Departmental Research Seminar Series 2012/13
TERM 1
Wednesday 31st October 2012, 12:30pm, Room LC015 - Dr Filippo del Lucchese (Brunel University)
‘Jura communia as anima imperii: the Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza’
Tuesday 6th November 2012, 1pm-2:30pm, Room LC068
‘The Presence of the Past’ (ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2012)
Wednesday 7th November 2012, 4pm, Room GB239 - Professor Simon Gunn (University of Leicester)
(Co-sponsored by the Isambard Centre for Historical Research)
‘The People and the Car: Automobility and the Transformation of Everyday Life in 1960s Britain’
Wednesday 21st November 2012, 1pm, Room LC264 - Dr John MacMillan (Brunel University)
‘“The Will to Order”: Intervention in the Modern World’
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 2:30pm, Brunel Council Chamber
Sir Tony Brenton (Former British Ambassador to Russia)
‘Arab Spring or Islamist Winter?’
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 4pm, Room GB239 - Professor Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge)
(Co-sponsored by the Isambard Centre for Historical Research)
‘The Sociological Imagination in Mid-Twentieth Century America and Britain’
Wednesday 12th December 2012, 1pm, Room LC 264 - Dr Gareth Dale (Brunel University)
‘The Growth Paradigm: A Critique’
Wednesday 19th December 2012, 4pm, Room LC264 - Dr Thomas Linehan (Brunel University)
‘Modernism and British Socialism’
(Book launch, in conversation with Dr Alison Carrol and Dr Peter D. Thomas)
TERM 2
Wednesday 16th January 2013, 4pm, Room GB239 - Dr Jim Bjork (King’s College London)
(Co-sponsored by the Isambard Centre for Historical Research)
‘Masquerade: Serial Nationalization between Agency and Indifference’
Tuesday 29th January 2013, 5pm, Room LC062 - Professor Sir David Omand, (King’s College London)
‘Securing the State: Mapping the Future Risk Horizon’
Wednesday 30th January 2013, 4pm, Room LC264 - Professor Justin Fisher (Brunel University)
‘Can Multiculturalism Improve Public Policy? Recent Evidence from Local Government in the UK’
Wednesday 13th February 2013, 5pm, Room GB239 - Professor James Belich ONZM (University of Oxford)
(Co-sponsored by the Isambard Centre for Historical Research)
‘The Black Death and the Spread of Europe’
Wednesday 27th February 2013, 1pm, Room LC264 - Professor Elke Krahmann (Brunel University)
‘Performance and Performativity: Private Military Companies and the Legitimacy of Security’
Wednesday 13th March 2013, 1pm, Room LC264 - Nathaniel Boyd (Brunel University)
‘“Who Thinks Concretely?” Hegel’s Critique of Political Abstraction’
Mark Shanahan (Brunel University)
‘The Dead Dog Bounce. Executive Actions in the Wake of the Sputnik Autumn’
For further information please contact Dr Peter D. Thomas, Politics and History.
Email: PeterD.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk
