Seminars & Special Events

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IIIS Seminar Series

Title: The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing.
Speaker: Padraig Carmody
Date: Friday, 22 March
Time: 13.00
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th floor Arts Building, TCD

Abstract
Some now assert Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) marginalization in the global economy is being reversed by an information technology revolution. However, while many claims are made for new ICTs - and mobile phones in particular - very little research has been done on the precise ways in which firms use these technologies and their developmental impacts. Drawing on over fifty firm-level interviews, this paper examines evidence of the uses and impacts of new ICTs in the wood products industry in Durban, South Africa and its surrounding region. In contrast to assumptions in much of the literature, it finds that rather than primarily being used to connect to global markets, they are most commonly used as technologies of local labour control and inter-firm competition. Consequently the use of these technologies may deepen existing inequalities and uneven development, and in some instances disinformationalisation, rather than reduce or overcome them.

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IIIS Public Lecture Series

Title: Diaspora Matters
Speaker: Kingsley Aikins, CBE
Date: 6th February 2013
Time: 18.15
Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub

Abstract
Kingsley Aikins' talk will focus on how countries are now increasingly looking to put in place strategies to connect with their Diasporas and how the concept of 'Diaspora Capital' is developing. He will look at how different countries have tackled the challenges and opportunities in this area. He will highlight successes and failures in the field and why he believes Ireland can become a world leader and act as an exemplar for other countries." 

Biography
Kingsley Aikins was born and brought up in Dublin and educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, from which he graduated with an honors degree in economics and politics.  He also has a post-graduate Diploma in International Marketing and has studied and worked extensively in France and Spain.  For five years he was the Sydney, Australia based representative of the Irish Trade Board and the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) of Ireland. 

He was a founding director of The Australian Ireland Fund and for two years served as Executive Director responsible for the growth of the Fund in Australia and setting up The Ireland Fund of New Zealand. He established the Lansdowne Club in Sydney which is an extensive Irish business network.

In January of 1993, he moved to Boston to take over as Executive Director of The American Ireland Fund.  The Fund was set up in 1976 and since then The Worldwide Ireland Funds have raised over $300 million for projects of Peace, Culture, Community Development and Education throughout the island of Ireland. In June 1995 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Worldwide Ireland Funds now active in 13 countries including Ireland.  He is a member of the Institutes of Marketing, Export and Linguists.  He was also responsible for the successful five-year Hope and History Campaign to raise $100 million. After 21 years he left The Ireland Funds and runs a consultancy company based in Dublin called Diaspora Matters which gives advice on diaspora issues to governments, corporates and individuals. He writes and speaks extensively on Philanthropy, Diaspora and Networking and in 2011 produced a Global Diaspora Strategies Toolkit and in 2012 was the keynote speaker at the Hillary Clinton Global Diaspora Forum in Washington.

He is married with 3 children and lives in Dublin

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'Learning from Poland'
Migration Seminar Series and Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

Title: Migration and the Life course: Polish nationals in Ireland.Migration and the Life course: Polish nationals in Ireland.
Speaker: Justyna Salamonska, Researcher, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Date: 7 February 2013
Time: 1-2
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Bldg, TCD

Abstract to follow

 

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IIIS-Policy Institute Semina

Title: The National Inerest: Evangelist of Democracy
Speaker: David Rieff, Sciences-Po
Date: Monday 21 January - 13.00 to 14.15pm
Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity

Bio:
Internationally acclaimed author and journalist David Rieff will deliver a talk titled The National Interest: Evangelists of Democracy. David Rieff currently teaches History of Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po.   Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor for the New Republic, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a board member of Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute and of Independent Diplomat. He is the author of eight books, including At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West.This lecture is organised jointly by TCD’s Institute for International Integration Studies and Policy Institute

 

 

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Migration Seminar Series "Learning From Poland"

Learning from the Materiality of the Polish Migration Experience
Dr Kathy Burrell, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography, University of Liverpool

First, the paper will consider the significance of material culture in these personal migration projects. The things which are packed, carried back and forth, displayed and used at home are all windows into different expectations and experiences of migration. They speak volumes about the sorts of lives Polish migrants are leading and the transnational/translocal ties they continue to nurture. Second, the paper will discuss the wider economic contexts of these material experiences. Courier services, for example, are fundamental in material exchanges between migrants and their families. Shops selling Polish goods, have a similar economic significance locally. Supporting the mobility of Polish migrants material lives is also big business.
This paper, then, will reassert the significance of the material for appreciating the dynamics and disruptions of contemporary Polish migration

Date: 24th January 2013
Time: 1-1.50 (sandwiches provided)
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building

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IIIS Seminar Series

The Leadership Transition in China and Sino-American Relationships
Professor Xiong Zhiong, China Foreign Affairs University

China is facing a complicated situation both at home and abroad. It is a serious challenge for the leadership. The new one has good educational background and a plenty of experience on various levels of government, particularly their life in the countryside. The current structure of the leadership is more efficient for policy making. They have started to show their new policies: anti-corruption, continuous economic reform, pro-people approach and so on. However, they will have to overcome several tough difficulties: bureaucratism, badly divided society, and shortage of tradition of continuous reforms and democratic approach to problems. A high expectation of achievements is not realistic. In order to focus on the domestic issues, the new leadership will try to have a stable international environment. They offered their hands to the American leader in order to establish a new model of relations between the powers immediately after they came to power. The response is positive.

DATE: December 17th 2012
TIME: 1-1.50 (sandwiches provided)
VENUE: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, TCD

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The 10th Anniversary Conference of the
Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

Opening Address By  
Professor Linda Hogan
Vice-Provost /Chief Academic Officer

The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) was formally established in December 2002.
This Conference marks the 10th Anniversary of the Institute's establishment.
Since its establishment the Institute has been to the forefront of scholarly enquiry pertaining to the myriad facets of International Integration.
The public debate on the merits and demerits of global and European Integration has been extremely vigorous in recent years.
This conference makes a valuable contribution to this ongoing debate with members of the Institute contributing on topics ranging from globalisation flows, development, migration, rules & law, industries & enterprises and Europe.

