Past events
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2012
Thomas Kuhn: Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years on
12th April 2012
Venue: Loughborough University
Website, group picture and conference audio
2011
Euroscepticism: Beyond the Party System and Into Civil Society
5th Novemner 2011
Venue: Loughborough University
Website and group picture
CSIG Roundtable - The Role of International Organisations in Peacekeeping: Kosovo
23rd February 2011
Venue: Loughborough University
CfP: Effective Multilateralism - The EU and International Institutions
13th - 14th January 2011
Venue: Loughborough University
Conference Website, Blog and Photo Gallery
2010
Women's Autobiography in Islamic Societies
December 2010
Venue: Delhi, India
Conference Website
Interpreting British Foreign Policy
December 2010
Venue: University of California, Berkeley
Conference Website
The Political Economy of Taxation
29th September 2010, Loughborough University
Venue: Loughborough University
Conference Website
South African Migration to the UK: Exploring Dynamics, Identities and Prospects
20th - 21st September 2010
Venue: Loughborough University
Conference Website and group picture
East Midlands Intelligence and Security Group
1st September 2010
Venue: Loughborough University
Conference website and group picture
The Challenges of Sports Governance
1st-2nd July 2010
Venue: University of Ghent, Belgium
Conference website and group picture
2009
Thomas Babington Macaulay - Imperial Man and National Historian
Monday 7th December 2009
Speaker: Catherine Hall (UCL)
CSIG/UACES Workshop on Central and Eastern Europe and the EU Court System - Saturday 14th Nov 2009
Venue: Schofield Building, A218.
'Between Scylla and Charybdis: energy security and climate change challenges in the European Union'
Date: 18-19 September 2009
Venue: Loughborough University
The Centre for the Study of International Governance, in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations of Loughborough University, is organising a two-day conference on EU energy security and climate change policy. The aim of the conference is to shed light on the EU’s approach to addressing these two challenges, as well as producing policy recommendations. A second objective is to raise public awareness of these issues and the role of the EU in managing them.
‘The Europeanisation of Football’
Date: 12-13 June 2009
Venue: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This workshop is part of the project 'The Europeanisation of Football', in which the transformation of professional football in ten different European countries is being analysed. The project will result in a book co-edited by Arne Niemann, Borja García and Wyn Grant to be published by Manchester University Press in 2010 under a working title 'The Transformation of European Football: A Process of Europeanisation'. The objective of the workshop is to bring together the authors of the ten chapters to present their findings and discuss the structure of the book and its conclusions.
4th Annual Workshop
Date: 22 & 23 June 2009
Venue: School of Law, University of Stirling, Scotland
The aim of the workshop is simply to provide a supportive, stimulating environment for considered discourse among those interested in the EU’s relationship with sport. For more information please click here.
'Governance and management of sports clubs'
Date: 14 May 2009, 1300-1430
Venue: Room J104, Edward Herbert Building, Loughborough University
Whilst some of the top professional sports clubs in England seem to be dominating sporting competitions, such as the case of the football champions league or the rugby Heineken Cup, the management and financial situation of many of those top clubs is in tremendous disarray. The need for better governance and management in sport is a long-standing issue whose prominence in the public and political agendas has been raised in the last couple of years. The round table explored how to improve governance in sport.
‘Europe's Social Situation: Toward a more inclusive view?’
Date: 5 & 6 February 2009
Venue: Loughborough University (5 February)
London School of Economics and Political Science (6 February)
The European Commission President Barroso commissioned a stocktaking exercise of Europe's social standards, levels of wellbeing and major current social challenges. The Bureau of European Policy Advisers delivered a full document that merits much praise for its comprehensiveness and synthetic powers. This was put out to consultation, but from the contributions received in return, it is apparent that many more representative organisations could have responded. This event therefore aimed to bring diverse selection of stakeholders, who are usually excluded from such consultations and encourage them to contribute to the discussion of the document.
‘The Gaza Crisis 2008-2009’
Date: 27 January 2009, 13.00-14.00
Venue: PHIR, Room A201, Schofield Building, Loughborough University
Speakers: Dr Fareed El Shayyal (The Markfield Institute of Higher Education), Dr Elizabeth Mavroudi (Loughborough University, Geography) & Professor Paul Reynolds (University of Westminster)
Chair: Dr Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University, PHIR)
2008
‘EU Nationals in the UK Labour Force: Economic Migrants or Free-Moving Citizens of the EU?’
Date: 28 November 2008
Venue: Loughborough University
This workshop explored the political and social dynamics underpinning the movement of EU nationals to the UK, analysed sectoral and spatial variation in their employment patterns, and thereby elaborated the concept of mobility. The subject of this workshop is of pressing interest in intellectual and policy terms over the course of at least the next decade, as the EU continues to enlarge, and the free movement of labour between the EU's member states continues to be a statistically-elusive but politically-charged phenomenon.
‘The Performances of Power or the Powers of Performance’
Date: 21-22 November 2008
Venue: Loughborough University
This interdisciplinary workshop, organised by Raffaella Bianchi, discussed the relations between power and the performing arts. The panels explored how the performing arts are connected with various modalities of power (political, religious, elites, protest movements, etc.) and how these are related to the performing arts (memory, identity, etc.). The workshop explored how the performing arts generate collective identities, serve as a means of societal/political protest and feed into wider nationalist discourses.
‘Transatlantic Misunderstandings: Gender and Sexuality Politics in Contemporary France’
Date: 20 November 2008, 17.00-18.15
Venue: Room A.2.01, Schofield Building, Loughborough University
Guest Speaker: Bruno Perreau
Bruno Perreau, Senior Lecturer and Academic Advisor at Sciences Po, Paris, compared France and the United States with respect to matters of gender and sexuality. In particular, he explore the nature and significance of social movements in these fields, and evaluated their impact on traditional models of citizenship. He also explored policy-making at the national, local and international levels that, directly or indirectly, target gender and sexuality. Bruno offered reflections on the (mis)understandings and (mis)representations of these matters in Franco-American relations.
‘After the US Presidential Elections’
Date: 12 November 2008, 13.00-14.00
Venue: PHIR, Room A201, Schofield Building, Loughborough University
Speakers: Alex Waddan (University of Leicester), Mike Smith (PHIR) & Brian Hocking (PHIR)
Following the announcement of the outcome of the 2008 US Presidential elections, a panel of experts discussed the electoral campaign, the result and its implications for US domestic (Alex Waddan: 'Interpreting the US Elections of 2008') and foreign policy and world politics (Mike Smith) more generally.
'Challenges for South African Security and Intelligence '
Date: 21 October 2008, 13.00-14.30
Venue: Room SMB.0.17, Stuart Mason Building, Loughborough University
Speaker: Barry Gilder, former Coordinator of South African National Intelligence and former Director General of the South African department for Home Affairs
Talking about current and future challenges for South African security and intelligence, Barry Gilder shared his experience of working for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), serving as a Department of Home Affairs Director-General and a Coordinator of South Africa’s National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC). This seminar was open to everyone with interest in intelligence and/or South Africa issues.
'National Intelligence vs the Sub-State Actor'
Part of ESRC Seminar Series: The Governance of Intelligence in the 21st Century
Date: 22 September 2008
Venue: PHIR, Schofield Building, Room A.2.18, Loughborough University
This seminar was the first of six in a series of events that aim to explore issues around intelligence in the 21st century. It focused on the role that intelligence can play in confronting sub-state actors in the two major theatres of our time – insurgencies in the Middle East, and terrorism at home. Using an expansive definition of intelligence the three sets of panellists explored the range of usable and contextual information, and how these products are used, to open up new ways of thinking about intelligence and sub-state actors.
‘1st PSA Anarchist Studies Network Conference’
Date: 4-6 September 2008
Venue: Loughborough University
The first international conference of the anarchist studies network was designed to provide a workshop forum for the discussion of research papers, work in progress and future projects and to bring together scholars, activists and others working in the field.
