Events and Seminars at Department of Political Science

The SPP Policy and Practice Seminar Series includes presentations of scholarly research and talks by high-profile policy makers, practitioners and academics.  They take place on Thursdays between 6.15 and 8pm during term time in Roberts Building, Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre. These are public events: all students and the general public are welcome to attend. The seminars are followed by drinks reception until 9pm in Roberts Foyer. Please note that some of the events are taking place at SPP Council Room. 

2016/17 Policy and Practice Seminar Series

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	More information
6 October '16	Srdja Popovic  Chaired by Professor Kristin Bakke.
13 October '16	Mariana Mazzucato Michal Jacobs Wendy Carlin Richard Davies   Chaired by Professor Robert Hazell.	'Rethinking Capitalism: Can better economics generate more successful economic policy?'
20 October '16	Geoff Dancy Chaired by Dr Rod Abouharb	'Human Rights Pragmatism in a Reactionary World'
3 November '16	Han Dorussen Ismene Gizelis  Vincenzo Bove  Andrea Ruggeri  Govinda Clayton  Hannah Smidt  Chaired by Dr Nils Metternich	'Get Ready: Syria will need peace-keepers'
17 November '16	Luuk van Middelaar  Michael Shackleton Chaired by Dr Christine Reh	'Europe after Brexit: Freedom and Protection in a Crisis-Driven Union'
24 November '16	Nils Metternich  Michael Plouffe  Colin Provost Maria Sobolewska Sherrill Stroschein Chaired by Dr Jennifer Hudson	'What's next for the US?: The 2016 Election and Expectations for a Trump Presidency'.
1 December '16	Dame Anne Owers	'Guarding the Guards'
8 December '16	Albert Weale	'The Democratic Duty to Oppose Brexit'
15 December '16	Save the Children	'Children of War: When Playground becomes Battleground'
12 January '17	Vijay Rangarajan	'Zombies in the Fog: What should be Afraid of?'
19 January '17	David Halpern	'Inside the Nudge Unit: How Experiments can change Human Behavior and Government Policy'
26 January '17	Margaret Hodge MP	'Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions'
2 February '17	Andreas Dur	'Why do we see so much public opposition to TTIP? The politicization of trade policy in Europe'.
9 February '17	Nick Clegg	'Brexit: A Challenge for Europe and the UK'
23 February '17	Alexander Kramarenko	'Russia's Foreign Policy: Should we be Concerned?'
2 March '17	Scilla Elworthy	'Why Current Xenophobia and Thuggish Behavior is a Challenge to up our Game and our Consciousness'
9 March '17	Rebecca Johnson  Daphine Workuri  Member of Integrate UK TBC	'Violence Against Women: Are We Doing Enough?'	Register here.
16 March '17	Niall Couper	'The Importance of Media in the 2017 World and why Human Rights Needs Media More than Ever.'	Register here.

Date & Time	Title	Speaker	Venue
15 May 2017, 6.30-8pm	Nationalism should not be confused with patriotism - our divided politics.	Ruth Davidson MSP	UCL Cruciform Building
22 May 2017, 6-7.30pm	Reassesing the Fixed Term Parliaments Act	Prof Gavin Phillipson / Carl Gardner	Council Room, School of Public Policy

The Global Governance Institute has a varied program of seminars and keynote lectures.

For details and to sign up to events, please see www.ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/events.

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	More information
15 June 2017, 6.30pm	Jane Guyer	Turbulence, Change and Interruption: Working with Informality in West Africa	Book on Eventbrite

During Tuesdays of the spring and summer terms, the UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy runs an interdepartmental colloquium in normative theory. The papers are read in advance, so the total time is devoted to discussion. Please email c.balogun@ucl.ac.uk to be added to the email list, through which the papers are distributed. 

More information about Legal and Political Theory at UCL here. 

2016/17 Legal and Political Theory Seminar Series

Date & Time	Speaker	Topic
17 January 2017  16:00-18:00	Patrick Tomlin (Reading)	'Proportionality in War: Fallacies of Composition'
31 January 2017  16:00-18:00	Victor Tadros (Warwick)	'A Moral Law for War'
14 February 2017 (RW)  16:00-18:00	Alex Sarch (Surrey)	'Who Cares What you Think? Criminal Culpability and the Irrelevance of Unmanifested Mental States'
28 February 2017 16:00-18:00	Michael Otsuka (LSE)	'Determinism and the Value and Fairness of Equal Chances'
14 March 2017  16:00-18:00	Chiara Cordelli (Chicago)	'The Intrinsic Wrong of Privatisation'
2 May 2017  13:15-15:00	Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)	To be announced
12 May 2017  09:00 - 18:30	Jeremy Waldron, Corey Brettschneider, etc.	'Dangerous Speech'   Register here.
16 May 2017  13:15-15:00	Jane Mansbridge (Harvard)	'Representation Under Strain: Confronting the Representative - Constituent Chasm'
30 May 2017  13:15-15:00	Philipe van Parijs (Louvain)	'Just Europe'

Date & Time	Location	Event	Further Information
Friday 30 June 2017 10:00-16:00	University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT PPE Talk Location: Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon St, WC1H 0AJ Department Drop-in Location: The Rubin Building, 29/31 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9QU	UCL Undergraduate Open Day Please register via the above link to attend.	Dr Tim Hicks to give PPE talk (12:00- 12:30). The Department of Political Science will be open for students to drop-in from 10:00 to 16:00.
Saturday 1 July 2017 10:00-16:00	University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT PPE Talk Location: Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon St, WC1H 0AJ	UCL Undergraduate Open Day Please register via the above link to attend.	Dr Nick Martin to give PPE talk (12:00- 12:30). Please note that the Department of Political Science will be closed on this date.