Forthcoming Events at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Forthcoming Events at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

January

International Refugee Law Seminar Series: Comparative approaches to the Use of international human rights law in asylum cases in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States
Speakers: Professor Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)
Date: Tuesday 31 January
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Commonwealth research Seminar Series: From Malaysia to Mauritius: Tracking education and training as a theme in Commonwealth intergovernmental processes in 2009-2012
Speakers: Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, Research Fellow, ICwS
Date: Tuesday 31 January
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)


February

BOOK LAUNCH: George Price, A Life Revealed: The Authorised Biography, Ian Randle Press (2011) by Godfrey Smith
Speakers: Godfrey P Smith
Commentator: Lord Michael Ashcroft
Date: Wednesday 1 February
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Room 349

Caribbean Seminar Series: Decriminalising Homosexuality In The Caribbean: The Belize Case In Commonwealth Perspective And Beyond
Speakers: Godfrey P. Smith
Date: Friday 3 February
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)

Caribbean Seminar Series: East Indian Civil Society in the Pre-Independence Caribbean
Speakers:
Feriel Kissoon, King's College London: "How East Indians became West Indians": the Indigenization of East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago 1910-1930.
Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan University: “The British Guiana East Indian Association: Indo-Guyanese politics and civil society”
Date: Wednesday 15 February
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)

Black Britain Seminar Series: The Art of Being Black
Speakers: David Neita
Date: Monday 20 February
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)

International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The supervision of international refugee law
Speakers: Professor James C. Simeon (York University Toronto)
Date: Tuesday 21 February
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies


New Challenges in Refugee Integration seminar series: Integration: Global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something)
Speakers: Professor Alastair Kenneth Ager, Columbia University
Chair: Jasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist and Author
Date: Thursday 23 February
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies



Caribbean Seminar Series: Panel: Small Territories, Global Issues: Governance and Corruption in the Caribbean
Speakers: Peter Clegg, UWE: The Turks and Caicos Islands: Can the cloud be banished?
Dylan Vernon, ISA: Our Turn to Feed: Big Implications of Rampant Political Clientelism in Small State Belize
Date: Wednesday 29 February
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)


March

Behind the Headlines: The Politics of Economic Reforms in India Today
Speakers: Vijay Joshi (Oxford) and Lawrence Saez (SOAS)
Date: Thursday 1 March
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)

Decolonisation conference
Date: Friday 9 March
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)

International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The fast-developing field of LGBTI refugee law
Speakers: S Chelvan (No5 Chambers)
Date: Tuesday 13 March
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies


Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: The Commonwealth Secretary-General - from Smith to Sharma
Speakers: Stuart Mole (ICwS / CAB)
Date: Tuesday 13 March
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)

Black Britain Seminar Series: Medieval Perceptions
Speakers: Tessa Hosking
Date: Tuesday 13 March
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 349 (SH)

New Challenges in Refugee Integration seminar series: Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees
Speakers: Chair: Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
Date: Thursday 15 March
Time: 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Parliament

Behind the Headlines: Are We Seeing the Best or the Worst of the Indian State?: A Public Debate
Speakers: Debate between Professor James Manor and Professor Christopher Jaffrelot
Christophe Jaffrelot, Centre d'Etudes et de la Recherches Internationales, Paris
James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Date: Thursday 15 March
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)

Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Crown, the media and the Commonwealth
Speakers: Charles Anson; Tom Corby; Keshini Navaratnam
Date: Tuesday 20 March
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)

Afro-Indians in Gujarat
Date: Monday 26 March
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 349 (Senate House)

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Reporting on The Truth & Justice Commission of Mauritius
Speakers: Dr Vijaya Teelock (University of Mauritius)
Date: Wednesday 28 March
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)

ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong?
Speakers: John Smith, CBE; Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM; Simon Gillett; David Salmon; Don Barton
Further speakers TBC
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)



April

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Rebuilding Sierra Leone's Evidence Base in the Post Conflict Period
Speakers: Anne Thurston (ICwS)
Date: Tuesday 24 April
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)



May

Behind the Headlines: Trends in the Uttar Pradesh elections 2012
Speakers: Oliver Heath (Royal Holloway), Lucia Michelutti (Oxford)
Date: Tuesday 1 May
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: King's College London

International Refugee Law Seminar Series: Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory
Speakers: Professor Patricia Tuitt
Date: Thursday 10 May
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What happened to 'garibi hatao'? India's Congress Party and the politics of poverty
Speakers: James Chiriyankandath (ICwS)
Date: Tuesday 22 May
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)

Cultures of Decolonisation, c.1945-1970
Speakers: Keynote: Dr Bill Schwarz
Convenors: Dr Claire Wintle (University of Brighton); Dr Ruth Craggs (St Mary’s University College)
Date: Wednesday 30 May
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 349 (Senate House)


June

International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments
Speakers: Professor Geoff Gilbert
Date: Tuesday 5 June
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)

A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
Date: Thursday 7 June
Time: 10:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 349 (SH)


July

The War of 1812: Memory and Myth, History and Historiography
Date: Thursday 12 July - Saturday 14 July
Time: 13:00 - 17:30
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)


October
ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indigenisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Date: Thursday 25 October
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)