58th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
Democracy, Governance and Conflict: Dilemmas of Theory and Practice
1 - 3 April 2008
Swansea University |
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The 58th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association was hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University. |
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Video Highlights
As a follow up we are delighted to make available some video recordings of key events from the conference. |
The Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture
Professor Andrew Gamble (Cambridge) gave the lecture on the first evening of conference in Faraday Lecture Theatre, Swansea University. His topic was The Western Ideology. The lecture was chaired by Professor Paul Heywood (Nottingham) |
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58th Annual PSA Conference Plenary Panel
The conference plenary panel was on Iraq and After: Dilemmas of Theory and Practice. It took place on the second afternoon of conference in the Taliesin Theatre, Swansea University. The panel was chaired by Professor Jack Spence (Kings, London) and the speakers were:-
Professor Eric Davis (Rutgers) on Taking democracy seriously in Iraq
Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham) on Iraq, Iran and the geo-politics of the Middle East
and Professor Gareth Stansfield (Exeter) on Taking conflict seriously in Iraq |
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Specialist Group Overseas Guest Speakers
A number of distinguished overseas guest speakers contributed to a series of specialist group panels, all of which took place in the James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, during the course of the conference. |
| Professor Virginia Sapiro (Boston) spoke on Revisiting women, governance and conflict as a guest of the Women and Politics Group |
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| Professor Amita Shastri (San Francisco) spoke on Politics, democracy and conflict in Sri Lanka as a guest of the Development Politics, Ethno politics and South East Asia Groups |
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| Professor Joyce Mushaben (Missouri-St Louis) spoke on The globalisation of protest and the return of ungovernability as a guest of the German Politics Group. |
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Picture Gallery
We are also delighted to publish a selection of photographs from the annual conference dinner, taken by photographer, Philip Jenkins. |
Conference Review
Please click on the headings above for a short review of the conference by the conference convenors. |
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Archive of Conference Proceedings: 1994 - 2008
The on-line conference papers are available here |
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An Adobe Acrobat (pdf) version of the hard copy conference programme is available here. |
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