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We are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Aldrich was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Intelligence Studies Section at ISA 2017 in Baltimore.

The Intelligence Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award recognises a distinguished record in publishing and service to ISA by a scholar whose work has made substantial impact in the area of intelligence studies.

At the reception honouring Richard’s work, the section chair emphasised the strong contribution that PAIS as a whole had made to Intelligence Studies over the last ten years.

Dr. Maria Koinova, PI of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty", became the Division Co-chair for the development of the program of the Migration and Citizenship Section at the American Political Science Association during its annual meeting in San Francisco, California, August 31-September 3, 2017.

This year APSA's annual convention is exploring the theme "The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences and Aspirations."

More information is available here.

Jennifer Philippa Eggert recently attended the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Baltimore. During this time, she was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for an article on how the Muslim ban affected researchers attending the convention this year.

The article can be read on their website: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/27/international-relations-scholars-meet-against-backdrop-trumps-presidency-and-travel

Dr Steven Kettell has been shortlisted for the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year Award

The award, which comes with a £5000 prize recognises a campaigner or group for an outstanding contribution to the secularist movement.

Following nominations from their members and supports, the elected council of management of the National Secular Society selects a shortlist, with the winner due to be announced at the event on 18 March.

He was nominated for co-ordinating a secular response to the Commission on Religion and Belief. His work helped rebut calls for more religious privilege, and set out the urgent case for a new secular constitutional settlement in the UK.

Dr Kettell said it was "a great surprise and a genuine honour to be shortlisted for the Secularist of the Year Award." He said his own research had convinced him that "secularism is the best means of ensuring equal rights and freedoms for all citizens, regardless of their religion or belief."

More information can be found on their website.

Maria Koinova and Dzeneta Karabegovic are organizing a workshop “Diasporas and Transitional Justice” on 21 February, 2017 in Baltimore, MD.

The workshop is conducted within the framework of the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” and will take place prior to the annual convention of the International Studies Association 2017. It will discuss a novel research line to study the involvement of diasporas and other non-state actors in transitional justice processes in deeply divided societies. The workshop will gather established and early career scholars working on issues of reconciliation and remembrance of the past, genocide recognition, and mobilization activities such as competition, cooperation, and coalition-building through offline and online activism. Empirical cases are derived from all parts of the world, with specific references to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Ukraine, Kurdish areas in the Middle East, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Vietnam, among others.

A follow-up workshop with a different group of scholars will take place at Warwick University on 3 April, 2017.