Items - School of Politics and International Relations

Research Seminar: The Political ‘Development of Europe: States, institutions and Europe's defence deficit’.

19 March 2014

The 2012 French Presidential and Parliamentary Elections

24 May 2012

The Arab uprisings six years on: rethinking the EU's role

9 March 2017

‘African Awakenings? Interpreting contemporary African protest’ - Panel Event

19 July 2012

Is there a future for the Eurozone?

27 March 2012

Research Seminar: The Syrian civil war and changing power in the Middle East’

26 October 2016

Development and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Liberal Governance?

31 January 2017

Chris Woods: Britain’s path to drone assassination

1 December 2015

Book Launch: The Local Politics of the Global Security Interventions

24 November 2015

Book Launch: The Battle for Syria

13 October 2016

Theory LAB Reading Group | Beyond the Positivity of the Social: Antagonisms and Hegemony

19 November 2015

Workshop: Ontology of Sense and Difference: Deleuze’s philosophy as method for political analysis

11 November 2015

Research Seminar: Gender and Modernity

8 March 2017

University of London Institute in Paris: Challenging Europe Seminar Series

4 February 2016

QMUL Postgraduate Research Open Evening

23 November 2015

2nd Conference in Critical Migration and Border Studies: Keynote Lecture 1, 'Race, Mobility, Europe'

1 September 2015

Security, Development and the Political in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Liberal Governance?

17 January 2017

Theory Lab Reading Group: Re-reading Orientalism 1

17 November 2016

The British General Election | Book Launch with the Mile End Institute

9 February 2016

Leaving the EU via the backdoor? The UK and the Employment Strategy

10 March 2015

Research Seminar: A History of Violence - Typologizing Militarism from Westaphalia to the Post-American World

23 March 2016

Every Cook Can Govern: Life, impact and works of CLR James

26 October 2016

2nd Conference in Critical Migration and Border Studies: Keynote Lecture 2, 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose! Challenging the Worker Citizen'

2 September 2015

Research Seminar: Dirty Gold: How Activism Transformed the Jewellery Industry

24 May 2017

CER Seminar: Welfare governance, non-state actors and resistance to outsourcing in Russia

7 February 2017

CER Seminar: Poverty and the reconfiguration of the social. The case of food banks in Germany’

6 December 2016

CER Research Seminar | Whatever happened to Social Europe?

9 March 2016

Research Seminar: Why the locals cannot own international interventions

15 March 2017

Research Seminar: Gender and Ministerial Careers in Westminster Countries

10 May 2017

Research Seminar: Brexit and the Politics of Truth

7 December 2016

Perils of politicization: Adding the perspective of public officials to the study of bureaucracy and corruption in post-communist Europe

25 March 2015

Sir Nigel Sheinwald Lecture 'What the 2012 US election will mean for the UK'

27 September 2012

Picturing the International: why the anarchy model still rules in IR

4 February 2015

Film Screening: My Perestroika

13 December 2016

Research Seminar: Political Theory and Conceptual History: An Underdeveloped Relationship

10 February 2016

Theory Lab Reading Group: Re-reading Orientalism 4

8 December 2016

Research Seminar: Collective security and its infra-law

9 December 2015

CER Seminar: The Italian Constitutional Reform: What Implications for Italy and the EU

24 January 2017

Podemos and the Future of Spanish Politics

13 January 2016

Massimo Modonesi: The End of Progressive Hegemony: Regressive Turn in the Passive Revolutions of Latin America

2 December 2015

Research Seminar: When was "the West" invented and why?

9 March 2016

The Micropolitics of the Drives

18 February 2015

Professor Adam Fagan's Inaugural Lecture | Observing post-communist Europe for 25 years

9 November 2016

Theory LAB Reading Group | Hegemony: The Difficult Emergence of a New Political Logic

5 November 2015

Re-Imagining a Politics of Life: From Governance of Order to Politics Of Movement

4 March 2015

Research Seminar: In Search of (Post-)Positivism's Banished Object: Critiquing the Retreat to Subjectivism

14 December 2016

Virtual Q and A | Prospective Undergraduate Students

22 April 2016

CER Seminar: Brexit – Its implications and consequences for the UK, Europe and beyond

30 November 2016

Research Seminar: As one door closes another opens: rights and resistance in the new terrain of international law

21 October 2015

Working in Political Risk

1 November 2012

CER Seminar: EU health policy in the post-crisis period: explaining new levers of Europeanization

7 March 2017

Research Seminar: Return of the Generals - The New Militarism in Africa

8 February 2017

The Corporate Security Development Nexus: Assembling Security in the Post-Political Age

10 March 2015

Research Seminar: The EU's sovereign debt crisis: classic intergovernmental bargaining or creeping fiscal federalism?

2 December 2015

Theory Lab Reading Group: Re-reading Orientalism 5

15 December 2016

Research Seminar: Doing International Politics. Performative Methods

3 May 2017

Research Seminar: Naming the dead and the politics of the human

25 January 2017

Research Seminar: The Far Right as a Pathology of Capital

1 April 2015

Research Seminar: The transformative experience of holding political office - why the decision to run cannot be made rationally

4 March 2015

Research Seminar: 'Overcoming myopia: Designing democratic institutions for the long-term'

14 January 2015

Research Seminar: What sort of candidates do UK party members want to see - and how would they like to select them?

23 November 2016

TheoryLab Workshop: Discourse Theory and the ‘Essex School’ Research

28 April 2016

Research Seminar: Refugee Protection and “Moral Trade”

29 March 2017

Research Seminar: Gender and Cabinet Recruitment in Comparative Perspective

17 February 2016

Research Seminar: US altercasting vs Iranian national role conceptions: A role-theoretical analysis of Iran’s emergence as a revolutionary state

1 March 2017

Mexico's Crisis: State Violence and Human Rights

6 March 2015

Research Seminar: Rethinking the EU

27 January 2016

Research Seminar: 2nd Roundtable on Fracturing IR: ‘Is neoliberalism a useful category for understanding world politics today?

16 November 2016

Research Seminar: Old and New Slavery

28 January 2015

Research Seminar: Representing Men's Interests and Male Intersectionality

18 November 2015

Research Seminar: Alternative modes of political participation: From 38 Degrees to Mumsnet

25 November 2015

Research Seminar: Reluctant donors? The International development policies of Central and Eastern European EU countries

2 November 2016

Research Seminar: Anti-Colonialism and the Liberal Project

18 March 2015

Research Seminar: The Aims and Method of Liberal Education: Notes from a Nineteenth Century Pan-Africanist

3 February 2016

CER Seminar: The Russian Parliamentary Elections: What do they tell us about the Putin regime?

31 January 2017

Research Seminar: The Labor Theory of Value as a Capitalist Myth; Or, Stories that Capitalist Societies Tell Themselves’

30 March 2016

Left-Wing Populism in Europe?

26 February 2015

Participation in EU policy-making and European identity

17 February 2015

Research Seminar: Collective Memories in Contemporary Bolivia

11 March 2015

Research Seminar: The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism

22 March 2017

CER Seminar: Populist Emergence: An Explanation By Mechanisms in European and Latin American Comparative Perspective

23 November 2016

Theory Lab Reading Group: Re-reading Orientalism 3

1 December 2016

Research Seminar: Revolutions, Non-Violence and the Arab Uprisings?

14 October 2015

Research Seminar: Problematizing neoliberal governmentality: resisting urban regeneration in post-Olympics Rio

18 January 2017

The shape of things to come? reflections on the causalities, casualties and implications of the Greek crisis

2 March 2015

Research Seminar: The Aesthetic Challenge in IR

1 February 2017

Research Seminar: PILI Film Screening

19 October 2016

Virtual Q and A | QMUL School of Politics and International Relations

17 December 2015

Theory Lab Reading Group: Re-reading Orientalism 2

24 November 2016

Politics Teachers' Conference 2016

23 June 2016

Research Seminar: Republican Transnationalism: Reframing the Political Theory of Migration

20 January 2016

Mainstreaming the EU’s horizontal agendas: expert or participatory governance?

