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9am – 9:45am: REGISTRATION

9.45am – 10.00am: OPENING REMARKS

Speaker: Chris Bickerton, co-convenor of SAID

10.00am – 11.30am: SESSION 1: Absent sovereigns? Politics, Sovereignty and Law in the Twenty First Century

Chair: Prof Chris Brown
Speakers: Alex Gourevitch: ‘National Insecurities: the national interest and neoconservatism’
Philip Cunliffe: ‘Politics without Sovereignty’
Michael Savage: ‘Legalising Politics and Politicising Law: The changing relationship between sovereignty and law’
Discussants: Prof RBJ Walker, Dr Nico Krisch

11.30am – 12.00pm: COFFEE BREAK

12.00pm – 1.30pm: SESSION 2a: Interrogating the Post-national Constellation: Transformations of Sovereignty in the European Union

Chair: Dr Jennifer Welsh
Speakers: James Heartfield: ‘The European Union: Process without a Subject’
Anneli Albi: ‘Neither state nor federation: locating sovereignty in an expanding EU’
Discussants: Dr Jan Zielonka

12.00pm – 1.30pm: SESSION 2b: From States to Individuals: New Conceptions of Agency in Contemporary International Politics

Chair: Prof Mervyn Frost
Speakers: Dr David Chandler: ‘Constructing Global Civil Society, Deconstructing Sovereignty’
Tara McCormack: ‘Human Security and Sovereignty’
Discussants: Rahul Rao, Prof Neil MacFarlane

1.30pm – 2.30pm: LUNCH

2.30pm – 4.00pm: SESSION 3: Governing beyond borders: the cases of development and state-building

Chair: Prof Neil MacFarlane
Speakers: John Pender: ‘Less Interest, More Influence: the paradox of poverty reduction and the redefinition of poverty’
Chris Bickerton: ‘States Without Souls: Dilemmas of State Building in the Twenty First Century’
Discussants: Alastair Fraser, Dr Dominik Zaum

4.00pm – 4.30pm: COFFEE BREAK

4.30pm - 6pm: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: 'How should sovereignty be defended?'

Chair: Chris Bickerton
Speakers: Sir Adam Roberts
Prof Chris Brown
Prof Mervyn Frost
Prof RBJ Walker

6pm - 6.15pm: CLOSING REMARKS

Speaker: Philip Cunliffe, SAID co-convenor

6.15pm - 7.00pm: DRINKS RECEPTION