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Queen's Annual Politics Lecture

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture represent Politics and International Relations as an established and distinguished discipline at Queen’s University Belfast. The lecture showcases cutting edge research by world-leading scholars and practitioners whose expertise is widely disseminated and prominent in public discourses worldwide. In doing so it highlights their ground-breaking research and global engagement for the benefit of Queen’s students and staff, the wider Northern Ireland community and a global audience.

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture series is generously supported by the R M Jones Memorial Lecture Fund.

Professor Toni Haastrup, The University of Manchester
Contestations & Reconciliations: Knitting Alternative Visions of Peace

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture was delivered by Professor Toni Haastrup on 5 December 2024.  Prof Toni Haastrup is Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester since September 2023.

Lecture recording available here

She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh. An award-winning teacher and researcher, she is a 2022 recipient of the Emma Goldman Award from the FLAX Foundation for contributions to feminist research and knowledge in Europe, and the Emma Goldman Fellowship of the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences. She is also a recipient of the ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship 2023-2024.

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Professor Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University
Public service deprivation and the rise of the far-right

Professor Catherine E. De Vries, Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University, Milan, delivered the Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture on 7 November, 2023 at Queen's University Belfast.  

Lecture recording available here

At Bocconi, Catherine is also a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime of the BAFFI-CAREFIN research centre and the Bocconi COVID crisis.

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Professor Desmond King, University of Oxford
'America’s Racial Orders after Trump: White Protectionism versus Racial Reparations'.

Professor Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford, delivered the 2022 Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture on 27 October 2022 at Queen's University Belfast.  

Lecture recording available here

Professor Desmond King is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. He holds a BA in Political and Social Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MA and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, and a DLitt from the University of Oxford.

Professor King is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy. His authored books include, among many others, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press) and, with Rogers M Smith, Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America (Princeton University Press).

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Professor James Robinson, University of Chicago
'The Narrow Corridor'.

The inaugural Queen's Annual Politcs Lecture was delivered on 11 March 2021 by Professor James Robinson, the Reverend Dr Richard L Pearson Professor of Global Conflict and Director of the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Lecture recording available here

Professor Robinson obtained his B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1982), his M.A. from the University of Warwick (1986), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1993), all in economics.

He is the author (with Daron Acemoglu) of Economic Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Why Nations Fail: The Origins and Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Crown, 2012), and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin, 2019). He is also the co-editor of several books, including among others Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Natural Experiments in History (Harvard University Press).

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture represent Politics and International Relations as an established and distinguished discipline at Queen’s University Belfast. The lecture showcases cutting edge research by world-leading scholars and practitioners whose expertise is widely disseminated and prominent in public discourses worldwide. In doing so it highlights their ground-breaking research and global engagement for the benefit of Queen’s students and staff, the wider Northern Ireland community and a global audience.

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture series is generously supported by the R M Jones Memorial Lecture Fund.

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