Date & Time: Thursday 13th December 2012 (13.30-19.30)
                        Friday 14th December 2012 (8.45-16.30)
Venue:            Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, Trinity College
RSVP:              iiis@tcd.ie by Friday December 7th 2012

 

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'Learning from Poland'
Migration Seminar Series and Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

Title: Union Availability, Union Membership and Immigrant Workers: Empirical and Theoretical Considerations
Speaker: Dr Tom Turner, Lecturer, Personnel and Employment Relations, UL
Date: 13 December 2013
Time: 1-2
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Bldg, TCD
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“The World Bank and its Work in Africa - Opportunities and Challenges for the Future”
with guest speaker World Bank Vice President for Africa Makthar Diop.


TIDI, the DSAI, IIIS and Irish Aid will collaborate to host a seminar on the 7th of December with guest speaker, World Bank Vice President for Africa Makthar Diop on “The World Bank and its Work in Africa - Opportunities and Challenges for the Future”. This seminar will be opened by Prof. Philip R. Lane, TCD.  

Date: 7th December 2012
Time: 12.00-1.15
Venue: Paccar Theatre, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
Please RSVP to this event at tidi@tcd.ie

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'Learning from Poland'
Migration Seminar Series and Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

'Elite schooling, equality of opportunity and meritocracy: the case of Ireland
Dr Aline Courtois, Research Associate, UCD

Her work looks at social mobility and the correlation between high fees and academic results within the Irish education system. She considers the emphasis that fee-paying schools place on economic capital in recruitment processes, their particular mechanisms of closure, and their unchallenged symbolic domination. Thus, as elite schools, they carry out their mission to protect privilege, to reproduce - and to some extent also, to rationalize - the social hierarchy; all of which have important implications for the character of social inequality in Ireland.

DATE: Thursday November 15th 2012
TIME: 1-1.50 (sandwiches provided)
VENUE: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, TCD
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'Learning from Poland'
Migration Seminar Series and Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

“Contemporary trends in Irish and European (e)migration”
Dr Piaras MacEinri, Lecturer in Migration Studies, UCC

 

DATE: Thursday November 1st 2012
TIME: 1-1.50 (sandwiches provided)
VENUE: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, TCD
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The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) recently recognized the authors of the 400th Discussion Paper to be added to the Institute’s Discussion Papers series. This represents a significant milestone in the research output of the Institute and its members.

Discussion Papers are the product of the Institute’s scholarly endeavors and cover a range of topics pertinent to the College’s research of International Integration. They are accessible from the Institute’s website at www.tcd.ie/iiis

The 400th Discussion Paper “Venture Capital in Ireland in Comparative Perspective” was co-authored by Frank Barry, School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, Clare O'Mahony, Dublin Institute of Technology and Beata Sax, Investors TFI Fund Management, Warsaw.

The attached photo shows the Director of the Institute Professor Louis Brennan presenting one of the authors
Professor Frank Barry with the Institute’s certificate of recognition.

 

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IIS CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A
PUBLIC LECTURE

"1950s Ireland and the Birth of the Modern Economy: A Tale of Two Liberalisations"

By
Professor Frank Barry, Trinity College School of Business and IIIS Research Associate

To be followed by a reception at which the authors of the 400th published Discussion Paper of the Institute
“ Venture Capital in Ireland in Comparative Perspective”
Frank Barry, Trinity College Dublin
Clare O'Mahony, Dublin Institute of Technology
Beata Sax, Investors TFI Fund Management, Warsaw
will be recognised

DATE: Friday October 5th 2012
TIME: 7 PM
VENUE: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
PLEASE RSVP: Colette.Keleher@tcd.ie by Tuesday October 2nd
Please Note: Parking is not available on campus

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Joint ESRI/IIIS Research Seminar: "A Fresh Look at the Link between Corporate Taxation and Inward Foreign Direct Investment"

Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Date: Thursday28/06/2012.
Time: 4 pm.
Speaker: Professor Holger Gorg, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. More information on Prof Gorg.

The authors use unique exogenous corporate tax policy changes in the Republic of Ireland to investigate how corporate taxation affects foreign direct investment at the extensive and intensive margin. To this end the authors construct exhaustive sectoral and plant level panel data and use difference-in-differences strategies. The results indicate that the increase in corporate tax rates for exporters did not affect the entry or exit of foreign plants in Ireland, even though foreign firms use Ireland as an export platform. However, at the intensive margin there is evidence that foreign plants in Ireland reduce the size of their operations in response to the tax change.
All welcome. No registration required.
The Economic and Social Research Institute
Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Tel: +353 1 8632000; Fax: +353 1 8632100; www.esri.ie;
press@esri.ie; admin@esri.ie.

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IIIS Seminar Series

Professor Hinrich Julius of the university of Hamburg will lead a discussion on 26th June Tuesday at 1630 in the IIIS seminar room, Arts Building top floor, on the opportunities for faculty in the China Europe Law School (cesl.edu.cn) (research grants, publications, visiting positions, generation of PhDs, "flying faculty") and on cooperation with Chinese Academic institutions.

Professor Julius is the lead academic coordinator of the European consortium, of which Trinity College is a member, involved in the establishment and running of this law school, based in Beijing.
Various faculty members of the Law School, and of the Department of Politics, and of the profession and the judiciary, have travelled to China (all expenses paid plus per diems) to be involved, all to date reporting well on their experience. Positions have also been available for "flying tutors" which have been filled from time to time by Trinity College research students.

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IIIS Seminar Series

Business-foundation partnerships as an instrument of Corporate Responsibility: Do their effects extend beyond the charitable donor-recipient role?

