Keynote speakers

Francis Fukuyama, Johns Hopkins University:
"Globalisation, the nation state and the public sector"
Francis Fukuyama biography (PDF, ~969 KB)
Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield:
"The symbolic construction of the nation in Denmark"
http://www.shef.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/jenkins.html
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo:
"Thinking locally, acting globally: On the turbulence of belonging".
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/
Michael Cronin, Dublin City University:
"dyoublong? The languages of globalisation"
http://webpages.dcu.ie/~croninm/
Bob Jessop, Lancaster University:
"The knowledge economy as a state project".
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staff/jessop/jessop.htm
David Marsh, University of Birmingham:
"The Globalisation debate today: What have we learned since the 1990s?"
http://www.sociology.bham.ac.uk/staff/marsh.htm