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SEMINAR SERIES 2012-2013 Autumn Term Thursday 4 October (week 1) 2 - 4pm Room 5S.4.4 'The Transformation of duties: from individuals to States and Back Again' Stephanie Collins, School of Philosophy, Australian National University Tuesday 9 October (week 2), 11am-1pm. Room 5S.4.11 'The Descendants: Changing Identity to Rectify Injustice' Zofia Stemploska, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Tuesday 23 October (week 4), 11am-1pm. Room 5S.4.11 'Making Utopia Realistic: Moral Failure, Stability and Human Nature' Jeffery Howard, Department of Government, University of Essex Tuesday 6 November (week 6), 11am-1pm. Room 5S.4.11 'What happens when you have to choose between two competing human rights' Sheldon Leader, School of Law, University of Essex Thursday 15 November (week 7), 5-7pm Room 4.722 (Senate Room) Distinguished Lecture 'Economentality: How the Future Entered Government' Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Thursday 22 November (week 8), 1-3pm. Room 6.106 'Why Human Rights Cannot be Grounded in Interests, However Important Saladin Meckled-Garcia, Department of Political Science, UCL (Refreshment Provided at all Seminars) ..................................................................................................................................... PREVIOUS EVENTS 2011-2012 Summer Term Thursday 26 April (week 30) 1.15 - 3pm Ivor Crewe Seminar Room 'Headscarves and Turbans: Politics and Religion at the European Court of Human Rights' Lasse Thomassen, School of Politics & International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London (tea/coffee from 1pm) Thursday 24 May (week 34) 5-7pm Room 4.722 (Senate Room) Distinguished Lecture 'Practices, Governance, and Sustainability' Ted Schatzki, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky (Refreshments on arrival) ..................................................................................................................................... 2011-2012 Spring Term Thursday 19 January (week 16) 5pm LTB 5 'Euvoluntary Exchange and the Problem of Distribution' Mike Munger, Department of Political Science, Duke University Event hosted by the Department of Government Thursday 26 January (week 17) 1.15-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'Egalitarian Theories of Religious Freedom: A Sympathetic Critique' Cecile Laborde, Department of Political Science, University College London Event hosted by the Department of Government Friday 3 February (week 18) 9.30-4pm Room 5S.4.9 The Prospects for Sustainable Aviation in the UK: Evaluating, Negotiating and Mediating between Competing Perspectives’ Workshop: The role of Campaigning and Protest Speakers Include: Lucy Budd, Loughborough University Steven Griggs, De Montfort University David Howarth, University of Essex Thursday 9 February (week 19) 1.15-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'Realism and the Left: Social Democracy Beyond Social Justice' Marc Stears, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Event Jointly Organised with the Department of Government Thursday 16 February (week 20) 1-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'What is Politics? Conceptual Disputes over the Past Century' Michael Freeden, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Thursday 23 February (week 21) 1.15-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'Doing more than one's fair share' Zofia Stemplowska, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick Event hosted by the Department of Government Thursday 8 March, (week 23) 1-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'Indigenous Peoples and the Development of New Paradigms in the Theory and Practice of National Self Determination and Sovereignty' Ephriam Nimni, School of Politics International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University, Belfast Thursday 15 March, (week 24) 1.15-3pm Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room 'Ending Wars' Cecile Farbre, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Event hosted by the Department of Government