By Maria Jose Sanzo, IIIS Visiting Academic and Professor of Marketing, University of Oviedo, Spain

Date: 21st June 2012
Time: 1 o'clock (Sandwiches Provided)
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
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This research analyzes the effects of partnerships between firms and nonprofit organizations (specifically, foundations) on the foundations' development of two critical capabilities, namely, human resource management and information and communication technology competence. The study proposes that the stronger the firm-foundation relationship, in terms of perceived value, communication, reduced conflict, trust, and commitment, the greater the transfer of resources and know-how should be from the firm to the foundation, and therefore the greater the foundations' development of key capabilities needed to achieve their social aims. Empirical research is based on a survey of a random and representative sample of 325 Spanish foundations selected according to the basic descriptors of the Spanish foundation sector provided by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Analysis of Foundations, INAEF. Structural equation techniques with EQS 6.2 served to analyze the data. The results confirm that this type of firm-foundation relationship positively influences the extent to which a foundation develops both competences, although the intensity of this effect depends on the type of firm's contribution (monetary versus non-monetary support).

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IIIS Seminar Series

Chasing Ghosts: Rumours and Representations of the Export of Chinese Convict Labour to Developing Countries

YAN Hairong, Anthropolgist, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Barry SAUTMAN, Political Scientist and Lawyer, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Date: 30th May 2012
Time: 12 o'clock
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Abstract
A recent addition to the global discourse of China's interaction with developing countries has been the claim that the Chinese government exports prison labour to these countries. While no evidence is ever presented to support this claim, it has been widely circulated in international and local media, as well as on the internet. This article examines the origins of the rumour and the mechanisms of its transmission. It shows that while the rumour often originates at the grass roots in developing countries, it is promoted locally and globally by political, economic and media elites with distinct agendas that often involve building support for opposition parties, competition in obtaining contracts, or geo-strategic and ideological rivalry. We analyse the rumour's circulation in light of the larger discourse on China and developing countries, and discuss why Chinese official responses to the claim have proved to be ineffective.

 

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Celebrate Africa Day 2012

TIDI, in collaboration with IIIS, UCD, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, will host TCD’s annual Africa Day celebration on the theme
‘Scaling Up Agriculture: Sharing challenges and experiences of modernising agriculture in Ireland and Africa’.

This conference will be addressed by keynote speakers:
Simon Coveney, T.D., Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Joe Costello, T.D., Minister of State for Trade and Development
H.E. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland.

There will be a panel discussion with Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Dr. Philip Damas, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, Ms. Lara Ladipo, Director, Partner Africa, Kenya, Dr. Carol Newman, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin and a Senior Representative from the Irish Dairy Board. This event will be chaired by Prof. David Taylor, Department of Geography and Chair of TIDI, TCD.

Date: Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
Venue: Synge Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Please Download Invitation here
Please Download Poster here
Please RSVP to rsvptidi@tcd.ie by Friday 18th May to secure a place.
All are welcome to attend so please feel free to circulate this notice. 

Media coverage of Africa Day conference:

• Irish Times: Africa's farm sector 'key to cutting poverty'
• Irish Examiner: Ireland committed to helping Africa tackle under-nutrition and poverty
• TCD TCD Celebrates Africa Day with Conference on Developing Agri-Food Sector in Africa
• Department of Foreign Affairs

 

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IIIS PUBLIC LECTURE

Title: GLOBAL FINANCE: BREAKING THE MOULD

Professor Bob Holton

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Date: 17th May 2012
Time: 5pm
Venue: Neil Hoey Theatre, Long Room Hub, TCD
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The global financial crisis has revealed deep-seated problems in the ways in which global finance markets, financial regulators and public policies operate. Robert Holton, drawing on his recent book Global Finance, will explore the profound legitimation crisis finance now finds itself in. He will argue that economic thinking is inadequate in explaining market dynamics and market failure. Recent sociological research will be used instead to investigate the social and cultural bases of financial trading and of macro-prudential regulation by central bankers. Market failure to correctly price risk has destroyed trust and confidence. Some implications for financial reform are then discussed, including normative re-regulation of capital markets.

 

 

 

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IIIS PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM

The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin
is pleased to invite you to the following Public Symposium

 "Whither Ireland and the Fiscal Treaty?"
The fiscal stability treaty referendum takes place on May 31st. There is a need for an informed discussion of the issues. The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) has a long standing focus in the area of European Integration. With the goal of informing the discussion on the Treaty, the Institute is hosting a public symposium. The event will involve contributions from specialists in Economics, Law and Sociology with expertise in relation to the European project. Their contributions will be followed by an opportunity for a broad ranging discussion of the issues related to the treaty.

Invited speakers
Dr. Gavin Barrett, School of Law, UCD
Prof. Terrence McDonough, J.E.Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUIG
&
Trinity's Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Prof. James Wickham

Date: 16th May 2012
Time: 6pm
Venue: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Please Note: Access to the event is free but we would kindly ask you to please register your participation

 

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IIIS & DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

You are cordially invited to:

 

Integration from below - half day seminar and book launch of Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (edited by Ronit Lentin and Elena Moreo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Based on the Migrant Networks project, Trinity Immigration Initiative

Date: Friday 4 May 2012
Time: 10.00-15.00
Venue: Seminar room, Institute of International Integration Studies, 6th floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Programme:
100.00 Registration Welcome: Prof James Wickham, Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, TCD Chair: Ronit Lentin, Department of Sociology, TCD
10.30 Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, London: 'The threat to integration: Racism, authoritarianism and the far-Right in Europe'.
11.15 Mark Maguire, Dept of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth: 'Suspect Identities: Integration and security from below'.
11.45 Elena Moreo, IIIS, TCD: 'On visibility and invisibility: Migrant practices between regimes of representation and self-determination'
12.15 David Landy, Department of Sociology, TCD: 'How do you negotiate power? A social movement perspective for migrant associations'
12.45 Discussion
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Book launch: Gavan Titley, Centre for Media Studies, NUI Maynooth Admission is free but reservation is required.

