Professor Jan Selby delivers fourth Faculty Inaugural Lecture
The Faculty was delighted to host Professor Selby’s lecture in celebration of his impressive research career.
On 4 December 2024, the Faculty of Social Sciences continued its Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series for the 2024-25 academic year. The lectures in this series are delivered by academic colleagues who have been promoted to or appointed at the rank of Professor in the Faculty since January 2020.
A full lecture theatre attends Professor Selby's lecture.
The fourth lecture in the series was given by the School of Politics and International Studies’ Professor Jan Selby.
Professor Selby is a Professor of International Politics and Climate Change whose area of expertise includes climate politics, International Relations theory, conflict, peacebuilding and development, and Middle East Politics.
Professor Selby answering audience questions.
This nexus of research expertise saw itself represented in and by his inaugural lecture, ‘Climate Politics in the Shadow of Genocide’.
Professor Selby’s talk asked its audience to observe and consider the commonalities between international responses to global climate change and to the ‘ongoing Western-backed atrocities in Gaza’.
The lecture was followed by an extended Q&A session, and finally by a drinks reception.
Professor Selby (centre) speaking with colleagues at the drinks reception after his lecture.
As we pass the halfway point in this year’s Faculty Inaugural Series, we would like to thank Professors Joanne Greenhalgh, Henry Yeomans, Diane Pecorari and Jan Selby for their brilliant lectures, as well as everyone who has joined us in celebrating the outstanding achievements of these four speakers.
On Thursday 30 January 2025, the series will recommence with a lecture given by the School of Law’s Professor Jose Pina-Sánchez. Full details and registration information will follow in due course.
If you are not a colleague or postgraduate researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences and would like to be added to the mailing list for this series, please email Dr Izzy Jenkinson (Faculty Events Coordinator) at I.K.S.Jenkinson@leeds.ac.uk.
