Politics, Development & Human Rights Podcasts
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Gender, Ideology & the Political Economy of Austerity: The Mother War Continues...
Speaker(s): Roberta Guerrina (Politics, University of Surrey)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Maternal Texts and Subtexts
Speaker(s): Clare Hanson (English Literature, University of Southampton)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel Discussant
Speaker(s): Deborah Cameron (Linguistics, University of Oxford)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel General Discussion
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio (Italian Studies, University of Bath)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Introduction
Speaker(s): Gill Rye (French, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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The Maternal in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought
Speaker(s): Lisa Baraitser (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Swaziland: A Kingdom in crisis
Speaker(s): Polly Jones, International Officer, UNISON (Chair) Vincent Dlamini, National Organising Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland and Secretary General of Swaziland's National Public Services Union. Thobile Gwebu, Swaziland Vigil. Mark Beacon, Campaigns Manager, Action for Southern Africa.
Monday 30 April 2012
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Refugee Law Initiative Short Courses
Thursday 26 April 2012
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Peace Economics and Growth Economics
Speaker(s): Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America, The Latin American Centre, University of Oxford
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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Politics of Peace: Building the Post War State: An Overview
Speaker(s): Professor Jenny Pearce, Professor of Latin American Politics and Director of the International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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Q&A Session - Transition from War to Peace, Learning From El Salvador 1992-2012
Speaker(s): Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Dr Mo Hume, Professor Jenny Pearce and Ambassador Werner Matías Romero Closing remarks: Professor Kevin Middlebrook, Professor of Politics, Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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Social Peace: Poverty, Social Inclusion and Security: the Ongoing Challenges
Speaker(s): Dr Mo Hume, Lecturer on Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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Transition from War to Peace, Learning From El Salvador 1992-2012 - Opening Remarks
Speaker(s): Professor Kevin Middlebrook and Ambassador Werner Matías Romero of El Salvador
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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Indirect Rule - Right or Wrong? - Session One
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS); Mr John H Smith, CBE: Nigeria, Mr Simon Gillett: Bechuanaland/Botswana, Mr Godfrey Meynell, MBE: Aden Protectorate
Thursday 29 March 2012
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Indirect Rule - Right or Wrong? - Session Three
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS), Professor David Killingray (ICwS), Professor Simon C Smith (University of Hull), Dr Karl Hack (Open University)
Thursday 29 March 2012
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Indirect Rule - Right or Wrong? - Session Two
Speaker(s): Mr Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM: Uganda, Mr David Salmon: Northern Rhodesia, Mr Don Barton: Tanganyika
Thursday 29 March 2012
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Liberties and Empires: Writing Constitutions in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848
Speaker(s): Professor Linda Colley (Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University)
Wednesday 21 March 2012
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Dean's Seminar - As Western Governments squeeze public services, the BRICs expand them: new efforts to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, South Africa, India and China
Speaker(s): Professor James Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Professor of Commonwealth Studies
Wednesday 14 March 2012
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International Refugee Law Seminar Series: "Queer Cases, Great Law: The Fast-Developing Field of LGBTI Refugee Law"
Speaker(s): S. Chelvan, No5 Chambers
Tuesday 13 March 2012
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2012: The Falklands Issue Erupts Again
Speaker(s): Hal Klepak, Emeritus Professor of the Royal Canadian Military College, Professor Maxine Molyneux
Thursday 08 March 2012
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Dean's Seminar Preview - As Western Governments squeeze public services, the BRICs expand them
Speaker(s): Professor James Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Professor of Commonwealth Studies
Friday 02 March 2012
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Professor Philip Murphy talks about the Decolonization of the Commonwealth
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Friday 02 March 2012
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New Challenges in Refugee Integration: "Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something)"
Speaker(s): Professor Alastair Kenneth Ager, Columbia University, Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist and Author
Thursday 23 February 2012
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International Refugee Law Seminar Series: "The Supervision of International Refugee Law"
Speaker(s): Professor James C. Simeon, York University Toronto
Tuesday 21 February 2012
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Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts - Keynote Address
Speaker(s): (Chair: Peter Clegg) Professor Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Jamaica (Chair: Peter Clegg) Professor Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Friday 10 February 2012
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Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts - Opening Address
Speaker(s): (Chair: Kate Quinn) H.E. Anthony Johnson, Jamaican High Commissioner in London
Friday 10 February 2012
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Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts - Panel One
Speaker(s): (Chair: Derek O'Brien) Andrew Okola: Jamaica Jubilee: A Time for Renewed Nationalism. Steven Wilson: Jamaica and Caribbean Integration: Did One from Ten leave Nought?
