Event Date: 8 – 9 November 2013
Unrecognised Nations and Peoples Organisation
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
2517 AN The Hague
The Netherlands
Alternative Cultures of Diplomacy
Part of the Diplomatic Cultures Research Network (AH/J013900/1)
Agenda-setting in diplomacy II
Dr Elin Royles has been a lecturer at the Institute of Welsh Politics, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth since 2006. Her PhD considered the impact of devolution on civil society in Wales and her research interests relate to locating Wales within the broader context of development in sub -state politics in Europe. Her research into Welsh sub-state diplomacy covers a range of areas, particularly sustainable development and climate change. She is co – editor of the Contemporary Wales journal and supervises PhD students in areas related to civil society, devolution in the UK, language politics and language planning, sub-state diplomacy and democracy promotion and European politics.
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Mr Tenzin Samphel has served the Tibetan community in exile since 1998. This has included acting as Chief Executive Officer at the Tibetan Service Co-operative bank in Karnataka, and a series of posts at the Central Tibetan Administration over a 20 year period: Office Manager at the Department of Home and Personal Assistant to the Minister of Education. From August 2003 until March 2013 he was the Under Secretary at the Tibet Bureau in Geneva, responsible for international advocacy within the UN and acting as the Press and Information officer.
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Dr Andrew Schaap teaches Politics at the University of Exeter. His research broadly aims to conceptualize political action, politicization, and the constitution of political community. He draws on debates in political theory about’agonism’ (the Ancient Greek term for the struggle for distinction among citizens) and the concept of the political (more or less synonymous with ‘polity’ or ‘the common’) to examine issues surrounding democratic praxis, the politics of reconciliation and human rights. Andrew is the author of Political Reconciliation (Routledge 2005), editor of Law and Agonistic Politics (2009) and co-editor (with Vras Karalis and Dani Celermajer) of Power, Judgment and Political Evil (2010) and (with Gary Foley and Edwina Howell) of The Aboriginal Tent Embassy (2013).
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Professor Herman van der Wusten was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Amsterdam and dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at that university, now emeritus. He did a PhD on Irish resistance movements to the United Kingdom 1800-1922, and wrote on urban questions, nationalism and global politics. In recent times he has concentrated on the making of political centres, particularly in Europe, and has thus become involved in studies of diplomatic practice. This work has notably appeared in European Review (1993), Political Geography (2004), Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2006, 2010), several of Peter Taylor’s edited collections on Global and World Cities, and in Robert Denemark’s multivolume International Studies Encyclopedia (2010). Some of these contributions have been written in close co-operation with Virginie Mamadouh.
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Ms Chung Ying Wei is currently a PhD Candidate in Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include cultural identity, nation branding, cultural relations and diplomacy. A native of Taiwan, Chun-Ying receives her dual first degrees in Philosophy and Sociology in National Taiwan University and later obtained MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths in London. Prior to her doctoral research, Chun-Ying worked as a project executive in Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan. The professional life in the Council provided her an opportunity to engage in the process of policy making and practice. With a passion for performing arts, she had also worked as an arts administrator for several years in Taipei.
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Dr Karsten Xuereb is Project Coordinator for the Valletta 2018 Foundation which is responsible for Valletta’s preparations as European Capital of Culture in 2018. He was previously responsible for culture at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the EU in Brussels. He holds a Doctorate in cultural relations in the Mediterranean from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (2012) and a Masters degree in European Cultural Policy & Management from the University of Warwick where he studied as a Chevening Scholar (2005). He is a member of the Maltese cultural organisation Inizjamed, whom he represents on the Board of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, and is a fellow of the U40 Network “Cultural Diversity 2030” established by the German Commission for UNESCO.
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