17 March 2015

Research Seminar: Toleration, Free Speech, and Charlie Hebdo: Seventeenth Century Thoughts on a Twenty-First Century Problem

28 October 2015

CER Seminar: EU Social Policy, Europe 2020, and Economic Governance

17 January 2017

Research Seminar: Decoloniality, IR, and early 20th Century German-Jewish Anarchism’

13 January 2016

Workshop | Perspectives on the Right

11 September 2015

Book Launch; Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies

26 November 2013

Russia and its "diasporas" in the Post-Soviet Space

27 January 2015

Discourse Theory and Psycholanalysis as Methods for Political Analysis

18 February 2015

Research Seminar: 1st Roundtable on Fracturing IR: ‘Globality today! What do you mean? Or, how to tell a coherent story — or, not — about global politics

12 October 2016

The EU Referendum: What would 'Out' look like?

24 May 2016

Fragmenting Spaces of the International and the Critique of Globality

11 March 2015

Theory LAB Reading Group | Hegemony and Radical Democracy

3 December 2015

The Politics of Poststructuralism Today

17 April 2015

Sortition and the Consolidation of Democracy

10 October 2013

CER Seminar: Does Negative Campaigning work? Some evidence from the UK’s EU referendum

1 November 2016

Ethics and World Politics Seminar Series

16 January 2017

Research Seminar: Colonialism and the Liberal Tradition

15 February 2017

Research Seminar: The Racialisation of Military Ethics in Israel

31 May 2017

Research Seminar: State Transformation and Rising Powers: The Case of China

7 October 2015

Research Seminar: When war is oikonomia by other means

30 November 2016

Research Seminar: Britain is not neoliberal: what we were and what we are and why left-wing pessimism is (largely) unfounded

30 September 2015

Research Seminar: Fracturing globalities: the everyday in IR

2 March 2016

Research Seminar: Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Redefining Politics and Resistance through Power

16 December 2015

Poverty and Welfare in Contemporary Russia

3 June 2015

Challenging the Norm: EU's Eastern Enlargement and Normative Change in LGBT Politics

10 February 2015

TheoryLAB Masterclass: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Today

19 March 2016

Research Seminar: Are Appeals to Human Rights an Effective Framing for Feminist 'Pro-Choice' Demands in Chile?

11 February 2015

Careers After Politics

4 October 2012

The Power of Political Networks: Modelling Industry Lobbying in the UK Banking Reform Process

21 April 2015

CER Seminar: The European Commission: the constraints of the EU executive

28 February 2017

CER Seminar: The European radical left after the Great Recession: The missing great leap forward?

15 February 2017

Fighting corruption in the Western Balkans: The role of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA)

5 June 2015

Research Seminar: Hamas and the EU after the Palestinian Elections: the duress of performative security

10 May 2017

Post-election breakfast briefing from Queen Mary University of London

11 May 2015

Book Launch and Discussion

12 November 2012

Theory LAB Reading Group | Hegemony: The Genealogy of a Concept

8 October 2015

Pedagogies of Political Violence Workshop

13 November 2015

Workshop on Political Economy, State Transformation and the New Security Agenda

7 March 2013

Centre for European Research: Seminar

29 October 2014

Scotland's Independence Referendum 2014: what does it mean for politics in the UK

14 October 2014

Politics Film Club - The Lives of Others

6 March 2013

Book Launch: The Politics of English Nationhood

25 March 2014

Middle East Movie Night 2: A Separation

30 October 2013

Open Lecture: Engaging with Legislation

21 November 2013

Research seminar - Activist journeys through the English Defence League

30 January 2013

SPIR June 27 and June 28 Taster Days

27 June 2013

Research seminar - Marx and Democracy

24 October 2012

Book Launch: Understanding American Power

5 December 2013

Research Seminar with Professor Stephen White

30 January 2013

TheoryLAB Reading Group - Session Three

5 March 2014

Publication Launch

25 October 2012

Middle East Movie Night 3 - Turtles Can Fly

20 November 2013

Middle East Movie Night - Caramel

20 March 2013

The politics of Migration Policy Instruments: insights from EU external relations

2 October 2013

Britain’s Role in a Reformed Europe

28 April 2014

Open Lecture: Cinzia Arruzza on Social Reproduction Feminism

30 January 2014

School of Politics and International Relations Campus Visit

12 June 2012

Property, Dominium and Self-Ownership: The Third Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

14 May 2012

Leadership in Global Health Governance workshop

16 January 2013

International Seminar Series – Identity, Alterity, Monstrosity 2

26 March 2014

International Seminar Series – Identity, Alterity, Monstrosity 3

14 May 2014

Mile End Group Event - Coalition Policy-Making

6 November 2012

Populism, Anti-Populism and Crisis: Post-Democratic Europe and its Discontents

3 December 2014

One Nation Labour Conference

18 April 2013

The Inaugural George Lansbury Memorial Lecture

7 November 2013

Book Launch - Centre for European Research

19 March 2013

Democracy under stress - Populism, extremism and the mainstream

21 March 2013

Book Launch - The Conservatives since 1945

1 November 2012

What is Africa Thinking?

11 November 2014

Is Informal Politics Undemocratic?

3 December 2014

Book Launch: The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics

26 October 2016

Far Right 2-day workshop

25 October 2012

International Conference: The Power of the Monstrous

26 June 2014

The Global Populist Challenge: Beyond Euro-Centrism

19 November 2014

Research Workshop with Professor Stephen White

30 January 2013

Citizens' Intiatives In Europe: Comparing and Analysing Institutional Designs

19 November 2014

Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development Annual Lecture 2013

19 November 2013

Ceasefire, Reflections on community, politics and social change in the Kachin region of Burma (Myanmar), 1994 to the present

12 October 2013

Expert Speakers Seminar - Globalisation 4.0? The New World and the Rise of the BRICS

16 October 2012

Middle East Movie Night 1: 5 Broken Cameras

16 October 2013

Expert Speakers Seminar - Facebook Nation? Social Networks, Social Media and the new Policy Networks

8 November 2012

History Alumni Forum

22 November 2012

Power and Resistance: Theory and imaginative activism

1 May 2014

Politics Film Club - Goodbye Lenin

27 February 2013

Internships Fair

16 October 2012

Middle East Movie Night 3

5 December 2012

Middle East Movie Night - The Battle of Algiers

13 February 2013

Fifty years of EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class

25 June 2013

Centre for European Research Launch

7 February 2013

Research seminar - Do we need a theory of distributive justice in innovation and development?

20 March 2013

Exploring Civil Society Sector Size in Turkey: Socio-cultural, Economic and Political Factors

10 December 2014

Rastafari 2.0

11 October 2012

Middle East Movie Night 2

21 November 2012

Policy Making in Government and Opposition

18 June 2013

The Labour Party and the British New Left

27 June 2012

The Black Panther Movement UK

17 October 2013

TheoryLAB Reading Group - Session Four, Cancelled due to illness

19 March 2014

Public Lecture: Chronicle of a Death Foretold: The Post-Chávez Venezuelan Conjuncture

12 March 2013

Peter Oborne, State of the Political Class

12 November 2012

TheoryLAB Reading Group - Session Two

22 January 2014

Politics and IR First Year Social

18 October 2012

Book Launch for: Everyday Arab Identity: the Daily Reproduction of the Arab World By Christopher Phillips

23 October 2012

Thinking through Spinoza: A research symposium

24 May 2013

Book Launch | Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

15 June 2016

Screening of the award-winning film Dear Mandela

14 November 2013

British Policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena after 9/11

29 January 2014

SPIR June Taster Days

14 June 2013

Open discussion forum on Ukraine

13 March 2014

Careers Presentation: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

18 October 2013

From the Darkness - A Night of Voices Heard

30 October 2012

Riot From Wrong Screening

25 October 2012

International Seminar Series – Identity, Alterity, Monstrosity 1

26 February 2014

Global Zero Queen Mary Screening

14 November 2012

ISLAM and the WEST Forum - What can the West do about Syria?

