Conference RSVP

Dear all


Just to remind you that the conference THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN DISCOURSES OF STATE-BUILDING is now drawing closer.


The event starts at 9.00am (registration 8.30am) on Friday 27th. Venue: The Boardroom, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.



Please RSVP at:


http://statebuildingconference.eventbrite.co.uk




Hope you can all make it.




Best wishes
 
The Organisers

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCE: “THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN DISCOURSES OF STATE-BUILDING.” Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster

Fri, 27th of April 2012

Programme

8.30 - 9.00

Registration 

9.00 - 9.15

Welcoming address

Roland Dannreuther, Head of Department 

9.15 - 10.45

Panel 1

Statebuilding and Society: Discursive Formations and Conceptual Approaches

‘Authority vs Transformation: Accounting for Contemporary Statebuilding Through Its Absences’

Marta Iniguez de Herredia (LSE)

‘Building States Without Citizens? Postconflict Societies and Contested Citizenship’

Branka Marijan (Wilfrid Laurier University)

‘State-building as Discursive Formation: A Gendered Project?’

Audrey Reeves (University of Bristol)

‘The Discourse of Unintended Consequences in State-building Research’

Gezim Visoka (Dublin City University)

10.45 - 11.45

Panel 2

The State of Society: Ownership and the Democratization of Power

‘The Rise of the Social and the End(s) of Democracy’

David Chandler (University of Westminster)

‘Ownership Discourses in State-Building’

Dominik Zaum (LSE)

11.45 - 12.00 

Coffee break

12.00 - 1.15

 Panel 3

Working through the Social Question: State-building, ‘realpolitik’ and Material Interests

‘From Bismarck to Petraeus: The Question of the Social and the Social Question in Counterinsurgency’

Patricia Owens, University of Sussex

‘Governance and the Construction of the Social: The Truth behind Intervention and State-building’

Jonathan Joseph, University of Kent

1.15 -2.15 

Lunch break

2.15- 3.45

 Panel 4

Continuity or Change? Sovereignty, Hybridity and Reconstruction

‘Minority Rights in the Process of (Sub)State-building: The EU’s Role in Kosovo and the Question of (Ethnic) Sovereignty’

Marius Calu (Queen Mary)

‘Stability through Good Governance, Prosperity through Self-determination’

Kushtrim Bylykbashi (University of Westminster)

‘Good Governance for Statebuilding in the West Bank, Palestine: Fayyadism, Hybridity and Sovereignty’

Alaa Tartir (LSE)

‘From Post-Conflict to Post-Disaster Statebuilding: The Case of Haiti’

Zoi Vardanika (University of Reading)

3.45 - 4.00 

Coffee break

4.00 - 5.30

 Panel 5

Therapy, Justice and Self-Determination: Lessons from the Balkans - Dilemmas of State-building

‘Therapeutic Statebuilding: International Trauma Advocacy and Croatian Veteran Politics’

Vanessa Pupavac, University of Nottingham

‘Serbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and "Coming to Terms with the Past"’

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik, Aston University

‘Self-Determination in Theory and Practice: Lessons from the Balkans’

James Ker-Lindsay

5.30- 5.45

Closing remarks

Elisa Randazzo, Pol Bargués, Jessica Schmidt

5.45

Reception

Conference Venue:

The Boardroom 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW