PSA Parliament Education Service Seminar Day

Following on from the success of last year's PSA-Parliament Education Service Seminar Day, we will again be collaborating in order to bring you an event on the theme of: Parliament, Globalisation and Ideology.

This Seminar Day will bring together Politics teachers, politicians and academics to share in a dialogue around the current place of the nation state in the global order, with a particular focus on how ideological frameworks conceptualise the state within global politics today. Globalisation was seen to herald the death knell of the traditional nation state and its ability to monitor and control the boundary between the domestic and the international arenas. However, the rise of populist politics and moves towards economic protectionism across the Western world, in light of the Brexit vote and the Trump Presidency, have highlighted a reassertion of the nation state in global politics. These developments have also split political parties and arguably realigned the battle of ideas and the conventional left-right divide. They have also opened up questions regarding the robustness and role of democratic processes as well as challenging traditional approaches to protest and dissent.

We are pleased to announce our academic speakers for this event will be Natasha Underhill from Nottingham Trent University, speaking on the issue of globalisation and the nation state, and Victoria Honeyman from University of Leeds, speaking on the interconnection between globalisation and ideologies. The event will be held at the Houses of Parliament in Central London.

In order to book a place please complete the Booking Form via this link and email this back to David Carr via teachertraining@parliament.uk.  For more information please email me via: josh.niderost@psa.ac.uk