HomeAwards and Prizes
Prize:
- Prof Montserrat Guibernau has been awarded the 2009 EINES Essay Prize for a book length manuscript. This prize is awarded by the Irla Foundation and it is the most important essay prize on Catalan Studies (Diploma and 6000 euros). A Jury of 7 academics made the decision to give the prize to the manuscript: 'For a Cosmopolitan Catalanism' which will be published shortly.
- Prof Ray Kiely was awarded the the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2009 for his paper, " 'Poverty's Fall'/ China 's Rise: Global Convergence or New Forms of Uneven Development?" which appeared in Vol. 38, No. 3.
- Professor Wayne Parsons has been elected to the position of ‘distinguished visiting professor' by the academic council of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and awarded a major grant to support his research on public policy in Latin America . In 2009 he will be involved in coordinating the establishment of an ‘observatory of public policy in Latin America' and will be working with FLACSO in Mexico and with a variety of universities, government agencies and NGOs in the region. Professor Parsons has developed a close relationship with FLACSO over the past few years. One of the outcomes of this collaboration was the recent publication of a Latin American edition of his book Public Policy ( Políticas Públicas) which was produced with the assistance of a team of researchers and translators. FLACSO was established through the initiative of UNESCO in 1957 and currently maintains operations in thirteen Latin American countries. FLACSO's objectives are to promote teaching, research, and scientific cooperation in the social sciences throughout Latin American and the Caribbean . FLACSO's faculty members research in all fields of the social sciences, especially political science, and are frequently consulted by governments and international organizations throughout Latin America .
- Prof Jeremy Jennings has been awarded the Arts and Humanities Research Council Sabbatical Leave Scheme: £36,500. The French Government has made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques for "services rendered to French culture".
- Dr Bryan Mabee has been awarded British Academy grant of £3750 to fund a research workshop in May 2008.
- Dr Adam Fagan has been awarded (with Prof. Janet Dine, CCLS) a grant of £203,000 from the AHRC to research "EU compliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia".
- Dr Mark Pennington has won the 11th annual prize for 'The Study of Spontaneous Orders' issued by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA. The prize is worth $10,000 and was awarded for his work in the Austrian school of economics, for his book Liberating the Land, and for a series of journal articles which apply Hayek's notion of spontaneous order to the understanding of land use and environmental policy issues.
Conferences
Immanence and Materialism Conference
Queen Mary, University of London
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Conference poster
A one-day conference exploring the connections between the concepts of immanence and materialism and the consequences for political thought.
Keynote speakers: James Williams, University of Dundee, Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Presented by the Department of Politics and the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Conference Programme (PDF file)
Conference abstracts (Word doc)
Panel 1: Immanence, Transcendence, Ontology
Panel 2: Marx, Materialism, Immanence
Panel 3: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis
Conference papers
Michael Burns – The Life of Materialism: Politics between Life and Concept
Michael Goddard – Misrecognising Immanence: Towards a Critique of the Anti-Deleuzian Strategies of Badiou, Žižek and Hallward
Duncan Law – Two Ontologies of Materialism: From Non-Philosophy to Non Philosophy
Matteo Mandarini – Eliding Politics
Nicole Pepperell – ‘What’s the Matter with Marx? Notes on Marx’s Immanent Critique of Materialism’ (external website)
Brian Smith – Extending Badiou’s Mathematical Materialism to Account for Real Change: Beyond the Transcendence/Immanence Dichotomy
Alberto Toscano – Raving with Reason: Immanence and Fanaticism in Kant
James Williams – Immanence and transcendence as inseparable processes: on the relevance of arguments from Whitehead to Deleuze interpretation
This conference was organised by Dr Simon Choat (s.j.choat@qmul.ac.uk).
Promotions and Appointments
Promotions:
- Congratulations to Dr Judith Bara who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
- Congratulations to Dr Lasse Thomassen who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
Research Seminar Series
You are welcome to attend any of the following seminars, enquiries can be directed to politics-pg@qmul.ac.uk
Spring 2010
Prof Wayne Parsons (QMUL) ‘Keynes and the problem of asymmetries in the utility of information: Implications for theory and current economic policy’
Wednesday 13 January, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19 *This seminar has been cancelled
Prof Cécile Laborde (UCL), 'Political Liberalism and the Secular State'
Wednesday 20 January, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr Alex Prichard (University of Bristol) ‘The state and anarchy in IR theory: A Proudhonist approach’ (paper available as Word doc)
Wednesday 27 January, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Sir Nicholas Montagu, 'Mayday for mandarins? The post-election Civil Service'
Wednesday 3 February, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) ‘Gender and Social Capital in Britain’
Wednesday 10 February, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Paul Gunn (QMUL) ‘The whys and wherefores of multiculturalism: Why liberalism fails and where to go from here’ and
Faidon Zaras (QMUL) ‘Greek-Turkish relations after 1974: A rational choice approach to the current stalemate’
Wednesday 17 February, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Prof Anne Stevens (Aston University; visiting professor at Queen Mary) ‘The politics of administrative reform in the European Union’
Wednesday 3 March, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr Julian Reid (KCL), 'The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience'
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr Brendan O’Duffy (QMUL) ‘Sri Lanka: A victory in the war on terror? Neo-liberal interventions versus neo-authoritarian non-interventions’
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Prof Michael Pugh (University of Bradford) ‘The casino crisis and the political economy of peace’
Wednesday 24 March, 2010
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Autumn 2009
Dr. Benno Teschke (Sussex) ‘The International Thought of Carl Schmitt: From the Discoveries to the Grossraum’
Wednesday October 7, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Professor Chandran Kukathas (London School of Economics) ‘The Labour Theory of Justice’
Wednesday October 14, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Professor Montserrat Guibernau (QMUL) 'Does Devolution Foster Separatism? The case of Catalonia'
Wednesday October 21, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Professor John Loughlin (Cardiff/QMUL Visitor) ‘Neo-liberalism and the Reconfiguring of the Welfare State’
Wednesday October 28, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Professor Jeremy Jennings (QMUL) ‘Revolution and the Republic in France’
Wednesday November 4, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr. Lee Jones (QMUL) ‘Theorising Intervention and Social Order’
Wednesday November 18, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Paul Rekret (QMUL) ‘Derrida, Foucault, Sovereignty and Life’*
Wednesday Nov 25, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
*Ljuba Castelli will not be speaking at this seminar as previously advertised.
Dr. Marc Stears (Oxford) 'Democracy and the American Radical Tradition'
Wednesday December 2, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
Dr. John Bartle (Essex) ‘The British Macro Polity’
Wednesday December 9, 2009
4.15 pm
Venue Laws building 1.19
All welcome!
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