Public lecture by Heikki Patomäki
“What Next? An Explanation of the 2008-9 Slump and Two Scenarios of the Shape of Things to Come”
Public Lecture by Professor Heikki Patomäki
Heikki Patomäki is an Innovation Professor of Human Security – Globalization and Global Institutions. He sits on the Research Leaders team of the Global Cities Institute and the Executive of the Globalism Research Centre. Until 2003, Patomäki held the position of Professor in World Politics and Economy at the Nottingham Trent University in the UK; and currently he is on leave from his Professorship in International Relations at the University of Helsinki in Finland. At the RMIT, he researches human security, politics of global governance and political economy, along with scenarios of possible global futures.
His recent book The Political Economy of Global Security. War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (Routledge 2008) will be followed by a larger and more general volume under the working title of Global Futures. The new work develops, apart from concrete scenarios of short- to mid-term futures, also the methodology of futures studies and scenarios for long-term futures.
Patomäki has given guest lectures in more than 20 universities and research centres around the world; and contributed to discussions in parliamentary seminars and meetings in Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden. In addition, he has consulted several public and civil society organizations across the world, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs; UNRISD (the UN Research Institute for Social Development); UK Department for International Development; the New or Restored Democracies process; International ATTAC; and various other transnational NGOs. At the RMIT, he co-teaches a course on nationalism and globalism in 2009 and, in 2010, teaches a course on global futures.
It is an open seminar and no registration is required.