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On Friday 25^th April, Dan Godshaw, of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation, is giving a presentation entitled 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora'. He is also bringing with him two Rwandan genocide survivors who live in the UK.

 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora',

by Dan Godshaw.

Friday 25th April

5-6.30pm, Social Studies Building S0.20

Everyone welcome

Dan Godshaw is UK Projects Coordinator at Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico). Between 2011 and 2013, he directed ‘Keeping Memories: Rwandans in the UK’, a ground-breaking project that empowered genocide survivors to tell their stories and enabled others to learn from their experiences. Dan has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has conducted academic research with UK-based Rwandans. A passionate advocate of migrant rights, he works to support detainees at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre and is currently developing a health outreach project for refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton.

Ben Clift’s participation in the PSA 2014 conference panel ‘Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform,’ sponsored by British Journal of Politics & International Relations, was filmed and will soon be available on the PSA Website:

Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform

The aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis continues to frame political and economic debate. The three papers in this panel relate to different aspects of the post-crisis period.

Panel Chair: Dr Andrew Baker (Queen's University Belfast)

Panel Discussant: Professor Michael Moran (University of Manchester Business School)

Panel Members:

• Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield) 'Masters of the Universe but Slaves of the Market: Competition and Crisis'.
• Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) 'The Missing Party: the European banks, the Financial crisis, and the Euro Zone'.
• Professor Ben Clift (91福利) 'Its Mostly Fiscal: Post Crisis Economic Governance, IMF/Advanced Economy Relations and Evolving Fiscal Policy Ideas'.

This panel was sponsored by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations who held a drinks reception afterwards.

Philippe Schmitter will be visiting the department on May 13th and 14th to lead a and also give a talk as part of the .

Philippe Schmitter is Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. He was a member of the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2004, having spent ten years as a faculty member at Stanford University and fifteen years at the University of Chicago.

Schmitter has conducted research on comparative politics and regional integration in both Latin America and Western Europe, with special emphasis on the politics of organized interests. With Gerhard Lehmbruch, he edited Trends toward Corporatist Intermediation and Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making. He is the co-author (with Guillermo O’Donnell) of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy (4 vols.) and is currently completing a book on Essaying the Consolidation of Democracy. In recent years, he has devoted increasing attention to the emerging polity of the European Union, first in a co-authored book on Governance in the European Union (with Gary Marks, Fritz Scharpf and Wolfgang Streeck) and later in a book entitled: How to Democratize the European Union ....and Why Bother? With Alexandre Trechsel, he has written a Green Paper for the Council of Europe on The Future of Democracy in Europe.

Schmitter has been the recipient of numerous professional awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim in 1978. He was also a vice-president of the American Political Science Association. He received the award for lifetime achievement in European politics by the ECPR in 2008, the award for lifetime achievement in the study of European integration by EUSA, the Mattei Dogan Prize of the IPSA, and the Johan Skytte Prize by Uppsala University – all in 2009.

Philippe Schmitter’s Departmental Seminar, entitled “Thoughts on the Future of 'Real-Existing' Democracy,” will be taking place on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 from 12 pm – 1.30 pm in S0.19, Social Sciences. Light sandwiches will be served from 11.30 am in the foyer outside of the seminar room. All welcome.

A new research paper by - SPERI Paper No.10 –The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude.

You can now download the next in the SPERI Paper series Paper No.10 – The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude by Ben Clift (SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Economy, 91福利).

The paper analyses the political economy of the Hollande Presidency in France, evaluating the economic policies pursued by the French Socialist President since May 2012. It explains the limited coherence and success of economic policy under Hollande in terms of constraints operating at domestic and European levels, and through credibility concerns of financial markets. Domestically, it highlights difficulties managing the presidential majority, notably due to presidentialised factionalism within French Socialism. At the European level it explores disagreements within the Franco-German relationship over which economic ideas should underpin macroeconomic policies to tackle Europe’s recession and efforts to resolve the Eurozone crisis.

Download the paper, free, here

Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development will be visiting the 91福利 on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.