Dr MARTIN STOKES

The Republic of Love: Sentiment, Nation, and Popular Culture
Monday 14 December 2009

Martin Stokes is Lecturer in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music in the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Music at St John’s College. He is a specialist in the music of the contemporary Middle East, circum-Mediterranean and North West Europe, and is the author of The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Clarendon Press, 1992) and Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (Berg, 1997); and co-editor of Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East (Tauris Academic Studies, 1996) and Celtic Modern: Music on the Global Fringe, (Scarecrow Press, 2004). He is currently working on a book with the title The Republic of Love: Transformations of Intimacy in Turkish Popular Culture.
http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/people/staff-listings/academics/dr-martin-stokes-ma-dphil-oxon.html

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PERTTI JOENNIEMI

Re-negotiating Europe’s Identity: The European Neighbourhood Policy as a Form of Othering
Wednesday 18 November 2009

Pertti Joenniemi is Senior Research Fellow in the Department for European Affairs at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Before joining DIIS in 2003, he was Researcher, Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director at Tampere Peace Research Institute in Finland, and has also held positions at the United Nations Division of Disarmament Affairs and the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. Joenniemi’s current research interests include the unfolding of transatlantic relations, the external identity of the European Union, and the foreign policy identity of Denmark. He is the author (together with Alexander Sergounin) of Russia and the European Union’s Northern Dimension: Encounter or Clash of Civlisations? (Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic State University Press, 2003), the editor of The Changing Face of European Conscription (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), the co-editor of Kaliningrad: The European Amber Region (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998) and The Nordic Peace (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), and the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.
http://www.diis.dk/sw11174.asp

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Prof. KEN BOOTH

Wake Up! International Relations at 90
Tuesday 16 June 2009

Ken Booth is former Department Head and E.H. Carr Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, and currently Professor at the David Davis Memorial Institute of International Studies located at the same university. He has been a prominent academic within the fields of strategic and security studies for more than three decades, and is credited with having founded the “Welsh School” of critical security studies. Booth’s current research interests include security studies, international relations theory and human rights, and his most recent publications include Theory of World Security (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), co-authored with Nicholas J. Wheeler. Booth is the Editor of the journal International Relations and Lynne Rienner’s book series “Critical Security Studies”.


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Prof. Ersin Kalaycıoğlu

Coping with Change and Uncertainty: Political Context of Voter Re-alignment in Turkey
Thursday 25 December 2008

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Sabancı University. He is specialised in the fields of comparative politics and Turkish politics, and has published extensively on political representation and voting behaviour in Turkey. Among other works, Professor Kalaycıoğlu is author of Turkish Dynamics: Bridge across Troubled Waters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and co-author (with Ali Çarkoğlu) of Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009).
http://www.ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/eng/?Hakkimizda/cv/ErsinKalaycioglu.html

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Prof. PAULA S. FASS

Youth Culture in a Global World
Thursday 6 November 2008

Paula S. Fass is Margaret Byrne Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has pioneered research into the history of children and childhood, and is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, three volumes (Macmillan Reference, 2003); co-editor with Mary Ann Mason, Childhood in America (NYU Press, 2000); author of The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (Oxford University Press, 1977), Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (Oxford University Press, 1989), Kidnapped: A History of Child Abduction in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1997), and Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (New York University Press, 2006).
http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Fass/


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Prof. GIDEON SHIMONI

Understanding the Genesis of Jewish Nationalism
Wednesday 22 October 2008

Gideon Shimoni is Professor Emeritus at the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is former head of the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and held the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations at the same university. He has written extensively on the history of Zionism, contemporary Jewry and Israel’s relations with the diaspora, and is the author of Jews and Zionism: The South African Experience 1910-1967 (Oxford University Press, 1980), The Zionist Ideology (Brandeis University & University Press of New England, 1995) and Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa (Brandeis University & University Press of New England, 2003).

Assoc. Prof. L.H.M. LING

The Red Dust of World Politics: Paradigms of Self and Other Compared between The Quiet American and Dream of the Red Chamber
Thursday 24 April 2008

L.H.M. Ling is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at The New School in New York. Her research interests include critical security studies, transcultural politics and postcolonial discourses, modalities of transnationalism, ethnographies of knowledge production and international development practice, and emerging regional economies. Her geocultural area of interest centers on East Asia and its relations with the West. Her books include Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (London: Routledge, forthc.), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou.
http://www.gpia.info/node/318


Recording:
Assoc. Prof. L.H.M. Ling on "The Red Dust of World Politics"
Part I / 09:03
Part II / 09:53
Part III / 08:08
Part IV / 10:12
Part V / 10:12
Part VI / 07:56

Prof. SURAIYA FAROQHI

Everyday Life in the Ottoman Empire: 18th Century Craftsmen in Istanbul
Friday 28 March 2008

Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (now retired) and Professor of History at Bilgi University in Istanbul. She has written extensively on various aspects of Ottoman history, and is the author of The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004) and Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005). A volume with the title Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftsmen Under the Ottomans will be published by I.B. Tauris hopefully in 2009.
http://www.islamstudien.lmu.de/Suraiya_Faroqhi_I.html

Recording:
Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi on "Everyday Life in the Ottoman Empire"
Part I / 11:52
Part II / 10:00
Part III / 07:59
Part IV / 09:58
Part V / 10:30

Prof. THOMAS POGGE

World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities
Friday 29 February 2008

Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008, 2nd ed.) and John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. With support from the Australian Research Council, the BUPA Foundation and the European Commission, he currently heads a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.patent2.org).
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~tp4/

Recording:
Prof. Thomas Pogge on "World Poverty"
Part I / 10:00
Part II / 10:03
Part III / 10:13
Part IV / 10:09
Part V / 10:08
Part VI / 04:37