Please RSVP by Friday 20 April, to Elena Moreo

 

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Enjoy Spain, Dublin

Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)

International Creative Entrepreneurship and New Opportunities

Date: 26th April 2012
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Neil Hoey Theatre, Long Room Hub, TCD

"Immigrant Artists, Entrepreneurialism and the Dublin City Art Scape"
Monica Sapielak

"Introduction on the need for entrepreneurialism in the Humanities"
Dr Marisa Ronan, Dublin intellectual Director

"Clues for Being a Successful Entrepreneur"
Domingo Sanchez-Zarza, European PhD Candidate
Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain & Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), TCD Visiting Research Student

"European Union Cooperation projects in cultural policy"
Professor Juan Prieto-Rodriguez
Department of Economics, Oviedo University Spain & Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), TCD Visiting Researcher

"Connector"
Mr Conor Lynch
Owner of Connector Social Media, Ireland

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IIIS Seminar Series

Paradigm lost? The ‘Aid for Trade’ agenda and the European Union’s trade and development policies towards Sub-Saharan Africa

Dr Patrick Holden

Date: Wednesday April 25th 2012
Time: 1-2 (Sandwiches Provided)
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building

The WTO Task Force report on Aid for Trade/AfT outlined broad principles for this form of aid. Crucial questions as to the degree of intervention required to ‘make trade work’, the merits of bilateral versus multilateral assistance, and the relationship between export-led growth and poverty reduction, are left to individual donors and partners to resolve. This paper investigates how the EU’s policies towards Africa have evolved in the light of these tensions. Said policies have also been shaped by emerging global norms, heightened global economic competition and financial constraints. The research combines a critical discourse analysis of key texts, and a content analysis of policy documents, with an analysis of funding patterns and legal/institutional developments. All of which is supplemented by interviews with aid officials and civil society. A complex picture emerges in which the EU’s clearest strategy is its support for inter-regional integration, which it now admits has stalled. The EU is currently forging a new trade and development policy which draws a sharper distinction between least developed states and developing economic partners. ‘Pro-poor AfT’ is a vital concept here but there is little evidence of it actualising this.

Dr Patrick Holden, Politics & International Relations, University of Plymouth is visiting the IIIS from Feb 2012 - April 2012. He is researching the politics of the global ‘Aid for Trade’ agenda. In his time at the IIIS he will be concentrating on how the European Union and other European donors have adopted the global Aid for Trade norms. This involves a study of their policy discourse, as well as policy implementation in a more concrete sense. Aid for Trade is an increasingly important element of international development policy. It came to prominence due to disagreements between developed and developing countries in the WTO on the merits of further trade liberalization. It embodies different forms of aid, which reflect different perspectives on international development (in relation to the responsibility of the developed towards the developing world, and the degree of intervention in the market system that is deemed appropriate). As such ‘the politics of AfT’ is a microcosm of broader debates regarding the future of global capitalism and global governance. Patrick will also be using his time at the IIIS to do work on temporality and the crisis of the European Union.

This research agenda is building on previous work he has done on international aid and trade. (His work is grounded in political science/international relations theory combined with concepts from political economy, organisational theory and other cognate disciplines).
www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/pholden1

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TIDI and the IIIS will host a lunchtime seminar with visiting speaker Howard Stein, Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan who also teaches in the Department of Epidemiology.

The Neoliberal Policy Paradigm and the Great Recession
By Professor Howard Stein

Date: Monday 16th April 2012
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, Trinity College
Contact: tidi@tcd.ie, Website: www.tcd.ie/tidi

All are welcome to attend, lunch will be provided.

 

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Please Download: Asian Development Outlook 2012: Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia

INVITATION
Asian Development Outlook 2012
“Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia“

The Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin & the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
cordially invite you to the launch of the Asian Development Outlook 2012

The growing size and financial power of developing Asia is transforming the global economic landscape. ADB’s flagship economic publication Asian Development Outlook 2012 (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia, with growth projections by country and region. The ADO special theme chapter on confronting rising inequality in Asia examines how policy makers in Asia can respond to growing inequality.

ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2012 provides insights on very current questions:

• What are the immediate economic prospects for developing Asia and what risks lie ahead?
• Will the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and slow growth in the US undermine developing Asia’s prospects?
• Why is there growing inequality in many Asian countries despite impressive development gains?
• What consequences would Asia face if these disparities were allowed to widen further?
• How can developing Asia ensure the gains of economic growth are shared broadly?

Mr. Joseph Zveglich, ADB’s Assistant Chief Economist, will present the key findings of the Asian Development Outlook 2012, including this year’s special theme chapter on Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia. In addition, the Asian Development Outlook 2012 includes analysis of 45 economies in developing Asia and the Pacific, including People’s Republic of China and India. The report also examines the medium-term prospects for developing Asia, by country and by sub region: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central and West Asia, and the Pacific. Mr. Joseph Zveglich's presentation may be downloaded here

Date: Friday, 13 April 2012
Time: 11.30 - 1.30 pm
Venue: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Access to the event is free but we would kindly ask you to please register your participation by 11 April 2012.
Contact: Colette Keleher
Please Note: Parking is not available on campus

Programme

11.30 - 11.40 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Professor Louis Brennan, Director Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College
Ms. Naomi Chakwin, Resident Director General, European Representative Office, Asian Development Bank

11:40 - 12.30 Presentation “Asian Development Outlook 2012: Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia”
Mr. Joseph Zveglich, Assistant Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank

12.30 - 13.00 Panel Discussants:

Professor Bernadette Andreosso Director, Euro-Asia Centre at University of Limerick and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of Economics at University of Limerick.

Dr. Paul Gillespie, former Foreign Policy Editor, The Irish Times and lecturer in European politics and comparative regionalism, School of Politics and International Relations, University College, Dublin

H.E. Mr. Chang Yeob Kim, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea

Mr. Colin Lawlor, Chair Asia Trade Forum, Vice President, Irish Exporters Association and Commercial Director, BiancaMed Ltd.

