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On Monday 19^th November, we were honoured to welcome Her Excellency, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta, to give a lecture to PAIS students and staff.

Her Excellency, who is an Honorary Professor in PAIS, gave a lecture titled ‘Europe and Africa: Twin Continents for Building Positive Peace,’ and answered questions posed by PAIS students.

You can watch the video of the lecture on Facebook as well as view more photographs of the lecture.

PAIS at Warwick University is part of the EU Jean Monnet Network “Between the EU and Russia” (BEAR): http://www.bearnetwork.ca.

As part of the activities within this network, the BEAR team in the University of Glasgow is organising a field trip for upper-level undergraduate students in the Social Sciences to Latvia and Estonia, 10-17 February 2019. The field trip is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to learn how to conduct research “in the field.” Up to eight successful applicants from BEAR network universities will be selected through a competitive process to participate in this field trip.

More information about the application process and the provisional program is available here.

To apply: Please send a resume and short personal statement outlining your interest in the field trip directly to Dr. Ammon Cheskin at ammon.cheskin@Glasgow.ac.uk by 10 December, 2018.

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly has received the 2019 ISA Conference Post-PhD Paper Award for her paper 'Survivor Trees and memorial groves: Vegetal commemoration of victims of terrorism in Europe and the United States,' it was selected by judges from the Theory Section of the International Studies Association after many rounds of review and discussion.

The paper explores how trees are increasingly used in commemoration of terrorism victims, and the complications of representing human life with vegetal symbols. It is based on Dr Heath-Kelly's ESRC funded research of terrorism memorialisation and can be read here.

For more information on the award, please see: https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/THEORY-Conference-Post-PhD-Paper-Award.

Tom Long published a new article in the November issue of International Affairs. His piece, "Latin America and the liberal international order: an agenda for research", explores why the region has played a marginal role in this burgeoning IR debate—and what serious engagement with the region could add to both critical and supportive accounts of liberal international order (LIO). The article argues that, "The LIO has shaped Latin America, and Latin America has shaped the LIO—but not always in the ways supporters or critics might expect."

The article is available here: https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/94/6/1371/5162441

We are delighted to announce that PAIS has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

ECU’s Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. In May 2015, the Charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL), and in professional and support roles, and for trans staff and students. The Charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women.

A huge thank you to Jackie Clarke, Alex Homolar, Ben Richardson and Julia Welland for the tremendous amount of work they put into preparing our submission.