Presents a day long inter-disciplinary seminar

Possibilities of Cultural Politics

30th May 2006,CBA1.099 & CBA1.100, Chancellors Building, Keele University

9:00 a.m. Welcome address—Heidi Öst, KWTS

9:15a.m. -10: 45 a.m.- In-Environment
Chair- Monica Ingber, SPIRE, Keele University

Dr. Bulent Gokay, Reader, SPIRE, Keele University
Oil and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century - 'Peak Oil' and the End of the 'Cheap Oil Economy'

Darrell Whitman, SPIRE, Keele University
Constructing Identities in the Carbon Economy: Ecologies and Systems of Production.

Dr. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Reader, School of Law, University of Westminster
Absent Environment

***********15 mins. Coffee break**************************

11:00a.m. -12:30p.m. - In-Practice
Chair-Rohee Dasgupta, Law, Keele University

Dr Jane H. Krishnadas, Lecturer, School of Law, Keele University Identities in Reconstruction- From recognition to material spheres of reflection

Monica Ingber, SPIRE, Keele University
Power Complicity and the State: Towards an Understanding of the Politico-legal Aspects of Sovereign Immunity

Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani (Aziz), SPIRE, Keele University
The debate on Western and Asian views of freedom of political speech

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1:30p.m. -3:00 p.m. - In-Cultural Identity
Chair-Darrell Whitman, SPIRE, Keele University

Prof. Pnina Werbner, Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Criminology, Education, Sociology & Social Work, Keele University
Muslim identities in the face of global crises

Dr Drosily Hamourtziadou, Keele University
The myths of an insecure nation: the Serbs

Dr Kate Nash, Sociology, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Goldsmiths College
The real possibilities of cultural politics: human rights and cosmopolitan identity in Europe

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3:15p.m. -4:45p.m. - In-conflict
Chair: Marijana Sevo, SPIRE, Keele University

Dr. Amalendu Misra, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University
Somalia and the Liberal Theory of Post Conflict Reconstruction

Clare James, Politics & International Relations, University of Nottingham
Challenging Acculturalism in Security Studies: Strategic Culture and Beyond

Prof. Costas Constantinou, Professor of International Relations, SPIRE, Keele University
Aporias of Identity and the 'Cyprus Problem'

All papers presented at the seminar will be published in In-spire e-journal of post-graduate research (www.in-spire.org).

Joint Convenors: Heidi Öst, KWTS & Rohee Dasgupta, In-spire

The programme is funded by C-SAP the subject network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics.

All Welcome to attend!

For details on abstracts please click: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/news/seminars.htm

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