Dr Paul Ryan, Assistant Secretary, IFI/EU Budget Section, Department of Finance, Ireland

13.00 - 13.30 General Discussions, Questions & Answers

 

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IIIS PUBLIC LECTURE

"Never Waste a Good Crisis - Why Europe will prosper"

Dr. Eckhard Lubkemeier, Ambassador to Ireland of the Federal Republic of Germany

DATE: Thursday January 26th 2012
TIME: 17.00
VENUE: THOMAS DAVIS THEATRE, ARTS BUILDING, TCD
RSVP: By Friday Jan 20th to Colette.keleher@tcd.ie

 

• Download Invitation
• Download Presentation
• Download Podcast
• Press coverage - Eurobonds no quick fix, says German ambassador by HARRY McGEE Political Correspondent, Irish Times, Friday January 27th 2012

Dr. Eckhard Lubkemeier has been Ambassador to Ireland of the Federal Republic of Germany since August 2011. Prior to that he served as Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy in London. From 2006 to 2007 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Over the period 2003 to 2006, Dr. Lubkemeier was Deputy Director General for European Affairs at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. He was Special Commissioner for Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management as well as Head of Section for European Security and Defence Policy in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin from 2000 to 2003.

Dr. Eckhard Lubkemeier received his PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin in 1980 and worked at the Foreign and Security Policy Research Institute at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation from 1980 to 1999. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University from 1986 to 1987.

 

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International Integration  Town Hall Meeting
Time/Date:  Wednesday 18th January 2012,  3-5pm followed by networking reception
Location: Long Room Hub see map
Champion: Louis Brennan

“This meeting is directed towards those already involved in research related to International Integration within the IIIS as well as those wishing to become active and those with an interest in the theme”

Benefits for you as a researcher

• An opportunity for you to shape the research agenda for International Integration
• Avail of research funding support  
• Personal affilliation with an internationally recognised strategic research theme
• An opportunity to engage with colleagues in other fields and capitalise on the potential for inter-disciplinary research in this area. 

Background
IIIS  was established in 2002.  It currently has over 50 TCD research associates and another 25 external research associates involved in European and international integration in the social sciences, business, law and those aspects of the humanities which explore the processes of cultural identity formation, encounters and change.  The Institute also addresses the flows and exchange of ideas, values and peoples which serve to buttress international integration.

Ten years later, we now launch the International Integration Theme as part of the implementation of the College’s Research Strategy. 

Our aims

• Consolidate and grow the research community in Trinity in this area
• Develop an innovative strategy in response to the changing environment in which everyone involved has a part to play
• Provide a framework and structure for new and emerging research activity, identifying new funding sources, partners and collaborators
• Secure funding to bring in additional supports in terms of research development officers and policy advisers,  etc.
• Expand the current network and research activity to ensure that IIIS maintains its premier status as a Trinity Research Institute
• Establish a steering committee to advance the theme strategy

Agenda
3.00-3.15  Prof Vinny Cahill, Dean of Research – Implementation of the College Research Strategy
3.15-3.30  Prof Louis Brennan, (Theme lead) – Shaping the future of IIIS
3.30-4.30  Open forum – participants will speak for 2 min *
Question 1   What research are you doing which could contribute to the International Integration theme?
Question 2  Your ideas for the theme’s research strategy?
4.30-5.00 Discussion

Followed by networking reception
*If you would like to provide 2 slides answering Questions 1 & 2above please email to dean.of.research@tcd.ie by 17th Jan
Please RSVP to dean.of.research@tcd.ie confirming your attendance on 18th Jan @ 3pm in Long Room Hub.

 

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"The UN Convention against Corruption: What it means for Ireland and the World"

Transparency International Ireland (TII) and the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College will host a roundtable seminar on Thursday 8 December 2011, to discuss the potential impact of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) at both a domestic and international level. 

Ireland's ratification of the UNCAC this year was the final step to adopting a framework of international law aimed at stopping corruption at home and abroad. Although Ireland is already party to regional conventions against corruption, UNCAC is the first global convention and obliges state parties to implement a wide and detailed range of anti-corruption measures affecting their laws, institutions and practices. The convention also provides for a comprehensive international co-operation framework between law enforcement agencies and greater civil society participation in stopping corruption. 

The seminar will bring together public officials, academics and practitioners to share perspectives on the potential impact of UNCAC on Irish and international legal and institutional frameworks, and how governments, business and civil society can work together in fulfilling the potential of the Convention.

Venue: The Seminar Room, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Thursday, 8 December 2011
Time: 9.30 to 1pm,

Agenda  
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-9.35: Introductions
9.35-11.00: Presentations on the UNCAC Framework: What it means at home and abroad    
A brief history of UNCAC and international anti-corruption conventions: John Devitt, Chief Executive, Transparency International Ireland
Anti-Corruption Legislation in Ireland-Key Developments: Imelda Higgins BL
Private Sector Initiatives-Speaker:  Siemens  
10.35-11.05: Panel Q&A  
11.05-11.20: Coffee Break  
11.20-12.30: Facilitated roundtable discussion on what steps government, business and civil society must take to meet the demands of UNCAC in Ireland  
12.30-13.00: Conclusions

 

The IIIS was established in 2002 with a grant from the Irish government's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) and a philantrophic donation from Peter Sutherland. It is dedicated to promoting and disseminating research and learning about the myriad dimensions of global and regional integration.

Founded in 2004, Transparency International Ireland (TII)  is the Irish chapter of the worldwide movement against corruption.  Its National Integrity Study (NIS) programme identifies weaknesses in how Ireland is governed and offers recommendations for systemic reform. Its new Speak Up helpline (www.speakup.ie) offers information and guidance to potential whistleblowers, witnesses and victims of corruption."

