Other News
Warwick Question Time - Registration closes at midnight on 26th Sept
We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the Department of Economics are hosting a Warwick Question Time on the year’s hot topic of Brexit. It will take place on Monday 3rd October, 6.15-7.45pm, in Butterworth Hall. By joining together it means we can put on the biggest and best event possible and ensure PAIS students can take full advantage of the opportunity. Based on student feedback it is clear you would like more events of this kind and we are looking forwarding to starting off the 2016 academic year in such an exciting way.
The format is very similar to the popular BBC television show and it will allow an engagement with politicians, policy makers and academics.. The event will have a real PAIS flavour, with PAIS providing both one of the panellists and the Chair.
The panellists will be:
- LT Col Tony Shaffer, highly experienced intelligence officer
- Hazel Blears, former Labour Cabinet Minister
- Suzanne Evans, Board Member of Vote Leave and Former Spokesperson for UKIP
- Wyn Grant, Former Head of PAIS and distinguished political scientist and Professor
- Dennis Novy - Associate Professor of Economics
The Panel will be Chaired by Shirin Rai, Professor in PAIS, and co-lead of Warwick’s Global Research Priority Programme on International Development.
More details and a registration form can be found here. Please do register asap to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!
International Workshop “Unpacking the Sending State: Regimes, Institutions, and Non-state Actors in Diaspora and Emigration Politics”
On 12-13 September, 2016 Warwick University will host the international workshop “Unpacking the Sending State: Regimes, Institutions, and non-State Actors in Diaspora & Emigration Politics,” conducted with the sponsorship of the International Studies Association and the ERC Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.”
This workshop seeks to understand how regimes, institutions and non-actors shape sending states’ extraterritorial engagement with migrants and diaspora populations abroad. This is the second workshop to be convened as part of a venture research grant, sponsored by the International Studies Association. This emerging research agenda seeks to consolidate ideas on international migration politics within the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics on issues of statehood, conflicts and security, democratization, authoritarianism, political economy, and political geography. The focus of the Warwick workshop will be on the role of political regimes.
Participants are listed in the order of their appearance on the program: Katrina Burgess (Associate Professor of Political Economy, Tufts University); Maria Koinova (Reader in International Relations, Warwick University); Luicy Pedroza (Postdoctoral Researcher, German Institute of Global and Area Studies); Marlies Glasius (Professor in International Relations, University of Amsterdam); Gerasimos Tsourapas (Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham), Justin Gest (Assistant Professor in Public Policy, George Mason University); Michael Jones-Correa (Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania); Jean-Michel Lafleur (Associate Professor, University of Liège); Aubrey Westfall (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College); Anastasia Christou (Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlesex University); Douglas de Toledo Piza (PhD student in Sociology, Zolberg Institute on Migration); Dzeneta Karabegovic (Ph.D. student, University of Warwick); Nikola Mirilovic (Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Central Florida). Discussants include: Ben Margulies (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick); Catherine Craven (Ph.D. student, SOAS), and Juanita Elias (Associate Professor in International Political Economy, University of Warwick).
A Keynote speech “State and Local Policy Regimes: Immigration Reception and Immigrant Engagement” will be given by Professor Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania) on 12 September 16:00 – 18:00 at Radcliffe Conference Centre at Warwick University. More information about the public lecture could be found here.
Public Lecture: State and Local Policy Regimes: Immigration Reception and Immigrant Engagement
Professor Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania) will give a keynote speech “State and Local Policy Regimes: Immigration Reception and Immigrant Engagement” to address the workshop on 12 September, 2016, Monday, 16:00 - 18:00 in Radcliffe at Warwick University. The keynote speech is open to the public.
More information could be found here
Four PAIS undergraduates 'Highly Commended' at UG Awards
No less than four of our undergraduate students received the honour of being Highly Commended Entrants in the Politics & International Relations category of this year’s Undergraduate Awards competition.
Juanita Elias & Lena Rethel publish co-edited book with Cambridge University Press
Dr. Juanita Elias and Dr. Lena Rethel have recently published the book The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia with Cambridge University press. The book - a project that had its roots in a workshop co-sponsored by the Universities of Warwick and Griffith University Australia in 2012 - brings together a number of authors working on a variety of Southeast Asian countries. The cover photograph of the book was contributed by one of PAIS's former MA students Lee Shan Tse (double MA with the University of Waterloo). Although the book was published this month, the book had an early 'launch' in May at the Centre for Study Globalisation and Regionalisation.
The book details can be found here http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/south-east-asian-government-politics-and-policy/everyday-political-economy-southeast-asia?format=HB