Other News
THE PROBLEM WITH BANKS
A Knowledge Centre article by Dr Timothy J. Sinclair
Media coverage of the financial crisis has resulted in much anger and panic, but have we been guilty of viewing the situation through rose-tinted glasses? In this video and article, Dr Timothy J. Sinclair offers some observations on global finance, including the role of banks - the subject of a forthcoming book co-written with Warwick colleague Dr Lena Rethel.
Sir Robert Worcester to speak on elections
On Wednesday 11 January, Sir Robert Worcester, founder of MORI, will be speaking on US and UK elections as part of the PAIS seminar series.
The seminar will take place in room S0.18 in the Social Sciences building at 4.00pm; refreshments will be available from 3.30.
Sir Robert is the chairman of the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary in 2015 Committee. He is also Visiting Professor of Government and a former Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, where he is Chancellor, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University.
EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY AFTER THE ARAB SPRING
An EU-GRASP policy brief by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams
What is being done to secure the EU’s 11,000km external land borders, 43,000km sea borders, and 593 international airports confronted by c.700 million border-crossers per annum -- up to 4million of whom, according to British MEP Sir Graham Watson, are potentially “illegal"?
This was the focus of a recent conference on European Border Security in Brussels attended by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams as part of the FP7 funded EU-GRASP project of which PAIS is a Partner Institution.
CFP: Networked Learning in Transnational Governance--2nd Annual GR:EEN Conference
Please find attached the call for papers for the second GR:EEN Annual conference ‘Networked Learning in Transnational Governance’ - University of Warwick, 8-9 November 2012.
The conference brings together scholars working on networked learning in transnational governance across a broad range of topics and issue-areas:
- European Union governance
- Experimentalist governance
- Transnational business regulation
- Learning in international organizations
- Professional networks in transnational governance
We invite scholars working on these topics and issues to present original research material or conceptual papers in a panel conference format.
Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2012 to Denise Hewlett
EDGAR GRAHAM BOOK PRIZE 2012
The Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies invites submissions for the Edgar Graham Book Prize 2012.
This academic prize was established in 1984 to commemorate Edgar Graham who at the time of his death in 1983 had been Governor of the School for seven years. Edgar Graham's own book, The Modern Plantation in the Third World, was published posthumously by Croom Helm (1984). The prize of £1000 is awarded for a work of original scholarship on development in Asia and Africa.
Authored and co-authored books published between 2010 and 2012 are eligible for the Prize. Please submit 2 copies to the following address:
Brita Pouget, Prize Administrator
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh St. Russell Sq.
London WC1H 0XG
(bp@soas.ac.uk)
You may include reviews with your submission.
The closing date is July 1st, 2012.
Professor Naila Kabeer, Chair
Edgar Graham Book Prize