The Globalisation Lectures
The Globalisation Lectures are a series of evening lectures (usually four per year), attracting high profile speakers on a range of issues in globalisation. Entry is free and booking is not required, however seating is on a first come, first seated basis. The lectures are convened by Professor Gilbert Achcar.
Previous Globalisation Lectures:
Men who Tiptoe into their Marital Bedrooms: The Novelist and Dictatorship | Hisham Matar Watch video
Inclusion and Participation: a New Agenda for the Globalised Economy | Heiner Flassbeck Watch video
The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East | Dr Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Prize Winner) Watch Video
World Literature and World Languages | Tariq Ali Watch video
For a Green and Just Way out of the Global Crisis | Dr Susan George Listen to audio recording
The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis | Profs Alex Callinicos & Leo Panitch Listen to audio recording
The World’s Third Spaces: Neither Global Nor National? | Prof Saskia Sassen Listen to audio recording
The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire | Prof Ellen Meiksins Wood Listen to audio recording
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Forthcoming Events
Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Aziz Al-Azmeh is CEU University Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest. Among his books in English are Islams and Modernities, The Times of History, and Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Christian, Muslim and Pagan Polities.6 February 2013, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Women and the ‘Arab Spring’: Lessons from Iran?
Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Trudeau Fellow, Department of Equity Studies, York University, Toronto
The swift turn that the movement for democracy and social justice has taken in favour of Islamists signals the challenges ahead for progressive social forces. This paper asks whether there are lessons to be learned from Iran’s 1979 revolution.
6 March 2013, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