‘The European Commission White Paper on Sport’
Date: 4-5 July 2008
Venue: Scarisbrick Hotel, Southport, United Kingdom
Third annual Sport & EU workshop, co-sponsored by CSIG and UACES, focused on the 2007 European Commission White Paper on Sport from a variety of perspectives: societal role of sport, economic function of sport, organization of sport, social dialogue, and also addressed other issues surrounding sport and the European Union. Keynote speech was given by Mr Andrzej Rogulski of the European Commission’s Sport Unit, Directorate-General Education and Culture.
'Franco-British Cooperation: European Security and Defence Policy'
Date: 21 May 2008
Venue: PHIR, Loughborough University
A small-scale simulation exercise on the subject of Franco-British cooperation with students from 'France in the World' option, including French students, plus others who wished to participate fully. This initiative was supported by the UK section of the Franco-British Council. It was conducted as a student-centred simulation exercise.
‘Operation Allied Force: Ten Years On’
Date: 25 April 2008
Venue: Holywell Park, Loughborough University, UK
In anticipation of the tenth anniversary of NATO’s Operation Allied Force (OAF) against Serbia, this workshop examined the lasting legacy of that event. It considered OAF’s status as an example of ‘humanitarian war’, its impact on the long-term development of NATO, European defence cooperation, the status of Kosovo, UK foreign policy and Russian relations with the Alliance. The workshop brought together a range of experts and scholars to discuss the historical and contemporary relevance of this watershed event in European security affairs.
‘The 2008 Italian general elections’
Date: 23 April 2008, 12.30pm
Venue: PHIR, Schofield Building, Room A.2.18, Loughborough University
After the fall of the 20 month old Prodi II government, the Italian electorate went to the polls on 13-14 April 2008 to decide who should govern the country. This lunchtime roundtable discussed the electoral campaign, the general election results, and the implications for future domestic and foreign policy. Following a brief introduction by Dr Maurice FitzGerald, a panel of discussants - Raffaella Bianchi, Lorenzo Cladi, Andrea Mura and Dr Christina Ujma - addressed these and other related issues.
'Neighbourhood Challenge: the EU and its Neighbours'
Date: 18 January 2008
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
The workshop discussed different aspects of the European Union's relations with its neighbours. The aim was to go beyond the analysis of European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and discuss the EU's entire neighbourhood from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus to North Africa; from the Western Balkans to the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this way, the workshop contributed to the existing debates on the EU foreign and security policy.
2007
'Learning and its application to the EU's foreign and security policy'
Date: 16 November 2007
Venue: Royal Overseas League, London
This workshop engaged in discussions about the nature of learning processes within the realm of the EU’s foreign and security policy. It aimed to contribute to a better understanding of processes of learning, the channels of learning and its impact on ESDP policies as much as to define better strategies for intra- and inter-institutional learning. During the workshop, the academic debate was enriched by insights from practitioners from several international organisations.
‘Civil Rights, Liberties and Disobedience: Alternatives to Governance in the 21st Century’
Date: 27-28 July 2007
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
Organised by CSIG, the PSA Anarchist Studies Network, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Trident Ploughshares/Faslane 365, NASPIR and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.
'The EU and the governance of sport: policy and perspectives'
Date: 6-7 July 2007
Venue: University of Chester, UK
The Second Annual Sport&EU Workshop, was organised by the Association for the Study of Sport in the European Union and CSIG
The overall objective of the workshop was to consider, from a variety of theoretical and policy perspectives, the opportunities and challenges facing future governance of sport in the EU, and the consequences these may have for the relationships between governmental and non-governmental bodies who are centrally involved in the organisation and administration of sport.
'The European Union and International Regimes: Effective Multilateralism in Action?'
Date: 27 April 2007
Venue: Loughborough, UK
'Studying Diplomacy: the State of the Art'
Date: 7-8 February 2007
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
2006
'Sport and the European Union, 10 years after Bosman: situation and perspectives'
Date: 30 June – 1 July 2006
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
Visit http://www.sportandeu.com/workshop/2006 for more information.
'Worlds Apart? Exploring the Interface Between Governance and Diplomacy'
Date: 23-25 June 2006
Venue: Wilton Park, West Sussex
Conference organised jointly by CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada) and CSIG.
'Research Group on European Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management Policies (EUCPCM)'
Date: 16 June 2006
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
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