 

 

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Financing for Development: Tobin Taxes, National Tax Systems and International Tax Transparency

IIIS and TIDI Seminar
Date: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue: The Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, TCD
Contact: Email: tidi@tcd.ie; Website: http://www.tcd.ie/tidi/development-research-week/2011.php
This session considers the challenges associated with the need for developing countries to identify and develop sustainable revenue sources which can be used to finance their development.
Speakers: Sorley McCaughey, Policy and Advocacy Officer, Christian Aid Ireland and Micheal Collins, Senior Research Officer at the Economic Research Unit. Chaired by Frank Barry, School of Business/IIIS, TCD. Co-hosted with IIIS. RSVP for this event to: tidi@tcd.ie

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'Democracy, Development, and Economic Justice'

IIIS and TIDI Seminar with Nitasha Kaul, Economist and Writer

Date: Monday 7th November 2011
Time: 1-2pm 
Venue: Swift Theatre, Arts Building, TCD.
Contact: Email: tidi@tcd.ie; Website: http://www.tcd.ie/tidi/development-research-week/2011.php
Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, artist who inhabits many lives in the UK, Bhutan, India. Her first book was ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise’. Her debut novel ‘Residue’, about Kashmiris outside of Kashmir, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. Chaired by Dr. Rosemary Byrne, Centre for Post-Conflict Justice. Co-hosted with IIIS. Lunch provided.

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CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE
Trinity College Dublin

 

The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) &
The Centre for Post-Conflict Justice,
Invite you to a Seminar

By
 David Rieff

THE SILENT PLAGUE: HUNGER, JUSTICE, AND MONEY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

VENUE:                       Long Room Hub, TCD
DATE:                          Tuesday November 1st 2011
TIME:                           4.30-5.30 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed author and journalist David Rieff currently teaches History of Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor for the New Republic, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a board member of Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute and of Independent Diplomat. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.

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Speaker: Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel Group
Chair: Professor Louis Brennan, Director of the Trinty College Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
Title: TBC
Date: 28th October 2011
Time: 8.30-9.30
Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
Note: RSVP tidi@tcd.ie

 

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The European Sovereign Debt Crisis

This public lecture discussed the European Sovereign Debt Crisis one year on from Ireland's 85 billion euro bail out by the European Union-International Monetary Fund. This lecture is part of the 2011-2012 Henry Grattan Lecture Series which will address the theme of The Debt Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Controls.

The lecture, which was jointly organised by the Policy Institute and the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), was chaired by Professor Philip Lane, Head of the Economics Department, Trinity College Dublin.

 

• Audio and Video on iTunes U - The European Sovereign Debt Crisis (MP3, 41MB)
• Video on YouTube - The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
• Mike Dooley (UC Santa Cruz) Download Presentation
• Peter Boone (LSE) Download Presentation
• Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel)
• Ciaran O’Hagan (Societe Generale) Download Presentation
• Press coverage of event

Date: 25th of October 2011
Time: 4-5.45 p.m.
Venue: Tercentenary Hall, Biomedical Sciences Institute, TCD, Pearse Street
The event is free - all welcome. RSVP  

• Before the public policy event, there will also be a IIIS research workshop with presentations by
• Mike Dooley
• Alan Ahearne and Guntram Wolff, “The Debt Challenge in Europe” Download Presentation
• Kristin Forbes and Frank Warnock, “Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight and Retrenchment“ Download Presentation
• Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, “External Adjustment and the Global Crisis” Download Presentation

Date: 25th of October 2011
Time: 12-3 p.m.
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

 

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The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), TCD Department of Economics & The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI)
invite research students, academics, members of the development community and other interested parties to a seminar by

Veronica Cacdac Warnock, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Senior Lecturer and Batten Fellow
“Mobile Banking Initiatives in South Asia: Preliminary Thoughts”

Title: Mobile Banking Initiatives in South Asia: Preliminary Thoughts
Speaker: Veronica Cacdac Warnock, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Senior Lecturer and Batten Fellow
Date: Monday 24th of October 2011
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor of the Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin


SHORT BIO:
Veronica Cacdac Warnock is Senior Lecturer and Batten Institute Fellow at the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia (UVA).  Her research focuses on housing finance and inclusive banking. She has served as academic consultant for organizations including the National Association of Realtors, the World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements, and has held visiting positions at the Asian Institute of Management and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. She is currently advisor to “Housing Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean”, a research project at Inter-American Development Bank, and to ShoreBank International’s consulting projects supporting new Mobile Banking for the Poor ventures of commercial banks in Pakistan and Bangladesh.  At Darden, she co-teaches Markets in Human Hope, a course in which students form private ventures to directly address global development problems.  She has also taught urban economics and development courses at UVA. Previously, she was Director/Senior Economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association (of America) and Research Associate at Haver Analytics.  Dr. Warnock received her Ph.D. in Economics from Fordham University and her A.B. in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University.

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IIIS and Centre for Post Conflict Justice

Against Remembrance by David Rieff

Date: Friday October 21st, 2011
Time: 16.00-18.00
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, Trinity College

David Rieff will discuss his recent book Against Remembrance, followed by comments on healing through remembering in Northern Ireland by Geraldine Smyth and memory and the Palestinian Nakba by Ronit Lentin.
Iinternationally acclaimed author and journalist David Rieff currently teaches History of Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po.During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor for the New Republic, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a board member of Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute and of Independent Diplomat. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night:Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother's final illness, Swimming in a Sea of Death, appeared in January 2008. His most recent book is entitled  Against Remembrance (2009).Currently he is working on a book about the global food crisis.

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The New Scramble for Africa by Padraig Carmody, IIIS Research Associate (author)

Dr. Padraig Carmody, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin has recently published the book, “The New Scramble for Africa”.This book explores the nature of resource and market competition in Africa and the strategies adopted by the different actors involved be they world powers or small companies. Focusing on key commodities, the book examines the dynamics of the new scramble and the impact of current investment and competition on people, the environment, and political and economic development on the continent. New theories, particularly the idea of Chinese "flexigemony" are developed to explain how resources and markets are accessed. While resource access is often the primary motive for increased engagement, the continent also offers a growing market for lower priced goods from Asia and Asia owned companies. Individual chapters explore old and new economic power interests in Africa; oil, minerals, timber, biofuels, food and fisheries; and the nature and impacts of Asian investment in manufacturing and other sectors. The New Scramble for Africa will be essential reading for students of African studies, international relations, and resource politics as well as anyone interested in current affairs.

