25 March Workshop on the Financial Crisis
10/01/2011
The Richmond University Colloquium In International And Public Affairs
This year’s theme is on: “Understanding the Global Financial Crisis”
Far from registering signs of optimism, 2011 has opened with expressions of concern that two years after the financial meltdown sparked by the collapse of Lehman brothers, the global economy and financial system, far from recovering, has entered an era of unprecedented economic and political turmoil.
But what are the origins of the present turmoil and the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis? Is capitalism a system that undergoes periods of crisis and renewal as argued by a number of economists over the last one hundred years? Is this crisis, moreover, signalling a power shift to the global East, as Giovanni Arrighi and others have recently maintained? Finally, is there a political cure to this financial crisis, being post-Keynesian, radical or otherwise which could potentially re-launch a social programme addressing the failures of neo-liberalism at the national level, while reviving the contours of the global economy?
This Richmond University workshop is set to answer these, and other, questions in a comprehensive and scholarly manner.
Speakers and participants include:
Professor Bülent Gökay, Keele University
Professor Stephen Haseler, London Metropolitan University and Global Policy Institute
Professor Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, University of London
Professor Engelbert Stockhammer, Kington University
Professor Robert Wade, LSE, University of London
Welcome address:
Professor Alex Seago, Richmond University
Delegate fee: £20, (£10 concessions). Free for Richmond University students & staff
To reserve your position, your cheque, payable to “Richmond University”, should be sent to Ms Jelena Pivovarova, Department of Social Sciences, Richmond University, Queen’s Road, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey TW10 6JP, Tel: 02073688437, E-mail: jelena.pivovarova@richmond.ac.uk
The Richmond University Colloquium in International and Public Affairs (RUCIPA) is supported by Richmond University’s community of scholars. It is inter-disciplinary in nature and scope aiming at creating a global academic forum expressing a variety of scholarly viewpoints. RUCIPA is supported by the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (quarterly, Routledge), and develops synergies withother institutions and global networks of scholars in the country and abroad.
For information about RU’s MA in International Relations, write to Dr. James Boys, Director, boysj@richmond.ac.uk
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