30 May 2012

Book and Briefing Launch - Civil Society and Global Poverty: Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy

14 March 2013

Retrieving the Big Society book launch event

16 October 2012

Politics Film Club - Danton

28 January 2013

Catalonia and Scotland: New nations in the EU?

30 May 2014

Workshop: The Unintended Consequences of State Building Interventions

24 March 2014

Middle East Movie Night 1

10 October 2012

Brilliant Applications

15 November 2012

Centre Annual Lecture; ‘The Making of Global Capitalism’

13 November 2012

Politics Film Club - Blame it on Fidel

11 February 2013

Research Seminar: ‘Realism, Liberalism and Non-Ideal Theory: What is a More "Realistic" Political Theory?’

23 October 2013

Between History and Aesthetics: Jacques Ranciere's Political Philosophy

26 November 2014

Research seminar - The European Commission and the battle for the EU's South-Eastern Enlargement

28 November 2012

Research Seminar: ‘Decolonising the subject: double consciousness and anti-corruption under the liberal peace'

27 November 2013

Continental and Analytical Political Theory: An Insurmountable Divide?

28 May 2013

Middle East Movie Night - West Beirut

23 January 2013

Internships – How to get them and make the most of them

29 November 2012

Book Launch | Lenin Lives! Reimagining the Russian Revolution

2 October 2017

Research Seminar: Education, Liberalism, and the changing Labour vote since 2005

4 October 2017

Research Seminar: The Politics Racism Makes: Schematizing Racial Politics from Slavery to Mass Incarceration

10 October 2017

Research Seminar: Assessing Latin America’s Pink Tide

18 October 2017

Research Seminar: Global Politics Unbound Roundtable- ‘Does Trump Matter for Global Politics?’

25 October 2017

Research Seminar: Politics and Magic

1 November 2017

Research Seminar: The Militarisation of Peacebuilding

26 September 2017

Research Seminar: Mobile people - mobility as a way of life

22 November 2017

Research Seminar: The Rise of the Misinformed: Political Knowledge Items in a Post-Truth Era

29 November 2017

Research Seminar: Amilcar Cabral and Amartya Sen: Capability, Freedom and Resistance

6 December 2017

Film Screening - Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

1 November 2017

Book Launch: The Struggle for Development

14 November 2017

Workshop: The Future of Historical Sociology in International Relations and the Problematic of Difference

14 December 2017

Research Seminar: Kelsen's Children: The Transformation of International Law and the Legal History of Decolonization

13 December 2017

Research Seminar: Laclau as a theorist of representation: universality and populism

17 January 2018

Research Seminar: Brexit and the Border- Challenges for British - Irish conflict regulation

24 January 2018

Research Seminar: The secret of leaving: who quits their party and why? Grassroots members in the UK

31 January 2018

Research Seminar: Parliamentary War Powers in Britain: A Brief History

7 February 2018

Second Global Politics Unbound Roundtable - Riding the post-colonial and de-colonial wave

28 February 2018

Research Seminar: Institutional Trustworthiness and the Security/Privacy Trade off in Europe

7 March 2018

Research Seminar: Counterrevolution as international phenomenon: the case of the Egyptian Revolution, 2011-13

21 March 2018

Research Seminar: Trump and the return of fascism?

28 March 2018

CER 2018 | Reset Europe: 60 years of European integration

22 January 2018

Research Seminar: Terrorism and the legitimacy of liberal democracy: An empirical analysis of the. November 2015 terrorist events in France

19 January 2018

Film Screening | Fronteira da Grandeza: Securing Brazil’s Frontier

19 January 2018

Book Launch | Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel

21 February 2018

Pursuing Justice in the Global City: Roundtable

7 March 2018

Where to now? Postcolonial Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century

26 April 2018

Performing Utopia: Discourses of Love, Compassion and more in International Relations

25 May 2018

A Cambodian Spring screening

12 June 2018

George Lansbury Memorial Lecture 2018

22 November 2018

Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics

16 October 2018

Research Seminar: ‘Race, Law and Haiti’

3 October 2018

Research Seminar: ‘Global Politics Roundtable – Riding the post-colonial and de-colonial wave: What will the intensified interest in post-colonialism contribute to our understanding of world politics?’

