Spring Semester 2011

Tuesday 24 May 2011
The European Report on Development
Giorgia Giovannetti - University of Florence and European University Institute

Tuesday 17 May 2011
Promoting Democracy in Postcommunist Ukraine:The Contradictory Outcomes of US Aid to Women's NGOs
Kateryna Pishchikova - Research Fellow - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Discussant: Nelli Babayan - School of International Studies, University of Trento

Tuesday 3 May 2011
Debt Relief for the Poorest: Panacea or Placebo?
Andrea Presbitero - Università Politecnica delle Marche - Department of Economics & MoFiR (Money and Finance Research group)

Tuesday 19 April 2011
The role of international financial institutions (World Bank, International Monetary Fund) in the transplants of legal rules for globalization
Gianmaria Ajani - Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Torino, Faculty of Law

Tuesday 12 April 2011
Canada's Foreign Policies: Values or Interests?
Glen Williams - Professor of Political Science at the Carleton University

Tuesday 5 April 2011
The International Criminal Court and the Situation in Darfur
Cuno Tarfusser - Judge of the International Criminal Court, The Hague
Federica Gioia - Legal Officer, International Criminal Court, The Hague

Tuesday 22 March 2011
The Environmental Dimension of the EU External Relations: Beyond the Multilateral Dimension
Elisa Morgera - Lecturer in European Environmental Law - Director of the LLM Programme in Global Environment and Climate Change Law - University of Edinburgh School of Law, UK

Tuesday 15 March 2011
Islamic banking
Hans Visser - Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Management Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Fall Semester 2010

Tuesday 7 December 2010
Presentation of the Book "Lo Slancio di Astana: Sfide ed Opportunita' del Kazakhstan a Venti Anni dall'Indipendenza" (edited by Giulio Venneri)
In the presence of H.E. Almaz Khamzayev, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Italy, and the book contributors: Andrea Ciambra -University of Trento, Gert Guri - University of Trento, Lorena Di Placido - CeMiSS, Italian Ministry of Defence
Discussants: Vincent Della Sala - University of Trento, Viktoria Akchurina - University of Trento
A round table discussion on the OSCE Astana Summit will follow with Amb. Guido Lenzi - Former Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE

Tuesday 30 November 2010
An international framework for reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries. A new opportunity for global forest governance?
Annalisa Savaresi - PhD Fellow at the Faculty of Law - University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Tuesday 23 November 2010
Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises
Manuela Moschella - Postdoc Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
Discussants:
Vincent Della Sala - Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento
Andrea Fracasso - Faculty of Economics, University of Trento

Tuesday 9 November 2010
Cooperation in the shadow of WTO law: why too much caution is not needed
Arlo Poletti - University of Antwerp - Department of Political Science

Tuesday 2 November 2010
Europe and the Crisis
Paul De Grauwe - Professor of Economics - Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Tuesday 19 October 2010
Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World 
Stefano Ponte - Senior Researcher, Head of Research Unit Global Economy, Regulation and Development (GEARED) - Danish Institute for International Studies
Lisa Ann Richey - Professor of Development Studies Institute for Society and Globalisation - Roskilde University, Denmark