Seminar - Social Science and the Surprises of History

Social Science and the Surprises of History
Paris 1968, Tehran 1979, Berlin 1989, Wall St., 2008

Wednesday 22nd October at 1pm

Room E59 Richmond Building

University of Bradford

Professor Fred Halliday
Research Professor
IBEI, Barcelona Institute for International Studies

Fred Halliday taught International Relations at LSE from 1983 to 2008. He is now ICREA Research Professor at IBEI, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. His work covers International Relations theory, the history and sociology of revolutions and the politics of the Middle East. Among his publications are Rethinking International Relations, Revolution and World Politics: the Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power, The Middle East in International Relations. Professor Halliday is currently working on a study of language and politics in the Middle East, and on a re-examination of the possiblities and pre-conditions, for internationalism in the twenty-first century. In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the British Academy.