10 October 2018

Research Seminar: “The voice of the people is the voice of God”: the 2018 election in post-coup Zimbabwe

24 October 2018

Research Seminar: Power, Political Passions, and Receptivity’

14 November 2018

Research Seminar: ‘Fascist Legacies in the Construction of Liberal Order’

31 October 2018

Research Seminar: “Wasting the Female Talent? Examining Gender Differences in Candidate Retention Rates”

28 November 2018

Research Seminar: 'Decolonization and Self-determination'

17 October 2018

The Unruly Politics of Palestinian Space

7 November 2018

Mile End Institute | The IPPR Commission on Economic Justice: Economic Paradigm Shifts and the Moving Political Centre

21 January 2019

Mobility: peoples, things, words

21 March 2019

Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies

6 March 2019

Fascism and Democracy

12 March 2019

The Analytic-Continental Divide in Political Theory Workshop

24 April 2019

Is Corbyn a populist?

10 April 2019

Confronting Injustice: critical and realistic approaches to global inequality

29 May 2019

Global development-migration nexus and methodological nationalism

30 September 2019

Research Seminar: Experiences of the Left in Power: State Formation, Class Formation and the Production of Space in Urban Bolivia

25 September 2019

Research Seminar: Dull’ Meets ‘Boring’? Exploring Twinning as an Expression of Everyday IR

2 October 2019

Research Seminar: Pedagogy Session - Personal Advisor Staff Training Update

9 October 2019

Research Seminar: Civic Duty and Voting under Autocracy

16 October 2019

Research Seminar: Roundtable - Populism in the Global South

23 October 2019

Research Seminar: Deception, Inception, and Post-truth: Staging Revolution against Democracy (Lessons from Egypt 2013)

30 October 2019

Nuclear Wargames: Ethics and the Quest to Quantify Conflict

24 October 2019

Research Seminar: Anna Jackman (Royal Holloway) - The future drone city: Trials, tribulations, speculations

13 November 2019

Research Seminar: Maria Sobolewska (Manchester) -

20 November 2019

Research Seminar: Hanna Swaid (Arab Center for Alternative Planning) - Grounding and Grounded Research: Doing Community-Based Planning Research and Advocacy with Palestinian Citizens of Israel

27 November 2019

Research Seminar: Florian Foos (LSE) - Social Mobilisation in Partisan Spaces

4 December 2019

Research Seminar: Toby Greene (SPIR - Research Fellow) - The changing politics of foreign policy in Europe

11 December 2019

Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests

29 October 2019

Research Seminar: Joao Nogueira and Jef Huysmans, “Against resistance? Towards post-critical conceptions of politics in international political sociology”

29 January 2020

Research Seminar: Yannis Theocharis, “Incivility and Political Communication: Evidence from the Demand and Supply Side”

5 February 2020

Research Seminar: Florian Foos, “Social mobilisation in partisan spaces”

12 February 2020

Research Seminar: Katharine Hall, Experimental Air Power: Early Drone Programs and Colonial Governance in Iraq

19 February 2020

Research Seminar: Marie Beauchamps, Governing Affective Citizenship: Denaturalization, Belonging and Repression

26 February 2020

SPIR Research Seminar: Hannah Partis-Jennings, The Military-Peace Complex: Gender and Materiality in Afghanistan

11 March 2020

Research Seminar: Heather Savigny, The Politics of Sexism

18 March 2020

Research Seminar: Marie Beauchamps, “Governing Affective Citizenship: Denaturalization, Belonging and Repression"

25 March 2020

LGBT+ History Month: Event on Policy & Law Reform

17 February 2020

Drinks Before the Revolution: Tilda Death’s Cocktails Tutorial

26 February 2020