their future. Professor Létourneau's presentation will be followed by three short commentaries by James Dunkerley, Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas; Robert Hazell, Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor of Government and the Constitution in the School of Public Policy, University College London; and Bill Marshall, Professor of Modern French Studies, University of Glasgow.
Please note that while this event is open to all free of charge we would be grateful (for catering purposes) if you could confirm your participation with an email.
Please note that this event is being held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, 35 Tavistock Square.
Speakers: Jocelyn Létourneau
Date:
Friday 11 April
Time:15:30
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
March
"Recent Events in Pakistan"
This workshop will bring together academic analysts, journalists, former diplomats, and development specialists to consider events in Pakistan over the last few months. A diversity of views will be presented and welcomed.
Chatham House rules will apply. A rapporteur will keep a record of the arguments presented, and a distillation of the discussion will then be disseminated.
The number of places available will be somewhat limited, so potential participants are asked to declare their interest to the Institute’s Events Officer, Troy Rutt
Speakers:
Date:
Wednesday 26 March
Time:10:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
'Sweaty and Uncombed: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Feminists, 1967-1977'
Steve Hewitt teaches in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham and is the author of 'Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the Mounted Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939 (2006)'; 'Canada and the Cold War (Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 2003)'; and 'Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 (2000)'.
Christabelle Sethan teaches in the Institute of Women's Studies and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous articles on sex education, contraception and abortion in Canada. She is now at work on a manuscript on the history of the birth control pill and its impact on young, single women at Canadian Universities between 1960-1980. This paper arises out of an ongoing joint research project on Canadian Government surveillanec of Canadian Feminists.
Speakers: Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna
Date:
Tuesday 18 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Reflections on Independence:British Policy in the Caribbean for the 21st Century
A workshop on history and policy.
Further details
Speakers: Professor Mary Chamberlain, Oxford Brookes University; Professor Richard Crook, Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Dr. Jean Crusol, Martinique; Alissandra Cummins, Director, Barbados Museum; Dr. Richard Drayton, Cambridge University; Dr. Helen Hintjens, ISS, The Hague; Dr. Don Marshall, University of the West Indies; Dr. Keith Nurse, University of the West Indies; Professor Gert Oostindie, KITLV, Leiden; Professor Rob Potter, University of Reading; Professor Selwyn Ryan, University of the West Indies; Dr. Paul Sutton, University of Hull; Dr. Nicholas Watts, London Metropolitan University.
Date:
Tuesday 18 March - Wednesday 19 March
Time:09:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mcchamberlain@brookes.ac.uk
'Stopping Genocide: The Will to Intervene and the Role of Canada'
Professor Frank Chalk is the co-author of 'The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies (1990)' and of a substantial number of chapters and articles on Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has served as President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and of the Canadian Association of African Studies and is currently Co-Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University. One of his key interests is the role that Canada can and should play in preventing future genocides and other crimes against humanity and this is the on-going goal of the Will to Intervene project, developed jointly by General Romeo Dallaire and the MIGS.
This event will take place in the Conference Room of IALS
Speakers: Professor Frank Chalk
Date:
Thursday 13 March
Time:17:30
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Dilemmas and Difficulties in the Work of Israeli Human Right NGOs
This event will take place in Room L103 at IALS
Speakers: Noam Hoffstater, Former Executive Director, Peace Now; Former Spokesperson, B'Tselem
Date:
Wednesday 12 March
Time:17:30
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: 'A Message Delayed: the USA, Jamaica and Cuba (1898/1949)
Speakers: Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Date:
Wednesday 12 March
Time:17:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Environment and Governance in the Commonwealth
Organised by the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU) in association with the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC)
Speakers: Further Details
Date:
Saturday 8 March - Monday 10 March
Time:09:30
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: homera.cheema@sas.ac.uk
Justice Radio: Broadcasting the International Criminal Court's Work in Congo
This event will take place in the Conference Room of IALS
Speakers: Wanda Hall, Director Interactive Radio for Justice; Former Outreach Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, ICC
Date:
Thursday 6 March
Time:17:30
Venue:IALS
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: The Revolution at 50: Cuban revolutionaries reflect
Speakers: Orlando Borrego Diaz, deputy to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his closest collaborator from 1959-1965, Cuba's first Minister of Sugar from 1964 and today advisor to the Minister of Transport; and Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos, Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in Havana, delegate to the Municipal Assembly of People's Power and author of several books on socialism and democracy
Date:
Tuesday 4 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Old Library Room, ISA
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
February
Robber Baron: The Criminal Trial of the Last Canadian Press Lord, Conrad Black
George Tombs, an award-winning Quebec journalist and former editorial writer for the Montreal Gazette, will be speaking on the theme of his recently-released Robber Baron: Lord Black of Crossharbour (ECW Press, 2007). The book is an unauthorised biography of Conrad Black, who built the world's third-largest media empire and was recently convicted in Chicago on three counts of fraud and one of obstruction of justice.
Speakers: George Tombs
Date:
Friday 29 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: ‘Tropes of blankness and emptiness’: narratives of nature and globalisation in the Mexican Caribbean
Some social and geographical spaces, such as Quintana Roo in Mexico, are “simultaneously emptied and filled... (they are) tropes of blankness and emptiness (that) are used to denote social emptiness and a location outside history” (G.Bridge 2002, 759).
This paper examines the narratives of space and nature in the Yucatan and the ‘discovery’ of its natural resources by successive waves of travellers and expeditionary forces. It explores the shifting currents of land use and land cover through an analysis of syncretic and hybrid meanings. The research is based on close familiarity with the region over a number of decades and traces the histories through forest extraction of hardwoods, chicle (for commercial chewing gum) and, latterly, the development of global tourism. It argues that we need to see globalisation as a process which is both inclusionary and exclusionary, and one which draws on narratives of nature for its legitimation. The research forms part of an ongoing ESRC project [2007-2010] on local governance and human security on the urbanised Caribbean coast of Mexico.
Speakers: Michael Redclift, King's College London
Date:
Wednesday 27 February
Time:17:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Open Evening 2008
The Institute is delighted to open its doors once more to prospective students for 2008/9. Come and tour the building, view our library and speak to our staff. We look forward to seeing you there!
Speakers: Staff from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Wednesday 20 February
Time:16:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Caribbean Seminar Series: 'Myth, History and the Collapse of the Haitian/Dominican Border: Chiqui Vicioso's Eva/sion/es 2007'
Speakers: Conrad James, University of Birmingham
Date:
Wednesday 13 February
Time:17:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch: Le Château: The lives of prisoners in Rwanda
The Centre for International Human Rights welcome Carina Tertsakian who is launching her new book 'Le Château: The lives of prisoners in Rwanda'. An introduction by Fergal Keane will start the event and there will be a reception to follow. A former prisoner from Rwanda will speak about his experiences of life in prison. Please click here for further information
Speakers: Fergal Keane and Carina Tertsakian
Date:
Thursday 7 February
Time:17:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: arves@rwanda-chateau.org
January
Caribbean Seminar Series: 'Race, morality and rebellion: counter-colonial politics in post-emancipation Jamaica'
Speakers: David Howard, University of Edinburgh
Date:
Wednesday 30 January
Time:17:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
The Complexities of Complex Emergencies
Speakers: Mathieu Ndiaye: 'Policing & Peacekeeping in Kosovo' (Former Police Officer, International Police Force, UNMIK), Carolyn Merry: 'Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan' (Former Head of Mission) Médecins Sans Frontičres and Aurelie Lamaziere: 'Witnessing and Advocacy in Darfur (Former Advisor on Humanitarian Issues, Médecins Sans Frontičres)
Date:
Tuesday 29 January
Time:17:30
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
'Light on a Hill' - Forging freedom and building the Constitutional Court in South Africa
The Centre for International Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is delighted to announce that Justice Albie Sachs, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, will be presenting a seminar on Wednesday 23rd January. Justice Sachs will be showing a DVD of approximately 35 minutes which details the Constitutional Court Project he is working on. There will also be time for questions afterwards and light refreshments.
