The Round Table

Centenary Celebrations

The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs will be celebrating its centenary in 2010.

To mark 100 years of publication of the journal, the editorial board will be organizing a number of publications, conferences and other activities.

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•  Message from the Chair

Patrons
Sir Shridath Ramphal • Chief Emeka Anyaoku • Sir Donald McKinnon • Kamalesh Sharma

• Conferences:
  Find out more about previous related conferences
  
  
• Lectures - Empire into Commonwealth (series of lectures at the Royal Overseas League, London):
  • 5 July 2010: The Modern Commonwealth - Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
  • 7 June 2010: The Commonwealth in the Age of Decolonisation - Prof. Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin
  • 10 May 2010: The Empire/Commonwealth and the Second World War - Dr. Ashley Jackson, Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London
  • 12 April 2010: The Empire/Commonwealth between the Wars - Dr. Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
  • 1 March 2010: The Edwardian Empire - Dr. John Darwin, Beit Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Oxford
  For further information on the RT/ROSL lecture series in 2010, please visit the ROSL website
  
  
• Books:
  • James Mayall, ed., The Contemporary Commonwealth, 1965-2009: An Assessment
  • Alex May, ed., The Commonwealth and International Affairs: The Round Table Centennial Selection
  
  
• Awards:
  • Six Round Table Commonwealth Awards for Young Scholars, to enable six UK-based university students to travel to different parts of the Commonwealth
  • Annual Routledge/Round Table Studentship for an MA student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London (open to non-UK Commonwealth students)
  
  
• Previous Conferences:
  • 2 July 2010: Rhodes House, Oxford: The Round Table, the British Empire and the Commonwealth, 1910-2010
  • 23-25 June 2010: SOAS, London: Democracy in the Commonwealth (booking form)
    New - Download the Democracy in the Commonwealth Conference Programme
    New - Panel I: Craggs, State of the Art: Defining Democracy, Exploring its Evolutions + Commonwealth Scholarship
    New - Panel II: Bunce and Chatterjee, Narrating Democracy in the Commonwealth
    New - Panel III: Henderson, Damaging Democracy
    New - Panel IV: De Klerk, Democracy and the People: Gender and Security in Post-Conflict South Africa
  • 22 June 2010: London University Senate House: Free Pre-Conference Inaugural Meeting of Commonwealth and Democracy Scholars Network
  • 16-18 June 2010: Cumberland Lodge: Empire and Me: Personal Recollections of Imperialism in Reality and Imagination
  • 14-15 Jan 2010: Cumberland Lodge: Commonwealth Institutions
  • 27 Nov 2009: University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad: The Contemporary Commonwealth
    Learn more about the book
  • 13 Nov 2009: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: Small States in the International Political Economy