Session Three: 11.45-12.45
Chair: Professor Kalypso Nicoladis (DPIR and St Antony?s College)
Paper: Dr Edward Keene (DPIR and Christ Church), Social Status, Social Closure and Civilization: an Essay on the Idea of a Normative Power Europe

The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.

Speakers:

Session Two: 10.45-11.45
Chair: Professor Andrew Hurrell (DPIR and Balliol College)
Paper: Professor Iver B. Neumann (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Status is Cultural: Durkheimian Poles and Weberian Russians Seek Great Power Status

The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.

Speakers:

Session One: 9.30-10.30
Chair: Professor Yuen Foong Khong (DPIR and Nuffield College)
Paper: Professor Deborah Welch Larson (University of California, Los Angeles), Managing Rising Powers: The Role of Status Concerns

The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.

Speakers:

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

12-1.30pm
Nigeria: Economy and Society
Chair: JDY Peel. Discussant: Bjorn Beckman

Ruth Watson:
Gavin, Garveyism, and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan

Kathryn Nwajiaku:
The politics of oil and identity in Nigeria: A political economy of ethnic nationalism

Gunilla Andrae:
Organising the Informal Economy: Union power and civil society in Nigeria

AR Mustapha:
Why there is Agrarian Capitalism in Nigeria: The Zimbabwean Farmers in the Nigerian Middlebelt

FRIDAY

3-4.30pm
Weber & Marx
Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch. Discussant: Bob Shenton

Jeremy Seekings:
Webers ghost and the study of stratification in South Africa

Kate Meagher:
Weber meets Godzilla: Social Networks and the Spirit of Capitalism

Swagato Sarkar:
Marxs politics vis-a-vis post-Marxists

FRIDAY

1.30-2.30pm
Agrarian Societies
Chair: Peter Lawrence, Discussant: Abdul Raufu Mustapha

Barbara Harriss-White:
Taking the part of petty commodity producers

Judith Heyer:
The political economy of development in an industrialising rural area of South India

Lindsay Whitfield:
A New Kind of Agrarian Capitalism in Ghana: Capitalist farmers in the horticulture export industry.

FRIDAY

11-12.30pm
Political and Development Theories
Chair: Valpy Fitzgerald. Discussant: Martin Murray

Bjorn Beckman:
Where do effective institutions come from?

Sara Dorman:
Primary contradictions: thinking about state formation in post-colonial Africa

Alastair Frasier:
Participation, liberation and tyranny - from JS Mill to PRSPs

Deborah Bryceson:
Discovery and Denial: Social Science Theory and Interdisciplinarity in African Studies