On Monday, April 2, 2012, Prof. Birgit Mahnkopf of the Berlin School of Economics and Law will be at the Political Science Department on York’s Keele campus to deliver a lecture entitled “Geopolitics, Energy Imperialism and the Race for a ‘Green Economy'”. This lecture will take place in Ross South 674 (building # 28 on the map found here) and begins at 2:30 pm.

Birgit Mahnkopf is Professor of European Social Policy at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She is one of Europe’s leading scholars on globalization and the political economy of work, social policy and ecology. Her major publications include: The Limits of Globalization (with Elmar Altvater, now in its 7th edition); Globalization of Insecurity: Working in the shade, black money and informal policy (2003); The Management of Globalization: Management, Structures, Perspectives (2003) as well as many articles and chapters in books on the EU social model being turned into the anti-egalitarianism of an aggressive commercial power. This presentation draws on her most recent research on EU energy strategies in the global economy.

All are welcome.