ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change

Seminar 3 - Globalisation, global cities and transnational classes

23 April 2010, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

For this seminar one of the important issues is to consider the question of the extent to which some kinds of elites are transnational or global, while for others locality and location are still important.

Provisional Programme

9am - Registration and coffee

9.30 – 10.45

Bastian Van Appledorn (Free University, Amsterdam), European Corporate Elites

10.45-11.15 - Coffee

11.15– 12.30

Yves Dezalay, (CNRS, Paris), The Internationalization of national elites

12.30-1.30 - Buffet Lunch

1.30-2.45

Francois- Xavier Dudouet (IRISSO-CNRS, Paris Dauphine), Eric Gremont (OPESC, Paris) and Antoine Vion, (LESR, Universite de la Mediterranee), Core Business in the Eurozone

2.45-3.00 - Tea/ Coffee

3.00-4.15 - Eleni Tsingou (Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, Warwick), Power Elites: Club Model Politics and the Construction of Global Financial Governance

Venue

The seminar will take place at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Conventry, CV4 7AL