Symposium
Thinking about the state: continuities and change
2pm Wednesday 21st November 2007 (room eb-g.18)
The School of Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
Docklands Campus
University of East London
A symposium to mark the publication of The Modern State: Theories and Ideologies by Erika Cudworth, Tim Hall & John McGovern. The Symposium will be followed by a reception at 5pm (room eb-g.18)
Peter Burnham (Warwick) ‘The indispensability of state theory’
Valerie Bryson (Huddersfield) ‘Welfare states, gender and time’
David Runciman (Cambridge) 'The liberty of the moderns vs the liberty of the post-moderns'
Valerie Bryson is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Democracy and Governance at the University of Huddersfield. She is author of Feminist Debates: Issues of Policy and Practice (1999), Feminist Political Theory (2003), Gender and the Politics of Time (2007) and is co-author (with G. Blakeley) of Contemporary Political Concepts (2002) and Class and Other Four Letter Words: Classic Concepts of the Left (2005).
Peter Burnham is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Political Economy of Post War Reconstruction (1990), The Remaking of the Post-War World Economy: Robot and British Policy Making in the 1950s (2003) and is co-author of Global Restructuring: State Capital and Labour (2006) along with A. Bieler, W. Bonefeld and A. Morton.
David Runciman is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State (1997); ‘Sovereign Debt and Private Creditors: New Legal Sanction or the Enduring Power of States?’ (with Helen Thompson), New Political Economy, 11, 4 (2006) and The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
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