The seminar will take place in B01 in the Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College. A reception will follow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Speakers: Justice Albie Sachs
Date:
Wednesday 23 January
Time:13:00
Venue:Other
Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
December
Ordinary Heroes: securing human rights for persons with HIV/AIDS in Mali
Nabilaye Issa Touré works with the Association pour le Développement et l’Appui Communautaire (Association for Community Development and Support), which assists people with HIV/AIDS in the Sikasso region of Mali.
Speakers: Nabilaye Issa Touré
Winner of the International Service Human Rights Award for the Defence of Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS
Date:
Monday 3 December
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: louise.duffy@sas.ac.uk
November
Crossing Continental Borders: A Comparison of the Atlantic and indian Ocean Worlds
The worlds of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans have hitherto been studied in isolation. This conference considers the history of the crossings of continental
borders and the contributions made by those who crossed over.
Registration fee £5 (includes coffee, lunch & tea)
Speakers: William Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London)
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London)
Saidi El-Gheithy (Sayyida Salme Foundation, Zanzibar & London)
James Walvin (University of York)
Hugo Cardoso (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Elsbeth Court (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London)
Yoko Namikawa (Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japan & University of Cambridge)
Rodreguez King-Dorset (University of Lincoln)
Ann Mitchell (Open University, Milton Keynes)
Date:
Friday 23 November
Time:10:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk
Bangladesh under the Caretaker Government
The School of Oriental and African Studies and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies are jointly organising a one-day discussion of events in Bangladesh under the current caretaker government. This workshop will enable participants to discuss these events and a diversity of views is very welcome. Places are very limited so those wishing to attend should email the organiser to register.
Speakers:
Date:
Saturday 17 November
Time:10:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: james.manor@sas.ac.uk
Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project
Part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series 2007/2008. Coffee and sandwiches will be available from 12.30pm. If you would like sandwiches it would be helpful to know a week in advance for the catering numbers.
Speakers: Dr Tim Lovering - Research Fellow, University of the West of England
Date:
Wednesday 14 November
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: meg23@cam.ac.uk
Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit seminar: "Kampala's Commonwealth Summit: A briefing on issues before the leaders in Kampala in November 2007"
In view of the upcoming CHOGM in Kampala this November, CPSU will be holding a seminar to discuss the issues which will be facing our leaders at the summit. Our speakers will be addressing the issues of Respect and Understanding, Commonwealth Membership, Climate Change & Small Island States, Gun Culture, Water-related Security & Conflict, Corporate Social Responsibility and Youth Engagement, amongst others. The seminar promises to be interesting and lively, with plenty of time for discussion and questions.
The Policy Brief will be available in advance of the seminar on the CPSU website (www.cpsu.org.uk), or hard copy by request.
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 9 November
Time:09:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: rachel.love@sas.ac.uk
A Tale of Two Nations: Canada and the United States at the Crossroads in 2007
Speakers: Earl H. Fry, Brigham Young University, Utah
Date:
Thursday 8 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Commonwealth Charity Wine Tasting - in aid of the Trust for Africa's Orphans
An informal and lively introduction to the diverse range of wine-producing regions of the Commonwealth and their unique and distinct flavours.
All proceeds are in aid of Trust for Africa’s Orphans, which aims to improve the quality of life of orphaned and vulnerable children by promoting sustainable farming, community education, health and awareness in Uganda and across Africa. An exhibition of images from the Trust's past and ongoing projects will be on display.
Speakers: Wine tasting courtesy of Peter Killip of Davy's Wine Merchants, with an introduction from Joy Mugisha of the Trust for Africa's Orphans
Date:
Wednesday 7 November
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
October
Canadian Resource Management and Self-Government: First Nation Responses to Resource Development in the Deh Cho region
Speakers: Carol J. Moore, Open University
Date:
Thursday 25 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Boycotting Israeli Academia: promoting human rights or restricting academic freedom?
This debate is part of the School of Advanced Study's An Exchange of Ideas. This free series of public debates and lectures aims to inspire open discussion and the sharing of knowledge as part of the 2007 Bloomsbury Festival celebrations. This event takes place at London House, Gooodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square (nearest Tube station: Russell Square).Bloomsbury Festival website
Speakers: Steven Rose (Emeritus Professor, Open University and Secretary of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine)
Lars Waldorf (Lecturer in International Law & Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Date:
Saturday 20 October
Time:11:30
Venue:Other
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit seminar: ‘In search of the new Secretary General of the Commonwealth: the McKinnon era reviewed and the prospective candidates assessed’
In the run-up to the forthcoming Secretary General elections in Kampala, CPSU is holding a seminar to review the McKinnon era and look forward to the future. We will be discussing the role of the Secretary General, the politics and procedures of the elections, previous Secretary Generals in their contemporary context, the candidates for this year’s election and a youth perspective on the matter and the future of the Commonwealth. For more information see CPSU website: www.cpsu.org.uk
Speakers: Victoria te Velde (Chair), Richard Bourne and Stuart Mole
Date:
Tuesday 16 October
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: rachel.love@sas.ac.uk
Freedom and Liberty? The Archival Record and Caribbean Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation.
Part of the national Archive Awareness Campaign 2007. The Conference will mark the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, as well as the launch of the University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) electronic catalogue for archives and manuscripts. The range of material listed on the catalogue is extraordinarily diverse, and includes the papers of the West India Committee and the Caribbean Council (within ICS 96 and ICS 97); the Castle Wemyss Estate papers (ICS101) and Taylor family correspondence (ICS120) both offering the perspective of plantation owners on the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and the records of Sandbach, Tinne and Co (ICS70) revealing the perspective of shipping companies in the period. Many collections, including the C L R James papers (ICS40), the microfilm of the Richard Hart papers (ICS122 /M861) and our archives of political ephemera, address the political issues surrounding 20th century decolonization, the West Indies Federation and independence. Material relevant to Caribbean studies can also be found at the Senate House Library, including within the Goldsmiths' Library and Bishop Porteus library, and the Newton family, Akers family and Hewitt archive collections.
Speakers: see Programme
Date:
Monday 15 October
Time:13:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: David.clover@sas.ac.uk
The Exchange of Ideas: A reflection on the history of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies seminar series
To mark the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library’s project to catalogue and provide online access to records for individual Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar papers from 1950-1990 a one day conference will be held on Friday October the 5th. Begun in 1950 the seminars were at the time an experiment in the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and this one day conference will explore some of the themes and events marking both Commonwealth history and the historiography of the study of the Commonwealth and its member regions.
