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<\/a><\/p>\n(*attendance may not have been for Dr. FitzGibbon but for MIT Professor Mark Franklin)<\/p>\n
Dr David Bates, Dr Matthew Ogilvie and Emma Pole gave a paper \u2018Occupy in Theory and Practice\u2019 at the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference at Manchester Metropolitan University on 14 April 2014. The paper was based on a theoretically informed empirical analysis of the \u2018official\u2019 publications of the Occupy Movement, in Wall Street and London. Operationalising core concepts from the framing perspective within social movement theory, the paper analysed the strategic frames of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy London. The paper then situated these frames within a broader macro-theoretical context of radical social movement traditions \u2013 from classical Marxism to post-Marxism and post-Anarchism. \u00a0The paper problematized the idea that Occupy London and Occupy Wall Street may be regarded as two expressions of the same movement, and in fact may well be responses to the global financial crisis emerging from quite distinct traditions. \u00a0The paper is part of a wider project, funded through the Research Impact Enhancement Fund (RIEF) at Canterbury Christ Church University. \u00a0Those interested in this project should contact one of the key researchers directly.<\/p>\n
Dr Andre Barrinha was in Coimbra\u00a0(Portugal) for the VII Portuguese Political Science Association Conference from the 14th<\/sup> to the 16th<\/sup> April. He had a busy schedule, moderating a session on Middle Eastern politics, presenting a communication on the privatisation of European defence and participating in a roundtable on International Relations in Portugal. He was also elected as a member of the new directive body of the IR Section, as a representative of Portuguese IR academics in the world.<\/p>\n Dr Soeren Keil has been a Visiting Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona<\/a> in April 2014, where he taught a Master\u2019s course on Current Research in Diverse Democracy. Additionally, he has just been appointed a Visiting Researcher at the Chair for International Politics of the University of Passau<\/a> in Germany. This competitive appointment is connected to some joint research with Prof Bernhard Stahl and some teaching involvement at the University of Passau.<\/p>\n Dr Mark Bennister was co-Director of a workshop at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions in Salamanca, Spain over Easter. The joint sessions are regarded as the \u2018jewel in the crown\u2019 of the ECPR. CCCU has recently become a member of the ECPR. The workshop, proposed and organised by Dr Bennister with Dr Ben Worthy (Birkbeck) and Prof Paul \u2018t Hart (Utrecht) discussed Leadership Capital and challenge of measuring political leadership. Participants included Emeritus Professor Jean Blondel, Prof James Walter (Monash, Australia), Prof John Gaffney (Aston, UK) and other participants from France, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Hungary. 18 academic papers were presented and discussed over the 4 days and publications are expected to result from the workshop. A blog site has been launched to act as a research hub at http:\/\/measuringleadership.wordpress.com\/<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span>The workshop dinner \u2013 well deserved after 4 days solid in the same room!<\/p>\n Proof that Prof Jean Blondel (on the right) took part!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n