Other News
War on Terror: Ten years on - Lecture at Coventry University
Dear all,
You are invited to the lecture titled “War on Terror: Ten years on” by Prof Paul Rogers, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford university. The lecture will be held Tuesday 15 November, 14:00-16:00, at Square one, the Hub, Jordan Well, Coventry University.
Please feel free to circulate this information. download a PDF version of theinvitation.
Regards,
Dr Nicola Pratt
Arab Spring workshop 24-25 November
A two-part workshop discussing questions surrounding the Arab Spring will take place at Warwick on 25-25 November 2011.
The Thursday 24th session, entitled 'Understanding the Arab Spring: Security and Democratization', is open to all staff and students.
The Friday 25th sessions are open to staff and postgraduate students only and will discuss a variety of topics.
Full details can be downloaded here and on the PAIS calendar.
GREGYNOG IDEAS LAB, A Summer School in PostInternational Politics
Announcement: GREGYNOG IDEAS LAB, A Summer School in PostInternational Politics
Gregynog Hall, Wales 9-14 July 2012
Co-Sponsored by PAIS and co-organised by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams
The inaugural Gregynog Ideas Lab, a Summer School in PostInternational Politics, will take place 9-14 July, 2012. The Summer School will provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics to return to key texts and thinkers from critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions, to re-examine their work and how it has been employed in international politics, and to ask whether the radical potential of this work is in danger of being lost.
For more information about the event and on how to apply please visit the website or download the poster.
MEMORIES AND MEMOIRS
A Knowledge Centre article based on a paper by Dr Chris Moran
The idea that veterans of American intelligence will, at some stage in their retirement, publish a memoir has become something of a cliché, but in this paper, given at the Landscapes of Secrecy conference in Nottingham, Dr Christopher Moran, PAIS, argues that the process of CIA memoir-writing is a more complicated, and nuanced, tale than we might expect.
SWEET OR SOUR? THE FUTURE OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY
A Knowledge Centre interview with Dr Ben Richardson
In February 2011 the world sugar price reached a 30-year high. To supermarket shoppers, sustainability in the sugar industry may just mean affordability and the ability of manufacturers to keep bags of sugar on the shelves. Yet in reality the proportion of sugar the industry sells to individual consumers is only 20 per cent of production - the rest goes to industrial food and drink manufacturers – and sustainability issues go far deeper than maintaining the supply chain. Dr Ben Richardson, from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, has researched the subject and its controversies extensively.