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SUMMARY:Global Political Economy Research Seminar - Wednesday 2nd March
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DESCRIPTION:\nYou are all cordially invited to a Global Political Economy
  Research Seminar from 3-5pm on Wednesday 2nd March\, in 4.209 Universit
 y Place. \n\nThe seminar will comprise of presentations from three docto
 ral students\, two visiting Manchester for this semester\, with plenty o
 f time for questions from the audience afterwards. \nThey are all in the
  latter stages of their projects and therefore have plenty of ‘notes fro
 m the field’ to discuss\, not least the core themes which will inform th
 e original arguments in their final thesis. \nThe seminar will be of int
 erest to staff and students alike\, from a range of disciplines.\n \n‘Co
 nstructing and Contesting the Multilevel State: Social Movements and the
  (Re-) Distribution of Authority’\nOlatz Ribera Almandoz (Universitat Po
 mpeu Fabra)\nOlatz Ribera Almandoz is a PhD candidate at the Department 
 of Political and Social Sciences\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. \nHer curre
 nt research focuses on the interaction between social movements and the 
 state in contexts of multilevel political arrangements\, with special at
 tention paid to the (new) demands for social justice and welfare in Spai
 n and the UK.\n\n‘Resilient Authoritarianism\, Education and Egyptian Ci
 vil Society: Going Beyond the “Authoritarian-Democratisation Paradigm” a
 nd the Limits of Appropriating Gramsci’\nNadim Mirshak (University of Ma
 nchester)\nNadim Mirshak is a final year PhD candidate in the Politics d
 epartment and a Teaching Assistant in Sociology at the University of Man
 chester. His research mainly utilises a Gramscian framework to analyse E
 gyptian authoritarian resilience and its potential resistance through ‘p
 olitical’ education offered within Egyptian civil society. Nadim’s resea
 rch interests also include a focus on Marxist theories of education\, cr
 itical pedagogy and State-society relations in the Middle East.\n\n‘Glob
 alising Gramsci:  On the Concept of Hegemony in International Relations’
 \nJohannes Bellermann (Goethe University Frankfurt)\nJohannes Bellermann
  studied political science\, sociology\, law and history at Goethe-Unive
 rsity Frankfurt am Main and Naples. He is in the process of preparing an
  introductory book on Antonio Gramsci’s political theory. His PhD-projec
 t is a contribution to a critical theory of International Relations and 
 attempts a comprehensive critique of Neo-Gramscian theory building.  
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LOCATION:4.209 University Place. \, University Place\, Manchester
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