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THE IIIS CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF
Communalism and Globalisation in South Asia and its Diaspora (2011: Routledge, London and New York)
Edited by Deana Heath and Chandana Mathur
SPEAKERS
Professor Tom Collins, President, NUI Maynooth
Professor Tadhg Foley, Professor Emeritus of English, NUI Galway
Professor Louis Brennan, Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
Dr Chandana Mathur (Co-editor), Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth and IIIS Research Associate

 

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism. It does so through exploring the concurrent histories of communalism and globalization in four South Asian contexts - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - as well as in various diasporic locations, from the nineteenth century to the present.

Including contributions by some of the most notable scholars working on communalism in South Asia and its diaspora as well as by some challenging new voices, the book encompasses both different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. It looks at a range of methodologies in an effort to stimulate new debates on the relationship between communalism and globalization, and is a useful contribution to studies on South Asia and Asian History.

DATE: Tuesday June 14th 2011
TIME: 6.30 p.m
VENUE: Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, TCD

Download Invitiation
Download Details Of Book

RSVP By Tuesday June 7th to Colette.keleher@tcd.ie
Please Note: Parking is not available on campus

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IIIS Public Lecture

The Korean Economic Crisis:The Road to Recovery

Korean Ambassador H.E. Mr. Chang Yeob Kim.

DATE: Wednesday May 18th 2011
TIME: 17.00
VENUE: Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, Trinity College Dublin

• Download Presentation
• Full list of IIIS Presentations and Podcasts

RSVP: By Friday May 13th to Colette.keleher@tcd.ie
Please Note: Parking is not available on campus

 

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AFRICA DAY 2011

Africa Day Celebration “Investing in Africa: Society, Agriculture and Enterprise”

Africa Day is an initiative of the African Union, which celebrates African diversity and success and the cultural and economic potential of the continent. Africa Day allows us to celebrate the relationship that exists between Africa and Ireland. Events to mark the occasion will this year include a conference examining the role that trade and agriculture have in Africa's future economic development. Trinity College, University College Dublin and Self Help Africa collaborate with the African embassies in Ireland to present an impressive roster of international speakers to discuss the topic "Investing in Africa - Society, Agriculture & Enterprise" at an afternoon conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin.

Participating speakers will include:

• Dr. Marcela Villarreal, Director Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation and co-author of the FAO's recently published 'Women in Agriculture' report. Download Presentation
• Kalongo Chitengi, Zambia Country Director, Self Help Africa Download Presentation
• Prof. Margaret Kigozi, Executive Director, Uganda Investment Authority Download Presentation
• Dr. Eoin Gahan, Head of Trade, Environment and Survey Analysis, Forfás Download Presentation
• Prof. Keith Palmer, Executive Chairman, AgDevCo Download Presentation
• Download Press Coverage

The conference will be chaired by Charlie Bird, Chief News Correspondent, RTE and will be opened by Minister of State for Trade and Development, Jan O'Sullivan and H.E. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Kenyan Ambassador. This event is proudly supported by Irish Aid.

Date: May 25th
Time: 2.30 - 4.30pm
Venue: Davis Theatre, TCD
RSVP to tidi@tcd.ie by Wednesday 18th May

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IIIS Public Lecture

Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution)

New Frontiers and Challenges on Governance:  
How the Evidence Challenges Orthodoxy about Corruption and Governance around the World
                                           

Date: Friday, 11th March, 2011
Time: 10/00 a.m.
Venue: Long Room Hub, Fellows Square (located in front of the Arts Building), Trinity College Dublin.
Contact: Eoin McGuirk, Institute for International Integration Studies and Department of Economics, TCD
Please note that there is no RSVP for this event. Please arrive on time to ensure a place.
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Directions to Trinity College Campus

Daniel Kaufmann is a world-renowned writer on governance, corruption, and development, who, with colleagues, has pioneered new approaches to diagnose and analyze country governance.

Kaufmann is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He carries out policy analysis and applied research on economic development, governance, regulation and corruption around the world. Previously he served as a director at the World Bank Institute, where he pioneered new approaches to measure and analyze governance and corruption, helping countries formulate action programs.

At the World Bank, Kaufmann also held senior positions focused on finance, regulation and anti-corruption, as well as on capacity building for Latin America. He also served as lead economist both in economies in transition as well as in the World Bank's research department, and earlier in his career was a senior economist in Africa. In the early nineties, Kaufmann was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, before taking up a visiting position at Harvard University.

Kaufmann is also a member of the Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum, as well as a member of advisory boards at Revenue Watch Institute, Transparency International, and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals, and his writings are frequently cited in the international media.

Kaufmann is a Chilean national who received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His blog on Governance is at www.thekaufmannpost.net

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IIIS with CRANN, TCIN and the Long Room Hub invite you to an open debate with the Provost Candidates

Research Institutes and Centres are a key element to deliver the TCD mission on research excellence. As such the four TCD Institutes (CRANN, TCIN, IIIS and the Long Room Hub) would like to invite you to an open debate with the Provost candidates addressing the issues of running inter-disciplinary research units within College. The debate will take place on:

Date: Tuesday, March 8th
Time: 7pm
Venue: Long Room Hub theatre.

The format of the meeting will be a simple question and answer one, and the debate will be moderated by Prof. Petros Florides, TCD Pro-Chancellor. An on-line blog on Research at TCD has been set up at

http://outreach.tchpc.tcd.ie/vanilla/index.php?p=/vanilla/discussions

and all the TCD community is invited to post questions to the Provost candidates.