Friday 10 February 2012
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Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts - Panel Three
Speaker(s): (Chair: Bill Schwarz) David Howard: Informality, security and neighbourhood development in downtown Kingston David Dodman: Caribbean environments in the post-colonial era: resources, risk(s) and responses
Friday 10 February 2012
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Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts - Panel Two
Speaker(s): (Chair: Derek O'Brien) Amanda Sives: Reconstructing Citizenship: From Empire to Nation to Diaspora
Friday 10 February 2012
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The Enigma of Liberalism in Imperial Brazil
Speaker(s): Dr. Roderick J. Barman (University of British Columbia)
Friday 10 February 2012
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Decriminalising Homosexuality In The Caribbean: The Belize Case In Commonwealth Perspective And Beyond
Speaker(s): Lord Goldsmith QC of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, former UK Attorney General, leads the legal team representing the Human Dignity Trust, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, and the International Commission of Jurists in the UNIBAM case.
Friday 03 February 2012
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Debate: Is the United States of America in Decline?
Speaker(s): Dr Adam Quinn (Birmingham) and Professor Iwan Morgan (ISA) will be arguing the case for decline. Professor Mick Cox (LSE) and Dr Nick Kitchen (LSE) will be arguing the case against decline
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America Seminar Series: Biodiversity Conservation in Estancia La Esperanza, Patagonia
Speaker(s): Guillermo Harris, President, Fundación Patagonia Natural (FPN)
Tuesday 31 January 2012
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International Refugee Law Seminar Series: "Comparative approaches to the use of international human rights law in asylum cases in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States"
Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Meili, University of Minnesota
Tuesday 31 January 2012
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New Challenges in Refugee Integration - "Changing Identities, declining protection: the securitisation of asylum and refugee policy in Europe"
Speaker(s): Speaker: Professor Roger Zetter.
Thursday 26 January 2012
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Old wine in a new bottle? Democratisation lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq in the Arab Spring's Libya
Speaker(s): Iwan Morgan (Professor of United States Studies, ISA) and includes David Chandler (Professor of International Relations, Westminster University), Adam Quinn (Lecturer in International Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Birmingham University) and Matthew Alan Hill (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ISA)
Thursday 19 January 2012
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Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction - Summary by Dr Matthew Alan Hill
Speaker(s): Dr Matthew Alan Hill
Friday 13 January 2012
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Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Monarchy and the Commonwealth Preview
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy
Thursday 12 January 2012
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Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Monarchy and the Commonwealth - Opening Event
Speaker(s): Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy, Professor Philip Murphy, Professor Geoffrey Crossick and Professor Roger Kain
Wednesday 11 January 2012
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II: A Personal Memoir by Two of the First African-American military pilots
Speaker(s): Le Roy Gillead, Alexander Jefferson, Ronald Spriggs, Rodney Gillead
Tuesday 10 January 2012
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International Refugee Law seminar series - "The Right to Asylum in EU Law"
Speaker(s): Raza Husain, Barrister, Matrix Chambers
Wednesday 07 December 2011
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New Challenges in Refugee Integration - "Refugee Centred Versus State Centred Approaches to Integration: Processes, Practices and Narratives"
Speaker(s): Dr Maja Korac-Anderson and Dhananjayan Sriskandarjah
Wednesday 30 November 2011
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An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Speaker(s): Robin Blackburn (Essex), Adam Smith (UCL)
Thursday 24 November 2011
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Theodore Roosevelt: The First Modern President
Speaker(s): Douglas Eden
Thursday 24 November 2011
