INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

in alphabetical order

• Professor David Chandler (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster)  is a regular media commentator, editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and the editor of the Routledge book series Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding. Professor Chandler  is the author of a number of monographs, including: International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance (Routledge, 2010); Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance (Pluto, 2009); Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building (Pluto, 2006); Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004, 2005); From Kosovo to Kabul (and Beyond): Human Rights and International Intervention (Pluto, 2002, 2006); and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton (Pluto, 1999, 2000).  His long-term research focus is on new forms of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected in the therapeutic language of ethical foreign policy, the rule of law, human security, empowerment, democratization, state capacity-building, human rights, civil society development, anti-corruption and transparency, country ‘ownership’, post-conditionality, and ‘pro-poor’ development.

In the short-term, he is engaged in a variety of research projects including: work with Julian Reid on the Neoliberal Subject of Resilience, emphasising a more thorough critique of the neoliberal subject, drawing on the insights of Michel Foucault and others; work on a forthcoming co-edited book (with Susanna Campbell and Meera Sabaratnam) Liberal Peace? The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding (to be published by Zed in 2011); and preparation of a Handbook on International Statebuilding (to be published by Routledge in 2012).

• Prof. Randall Halle (Department of German, University of Pittsburgh) is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States. During high school he was able to participate in an exchange program with the Kolleg St. Blasien in the Hochschwarzwald. This experience proved formative for him, directing him to the study of German culture. He studied at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Freiburg, the University of Utrecht, and the Free University in Berlin. He received his PhD from Madison in 1995. Halle works primarily on film, visual culture, and social philosophy. He is currently pursuing two different projects tentatively entitled Interzone Europe: Social Philosophy and the Transnational Imagination as well as Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference. Halle has received numerous grants. Academic year 2004-2005 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. In 2006 he was offered the honor of being the first occupant of the Jonas Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. Academic year 2009-2010 he will be a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin.