Dr. Titipol Phakdeewanich is based at the Faculty of Political Science at Ubon Ratchathani University in Thailand. Previously, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow on Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. His research is focused on finding actual solutions to problems experienced by the under-represented, marginalised, and disenfranchised groups within Thailand. In this seminar, Dr. Phakdeewanich discusses the relevance of the Thai ‘patronage system’ as a paradigm for understanding politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date: 25th February 2022

Time: 09:00-10:00 AM

Venue: Zoom meeting

This seminar is part of the East Asia Study Group (EASG) Seminar Series. For further information, meeting link and passcode, please contact the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk

Congratulations to Mahmoud Abdou, who passed his viva on the 10th January. His internal examiner was Professor George Christou (PAIS) and his external examiner was Professor Neophytos Loizides from the University of Kent. His thesis on "International law and the territorial controls of non-state armed groups in Yemen and Libya (2011-2015)" was supervised by Briony Jones and Richard Aldrich at PAIS, and is informed by postcolonialism in IR theory and the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL). Mahmoud hopes to publish it as a book soon.

Founded in 2007, the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) is a biannual, student-run academic journal at Cornell University dedicated to publishing undergraduate, postgraduate, and expert scholarship on contemporary international affairs and international relations.

The Review focuses on both traditional political science approaches and multidisciplinary research, and thus welcomes submissions from any relevant field of study. Papers should preferably address events and trends that are not well-established in current international relations scholarship, yet have immediate global relevance and engage a broader and more diverse audience beyond the traditional academic sphere. We particularly encourage papers that seek to address historically underrepresented demographics, as well as lesser-studied regions, individuals, and events, as well as the submission of papers that utilise non-English language secondary scholarship or primary source research.

For further information go to: https://cornelliar.org/submissions

Final Deadlines:
• Priority: January 31, 2022
• Final: February 20, 2022

The Critical South Asia Group at Warwick presents: Vernacular Rights Cultures

How to decolonise global human rights? This panel discussion will launch Sumi Madhok's new book Vernacular Rights Cultures.

Thursday 20 January 2022
17:30 – 19:00 GMT (Online)

About this event

Vernacular Rights Cultures argues that decolonising global human rights requires a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. It demonstrates that subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.

Speakers
Upendra Baxi (Research Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School)
Yassin M. Brunger (School of Law, Queen's University Belfast)
Bal Sokhi-Bulley (School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex)
Illan Wall (School of Law, University of Warwick)

Respondent
Sumi Madhok (Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics)

Chair
Shirin Rai (Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development; PAIS, University of Warwick)

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Stuart Elden has been awarded a Leverhulme major research fellowship for three years, to begin on 1 October 2022. The full list of awards is here.

Stuart's project has the title of 'Mapping Indo-European thought in 20th century France', looking at both French and émigré scholars, with a particular focus on Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mircea Eliade and Julia Kristeva. The work will use the extensive archives of Benveniste, Dumézil and Eliade, located in Paris and Chicago, and historically situate the work within wider debates about the politics, languages and geography of Europe. Planned outputs include a book and linked articles.