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The importance of Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas – the New Zealand experience (mp3)
Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Gardner; Professor Bob Watson FRS, DEFRA Chief Science Advisor
Tuesday 22 November 2011
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Transitional Justice in Colombia and the Victims and Land Restitution Law
Speaker(s): Edwin Rubio Medina, President, Asociacion Colombiana de Abogados Defensores ‘Eduardo Umana Mendoza’ ACADEUM
Monday 14 November 2011
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A Dangerous Business: Advocating against environmental degradation and land rights violations - Intro
Speaker(s): James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Monday 31 October 2011
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A Dangerous Business: Panel 1 - Risks and Protection needs of human rights defenders (HRDs) working on Environmental Degradation and Land Rights
Speaker(s): Moderator: Jonathan Glennie (Overseas Development Institute), Christine Jones (Peace Brigades International), Wilfrido Mayrén Pelaez (Mexican Human Rights Defender), Jorge Molano (Colombian Human rights lawyer)
Monday 31 October 2011
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A Dangerous Business: Panel 2 - Case Studies on the impact of multinational enterprises on indigenous and traditional farming communities and their advocates
Speaker(s): Moderator: Mauricio Lazala (Business and Human Rights Resource Centre), Lucy Claridge (Minority Rights Group), Jon Samuel (Anglo American), Shanta Martin (Leigh Day & Co.), Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network)
Monday 31 October 2011
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A Dangerous Business: Pannel 3 - International Mechanisms to protect communities and human rights defenders working on environmental degradation and land rights
Speaker(s): Moderator: Ingrid Gubbay (Hausfeld LLP), Peter Frankental (Amnesty International), Tricia Feeney (RAID), Sheldon Leader (Director, Essex Business & Human Rights Project), Andie Lambe (Global Witness)
Monday 31 October 2011
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The Liberal Traditions in the Americas
Speaker(s): Gregory J. Grandin, New York University
Monday 31 October 2011
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New Challenges in Refugee Integration seminar series: "Authority and Inclusion: Reconsidering the Meaning of Integration in a Fragmented Age"
Speaker(s): Professor Loren B Landau, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Wednesday 26 October 2011
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Legacies of the New Deal
Speaker(s): Alan Brinkley
Thursday 06 October 2011
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Economic Development in the British Commonwealth before and after Independence. Session Four: Round–up and Conclusions
Speaker(s): Speakers - Mr Alistair Boyd; Mr Barrie Ireton; Chair: Professor Philip Murphy
Thursday 29 September 2011
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Economic Development in the British Commonwealth before and after Independence. Session One: The View from the Field – examples from Africa
Speaker(s): Speakers - Mr John Smith; Mr Peter McLean; Mr Charles Cullimore; Dr Jonathan Lawley; Chair: Professor Paul Collier, CBE
Thursday 29 September 2011
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Economic Development in the British Commonwealth before and after Independence. Session Three: Issues and Policies before and after Independence (continued)
Speaker(s): Speakers - Professor Jonathan Kydd; Dr Patrick Spread; Mr Derek Smith; Dr Nick White; Chair: Sir Peter Marshall
Thursday 29 September 2011
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Economic Development in the British Commonwealth before and after Independence. Session Two: Issues and Policies before and after Independence
Speaker(s): Speakers - Mr Gordon Bridger; Mr Stuart Harbinson; Mr Stuart Harbinson; Chair: Sir Peter Marshall
Thursday 29 September 2011
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Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams & The Making of Trinidad & Tobago - Panel 1: Dissecting the Man and the Myth
Speaker(s): Paul Sutton, Hull University; Selwyn Ryan, University of the West Indies; Colin Palmer, Schomburg Center
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams & the Making of Trinidad & Tobago - Panel 2: Politics & Ethnicity
Speaker(s): Prof. Colin Clarke, Oxford University, Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies; Humberto Garcia Muniz, University of Puerto Rico
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams & the Making of Trinidad & Tobago - Panel 3: Politics & National Culture
