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UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
School of International Relations
Complete Events listing
Candlemas Semester - 2015
There follows a complete events listing for the school for this semester. For clarification of any given
event, please contact the relevant Centre Director, or in the case of school events, Nick Rengger.
CSTPV Seminar
29 January 2015
5pm, Seminar Room 4, New Arts Building
Seminar on British Counter-Insurgency
Speakers:
• Edward Burke (St Andrews): 'British Army orientation and motivation in Northern Ireland:
The case of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1971-1973'
• Sigbjorn Halsne (Glasgow): 'British counter-insurgency operations in Helmand 2006-10'
Discussant:
• Professor Peter Jackson (Glasgow)
School of IR Research Seminar
2 February
5 pm, Arts Lecture Theatre
Dr Bernadette Buckley (Goldsmiths)
Narrative Action: Art, Politics and the Struggle for Imagination
MECACS Seminar
5 February
School I, United College, in St Salvators Quad, at 4.30pm
Professor David Cobham (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
‘Economic features of the Arab spring'
MECACS Seminar
10 February
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Middle East Study Trip presentation
Chair: Dr Francesco Belcastro
CPCS Seminar
5pm Tuesday 10 February
Arts Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Joseph Mutaboba,
Special Joint Representative of the UN Secretary General and the AU President of
the Commission in Darfur and Deputy Head of UNAMID (2013- 2014)
‘ Negotiating Peace: Leading UN Missions to the GLR, Somalia, Kenya, Guinea Bissau and Darfur’
MECACS Seminar
17 February
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Dr Simon Mabon (Lancaster University)
‘Iran, Saudi and the Archipelago, or, the End of the Battle of Bahrain?’
MECACS Seminar
3 March
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Prof Elena Marushiakova-Popova, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of History
‘Gypsies (Rom, Dom and Lom) in the Caucasus’
MECACS Seminar
31 March
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Central Asia Study Trip Presentation
Chair: Prof. Rick Fawn
The Annual Mark Imber Lecture in International Institutionalization
3 April
5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre
Professor Ian Hurd (Northwestern)
‘International Rule of Law: Concept and Practice’.
MECACS Seminar
7 April
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Professor Tony Allen (King’s College London and SOAS London)
‘Water and food security in the MECAC regions’
School of International Relations/School of History Seminar
11 April
10.00am-16.00 pm, Parliament Hall
A.J.P. TAYLOR’S THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE: 60 YEARS ON
Speakers will include Michael Bentley, David Hayton, Richard English, Caroline
Kennedy, Adam Sisman and Hew Strachan.
MECACS Seminar
14 April
Seminar Room 1, New Arts Building, 4pm
Dr Toby Matthieson (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
‘The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism’
The Annual Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture
16 April
5pm, School III, St Salvator’s Quad
‘Why Terrorists Weep: Socio-Cultural Practices in the Militant Underground’
Speaker: Dr Thomas Hegghammer (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI))
MECACS Seminar
Friday 17 April 10 am,
School III (St Salvators Quad) NB: time & location
Craig Oliphant OBE, Senior Adviser, Saferworld and the Council of Europe; previously UK FCO, NATO
and HCNM/OSCE.
‘Protracted Conflicts in the South Caucasus: the practical challenges & opportunities around conflict
prevention work and constraints on broader peacebuilding’
CPCS Lecture
Monday 27 April 2015 5.45pm
Daniel Goldhagen, Andrew Carnegie Lecture:
‘The Devil That Never Dies’
Followed by book signing
Buchanan lecture theatre
CPCS Workshop
Tuesday 28 April 2015
10.00am Daniel Goldhagen workshop with PG IR students (venue tbc)
4.00pm Public Film Screening in School III: ‘Worse than War’.
Followed by Question and Answer session with Daniel Goldhagen
School of International Relations Workshop
1st and 2nd May
School of International Relations
International Political Theology: International Relations as Theopolitical Discourse
St Andrews Senior Scholar Symposium
4-6 May
Arts Lecture Theatre
Professor James Der Derian (Sydney) Keynote lecture 5 May
Workshop of The Work of James Der Derian 6 May
Inaugural Lecture
Wednesday 6th May 5pm
‘Is there a global constitution?’
Professor Anthony Lang
Venue to be confirmed
CSTPV Lecture
7 May
5pm, School III, St Salvator’s Quad
‘Why Muslim Integration Fails: An Inquiry in Christian-Heritage Societies’
Speaker: Professor David Laitin (Stanford University)
CSTPV Workshop
8 May
10am, Saunders Room, Old Union Building
Professor David Laitin (Stanford University)
The Third Annual Graduate Conference
in International Political Theory
28th and 29th May
School of International Relations
Keynote speaker: Professor John Dunn (Kings, Cambridge).
School of International Relations Workshop
Co-sponsored with the Centre for Cultural Relations, University of Edinburgh
4th – 5th June
Parliament Hall
‘Independence in an Interdependent and Multicultural World’
For further information please contact Professor Karin Fierke