Programme
Speakers: Professor Shula Marks; Professor Robert Holland; Dr Michael Twaddle; Dr Peter Lyon, Professor Michael Lee, and Professor Carl Bridge.
Date:
Friday 5 October
Time:11:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: David.Clover@sas.ac.uk
September
ESRC - NGPA Programme research project on how non-governmental public actors involved in North-South networks influence policy processes and their outcomes
The Workshop will include both researchers, academic experts, policy and governmental practitioners and stakeholders from the NGPAs, and it will be discussing both the general findings and the policy implications of the research. The research covers a wide range of cases both international and from Africa, South and South East Asia and will also incorporate the work of an ESRC Practitioner Fellow from OXFAM Australia. Any person interested in attending this event (which has limited numbers) should contact Mary.Sanver@sas.ac.uk (Events Officer) at the ICwS with a copy to Professor Richard.Crook@sas.ac.uk
as soon as possible
Speakers: tbc
Further details
Date:
Tuesday 11 September - Wednesday 12 September
Time:09:00
Venue:to be confirmed
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
July
Promoting respect and understanding: nurturing inter-religious initiatives within a Commonwealth Association context
This will be a highly participatory seminar, exploring issues of inter-faith dialogue and how Commonwealth CAs can make a difference.
To register you interest in this debate please email Homera Cheema
Speakers: from the Commonwealth Foundation and the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit .
Date:
Thursday 26 July
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: homera.cheema@sas.ac.uk
launch of the new issue of Atlas
Atlas — an international book[maga]zine of ‘new writing, art & image’ — edited by SUDEEP SEN and published by AARK ARTS is advised by a panel of internationally acclaimed prize-winning writers & editors - Invitation only - The Nehru Centre of The High Commission of India
In association with King’s College, University of London, Menzies Centre, Institute of Commonwealth Studies & Canadian Studies Seminar Group
Speakers: There will be readings of poetry and short fiction from Atlas by celebrated poets and fiction writers: Peter Porter, Daniel Weissbort, Peter Bradshaw, Mimi Khalvati, Ruth Padel, Fiona Sampson, Owen Sheers, Todd Swift, Kim Morrissey, Chris McCabe, Patience Agbabi, Daljit Nagra & Sudeep Sen
Date:
Tuesday 24 July
Time:18:15
Venue:Other
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The Colour of Our Skins.
Co-hosted by the ESRC Genomics Forum and the ICwS. A public lecture, based on Wilmot James' forthcoming book 'Chase Away the Darkness: Biology and African Society'.
Speakers: Prof. Wilmot James. Executive Director of the Africa Genome Education Institute; Honorary Professor in the Division of Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.
Abstract
Date:
Tuesday 17 July
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
launch of the Round Table special issue on the Caribbean
Co-hosted by the ICwS and the Round Table, Britain’s oldest international affairs journal will be carrying a special issue for 2008 entitled: “International Competitiveness of Small Vulnerable Economies” with special focus on the Caribbean. The aim of this seminar is to sensitise the Caribbean public in the UK, policy practitioners and academics that are undertaking research on the Caribbean to this very relevant issue. In due course a number of the papers will be peer-reviewed for publication in the journal for 2008 - followed by reception
Final programme Event is free and open to all.
Speakers: Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews, Densil Williams, University of the West Indies, Lindsay Stirton, University of East Anglia, William Vlcek, ICwS, Kevin Barker, Birkbeck College, Peter Clegg, UWE, Bristol, Amanda Sives, University of Liverpool, Gordon Baker,Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House(TBC)
Date:
Thursday 12 July
Time:09:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The Economics of Opium: Implications for Drugs Reform
International Consulting Economists Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Jeremy Berkoff is an independent consultant in water resources, agriculture and regional development. He is well known to ICEA members as he was until recently Chairman of the Association and has participated actively in its affairs for a number of years.
Further details
Date:
Tuesday 10 July
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
‘Campaigning for Enosis under Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus – inherited tradition or traditional innovation?’
Commonwealth History Seminar
Speakers: Demetris Assos, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Thursday 5 July
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Annual Summer Conference For Young People
Hosted by the the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit. The conference will provide delegates with a general introduction to the Commonwealth, before looking specifically at its work in two key areas: Climate Change and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s).
Poster
Speakers: TBC
Date:
Monday 2 July - Wednesday 4 July
Time:09:00
Contact: james.williams@sas.ac.uk
June
‘Freedoms at Midnight’:The Iconography of Independence
Commonwealth History Conference
This one-day conference comes appropriately in the sixtieth anniversary year of the establishment of India and Pakistan, and the fiftieth anniversary of independent Malaya and Ghana. Presentations and discussion will examine comparatively the experience of ‘Independence Days’, with their natural propensity to look backwards over the imperial past and forwards to a post-colonial society, from the seminal change of1947 through to the transition in Hong Kong during 1997. In focussing on the ‘moment’ of transfers of power it is expected that a fresh light will be thrown on the multiple meanings of one of the great transformations in the twentieth century. The occasion will interest everyone with an interest in the wider decolonization experience. A selection of the papers is to be published by The Round Table.
Those wishing to attend event must register with Mary Sanver[
Speakers: Convenors: Prof. Robert Holland, ICwS, and Dr Susan Williams, ICwS
Speakers: Prof. David Cannadine, IHR. Prof. Tom Tomlinson, SOAS. Prof. Richard Rathbone, UW Aberystwyth/SOAS. Prof. Anthony Stockwell, RHUL. Prof. Philip Murphy, Reading. Dr Luke McKernan, BUFVC. Dr Chandrika Kaul, St Andrews. Dr Susan Williams, ICwS. Dr Sue Onslow, LSE. Dr Jonathan Mirsky, former East Asia Editor, The Times. Prof. Rob Holland, ICwS. Prof. Clem Seecharan, LMU. Dr. Joanna Lewis (LSE).
Programme
Video link
Date:
Thursday 28 June
Time:09:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Workshop on Para 55: a case study in ESRC research
To share research findings on the work of the Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group. The workshop will offer an opportunity to comment on the findings, and to listen to people involved at various stages in Para 55, and others with an interest in HIV/AIDS policy issues.
INVITE ONLY
Speakers: Richard Bourne, former head of CPSU, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Aids- alliance, Sharon Robinson, Dr Joseph Amuzu, Commonwealth Secretariat, John Pollock, Turquoise Frog.
Date:
Wednesday 13 June
Time:09:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Latin America and China: Developing Strategic Links
Seminar: International Consulting Economists Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Dr Celia Szusterman (Associate Fellow at Chatham House etc.)
Date:
Tuesday 12 June
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Scoping workshop on Fish stocks, fishing communities and the Commonwealth.
Following a couple of informal meetings earlier this year with colleagues from the Commonwealth Foundation, Commonwealth Human Ecology Council, Department for International Development and Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs earlier this year in London, the CPSU will be holding a scoping workshop. This workshop is to consider current sea fisheries issue from a Commonwealth perspective -- industrial and illegal over-fishing, regulation, reducing commercial fish stocks and climate change, impacts on traditional fishing communities, the Law of the Sea, and the scope for Commonwealth action.
