Leeds Salon: Re-enlightening debate
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Leeds Salon is a public discussion group which hosts lively and enlightening debates around contemporary social, political, cultural and scientific issues.
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Leeds Salon: Re-enlightening debate
A Leeds Salon event in conjunction with Leeds Summat and Together for Peace
Saturday 21 November 2009
Leeds University Students' Union, Meeting Room 3
3pm – 4:30pm
As part of T4P’s weekend of debate, conversation, culture and cabaret, ‘Leeds Summat’ we have invited David Chandler to discuss what we mean today when we talk about a 'global' world or 'global politics', drawing on themes from his latest book Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance.
Even before the credit crunch it was commonplace to describe the world we live in as 'global', or to preface discussions with an acceptance that the world was rapidly 'globalising'. In his presentation, David Chandler will seek to question what it means politically to understand the world in global terms. Why is it that the world has become global? When did global consciousness develop and what does it express about ourselves and our social and political relationships? Why do we think of ourselves as global citizens, with global responsibilities? Can politics even exist in a global world? Or is global politics just nation-based politics writ large or does it express a very different normative content?
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David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He is the Editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and author of numerous books on human rights, democracy and international relations
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Comment by Paul Thomas on June 9, 2009 at 8:24pm -
After a successful second Salon at Borders with Kenan Malik discussing "From Fatwa to Jihad", we are working on the next Leeds Salon on Monday 6 July when we have James Woudhuysen, Prof of Forecasting & Innovation at De Montfort University, discussing his (and Joe Kaplinsky's) book "ENERGISE: A Future For Energy Innovation".
ENERGISE argues: "The way to deal with global warming is to build a bigger, better energy supply, not to invite the state to meter your family's every use of energy at home and in the car".
Venue and time to be announced.
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Comment by Paul Thomas on May 18, 2009 at 10:47pm
- Leeds Salon @ Borders Book Shop in Leeds on Thursday 4 June has Kenan Malik - writer, broadcaster, lecturer and regular Moral Maze panellist - discussing his new book "From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy"; 6pm (for 6:15 start) to 8pm.
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