Events
On this page we list any forthcoming events relevant to the College of Social Sciences and International Studies.
Any SSIS staff or postgrads may always attend, although registration may be required (the event will specify if so). Anyone else should contact the department or the centre in question.
We also have a listing of past events.
| When | Time | Description | Add to your calendar |
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| 9 September - 9 October 2019 | 16:30 | Regional Law firm Careers speed networkingJoin us for an afternoon of networking with law firms from across the South West. Take the opportunity to talk to them about what they look for in a potential intern or trainee and what a successful application looks like. Full details | Add event |
| 17 - 19 September 2019 | 11:00 | Welcome Week Events and ScheduleEvents for incoming and current students hosted by the Department of Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 19 September - 20 December 2019 | From Damascus to AndaluciaThe message from Adib Fattel from Damascus – conveyed to you through his paintings - is a message of love, peace, tolerance and the connections that bring us together. For Adib, the world is not East or West, Islamic, Christian or Jewish, nor is it black or white. For him the world is one world, multilayered, molded by history, coloured with diversity and made more beautiful with our rich cultural heritage — be it natural or man-made. Full details | Add event | |
| 20 September 2019 | 17:30 | University of Exeter Law School in Cornwall - launch eventJoin us to celebrate this unique new venture by Exeter Law School - to teach and research law primarily as an interdisciplinary subject. Full details | Add event |
| 25 September 2019 | 16:00 | Religion and US Foreign Policy in a Postsecular World: Book Launch followed by ReceptionThe University of Exeter Politics Department is hosting a book event based on Gregorio Bettiza's new book, "Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World" (Oxford University Press: 2019), followed by a drinks reception.. Full details | Add event |
| 27 September 2019 | 15:30 | Debate with your lecturers!A student-lecturers debate, followed by a pub crawl. Full details | Add event |
| 30 September 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: “Evolution evolving”, Prof John Dupre (University of Exeter)My title refers both to changes in the theory of evolution and to changes in the processes of evolution themselves. With regard to the former, I shall discuss the gradual relaxation of the hegemonic grip of so-called neo-Darwinism, as this has had to confront insights into phenomena such as the variety of modes of inheritance and of sources of novelty, the two-way interaction between organism and environment, and the widespread significance of biological plasticity. Full details | Add event |
| 1 October 2019 | 18:30 | Careers Speed networking for Politics and IR studentsCome along to our Speed Networking evening and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics and IR degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. You will have the chance to speak with all of our 5 Alumni in 15 minute sessions. Full details | Add event |
| 2 October 2019 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar series: Professor Cristina Grasseni (Leiden University)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 2 October 2019 | 18:30 | Valuing Nature Keynote LectureThis Valuing Nature Keynote Lecture will be given by Dr Nicola Beaumont from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Full details | Add event |
| 9 October 2019 | 10:30 | CRPR Seminar Series: Thomas Vetter - (Un-)learning through new communities of practiceThis paper presents a qualitative case study analysis of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, (PFLA) which seeks to ‘kick the grain habit’ in ruminant farming by promoting, certifying and legitimizing purely pasture-fed production systems. Read through a social learning perspective, the paper traces how the PFLA has become established as a new and distinct community of practice. The role that unlearning plays in legitimizing new communities of practice such as the PFLA is highlighted. The PFLA case study informs debates about the potential role that new communities of practice can play in bringing alternative practices, knowledges, and products to peoples’ minds and markets. Thomas Vetter is a PhD candidate at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and was conducting fieldwork in the United Kingdom. His research interest lies in the transformation of agri-food systems and its implications for society, economy, state and the environment. Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: "Cultivating Bioscience Image: A New Approach to Understanding the Life Sciences and Life Science Education as Participatory Visualisation Process" David Hay (King's College London)In this paper I set out to challenge the firmly held assumption that bioscience research is a quest for knowledge and the imperative to change, develop, modify, and manipulate things. In its place I will advance a different thesis, one that situates researchers and their objects in a line of understanding. Without contesting the obvious association that bioscience is for human benefit: healthcare, economy, conservation, and the like, I will also assert that these potential gains are only half the story and that while this goes on, there is another current of research in which human and non-human sensitivities are being cultivated by the practice of research for different – more important – reasons. Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2019 | 16:00 | LEEP Seminar Series - Professor David Edwards - Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity lossABSTRACT: Expansion of farming is the biggest driver of the global extinction crisis. In this talk I will explore options for minimising the biodiversity impact of farming, focusing on oil palm and cattle in Colombia. BIO: David Edwards is Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Sheffield, UK. He works at the nexus of land-use change, biodiversity and policy, and he has worked extensively in SE Asia and Colombia since 2006. His work has brought to light the impacts of tropical land-use change and habitat disturbance on biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning and services. He is on the Editorial Board of Current Biology. (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/edwards). Full details | Add event |
| 16 October 2019 | 9:30 | Research Review GroupFull details | Add event |
| 18 October 2019 | 10:00 | Rob Merkin: Plenary Session, Asia-Pacific Insurance ConferenceAsia-Pacific Insurance Conference October 2019, Singapore. Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2019 | 15:00 | St Luke's Day Lecture by Professor Daniel Mujis (Head of Research at Ofsted)Lecture title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2019 | 17:30 | Penryn Campus: Where your Law degree can take you - alumni discussion panelCome along to our Alumni discussion panel and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Law degrees!. Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2019 | 17:30 | Careers Discussion at Exeter Law School Cornwall / Skol an Lagha KareskCome along to our Alumni discussion panel and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Law degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Law Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice careers in law. There will be a drinks and nibbles reception afterwardsin Exchange RED, where you will have chance to speak with all the Alumni. Full details | Add event |