Speakers:
Date:
Tuesday 12 June
Time:09:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: Homera.Cheema@sas.ac.uk
May
Launch of the Policy Brief for the Commonwealth Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Meeting
The launch of the CPSU policy brief provides a unique opportunity for members of the Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Foundation, civil society organisations, partner agencies, academics and students to come together in an informal capacity to focus on gender equality and empowerment in the Commonwealth and pertinent issues arising from 8WAMM.
Speakers: Helena Whall, CPSU Associate Fellow
Date:
Thursday 31 May
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: Homera.cheema@sas.ac.uk
Getting into Print: Black Writers in London, 1770-1930
Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa Seminar SCOLMA
Coffee and sandwiches available from 12.30pm
Please contact Barbara Spina (email: bs24@soas.ac.uk; tel. 020-7898 4157) if you wish to attend
Speakers: Prof. David Killingray (Emeritus Professor of History, Goldsmiths' College University of London, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Date:
Monday 21 May
Time:13:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: bs24@soas.ac.uk
Rethinking Canadian History
Canadian Studies Seminar
Venues: 17 May - ISA, Room 12
18 May – Canada House, Trafalgar Square
Speakers: A two-day conference. For details of the programme, please consult Chris Dummitt (ISA) Christopher.Dummitt@sas.ac.uk
Date:
Thursday 17 May - Friday 18 May
Time:09:30
Venue:Other
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Workshop on Cultures and Memories of Confinement in Southern Africa
Programme
Speakers: Jocelyn Alexander, Oxford. Sarah Longair, Birkbeck College. Annie Coombes, Birkbeck College. Discussant - Professor Shula Marks, SOAS, former ICwS Director
Date:
Tuesday 15 May
Time:14:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Can India Solve its Power Crisis?
International Consulting Economists
see notice
Non-members and guests welcome - Charges (including drinks/refreshments): Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Judith Plummer, South Asia Sustainable Development Unit, World Bank.
Date:
Tuesday 8 May
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
April
'Indigeneous Peoples, Self-Determination and Constitutional Reforms in Canada'
Canadian Studies Seminar Series
Speakers: Mike Prince, University of Victoria
Date:
Thursday 26 April
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
‘Machiavelli and Third World Poverty’
Dean's Seminar Programme
video link
Speakers: Professor James Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Chair of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Chaired by the Dean, Professor Nicholas Mann
Date:
Wednesday 25 April
Time:12:30
Venue:N336 a + b (Senate House, North Block)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Britain and Cyprus Today
The end of 300 years of Ottoman rule in 1878 and the outcomes of the British administration that followed.
This conference will be held in the Board Room at London Metropolitan University (directions on programme) To register for the conference please contact Professor Robert Holland.
Speakers: See programme
Date:
Wednesday 18 April
Time:09:30
Venue:Other
Contact: robert.holland@sas.ac.uk
The Impact of Chinese Macroeconomic Policy on European Economic Prospects: Should Europe be wary about China's peg to the dollar?
Seminar: International Consulting Economists Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Bojan Markovic (Bank of England)
Date:
Thursday 12 April
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
March
Africa from a Nordic Perspective: the Nordic Africa Institute's Library
Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa Seminar
Please contact Barbara Spina (email: bs24@soas.ac.uk; tel. 020-7898 4157) if you wish to attend
Speakers: Asa Lund Moberg (Chief Librarian, Nordic Africa Institute Library, Uppsala) and colleagues
Coffee and sandwiches available from 12.30pm SCOLMA
Date:
Thursday 29 March
Time:13:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: bs24@soas.ac.uk
The influence of the Boer War on Canada's Response to the First World War
Canadian Studies Seminar Series Series
Speakers: Carman Miller, McGill University
Date:
Thursday 22 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
West Indian Rhythm: Trinidad Calypsos on world and local event featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940 (2006) edited by The Classic Calypso Collective and John Cowley
Book Launch: Caribbean Seminar Series
Speakers: John Cowley (Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies) ‘Carnival and Calypso’ and Richard Noblett (The Classic Calypso Collective) ‘The Guyanese and World War II Calypsos’
Date:
Wednesday 21 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Informal One-Day Workshop on India’s Politics
For the community of analysts in Britain who focus on Indian politics. If you wish to attend this free event please register with Mary Sanver
Speakers: Paul Brass, University of Washington. James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Gurharpal Singh, University of Birmingham
Programme
Date:
Wednesday 21 March
Time:10:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Grassroots Activism & Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Human Rights Seminar series
Speakers: Sebastiana Anna Etzo, Editorial Board, Afriche et Orienti, Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Fiona White, Former Researcher, Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg, Ph.D Candidate, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date:
Thursday 15 March
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Missing Pieces and the Larger Atlantic Picture: Some Implications of the Expanded, On-line Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Caribbean Seminar Series
Speakers: Professor David Eltis, Emory University.
Date:
Wednesday 14 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
The Balkans: International Aid and Development
Seminar:International Consulting Economists Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Garth Armstrong (DFID)
Date:
Tuesday 13 March
Time:18:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Governance in the Commonwealth: Respecting Difference & Promoting Understanding
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission: 3rd Annual Alumni Network Conference on Governance
Programme
Speakers: TBC
Date:
Saturday 10 March - Monday 12 March
Time:09:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: justin.foxworthy@sas.ac.uk
Making Right: Drafting New Human Rights Treaties on Age, Disability & Indigeneity
[ M:\Commonwealth Databases\icommweb\events\Events Doc's\humanrights07.doc | Human Rights Seminar Series ] followed by reception at 7pm
Speakers: Dr. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock (chair), University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; former Senior Lecturer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Dr. Alexandra Xanthaki, Senior Lecturer, Brunel Law School
Bridget Sleap, Policy Officer, HelpAge International
Date:
Thursday 8 March
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Suffering into Stone: Commemorating Violent Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Human Rights Seminar Series
Speakers: Dr. Brian Phillips, Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Practice, Oxford Brookes University
Date:
Wednesday 7 March
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Nationalism in the Americas
Canadian Studies Seminar Series
Speakers: Keynote speaker: Ramsay Cook, Professor Emeritus, York University: ‘Nationalism in Canada’
Nicola Miller, University College London
Manuel Madriaga, Sheffield Hallam University
Sarah Radcliffe, Cambridge University
Date:
Friday 2 March
Time:15:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
One-Day International Cricket Seminar
This workshop will focus on key issues surrounding the growth and development of international cricket – from colonial roots to the modern game and beyond. Further details
Conference Registration fees: £15
Speakers: featuring many of the speakers from the original conference Speaker details
Date:
Friday 2 March
Time:09:00
Contact: daniela.wettstein@sas.ac.uk
Beyond Boundaries: An exhibition of cricket art
organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the Art Worker’s Guild in London’s Bloomsbury
Speakers: An exhibition of cricket work by the contemporary Trinidad and Tobagan artist Wendy Nanan Further details
Date:
Thursday 1 March - Friday 30 March
Time:12:00
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Cricket: Dawn of a new world CANCELLED – Instead the Institute will host a one-day seminar on Friday 2 March - details below
see 2 March entry
Speakers: Speakers and participants
Date:
Thursday 1 March - Saturday 3 March
Time:09:00
Venue:Other
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
February
Kathryn Heyman (Author)
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Speakers: Kathryn shall be reading from and discussing her work.
