Departmental Seminars 2023/24

Every week the Department of Political Economy invites guest speakers or academic staff to present their latest research. The research seminars are open to all staff and PhD students within the department.

All seminars in this semester will take place online from 15.30 - 17.00 on Wednesdays. The seminars are open to DPE staff members and PhD students only.

Contact paul.lewis@kcl.ac.uk for more information.

Semester One

4 October

PPE – Alejandra Mancilla (Oslo) - Antarctica and the Limits of Territory.

11 October

PPR – Anne Rasmussen (DPE) - The Gendered Effects of Incivility toward Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens.

18 October

GS - Dr Maha Rafi Atal (Glasgow) - Corporations of Our Making: Private Government and Its Discontents in the 21^st Century.

25 October

QPE – Sheheryar Banuri, (University of East Anglia) The Value of Women’s Voice: Chauvinism, Competence, and Persuasion.

8 November

EPP – Fergus Green (UCL) - The politics of decarbonisation

15 November

PT – Natasha Piano (UCLA) - Distorting Democracy: Italian Elite Theory and the History of American Political Science.

22 November

HPE – Tiago Mata (UCL) How the New Left Changed Economics.

6 December

PPE - James Morrisson (LSE) Locke, Bimetallism, and the Bank of England.

Semester 2

24 January 2024

PPR - Eva Heims (York) - It’s Got to be Regulatory Capture: Explaining the Payment Protection Insurance Mis-Selling Scandal

14 February

EPP - Antoine Dechezlepretre, (OECD) Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

21 February

GS - Dr Edalina Sanchez (Lisbon) - Political representation in Africa

28 February

HPE - Peter Wilson (History, Oxford)

6 March

Graduate-led seminar

13 March

PEPC - Adriane Fresh (Duke) Title:TBA

Semester 3

15 May

EPP - Kate Bayliss (SOAS)

22 May

GS - Prof Olufemi Taiwo (Cornell) Title:TBA

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