| 21 October 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: 'The coordinative function of cultural conventions', Prof Marc Slors (Radboud University)In this talk I want to argue that there is an intimate connection between trivial cultural conventions—such as social etiquette, styles of clothing and architecture and the styling of public space—and the (massive) division of roles and tasks that are characteristic of human societies. Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: "Connecting the plots: 176 years of Long-term Experiment data and samples" Richard Ostler (Rothamsted Research)The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments (LTEs), started by Lawes and Gilbert between 1843 and 1856 are among the oldest continuing agricultural field experiments in the world. Seven of these early "Classicals" continue today, and more LTEs have been added since, the most recent being the Large Scale Rotation Experiments started in 2015/16.. Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2019 | 10:00 | Religion, Spirituality and Education NetworkFull details | Add event |
| 29 October 2019 | 13:00 | When politics and diplomacy collide; the conflict spiral in the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962Presented by Dr Deborah Goodwin OBE DLitt (Hon Reading) UN Commendation. Full details | Add event |
| 30 October 2019 | 13:00 | Creativity and Emergent Educational-futures Network (CEEN) Research SeminarFurther details to follow. Full details | Add event |
| 31 October 2019 | 12:30 | GSE All Staff MeetingFull details | Add event |
| 6 November 2019 | 10:30 | CRPR Seminar Series: Prof. Steffen BoehmTheme: Circular economy and food in the South West. Full details | Add event |
| 11 November 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: Heather Barnett (University of the Arts London)Title & abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 13 November 2019 | 9:30 | Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG)Full details | Add event |
| 13 November 2019 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar Series: Dr Beth Singler (University of Cambridge)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 19 November 2019 | 10:30 | LEEP Seminar Series - Professor Ben Zissimos - Contesting an International Trade AgreementABSTRACT: We develop a new theoretical political economy framework, called a ‘parallel contest’, that emphasizes the political fight over trade agreement (TA) ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each other to influence their own governments’ ratification decision. Unlike prior literature, the protection embodied in negotiated TA tariffs reflects a balance between the liberalizing force of lobbying and inherently protectionist government preferences. Moreover, new international political externalities emerge that are not internalized by governments that just internalize terms of trade externalities. Full details | Add event |
| 25 November 2019 | 15:30 | Egenis seminar series: Prof Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter)Title & abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2019 | 13:00 | Lecture by Professor Joe Elliott (Durham University)Title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2019 | 14:30 | GSE Staff Research WorkshopFull details | Add event |
| 4 December 2019 | 10:30 | CRPR Seminar Series: Prof. Damian MayeTheme: Living Labs and rural-urban governance.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 December 2019 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar series: Dr Angela Cassidy (University of Exeter)Title & abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 11 December 2019 | 9:30 | Research Review GroupFull details | Add event |
| 17 - 18 December 2019 | Archaeological Perspectives on Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in AfricaTuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th December 2019, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK. Full details | Add event | |
| 10 - 11 January 2020 | 16:00 | IOW-ARCH Indian Ocean World Archaeology ConferenceWe are in the process of establishing an annual or biennial research meeting/conference on the archaeology, material culture and heritage of the Indian Ocean (defined as from East Africa to Japan, including Australasia) from the first millennium BC to the contemporary era. The model is likely to be similar to the annual Islamic Archaeology Day at University College London, but lasting perhaps up to two-days and with the location moving between different academic host institutions. The first conference is being held at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, with financial sponsorship provided by the Centre for Islamic Archaeology. Full details | Add event |
| 15 January 2020 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar Series: Professor Graham Scrambler (UCL)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2020 | 11:30 | Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG)Full details | Add event |
| 4 February 2020 | 16:30 | Lecture by Dr Antonio Olmedo (University of Bristol)Title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 12 February 2020 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar Series: Dr Lucia Angelino (Aarhus University)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 26 February 2020 | 11:30 | Research Review GroupFull details | Add event |
| 27 February 2020 | 12:30 | GSE All Staff MeetingFull details | Add event |
| 10 March 2020 | 10:00 | GSE Staff Research WorkshopFull details | Add event |
| 10 March 2020 | 13:00 | Lecture by Dr Franziska Felder (University of Zurich)Title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 11 March 2020 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar Series: Dr Orestis Palermos (Cardiff University)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 12 March 2020 | 11:00 | Religion, Spirituality and Education NetworkFull details | Add event |
| 18 March 2020 | 9:30 | Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG)Full details | Add event |
| 29 April 2020 | 11:30 | Research Review GroupFull details | Add event |
| 5 May 2020 | 16:30 | Lecture by Dr Aratha Sriprakash (Cambridge University)Title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 7 May 2020 | 11:00 | Religion, Spirituality and Education NetworkFull details | Add event |
| 13 May 2020 | 15:30 | SPA Seminar Series: Dr Emilia Sanabria (Paris)Title and abstract TBA. Full details | Add event |
| 20 May 2020 | 9:30 | Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG)Full details | Add event |
| 2 June 2020 | 12:30 | GSE All Staff MeetingFull details | Add event |
| 9 June 2020 | 10:00 | GSE Staff Research WorkshopFull details | Add event |
| 9 June 2020 | 13:00 | Lecture by Dr Sam Friedman (The London School of Economics and Political Science)Title to be confirmed. Full details | Add event |
| 10 June 2020 | 11:30 | Research Review GroupFull details | Add event |
| 24 - 26 June 2020 | ECPR SG on Regulatory Governance 2020 ConferenceThe 8th Biennial ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance will be taking place in 2020 at the University of Exeter from June 24 until June 26.. Full details | Add event | |
| 15 July 2020 | 9:30 | Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG)Full details | Add event |