The BSIS Guest Lecture Series brings together acclaimed academics and practitioners from around the world in the fields of politics, diplomacy, international relations and security, cultural studies and law over the course of 2019-20. Building on the success of our 20th Anniversary Lecture Series, we are delighted to welcome over a dozen inspiring high-profile scholars from various parts of Europe and the United States throughout this academic year. As one site of a leading UK university, Brussels School of International Studies of the University of Kent offers a number of postgraduate taught and research degree programmes ranging from International Conflict and Security to International Migration, International Relations, International Development, International Political Economy, Political Strategy and Communication, and International Law and Human Rights Law.
The guest lectures are free to the public, first come first served. We are looking forward to welcoming you for intellectual engagement and debate on selected Thursdays throughout 2019-20.
Registration: Eventbrite registration links are available for each lecture
Location: Auditorium
Brussels School of International Studies
Boulevard Louis Schmidt 2a, 1040 Etterbeek, Brussels
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Spring 2020
16 January
Prof. Jan Kubik & Marta Kotwas (University College London)
A cultural turn in the study of populism: legacies and mobilising discourses
https://kubikkotwas16jan.eventbrite.com
30 January
Amb. John Macgregor
Prague Velvet Revolution 1989 – I was there
https://macgregor30jan.eventbrite.com
6 February
Mr. John Sturrock (Core Solutions)
Mediation in a Changing Climate: Can we move back from Confrontation to Consensus?
https://sturrock6feb.eventbrite.com
13 February
Dr Suhraiya Jivraj (University of Kent) and Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS)
Decolonising the Curriculum or University: Success & Pitfalls
https://jivraysabaratnam13feb.eventbrite.com
20 February
Prof. Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford)
Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit
https://nicolaidis20feb.eventbrite.com
27 February
Prof. Séan Molloy (University of Kent)
Realist Ethics: Hegel and E.H. Carr
https://molloy27feb.eventbrite.com
5 March
Prof. Viacheslav Morozov (University of Tartu)
The long 1980s: class, gender and late Soviet neoliberalism
https://morozov5march.eventbrite.com
12 March
Mr. Matti Maasikas (EU representative to Ukraine)
The borders of Europe?
https://maasikas12march.eventbrite.com
19 March
Dr. Dubravka Žarkov (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Feminist conceptualisations of war rapes: concepts and consequences
https://dubravka19march.eventbrite.com
02 April
Prof. Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş (University of Pamukkale), Prof. Emel Coşkun (Düzce University) and Dr. Lucy Williams (University of Kent)
Book Launch – Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan