Other News

Theory, Culture and Society have recently published a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon which took place in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and was transcribed by PAIS PhD student Katie Dingley on the basis of a tape recording made at the time.

Foucault and Simon begin with a discussion of Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’, and move to a discussion of notions of danger, psychiatric expertise in prosecution cases, crime, responsibility and rights in the US and French legal systems.

The transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction by PAIS Professor Stuart Elden and a retrospective comment by Jonathan Simon, now a Professor at Berkeley.

Simon was one of a group of students who met with Foucault in a working seminar, many of whom can be seen in this archive picture. The wider context is further discussed in Elden's recent book, Foucault's Last Decade

The discussion can be downloaded here.

Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that Warwick had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/researchcentres/ierg/westpapua/

We are delighted to announce that Dzeneta Karabegovic and Lisa Tilley of PAIS are on the short-list of the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR). Many congratulations to them both!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper were nominated and on the long-list of the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Kawther Alfasi, Ilke Dagli, Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira, Lorenzo Genito and Lucy Hatton were nominated and on the long list of the WATE PGR.

This is a further reflection of our teaching excellence in PAIS and our standing as a Department and we thank our students and staff for their nominations

Many congratulations to all those recognised. Winners and Commendees will be announced at the end of June! Best of luck to Dzeneta and Lisa in the final stages!

The full list of those short-listed and long-listed across the University can be found here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/teaching_learning/wate

Fay Niker has been awarded the John L. Stanley Award for the most outstanding project in History and Ethics. This for her PhD project: 'Transformative Nudging: A Framework for Designing Policy Ecologies that Support Living Well' (Supervisors: Matthew Clayton, Adam Swift).

The prize is awarded annually by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, based in New Jersey, USA, which awards grants to outstanding doctoral students working on various aspects of social policy. Combined with her success in their general competition, Fay will receive a total of $9,000 to support her project.

André Broome has been elected as Chair of the International Political Economy (IPE) section of the International Studies Association for 2016-17, the largest professional association of International Studies and International Political Economy scholars in the world.

With over 800 members from around the world, the IPE Section is one of the largest sections within the ISA, and organizes a number of prestigious awards to be presented at each year's annual convention, including the IPE Distinguished Scholar Award, the Society of Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award, and the Outstanding Activist Scholar (OAS) Award. For this year's ISA annual convention in Atlanta the IPE section organized 91 panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2017 in Baltimore is 1st June 2016. Further information about the IPE Section of ISA is available at: www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/IPE

To join the IPE section mailing list please visit: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/isa-ipe.