DOCTORAL CONFERENCE: Civil Society, State and Democratic Politics: Challenges and Opportunities
A Department of Politics conference |
Date | 12 June 2017 |
Time | 11:00 to 17:00 |
Place | Forum, seminar room 11 |
PROGRAMME:
11:00 – 12:30 PANEL 1: CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSES IN THE UK
1. Nick Kirsop-Taylor, Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute
Diversify, Specialize, Reform, Avoid, or Co-operate: Analysis of the Strategic Responses From Environmental Voluntary Sector Organisations Living under the shadow of austerity
2. Joshua Garland, Department of Politics
The Mobilisation of Anti-Fracking Campaigns: Experiences from the United Kingdom
3. Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Departement of Politics
The Impact of State benefits on Membership Involvement and Political Activities: A Study of Voluntary Membership Organizations in the UK
12:40- 14:10 PANEL 2: DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND REPRSENTATION
1.Nick Dickinson, Department of Politics
Independent Regulation of Political Actors: Symptom or Solution to the Problem of Public distrust in the ‘Political class’
2.Keith Sutherland, Department of Politics
Deliberation and Representation: Squaring the Circle
3.Andreas Karoutas, Department of Politics
(TBA)
14:50 – 15:50 PANEL 3: TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS
1. Gertjan Hoetjes, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Information Technology and Transnational Political Activism in the GCC states
2. Sidan Wang, Department of Politics
The Rise of China in the Global Governance of Climate Change
16:00-17:00 ACADEMIC CAREERS EVENT
“Life after a PhD: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask”
Talks by Director of Doctoral Studies prof. Duncan Russel and lecturer Dr. Irene Fernandez-Molina followed by a Q&A-session
Provider | Department of Politics |
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