Date:
Wednesday 28 February
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: kirsten.mcintyre@kcl.ac.uk
Advocacy with Footnotes: Human Rights Reporting & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Human Rights Seminar Series
Speakers: Ron Dudai
Former Researcher, B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Research Fellow, SOAS
Date:
Wednesday 28 February
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The Idol Rich: Spanish and Maya Christians in the Belize Colonial Encounter
Caribbean Seminar Series
Speakers: Elizabeth Graham, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Date:
Wednesday 28 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Open Evening
Meet with current and past students, academic staff, library staff, administrative support staff, as well as other prospective students, at our friendly and informal annual Open Evening, aimed to enable you to make informed decisions about your future study.
Speakers: Further details
Date:
Wednesday 21 February
Time:16:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: Dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Gentlemanly Capitalism, the
Canadian Studies Seminar Series
Speakers: Andrew Dilley, King's College. Convenor, Andrew Porter, King's College, London
Date:
Monday 19 February
Time:17:00
Venue:International Relations Room (IHR)
Contact: phillipbuckner@hotmail.com
Pakistan: Economic Prospects
Seminar:International Consulting Economists Association (ICEA)
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Paul Reynolds (University of Westminster)
Date:
Tuesday 13 February
Time:18:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Taha Maori - a focus on contemporary Maori culture and Maori education
Centre for New Zealand Studies co hosted with ICwS
Speakers: Kyhla Russell, Precious Clark and Kateia Burrows
Date:
Thursday 8 February
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
January
What are you doing here? The Question of Australians in London
Book Launch- Menzies Centre for Australian studies
Speakers: Dylan Nichols (author)
Date:
Wednesday 31 January
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: kirsten.mcintyre@kcl.ac.uk
The Politics of Power: the 1953 British coup in Guiana
Caribbean Seminar Series
Speakers: Professor Colin Palmer, Princeton
Date:
Wednesday 17 January
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Planning an Environmental City in China
Seminar: International Consulting Economists Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: led by David Williams of Arup Engineering
Date:
Tuesday 9 January
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
December
Book Launch: Philip Buckner and R Douglas Francis eds, Canada and the British World
Canadian Studies
Speakers: Convenors: Philip Buckner and Christopher Dummitt
Date:
Thursday 14 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
November
Book launch: Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History
Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
This is event is invitation only
Speakers: Author - Rod Edmond
Date:
Thursday 30 November
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Is There a Future for Immigration?
Hosted by the The International Consulting Economists’ Association, Nigel Harris will open a discussion on what he sees as the most important issues in this complex subject. Nigel is well known to members and a former chairman of the ICEA (http://www.icea.co.uk/) and long-time member of the committee
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
ICEA Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
[ M:\Commonwealth Databases\icommweb\events\Events Doc's\nigelharris.doc | Further details ]
Speakers: Nigel Harris, Professor emeritus of the economics of the city at University College London, author, most recently chairman of the Migration Commission of the Royal Society of Arts and lead author of its report, Migration: a Welcome opportunity (on: www.theRSA.org).
Date:
Tuesday 14 November
Time:18:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for books
The prize has been awarded to Andrew Porter for his book Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914, published by Manchester University Press in 2004.
This is a closed event if you wish to attend please contact Dee Burn
Speakers: Further details
Date:
Thursday 9 November
Time:17:00
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Poetry Reading by David Gilbey
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Speakers: David Gilbey, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia
Date:
Wednesday 8 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Genocide, Feminicide and Social Cleansing in Guatemala
Human Rights Seminar Series
Please note seminar will be held in room 275
Centre for International Human Rights
Speakers: Victoria Sanford, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York
Date:
Thursday 2 November
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Poetry Reading - Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Chris has published many works of poetry as well as prose works, art criticism and a number of anthologies, this week he will be reading poetry.
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Speakers: Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.
Date:
Wednesday 1 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
October
Gacaca Courts in Rwanda: Some Personal Reflections
Human Rights Seminar Series
Centre for International Human Rights
Speakers: Nadčge Degris, former Coordinator of Gacaca Research, Penal Reform International (Kigali)
Date:
Thursday 26 October
Time:17:30
Venue:Lecture Room (WI)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Dream to Change the World
Seminar: Caribbean Studies
Film screening and talk in celebration of the life and work of John La Rose: Dream to Change the World: a film about John La Rose (Horace Ové)
Seminar Series
Speakers: Gus John, University of Strathclyde
Date:
Wednesday 25 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Aspects of Domestic Water Consumption in Australian Cities
As Australia enters another hot summer, the issue of water and its conservation assumes an increased importance. Can water consumption be managed or are Australia’s cities doomed to be dry and thirsty? By examining the results of recently competed studies of water consumption in Sydney and Canberra as well as public attitudes towards conservation measures, Professor Patrick Troy will explore the future prospects of the city in the so-called ‘world’s driest continent’
Speakers: Prof. Patrick Ao, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University
Date:
Thursday 19 October
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Understanding Amnesty International
Dr Hopgood will speak about his new book, "Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International" (Cornell University Press, 2006), followed by a discussion
Chair: Martin Hill
ICS Visiting Research Fellow
*Please note this event will be held in Stewart House which lies between Senate House and Russell Square; its entrance is at 32 Russell Square. This is on your left as you come into the Senate House car park from Russell Square, or your right as you come through the vestibule from Malet Street
Speakers: Stephen Hopgood, SOAS
Date:
Wednesday 18 October
Time:17:30
Venue:Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs
Launching a special issue of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 95, No. 386, September 2006) dedicated to Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs):
Programme
This is a closed event for further details please contact Mary Sanver
Speakers: see programme
Date:
Monday 16 October
Time:15:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
How Globalization Works
The talk will look at the drivers of globalization, its consequences and the threats to it. It will be based on Mr Wolf’s recent book Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, 2004).
Prior to joining the Financial Times, he was a Senior Economist at the World Bank, and Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, London.
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Martin Wolf CBE
Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Date:
Thursday 12 October
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch and induction party for ICwS students
Dr Paul Gready’s latest book, The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights, written in collaboration with one of our MA graduates, Olivia Ball.
This will be an informal event, combined with our postgraduate student welcome party.
Speakers: Dr Paul Gready will give a short presentation about the book
'No-nonsense Guide to Human Rights'
Date:
Tuesday 3 October
Time:17:30
Venue:N336 a + b (Senate House, North Block)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
August
Half of a Yellow Sun
Book Launch
Speakers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (former Caine prize winner)
Date:
Wednesday 16 August
Time:19:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: ras@soas.ac.uk
July
Indian Ocean Cultures in Contact
Seminar
Programme
Cost: £3 (incl. refreshments)
contact: cliffjpereira@hotmail.com
Speakers: See programme
Date:
Friday 14 July
Time:14:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: devika.shihan@kcl.ac.uk
The New Approach to the Appraisal of Transport Projects
Among issues that will be discussed in relation to the recommended process for identifying and selecting the preferred option are: economic, environmental and social assessment; the need to summarise analyses in a consistent way; the Department's approach to the assessment of overall value for money; and new developments in this field, including the assessment of wider economic impacts and the monetisation of environmental impacts.
