United Kingdom Seminars

Upcoming Events

Also see the IES Center for British Studies website.

• " 'A Host of Scotch Sophists': Jeremy Bentham and Scottish Moral Philosophy"
  
  Speaker: Doug Long, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario
  Tuesday February 25th, 12-1:30 PM, 202 Barrows
  
  
  
• "New Labour and the Universities: an Anglo-American Perspective"
  
  Speaker: Robert Stevens, Fifth UCSC Chancellor (1987-1991) and former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
  Thursday February 27th, 2003, 4:00 PM, Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
  Co-sponsored with the Institute of Governmental Studies.
  Paper by Robert Stevens, "Politics and Higher Education"
  
  
  
• "New Labour's Welfare State"
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mark Bevir, Dept. Political Science, UCBerkeley
  Wednesday March 19th, 4:00 PM, Harris Room
  
  
  
• "The Public Meeting and Ideas of 'the public' in British Politics, 1900-1939"
  
  Speaker: Jon Lawrence, University of Liverpool
  Monday April 14th, 4:00 PM, IES Seminar Room
  
  
  
• "Equality and Human Rights in Northern Ireland"

  UK Seminar invites you to a brown bag lunchtime seminar with British Minister Des Brown MP (Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Northern Ireland) discussing "Equality and Human Rights in Northern Ireland" Co-sponsored by the Harris Seminar series.
  Friday October 11th, 12-1.30pm Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall

Past Events

• October 25, 2001: "Making Drama Out of Crises: Political Theater on Two Continents", David Edgar

  David Edgar, a British playwright working on a two-part cycle of plays for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one play focused primarily on the Democratic and the other on the Republican side of the campaign, "The Drama of Politics and the Politics of Drama." Co-sponsored by the Harris Seminar series.

• December 4, 2001: "Food Safety and Political Change in the U.K", Dr. Douglas Powell: University of Guelph (Canada), Department of Plant Agriculture

  Douglas Powell completed a doctoral degree in the department of food science at the University of Guelph in 1996, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture and director of the Food Safety Network at the University of Guelph.

  Dr. Powell continues as a freelance journalist, and his first book, Mad Cows and Mother's Milk, was published in 1997. His next book, Reclaiming Dinner, will be published next year.

• August 30, 2001: "Labour: Old and New", Professor Andrew Gamble: University of Sheffield (UK), Department of Politics.

  Andrew Gamble joined the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield in 1973, becoming a Professor there in 1986. He is a former Chairman of the Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was Pro-Vice Chancellor between 1994 and 1998. He is also the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC), at the University of Sheffield. He is joint editor of both New Political Economy and Political Quarterly. He has won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize (1972) and the Mitchell Prize (1977). His many books include The Conservative Nation (1974); An Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought(1981); Britain in Decline (1981); The Free Economy and the Strong State (1988); Hayek: the Iron Cage of Liberty (1996); and Politics and Fate (2000). a.m.gamble@sheffield.ac.uk

  For more information contact Mark Bevir (mbevir@socrates.berkeley.edu) or James Vernon (jvernon@socrates.berkeley.edu).

• March 9, 2001: "Interpreting Governance: Narratives of Public Sector Reform: A Colloquium"

  The colloquium on "Interpreting Governance" provides an opportunity to explore these issues through recent work by Professor Mark Bevir (Dept. of Political Science, UC Berkeley) and Professor Rod Rhodes (Dept. of Politics, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne & President of the Political Studies Association, UK).

• November 13, 2000: "Standing Down: Passing the Torch After Ten Years as Leader of the Scottish National Party", Alex Salmond, MSP, MP.

  After ten years as head of the SNP, Mr. Salmond announced at the party's Annual National Conference in September that he would not seek re-election. "The Party is now at its strongest position ever," Salmond said in announcing his decision. "We are the Official Opposition in the Scots Parliament, we have over 200 local councillors, we lead the Scottish opinion polls, and are at over 30 per cent in the Westminster polls. I am absolutely convinced that the SNP will win the next Scottish election, and take Scotland forward to independence."

• June 29, 2000: "A European Defense Identity: What Does It Mean for America?", Peter Gooderham.

  Mr Gooderham joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1983. The main focus of his career has been on defence and security issues. He served as a member of the UK Delegation to NATO from 1985-87, working principally on arms control questions. He was, in addition, Deputy Head of the FCO’s Security Policy Department from 1993-96, overseeing UK policy towards NATO and the Western European Union.

  Mr Gooderham has also worked on Middle East issues ­ he was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Riyadh from 1990-93 (ie the period including Desert Storm); on Africa ­ he headed up the FCO’s Nigeria Desk from 1987-89; and Latin America (Desk Officer for Argentina from 1983-85).

  Before taking up his position in the Washington Embassy, Mr Gooderham worked as Counsellor (Economic, Social and Environment) at the UK Mission to the UN in New York from 1996-99.

  Mr Gooderham is a graduate in Politics and Economics from Newcastle University in England. Prior to joining the British Diplomatic Service he completed a PhD thesis at Bristol University in modern Russian and Soviet history. His research took him to Moscow State University, where he was a British Council exchange scholar from 1978-79. He also taught Soviet history for two years at Birmingham University.

• May 5, 2000: "Modern Britain: An Examination of Devolution and the Revitalization of Britain's External Relationships"

  A visit with Robert Pierce, Counsellor, Political and Public Affairs, British Embassy, Washington D.C.

• February 28, 2000: "The Role of Universities in the New British Economy: Experience from Glasgow", Dr. Cathy Garner (Director of Research Enterprise), Billy Harkin (Manager of Strategic Business Development of the University of Glasgow, accompanied by Bryn Williams (Commercialization Manager) of the University of Glasgow. Their biographies can be accessed from the staff listing at http://www.gla.ac.uk/R-E/staff.html.

• October 5, 1999: "Europe and the New Millennium", Dr. Cathy Garner (Director of Research Enterprise), Billy Harkin (Manager of Strategic Business Development of the University of Glasgow, accompanied by Bryn Williams (Commercialization Manager) of the University of Glasgow