Busy Week for Dr Keating

21/09/2011

It's been a busy few days for Dr Michael Keating.

On Wednesday, the 20th of September, Dr Keating was at Chatham House, participating in the interdisciplinary workshop EU-UK Energy Security: Perceptions and Realities, organised by Exeter University's Energy Security in a Multipolar World research cluster. The workshop incuded participants from government and quasi-governmental agencies, the private sector, NGOs, and intergovernmental organisations. More is to come on this topic!

On Friday, the 16th of September, Dr Keating was at the University of Warwick, participating in a pedagogical workshop titled Teaching Political Economy, organised by the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of the British International Studies Association (BISA). Discussion covered different perspectives in political economy and key topics to address, using more diverse and innovative teaching methods, and new teaching technologies. This was particularly useful as Dr Keating is now teaching 'Global Political Economy' to the MA IR students.

Between the 14th and 15th of September, also at Warwick, Dr Keating attended IPEG's 40th anniversary conference IPEG@40: Life begins... or midlife crisis?. Papers and discussions were organised loosely around the work of Susan Strange, IPEG's founder, and there was a series of keynote lectures by former IPEG Convenors (Randall Germain, Paul Langley, Geoffrey Underhill, and Nicola Phillips), as well as an editor's round table featuring Ronen Palan, Len Seabrooke and Rorden Wilkinson.

Finally, on Wednesday the 21st of September, Dr Keating took his FYS102 Utopia and Dystopia students on a field trip to the British Library, where they experienced the Out of This World exhibition. It closes on the 25th of this month, so see it while you have the chance!

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/n/1193.aspx