Speaker(s): Teruyuki Tsuji, Kwansei Gakuin University; Jacqueline Nunes, London School of Economics
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams & the Making of Trinidad & Tobago - Panel 4: Personal Reflections on Political Times
Speaker(s): Raoul Pantin, journalist and writer, Trinidad and Tobago
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams & the Making of Trinidad & Tobago - Panel 5: Legacies of the Williams Era
Speaker(s): Matthew Bishop, University of the West Indies
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights: Study Tour to Geneva
Speaker(s): Dr David Cantor
Friday 09 September 2011
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire - "Session II: Reviewing the Past"
Speaker(s): Dr Benjamin Zachariah, University of Sheffield, Ludo De Witte, Brussels, Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC, diplomat, historian and former British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Friday 02 September 2011
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire - "Session III: Oral and Documentary Historical Sources"
Speaker(s): Declan Power
Friday 02 September 2011
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire - "Session IV: The United Nations and the Legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld"
Speaker(s): James-Emmanuel Wanki, Professor Manuel Fröhlich, Dr Henning Melber,
Friday 02 September 2011
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire-"Session I: Global Power Shifts"
Speaker(s): Professor Wm. Roger Louis, CBE,University of Texas, Dr Asahiko Hanzawa,Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Professor David Anderson, Oxford
Friday 02 September 2011
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire-"Welcome and Introduction"
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Dr Henning Melber, Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, David Wardrop, Chairman, United Nations Association, Westminster Branch
Friday 02 September 2011
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Inaugural Peter Lyon Lecture: The Commonwealth - A Global Network for the 21st Century
Speaker(s): Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford, Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Wednesday 09 March 2011
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Inaugural Lecture: Britain and the Commonwealth: Confronting the Past - Imagining the Future
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Wednesday 23 February 2011
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Dean's Seminar: Web-site of memory: the war of the Pacific (1879-1884) in the global age of YouTube
Speaker(s): Dr Paulo Drinot, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Wednesday 15 December 2010
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Chacaracual Community Conservation Area, Margarita Island: integration of biodiversity conservation with community development
Wednesday 08 December 2010
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An Audience with Louise Arbour
Speaker(s): Louise Arbour
Thursday 02 December 2010
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The emergence of new Englishes: roots and routes
Speaker(s): Professor John Harris, UCL
Wednesday 12 May 2010
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Policing and the Policed in the Postcolonial State Session 1
Thursday 29 April 2010
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Policing and the Policed in the Postcolonial State Session 6
Thursday 29 April 2010
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Climate Change and Development in Latin America Part 1
Friday 19 March 2010
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Climate Change and Development in Latin America Part 2
Friday 19 March 2010
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Local Communities and Biodiversity Conservation
Friday 12 March 2010
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Dean's Seminar - The House of Windsor and the Modern Commonwealth
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Wednesday 27 January 2010
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Deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco: an ecological disaster?
Wednesday 18 November 2009
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Dean's Seminar - Argentina and the Inter-American Human Rights System
Speaker(s): Dr Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights, Human Rights Consortium
Wednesday 11 November 2009
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Dean's Seminar - 'Worker Rights and the NAFTA Labour Institutions: Free Trade, Social Justice and North American Integration'
Speaker(s): Dr Kevin J. Middlebrook from the Institute for the Study of the Americas. Chaired by the Dean, Professor Roderick Floud
Wednesday 13 May 2009