• The Department runs a series of seminars throughout the year on a range of topics. These offer an opportunity for staff and students of the department to hear about the latest developments in the subject as well as the cutting-edge research which is taking place within the department.

Recently held and upcoming seminars

Summer 2012 

Wednesday 30 May 16.00: KE 322

Wing Commander Anthony Robinson F.C.M.I., OP, RAF (retd)

'NATO and international relations'

Wednesday 06 June 16.00: DW LIB SR

Jean Monnet Seminar

Dr. Nathaniel Copsey (Aston University)

‘Assessing Poland’s Power and Influence in the EU:

The case of the eastern partnership’

Wednesday 13 June 16.00: DW LIB SR

MATTHEW GOODWIN (University of Nottingham)

‘Forever a False Dawn? The Collapse of the British National Party, and Implications for the Right-Wing Fringe’

Wednesday 20 June 16.00: DW LIB SR

IRENE PALACIOS BRIHUEGA (University of Leicester)

 ‘Democracies without outcomes? Measuring and analysing

the quality of democracy in Europe’

Summer 2012

        Dr. Laura Morales (University of Leicester)

Does the citizenship regime matter? The participation of immigrants and their children in local and national elections in Europe

        Verena Wisthaler (University of Leicester)

Immigration and identity politics: the perspective of ethnic minorities

Spring 2012

       Jean Monnet Seminar

Dr. Ann Kennard (Visiting Research Fellow: University of the West of England)

Does the ENP have a role in preserving border region cultures in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood?

        Jean Monnet Seminar

Dr. Anastasia Mitrofanova (Centre for Euroatlantic Studies of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia)

The Eastern Initiatives of the EU: A Russian Perspective

Professor Bob Brecher (Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics: University of Brighton)

 Torture

Dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur (FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration and Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège University of Liège)

Diasporas and Elections: Emigrants' external voting rights and their impact on host and home societies

Dr. Oliver Daddow (University of Leicester)

Tony Blair, David Cameron and Liberal Interventionism in British Foreign Policy

Dr. Simona Guerra (Loughborough University)

Keep the faith: Euroscepticism and religious organisations in Brussels

Autumn 2011

       Jean Monnet seminar

Ileana Racheru (University of Bucharest)

Europeanisation in Moldova

Stephen Hopkins (University of Leicester)

The Politics of Life-Writing in Post-conflict Northern Ireland

Alan Doig (Visiting Professor, Centre for Public Services Management, Liverpool Business School)

State Crime and the Dark Side of Liberal Democracy’

Professor Mark Bevir (University of California)

Democratic Governance: A Genealogy

Dr. Adam Quinn (University of Birmingham

Debating decline: how to understand the waning of American power

Convenor: Ms Karen Henderson

Previous Politics Research Seminars 2003-11