IPEG@40: Life begins... or midlife crisis?

September 14-15 2011, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick

12.30-13:30: Keynote 1 (Randall Germain)

13.30-15.00: Panel 1 Reflections on the financial structure (I)

Chris Clarke (Warwick) Who Are the Gamblers Now? Casino Capitalism and the Financialised Subject.
Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Oxford Brookes) Is Dollar Hegemony in Decline? The ‘Persistent Myth’ (Yet Again?)
Lena Rethel & Timothy J. Sinclair (Warwick) The Problem with Banks.
Joerg Wiegratz (Sheffield) The normative underpinning of contemporary capitalism: the case of economic fraud and malpractice.

15.15-16.45: Panel 2 Reflections on the financial structure (II)

Ben Clift (Warwick) The Battle of Economic Ideas and the Global Financial Crisis: The IMF, the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude and Debt and Deficit discourse.
Huw Macartney (Manchester) The competitiveness of European space and financial governance reform.
Randall Germain (Carleton) Structural power and the consequences of the financial crisis in terms of a new global articulation of power.
Stuart Shields (Manchester) & Sara Wallin (Sheffield) The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development: The Gender Action Plan and neoliberalisation after the "crisis".

17.00-18.00: Keynote 2 (Paul Langley)

10.15-11.45: Panel 3 Reflections on the knowledge structure

Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE) All the Trader’s Men: Knowledge Producers in the Trade Field.
Chris Farrands (Nottingham Trent) A Critical Understanding of Energy Security: Security Structures and Knowledge Power in Interaction.
Caroline Kuzemko (Warwick) Energy: the Fifth Source of Structural Power?
Leonard Seabrooke (CBS & Warwick) & Eleni Tsingou (CBS) Professional Competition in Turbulent Times: Linked Ecologies in Fast and Slow Burning International Crises.

11.45-12.45: Keynote 4 (Nicola Phillips) 12.45-13.15: Lunch 13.15-14.45: Panel 4 Reflections on the production structure (I)

Karen Buckley (Limerick) Structuralism and dialectical silences in Global Political Economy.
Simon Glaze (Brookes) ‘Digging back to its roots’: Adam Smith, William James and the self in IPE.
Phoebe Moore (Salford) The Precarious Spirit of Capitalism.
Ben Richardson (Warwick) & Pamela Richardson, (KwaZulu-Natal) Lights, Camera, (Re) Action! Filming Production and Politicising Trade.

15.00-16.30: Panel 5 Reflections on the production structure (II)

Matthew Bishop (West Indies) Voices from the periphery: reassessing Caribbean political economy and its potential contribution to IPE.
Jamie Jordan (De Montfort) Passive Revolution within the EU’s Periphery: The Case of Greece.
Fabiola Mieres (Manchester) Migration within IPE: The embedding of private recruitment practices in the Mexico-US migratory system.
Matthew Watson (Warwick) The Political Economy of Disappointment: Historical Reflections on the False Promise of a Consumer Lifestyle.

16.45-18.00: Editors roundtable - reflections on 40 years of publishing in IPE