Lee Jarvis publishes article with influential think tank
Lee Jarvis has published a new article with the influential think tank RUSI.
The piece, ‘Speaking of Terrorism: Gordon Brown’s War of Words’, forms part of a special issue of RUSI’s Monitor dedicated to counter-terrorism.
In the article, Lee critically explores the current British government’s use of language in relation to terrorism specifically, and security more broadly.
15 February 2010
Dr. Jonathan Bradbury co-convenes the UK PSA Territorial Politics conference
Dr. Jonathan Bradbury co-convened the UK PSA Territorial Politics conference, held at Oxford University on 7-8 January.
This is a biennial conference that brings together leading scholars and policy makers on territorial government, politics and devolution. On this occasion the conference was held at Oxford University Social Science Building and Merton College.
The conference was attended by senior officials from the Treasury, Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government.
27 January 2010
Dr Mark Evans gives paper on the work of Rex Martin
Dr Mark Evans gave a paper on “Rights, Recognition and Moral Critique: The “Reality” of Rights” at a conference organised by the Cardiff School of European Studies in association with the British Idealism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the UK, 19-20 November 2009.
His paper focussed on the work of Professor Rex Martin, formerly of the Department of Political Theory and Government (now incorporated into the Department of Political and Cultural Studies).
Professor Martin has recently retired from the Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas.
27 January 2010
Dr. Lee Jarvis delivers the Sir John Gray memorial lecture
Dr Lee Jarvis was recently invited to deliver the Sir John Gray memorial lecture to the Llanelli branch of the Workers' Educational Association.
Lee's talk - "Afghanistan: Pasts, Presents and Futures" examined the origins, contours and future prospects of the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan.
The lecture took place at Llanelli Town Hall, with an audience which included residents of Llanelli and local dignitaries.
12 October 2009
Dr Mark Evans gives paper to the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik in Croatia
Dr Mark Evans was invited to give a lecture at an international conference on “Philosophy and Democracy/Democracy and Education”, held at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia on 31 August - 4 September 2009.
The event was devoted to themes from John Dewey’s Democracy and Education and Dr Evans spoke on “Education and the Ethics of Democratic Character”, arguing that although democratic education seeks to promote a richly varied character-ideal among the citizens of tomorrow, many current theories and practices of education are systematically distorting it even while still paying lip-service to it. The full text of the lecture will shortly appear in Synthesis Philosophica, the journal of the Croatian Philosophical Association.
The conference was the latest in a series of collaborative events in which Dr Evans has participated with colleagues from Slovenia and Croatia with whom he also worked in the organisation of a conference on “Freedom and Democracy: European Perceptions, European Perspectives”, held at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia on December 4-6 2008.
The plenary lecture he delivered at this conference has just been translated and published in the Slovenian journal Poligrafi; the original English-language version is available here:
26 September 2009
Mark Evans speaks to Congress of the European Peace Research Association
Dr. Mark Evans was a plenary speaker in the opening session of the 6th Bi-Annual Congress of the European Peace Research Association, “European Peace Architecture: Integration, Engagement and Cooperation”, which was held at the European University of Tirana in Albania on 23-25 July 2009.
He gave a presentation on “ ‘Just War’ as the War To End All Wars, or: Why Just War Theory Should Stand For Its Own (Ultimate) Redundancy”, in which he argued that just war theory should embrace the morality and practice of peacebuilding much concertedly than it has hitherto done.
His contribution to the Congress is the latest stage of his work on the theory of jus post bellum – justice in the ending and aftermath of war. The most recent publication resulting from this research, “Moral Responsibilities and the Conflicting Demands of Jus Post Bellum” has just been published in the Carnegie Council’s flagship journal Ethics and International Affairs (summer 2009), having been selected from the contributions to a workshop in which Dr Evans participated on “The Ethics of Postconflict Reconstruction and Statebuilding”, organised by the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University in June 2008.
11 August 2009
Alan Finlayson publishes article on financialisation
Dr Alan Finlayson has published an article in the August 2009 edition of British Journal of Politics and International Relations. The article, entitled 'Financialisation, Financial Literacy and Asset-Based Welfare', critically examines New Labour's policies of asset-based welfare.
3 August 2009
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