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Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his historical context

A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his friends

A discussion about the social aspects of the life of the writer William Godwin- how he interacted with his friends and how he was seen by his peers.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Introduction to William Godwin

The first part in this series gives a biography of the writer William Godwin, exploring his background and the key points from his life.
Global Economic Governance Programme

Civil Conflict in the Current Era: New Patterns or Same Old?

Global Economic Governance Seminar, 9 November 2012. Has there been, as many have argued, a precipitous decline in civil conflicts during the past decade?
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Networked journalism and the age of social discovery [2012]

Nic Newman, former Future Media Controller, BBC and RISJ Visiting Fellow.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Ten years that Shook the Media World [2012]

Launch of a new Reuters Institute report, 'Ten Years that Shook the Media World'.
Alumni Weekend

Going into Politics? Tales from an Academic in Westminster

Professor Marc Stears reflects on his experiences. Marc Stears is a Professor of Political Theory and fellow at University College.
St Catherine's College

Defining Moments in International Relations Since 1962

The world of our Founders was one in which the space race heated up, and the Cold War froze over. In October 1962, as the College's first cohort of undergraduates arrived, Cuba was bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Alumni Weekend

American election Prospects and Consequences: 2012 and Beyond

Director of the Rothermere American Institute Dr Nigel Bowles' intellectual interests lie in American political history and, in particular, in the history of the US Presidency.
Alumni Weekend

Party Games: Coalition Government in British Politics

Professor Hawkins will look at the history of coalition government in British politics over the past 200 years and discuss some of the constitutional implications of the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
Alumni Weekend

How Hollywood Votes and Why it Matters

Using 2012 as a starting point, Dr Tim Stanley goes back into history and considers the different ways that Hollywood has influenced US elections.
Alumni Weekend

Has the West Had It?

In his keynote lecture at Alumni Weekend 2012, Lord Patten of Barnes attempts to shed light and his particular perspective on whether "the West has had it".
Interviews on Great Writers

Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim

Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing.
Interviews on Great Writers

Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe

Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

What is the relationship between new migration and community change?

Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law

Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons

Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons".
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Homophily is not an explanation

Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto

Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs

David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism.

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