The International Consulting Economists' Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Chris Smith – Head of the Project Modelling and Appraisal Branch, Department for Transport
Date:
Tuesday 11 July
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Roundtable on Media and the British Empire (Palgrave Macmillan) ed Chandrika Kaul
Roundtable discussion Programme
All welcome
Speakers: Dr Chandrika Kaul (University of St Andrews), Dr Philip Woods (Kingston University), Dr James Ryan (University of Leicester), Dr Sian Nicholas (University of Aberystwyth)
Date:
Monday 3 July
Time:15:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: chandrikakaul@hotmail.com
June
The Caribbean (Hodder Arnold) by Gad Heuman
Book launch
This event is INVITE ONLY, if you wish to attend please contact Gad Heuman - email below
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 29 June
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: G.J.Heuman@warwick.ac.uk
CPSU 2nd Summer Conference for Young People - Democratisation and Development
Summer Conference: Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit
Further details
Costs - £45 for 3 days, £35 for 2 days, £25 for 1 day
Speakers: High Commissioners, Parliamentarians, Prominent Academics, Senior Commonwealth Staff, Journalists and Civil Society Activists
Date:
Wednesday 28 June - Friday 30 June
Time:09:00
Contact: frank.soodeen@sas.ac.uk
The Hospitality of Your House: Radio in the Canadian Hearthland
Seminar: Canadian Studies
Speakers: Len Kuffert, University of Manitoba
Date:
Tuesday 20 June
Time:17:00
Venue:Seminar Room 12, ISA
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
The British colonial service and Uganda
Workshop: Overseas Service Pensioners’ Association
Further details
Speakers: Michael Twaddle (ICwS), A number of other researchers working on cultural, economic and religious as well as political aspects of Ugandan colonial history will contribute.
Date:
Monday 19 June
Time:13:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: m.twaddle@sas.ac.uk
The ANC's State: More Dysfunctional than Developmental?
Seminar: South Africa State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 , Cape Town. HSRC Press. 2007.
Speakers: Dr Roger Southall, Distinguished Research Fellow, HSRC, Pretoria, South Africa. An editor of the annual State of the Nation in South Africa; this paper is an initial draft of the editorial for the next edition: 2006/7 by Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall and Jessica Lutchman
Room 22
Date:
Friday 16 June
Time:11:00
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
What Makes for Good Governance in the United Kingdom Overseas Territories?
UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS TERRITORIES SEMINAR
Programme
For further details please contact David Killingray - email below
Speakers: Dr Denis Osborne, former High
Commissioner to Malawi, Dr. Paul Sutton, University of Hull, Councillor Mike Summers, Member of the Falkland Islands Executive Council, Frank Savage, formerly Governor of Montserrat,
Date:
Friday 16 June
Time:10:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: dmkillingray@hotmail.com
Youth and the 1959 Cuban Revolution
Seminar: Caribbean Studies
Speakers: Jorge Ibarra
Date:
Thursday 15 June
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Access to micro-finance in the developing world – A Liberal Democrat perspective
Seminar: The International Consulting Economist's Association
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
www.icea.co.uk
Speakers: Susan Kramer – Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Aid
Date:
Tuesday 13 June
Time:18:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies
Old Sydney Town: Nostalgic Hope
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Speakers: Adam Eldridge (University of Westminster)
Date:
Wednesday 7 June
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Africa in Libraries - Libraries in Africa: SCOLMA Annual Conference 2006
This year's SCOLMA (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa) conference will focus on two topics: the public promotion of research and writing on Africa in UK libraries; and the role of libraries and information services in supporting research and communication amongst research communities in Africa.Download conference programme
Costs - £30 or £10 (students and unwaged) Lunch is included
Speakers: A range of speakers representing Public Libraries, Publishers, Academics and Voluntary Organisations
Date:
Wednesday 7 June
Time:09:30
Venue:ICwS - Russell Square
Contact: TABarringe@aol.com
May
Seminar: Australian Studies
Why does Australia lack a (national) Bill of Rights? A comparative Westminster perspective
Speakers: David Erdos
Date:
Wednesday 24 May
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: Canadian Studies
Canadian Origins of the Rhodes Scholarships [ http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/Events Doc's/can_spring06.doc | Seminar series ]
Speakers: David Torrance, Mount Allison University
Date:
Thursday 18 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar
Education in Sri Lanka – after the tsunami
This is an INVITE ONLY event, if you wish to attend please contact Deryn Holland - email below
Speakers: Professor Lakshman Perera, a Sri Lankan and former board member of the CEC
Date:
Tuesday 16 May
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: deryn@gotadsl.co.uk
An exhibition of art by the renowned artist Chinwe Roy - INVITE ONLY
This event formally acknowledges the generous support of Chinwe Roy, who recently donated 20% of the profits from her latest exhibition, Ancestral Footsteps, to the Emeka Anyaoku Chair Endowment Fund. This new exhibition reflected the diversity in the cultures and traditions of Africa, as she engaged with the challenge of giving visual form to the spirits of her ancestors using a variety of mediums.
If you would like to attend this special event please contact Dee Burn 020 7862 8844
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 12 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Round Table on the African Writers Series - Co sponsors ICwS and IES
African Writers Series:
The history and Legacy of a Commonwealth/postcolonial Publishing Venture
Speakers: James Currey, Olabode Ibironke and Keith Sambrook
Date:
Thursday 11 May
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Canadian Studies
Making Treaty 1 : The politics of Kinship and resistance [ http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/Events Doc's/can_spring06.doc | Seminar series ]
Speakers: Jean Friesen, University of Manitoba
Date:
Thursday 11 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar
Uganda, Press freedoms and post election Politics
Speakers: Alan Martin
Date:
Wednesday 10 May
Time:18:00
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies
Manning Clark, Brian Fitzpatrick, and the British Empire
Menzies Centre for Australian studies
Speakers: Ann Curthoys (Australian National University)
Date:
Wednesday 10 May
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: The International Consulting Economist
Will patient choice improve the NHS?
This talk will present some empirical findings on the way patients are likely to choose their hospital, the information they value in making choices and the trade offs they are willing to make between competing aspects of hospitals’ performance.
Charges (including alcoholic and other refreshments)
Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Speakers: Prof John Appleby is Chief Economist at the King’s Fund - an independent health policy think tank.
Date:
Tuesday 9 May
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: South Asia Studies
Pakistan: A Culture of CorruptionSeminar Series
Speakers: Farzana Shaik, University of Cambridge
Date:
Monday 8 May
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: L.saez@lse.ac.uk
Humanising security or securitising development?
One day seminar on the Challenges posed to NGOs by conflict and the new Security and Development paradigm.This one day meeting will address these issues to a mixed audience of NGOs, academics and policy makers.
By invitation only. For more details contact Malcolm Rodgers at Christian Aid at mrodgers@christian-aid.org or 0207-523-2035
Further details
Speakers: tba
Date:
Monday 8 May
Time:09:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mrodgers@christian-aid.org
Workshop
‘Transnational policy processes, policy outcomes and service delivery: the impact of non-governmental public actors’
Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Monash University and the EU - GARNET (Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation)
Programme
Invite only
Speakers: see programme
Date:
Tuesday 2 May - Thursday 4 May
Time:14:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: richard.crook@sas.ac.uk
April
A special event to mark Anzac Day: Australian Studies
Daniel Marston (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)
5 Royal Australian Regiment and the Dilemmas of Counter-insurgency in South Vietnam
Roger Beckett (Menzies Centre)
The Australian Imperial Force in the United Kingdom: 1914 and 1915
Bill Philpott (King's College London)
Australia and the Somme
To be followed by drinks and a poetry reading by ANDREW SANT
Speakers: A Round-Table Discussion of Australians.
Date:
Wednesday 26 April
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar - Half day- cost £25
Recent Research on Boys & Young Men
A review of current research and developments in work with boys and young men. Themes will include: underachievement, crime, suicide, sexual and mental health, as well as issues such as ADHD, eating disorders Working With Men
Speakers: Trefor Lloyd
Date:
Tuesday 11 April
Time:10:00
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: d.kohli@workingwithmen.org
Seminar: South Asia Studies
Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
Speakers: Mahinda Deegalle, Bath Spa University
Date:
Monday 10 April
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: L.saez@lse.ac.uk
Seminar: Human Rights
Human Rights in Mexico
Speakers: Claudia Donají Jimenez Rodriguez from the The Comité Cerezo and Alejandro Cerezo Contreras
Date:
Thursday 6 April
Time:17:00
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Roundtable: Part of the Institute of Development Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration
Security and Development: from a Commonwealth Perspective
Reception at 17:30 Programme
Speakers: tbc
Date:
Monday 3 April
Time:14:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
March
Seminar: Canadian Studies
Looking at the Quebec Act (1774) in a Family Way [ http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/Events Doc's/can_spring06.doc | Seminar series ]
Speakers: Brian Young, McGill University
Date:
Thursday 30 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Foundations of a Peculiar Political Economy: How Convicts, Squatters, and Gold seekers Influenced the Evolution of Australian Capitalism
Speakers: Chris Lloyd (UNE)
Date:
Wednesday 22 March
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: English Studies
"A 'Lost' Byron Manuscript and other Revelations from a Rare Books Librarian"
Further details
Speakers: Ms Susan Stead (University College London, Special Collections)
Date:
Tuesday 21 March
Time:17:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk
SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminar
"Conditions of Production for Writing, Publishing and Studying Literature in Africa: the Nigerian Situation". Coffee and sandwiches will be available before the talk, from 12.30pm. Please contact Barbara Spina (email below) if you wish to attend.
Speakers: Prof. Isidore Diala, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria
Date:
Tuesday 21 March
Time:13:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: bs24@soas.ac.uk
"The Influence of the Boer War on Canada's Participation in WW1"
Canadian Studies Seminar Series
Speakers: Carmen Miller, McGill University, Canada
Date:
Friday 17 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Special Event: Caribbean Studies CANCELLED
Debate on Haiti: 'The downfall of Aristide: implications & aftermath'.
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Charles Arthur (Haiti Support Group) and Prof. Peter Hallward (Middlesex University) .
Date:
Thursday 16 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Caribbean Studies
1937 in Trinidad: Oil, Sugar and Trade Unions Seminar Series
Speakers: Prof. Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies
Date:
Thursday 16 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Open Evening
MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights - MSc in Globalization and Development - PhD Programmes Registration form
Speakers: For more details go to http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/openevening.htm
Date:
Wednesday 15 March
Time:16:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: dee.burn@sas.ac.uk
Governance in The Commonwealth: Civic Engagement and Democratic Accountability
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Alumni Network on Governance Annual Meeting [ http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/Events Doc's/CSC_march11.doc | Draft programme ]
Links to selected papers and presentations from the Conference can be found here.
Speakers: tbc
Date:
Saturday 11 March - Monday 13 March
Time:10:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: justin.foxworthy@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Lunchtime Seminar
West Papua: Genocide in Paradise
Speakers: Benny Wenda, Paul Kingsnorth, Co-Director, Free West Papua Campaign
Date:
Thursday 9 March
Time:13:30
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: South Asia Studies
Sacred Elections: Perceptions of Democracy in West BengalSeminar Series
Speakers: Mukulika Banarjee, University College London
Date:
Tuesday 7 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: L.saez@lse.ac.uk
Book Launch: Meet Me in Mozambique
Meet Me in Mozambique spans three continents and a lifetime of travel and writing - from Montserrat to London to Uganda and of course Mozambique
Speakers: Acclaimed Caribbean writer E. A. Markham will entertain guests with readings and discussion from Meet Me in Mozambique
Date:
Monday 6 March
Time:14:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: info@tindalstreet.co.uk
Seminar: Caribbean Studies
"'Are we British Subjects or British Objects?' British West Indians in Cuba, 1900-1960".
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Prof. Robert Whitney, University of New Brunswick, (co-author with Graciella Chailloux Laffita, University of Havana)
Date:
Thursday 2 March
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Human Rights Lunchtime Seminar
The Global Accountability Project
Speakers: Monica Blagescu, One World trust
Date:
Thursday 2 March
Time:13:30
Venue:Lecture Theatre (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
February
Book Launch: South Asia Studies
Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism Seminar Series
Speakers: Lord Maghnad Desai, Katharine Adeney, University of Sheffield. Lawrence Saez, LSE
Date:
Friday 24 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: L.saez@lse.ac.uk
Careers Development Evening
the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights aims to synthesize a conceptual and legal understanding with the practice of human rights. Part of this objective is to practically equip our MA students to contribute to promoting and securing human rights in different career settings. It is within this context that each Spring Term we organise an annual Career’s Evening which offers our students the opportunity to benefit from the experiences of former MAs who have successfully navigated their own paths from study to work.
Speakers: Tamsin Alger (Amnesty International and Time Together),
Neil Clarke (Minority Rights Group International)
Date:
Thursday 23 February
Time:17:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar
The Modern Commonwealth on the World Stage
Speakers: Andrzej Polus, University of Wroclaw, Poland, ICwS PhD candidate, Bitish Council Young Scientist, fellow of EU Garnet Network
Date:
Thursday 23 February
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: A Talk by Kenyan Parliamentarian
Legislating for Good Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya Further details
Speakers: Hon Gerald Otieno Kajwang, MP.
