News
- Dr Jeroen Guning joins the School as Reader in March 2010
- Special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies from selected papers from our ESRC-sponsored seminar series on the future of the Single European Market
- 'Dubai debt woes give Islamic finance its first big crisis'
- Dubai's property bonanza just wasn't built to last
- James Piscatori joins the School in September 2010 as a new Chair
Events
'A View from the Foothills': memories from the Blair administration
Chris Mullin MP will talk about his recently published diaries. (This talk is organised by the Government Cluster SGIA and St Chad's College.)
Religion and Globalisation: making a case for the Latin American contribution
A lecture by Prof Paul Freston, CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and professor colaborador in sociology at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.
Prof. A.K.S. Lambton Memorial Lecture
'Revolutionary Iran and the Arab world - an uneasy relationship' an lecture by Dr. Udo Steinbach, Berlin
Durham Islamic Finance Conference 2010 - “Islamic Finance and Financial Crisis: Issues at Regulatory, Organizational and Product Levels”
The current financial crisis is considered to be the most severe, since the Great Depression, has shaken the very foundations of the capitalist financial system. Despite the fact that most of those involved in Islamic finance claim the immunity of the sector against the financial crisis, a critical examination of the sources of the current crisis will demonstrate that Islamic finance could potentially encounter a similar fate.
Professor John Dumbrell
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