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The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Shirin Rai has been elected as the UK representative on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA): https://www.ipsa.org/news/news/24th-ipsa-executive-committee-elected 

This is a further reflection of Professor Rai’s international standing and we are delighted that PAIS will be represented at the highest levels of IPSA.

Colonial Hangover exhibition - Saturday 23rd July - Coventry's Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre is holding its annual Mela on Saturday 23rd July as part of which PAIS are holding a student organised Colonial Hangover exhibition which has been running for two weeks at Belgrade Theatre

The Colonial Hangover exhibition builds on a teaching project undertaken at the University of Warwick. It asks students to consider how the practices of the British Empire continue to provide lenses through which British society looks at the relationships between its many members today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Matthew Watson on Saturday 23rd July at 5pm on the B2 stage. It will explore personal stories that show how very different lives that began in very different parts of the Empire echoed through one another in interesting but typically unacknowledged ways.

The exhibition features work by local photographer’s Master ji and Bert Scott and is produced in partnership with Jason Tilley and Ben Kyneswood (Photographic Archive miners).

The Belgrade Theatre will offer a 2 for £10 exclusively for Warwick students who go to the talk for the evening show with the promo code: MELA 2410. This is an online offer only.

http://www.belgrade.co.uk/event/coventry-belgrade-mela-2016

In an article for EurActiv, PAIS PhD researcher Ragnar Weilandt argues that the Remain camp bears much of the blame for Brexit.

Gabrielle Lynch has been awarded a small research grant (£1,500) from the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) to conduct fieldwork in Kenya in 2016/17 on the impact and aftermath of truth commissions. The project is entitled “Catharsis, re-traumatisation or silence? What happens after a truth commission: The case of Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission”, and constitutes a pilot for a possible future study on the impact and aftermath of truth commissions in Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone and Ghana. ROAPE research grants are open to members of the journal's editorial working group (EWG), contributing editors and international advisory board; Gabrielle is the chair of the ROAPE EWG.

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly has written a new piece for The Conversation, for the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings.

The article, titled "Why refusing to build memorials for terror attacks is a bold political statement" can be read here: https://theconversation.com/why-refusing-to-build-memorials-for-terror-attacks-is-a-bold-political-statement-61556