Hon Kajwang is the Member of Parliament for Mbita Constituency at the shores of Lake Victoria, in Western Kenya, and the ruling NARC Party’s Parliamentary Group Secretary
Date:
Friday 17 February
Time:15:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar:Caribbean Studies
'Continuities and discontinuities in twentieth-century Suriname'.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Dr. Rosemarijn Hoefte, Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden
Date:
Thursday 16 February
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Writing the book of 'Jack Lang in the Great Depression', the London View
Speakers: Frank Cain (Australian Defence Force Academy)
Date:
Wednesday 15 February
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: International Consulting Economists' Association (ICEA)
The Turkish Economy and its Prospects: Preparing for the EU. Charges (incl. refreshments) Members - £4; Non-members - £10; Students - £2.50
Further details
Speakers: Fadi Hankura, specialist at Chatham House and founder of Conkura, a consultancy specialised on Turkey
Date:
Tuesday 14 February
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch/Roundtable: Caribbean Studies
Book Launch - Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relation, Sites of Identity
Speakers: Jean Besson, Goldsmiths. Karen Olwig, University of Copenhagen. Prof. Paul Thompson, Prof. Harry Goulbourne, London South Bank University and Prof. Gad Heuman, Warwick University
Date:
Wednesday 8 February
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa
"The Practical Imperialist: Letters from a Danish Planter in German East Africa, 1888 - 1906
SCOLMA website
Speakers: Prof. Jane Parpart (Dalhousie University, Canada. Research Fellow, LSE & ICS)
Date:
Tuesday 7 February
Time:12:30
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: bs24@soas.ac.uk
A residential conference at Cumberland Lodge and Goodenough College:
'Economic Development in the Commonwealth'
Venue: Cumberland Lodge , Windsor Great Park & Goodenough College, London Further details
Speakers: Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General , Sir Kieran Prendergast, former UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs
Date:
Wednesday 1 February - Friday 3 February
Time:09:00
Contact: daniel@goodenough.ac.uk
January
Seminar: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Sydney/ Global City
Speakers: Donald McNeill (KCL)
Date:
Wednesday 25 January
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar:Caribbean Studies
''The Anatomy of Cheddi Jagan's Marxism'.
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Prof. Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan
Date:
Thursday 19 January
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Clothing and Nakedness in Early Encounters Between Anthropologists, Missionaries and Aboriginal People of Central Australia
Speakers: Peggy Brock (Edith Cowan)
Date:
Wednesday 11 January
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: ICEA - The International Consulting Economists
Land Reform and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa - What can be done?
ICEA website
Speakers: Martin Adams
In attempting to find answers to the question posed for the seminar, he will in particular examine lessons emerging from East and Southern Africa.
Date:
Tuesday 10 January
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
December
Workshop: 'New Security'
Co-sponsors: Dalhousie University, Simon Fraser University, SSHRC, Roundtable and Human Security Study Group of Development Studies Association.
More Details
Speakers: Various.
Date:
Saturday 17 December - Sunday 18 December
Time:09:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: tim.shaw@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies and Monash University
'Australia's Racisms and anti-racism in the shadow of Islamic terrorism'.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Ghassan Hage
Date:
Wednesday 14 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Debate: Human Rights
'Free Trade versus Fair trade'
This meeting is organised to coincide with the WTO meeting in Hong Kong
Speakers: Bridget Burrows, CAFOD. Jeff Powell, Bretton Woods Project. Patricia Kabuleeta, Commonwealth Secreteriat. Brendan Vickers, formerly of the President's Office South Africa
Date:
Wednesday 14 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar:Caribbean Studies
"Between a rock and a hard place: The marginalisation of Caribbean interests in the international trading economy".
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Dr. Peter Clegg, School of Politics, University of the West England
Date:
Thursday 8 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Anthropology Room (ISA)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Was there a British World? : Commonwealth History and Canadian Studies
This will be followed by a book launch of Philip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis, eds., Rediscovering the British World (Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2005).
Programme
Seminar Series
Speakers: P.A. Buckner (ICS), Catherine Hall (UCL), Paul Ward (University of Huddersfield), Stuart Ward (University of Denmark).
Date:
Thursday 8 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: phillip@pbuckner.freeserve.co.uk
Reading Event: Australian Studies
Eden's publications number around fifty and include essays, journalism, fiction and poetry.
Speakers: Eden Liddelow
Date:
Wednesday 7 December
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: South Asia Studies
'Ethnicity and Constitution Design in Afghanistan'.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Katharine Adeney (University of Sheffield)
Date:
Monday 5 December
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: l.saez@lse.ac.uk
Reinventing Development conference: 'Lessons from a rights-based practice and its implications for policy and funding'
Organised by the Centre for International Human Rights - ICwS, in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice - Oxford Brookes University and International Council for Human Rights Policy.Funded in part by Canadian International Development Agency and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Registration: £40 ( for 3 days) £20 concession.
Further details and Provisional Programme
Report
Speakers: Various
Date:
Thursday 1 December - Saturday 3 December
Time:10:00
Contact: paul.gready@sas.ac.uk
November
Seminar: Australian Studies
'Catholic Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Australia'
Speakers: William Hatherall
Date:
Wednesday 30 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar/Book Launch:Caribbean Studies
'Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Columbia, 1770-1835'
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS
Speakers: Prof. Aline Helg, University of Geneva
Date:
Thursday 24 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Book Launch : Australian Studies
This event is to launch katherine's latest collection, a series of poems After Kandinsky.
Speakers: Katherine Gallagher
Date:
Wednesday 23 November
Time:18:00
Venue:Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies
'Religion and Memory in the Empire of the Mind'
Speakers: Hilary Carey
Date:
Wednesday 16 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@kcl.ac.uk
Seminar:Caribbean Studies
'Haiti: Free State or Failed State?'
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS
Speakers: Dr. Leslie Griffiths, London
Date:
Thursday 10 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Anthropology Room (ISA)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies
'Generations of Books: A Case Study of Domestic Reading in a Tasmanian Family'
Speakers: Pat Buckridge
Date:
Wednesday 9 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact: catherine.kevin@sas.ac.uk
Conference: Canadian Studies 'Separatism in Canada: Past, Present and Future'
programme
Speakers: See programme
Date:
Friday 4 November - Saturday 5 November
Time:09:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: philip@pbuckner.freeserve.co.uk
Lunchtime Seminar: Human Rights
'A Rights-Based Approach to Development: critical aspects of practices on the ground'
Room 21
Speakers: Bimal Kumar Phnuyal
Date:
Thursday 3 November
Time:13:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Reading Event : Australian Studies
David will read poetry from his new collection, Walking to Point Clear (2005), fiction from his collection of short stories, Black Sea (1997) and some other recent work
Speakers: David Brooks
Date:
Wednesday 2 November
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact: catherine.kevin@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: South Asia Studies
'Women in Indian Elections'
Seminar Series
Speakers: Wendy Hunter, Kenyon Cllege
Date:
Wednesday 2 November
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: l.saez@lse.ac.uk
October
Seminar:Caribbean Studies
'Maverick of Empire: Richard Madden and Caribbean Studies'
Co-sponsors ISA and ICS
Speakers: Alistair Hennessy, Liverpool
Date:
Thursday 27 October
Time:17:00
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: mary.turner@sas.ac.uk
Lunchtime Seminar: Human Rights
Amnesty International Activism Project
Room 21
Speakers: Brian Dooley, Project Co-ordinator, Amnesty
Date:
Thursday 27 October
Time:13:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
Seminar: Australian Studies
'One Hanson too Many: Pauline Hanson in Australian Academia'.
Seminar Series
Speakers: Binoy Kampmark
Date:
Wednesday 26 October
Time:17:15
Venue:Menzies & Hancock Rooms (ICwS)
Contact: catherine.kevin@sas.ac.uk
Lunchtime Seminar: Human Rights
'Women Organising against the War in Columbia'
More information
Speakers: Jackeline Rojas, Organizacion Femenina Popular
Date:
Wednesday 26 October
Time:13:30
Contact: mary.sanver@sas.ac.uk
