Section: Events

Transatlantic Seminar Series

2011 / 2012

Date / Time Details Where
22nd Sep 2011 17:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Lecture: 'Stalin's Legacy: Environmental Disasters in Central Asia'
Speaker: Struan Stevenson # European Parliament
Playfair Library Hall, Old College
30th Sep 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Domestic Politics Of Transatlantic Relations
Speaker: Dr Juliet Kaarbo # University of Edinburgh; Hosted by: Professor John Peterson # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
7th Oct 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Guantanamo Bay, National Security and Human Rights
Speaker: Dr Andrea Birdsall # University of Edinburgh; Hosted by: Ms Hilary Cornish # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
14th Oct 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Has The European Parliament Come Of Age?
Speaker: Richard Corbett # Cabinet of European Council President Herman Von Rompuy; Speaker: David Martin # MEP; Speaker: John Peterson # Edinburgh Politics IR; Speaker: Michael Shackleton # Head of UK EP Information Office, London
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
21st Oct 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Geopolitics of the Arctic
Speaker: Dr Gonzalo Pozo Martin # Kings College London
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
28th Oct 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Trust and the Evolution of EU Internal Security
Speaker: Professor Thierry Balsacq # University of Namur and University of Louvain; Hosted by: Dr Andrew Neal # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
4th Nov 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Scotland is for Peace
Speaker: Ms Janet Fenton # Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre; Hosted by: Ms Victoria Loughlan # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
11th Nov 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Rise Of China
Speaker: Dr Chris Ogden # University of St Andrews; Hosted by: Professor John Peterson # University of Edinburgh
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building
25th Nov 2011 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Toppling Tyrants: Reflections on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Speaker: Professor Emma Murphy # Durham University; Speaker: Dr Francesco Cavatorta # Dublin City University; Speaker: Dr Ewan Stein # University of Edinburgh; Hosted by: Dr Adham Saouli # University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B
28th Nov 2011 17:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: ‘A man's a man for a' that'
Speaker: Shami Chakrabarti # Liberty/ Oxford Brookes University; – Please choose: TBC # TBC
Playfair Library, Old College
20th Jan 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The EU's Big Bang Enlargement
Speaker: Eva Heidbreder # University of Konstanz
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
27th Jan 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Sovereign Debt Crisis
Speaker: Vassilios Paipais # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
3rd Feb 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: British Security
Speaker: Michael Clarke # Royal United Services Institute
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
8th Feb 2012 17:15 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Modernisation in Russia
Speaker: Igor Yurgens # Institute for Contemporary Development
Playfair Library, Old College
9th Feb 2012 15:00 (2 hours) Seminar: Putin's Russia? A mid-Election Roundtable
Speaker: Paul Chaisty # University of Oxford; Speaker: Stephen White # University of Glasgow; Speaker: Derek Averre # University of Birmingham; Hosted by: Luke March # University of Edinburgh
Conference Room, David Hume Tower
17th Feb 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The EU in crisis: a return of realism to the continent?
Speaker: Dan Kenealy # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
24th Feb 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Working in Government
Speaker: Sarah Smith # Scottish Government
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
1st Mar 2012 17:30 (1 hour) Lecture: Absent At the Creation
Speaker: Lionel Barber # The Financial Times
Playfair Library, Old College
5th Mar 2012 18:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Lecture: Europa Institute's Mitchell Lecture
Speaker: Alec Stone Sweet # Yale University
Old College
9th Mar 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The EU Global Governance and the G20 - CANCELLED
Speaker: Alessandro Fussachia # Council of the EU
16th Mar 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: DFID: International Partnerships and Faith Groups
Speaker: Mike Battcock # Department for International Development
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
23rd Mar 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Climate Change and Moral Responsibility
Speaker: Liz Cripps # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square
30th Mar 2012 13:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Media are American
Speaker: John Lloyd # Financial Times
Seminar room 1, CMB, 15a George Square

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