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The Policy Institute and the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at TCD are pleased to announce that Andres Velasco (ex Minister of Finance for Chile) will give a seminar at TCD on Monday March 14 on “The Fiscal Framework: Lessons from Chile”.  As has been flagged on this blog before, Chile was able to run very sizeable surpluses in the pre-crisis period, such that it could enjoy a big fiscal swing during the crisis without threatening fiscal sustainability.  This seminar provides an opportunity to learn how Chile was able to achieve this counter-cyclical fiscal policy.

Date: Monday, March  14
Time: 8.30am-10am
Venue:  Jonathan Swift Theatre (Room 2041A), Arts Block, TCD
Admission: Free, All welcome

Andrés Velasco: Short Bio

Andrés Velasco was the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006 and March 2010. During his tenure he was recognized as Latin American Finance Minister of the Year by several international publications. His work to save Chile´s copper windfall and create a rainy-day fund was highlighted in the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, among many others.

Mr. Velasco is currently a Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received an B.A. in economics and philosophy and an M.A. in international relations from Yale University.

Prior to entering government, Mr. Velasco was Sumitomo-FASID Professor of Development and International Finance at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an appointment he had held since 2000. Earlier he was Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

Mr. Velasco was a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Kiel, Germany, and the President of Expansiva, a think-tank in Santiago, Chile. He has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and ECLAC.

He was president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) from 2005 to 2007. In February 2006 he received the Award for Excellence in Research granted by the Inter-American Development Bank.

In addition to ninety academic papers and three academic books, he has published two works of fiction in Spanish: Vox Populi (Editorial Sudamericana, 1995) and Lugares

 

 

IIIS Public Lecture

Professor Paul Collier Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Date: Friday, 4th February.2011
Time: 11:00 – 12:30
Venue: Long Room Hub, Fellows Square (located in front of the Arts Building), Trinity College Dublin.
Contact: Eoin McGuirk, Institute for International Integration Studies and Department of Economics, TCD. Email:
Directions to Trinity College Campus

Research students, academics, members of the aid community and other interested parties are invited to a public lecture by Professor Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Prof Collier is one of the world’s foremost authorities on economic development. He was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank from 1998 – 2003, and is currently Advisor to the Strategy and Policy Department of the IMF, Advisor to the Africa Region of the World Bank, and he has advised the British Government on its recent White Paper on economic development policy. He is the author of The Bottom Billion, which in 2008 won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and in May 2009 was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize. His second book, Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places was published in March 2009; and his latest book, The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature was published in May 2010. He is a regular contributor to the Independent, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Prof Collier has published extensively on the causes and consequences of civil war, the effects of aid, and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resources rich societies. In 2008 he was awarded a CBE ‘for services to scholarship and development.’

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• "Factors shaping EU external economic policy"

• By Dr Stephen Woolcock, London School of Economics

Date: Monday July 5th 2010
Time: 2.30 - 3.30
Venue: TCD-UCD Innovation Academy, 3-4 Foster Place, Dublin 2

 

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IIIS Public Lecture

• 'EU Agricultural Policy and it's Effects on Developing Countries: What do we know?'

• By Professor Alan Matthews, Professor of European Agriculture Policy

Date: Wednesday, 5th May 2010
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Synge Theatre, Arts Building

• Download Podcast
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IIIS Public Lecture

• 'Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights'

• By Professor Linda Hogan, Irish School of Ecumenics

Date: Wednesday, 7th April 2010
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Synge Theatre, Arts Building

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IIIS Public Lecture

• Referendums on the EU: Deja Vu (Again)'

• By Professor Michael Marsh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Date:: Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Time: 6.00 pm
VENUE: J M Synge Theatre, Arts Building ALL WELCOME
Abstract: This talk is about Ireland's relationship with the EU as evidenced in the recent history of referendums on NIce and Lisbon. In particular it looks at survey evidence on these two pairs of votes and asks what we can learn from this, with respect both to referendums and to the nature of our attitudes to Europe and our political system.

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IIIS hosts Dublin Political Economy Workshop 2009

Friday November 20th 2009

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IIIS Public Lecture

'Is globalization reversible?'

By Professor Robert Holton

DATE: Wednesday October 28th 2009
TIME: 7.00pm
VENUE: J M Synge Theatre (Formerly the Walton Theatre)

Abstract: Analyses of globalization have moved beyond the earlier hype about a borderless world inhabited by mobile capital and confident cosmopolitans. Many now speak of limits to globalization, while a few see its death as imminent. In this paper I explore the underlying question ‘is globalization reversible?’ This question has no simple answers. This is partly because of profound ambiguities about the key features of globalization. The line of analysis to be pursued here examines six dimensions upon which questions of reversibility may be assessed. The analytical tone is one of sceptical dis-aggregation rather than system-building. This draws upon a sociological model of differentiation and problems of integration, which may be linked to the idea of cycles of globalization and de-globalization.

Biography: Robert Holton is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests include globalization and global networks, historical sociology, and social theory. His most recent book is Cosmopolitanisms: New Thinking and New Directions, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Global Networks was also published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2008. Professor Holton is a member of the international editorial boards of the Journal of Classical Sociology, The European Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Sociology. He was also part of the editorial team that compiled The Encyclopaedia of Globalization, published by Routledge in 2006. In 1995 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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IIIS celebrates Africa Day

As part of the Africa Day celebrations on May 25th. The IIIS hosted a conference titled Africa - Moving Forward

 

The invited speakers included Dr Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist of the African Development Bank and Ambassador Dr Tunji Olagunju, Special Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD),as well as Minister of State with responsibility for Overseas Development, Peter Power. The event was organised by the IIIS and the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), in collaboration with the group of African Ambassadors in Dublin (South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco and Nigeria) with the support of Irish Aid as part of the Africa Day celebrations nationwide

• Dr Louis Kasekende Presentation [PPT 3.59MB]
• Dr Tunji Olagunju Speech
• Mr Peter Power, Minister of State Speech
• Podcast of the event
• Full list of all IIIS Podcast Events

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Past Special Events