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On 16 May, 2015 at 1pm the film “Grandma’s Tattoos” by Swedish filmmaker of Armenian descent, Suzanne Khardalian, will be screened at the Warwick Arts Centre cinema in association with the ERC Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” and Warwick’s Festival of Social Sciences.

The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is being commemorated in 2015. One hundred years ago on April 24, the Young Turk regime of the collapsing Ottoman Empire started to round up and either eventually massacre or expose to an imminent death in the Syrian desert an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians.

“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a documentary of a rarely told story, about the faith of women and their difficult survival during this grim period. Seeking to unravel a family taboo associated with the tattoos on the hands and face of her own grandmother, Khardalian travels to Lebanon, Syria, and the United States, and opens up a discussion about history, memory, silence, and current diasporic life across different continents. Khardalian is expected to join the conversation after the film, together with Dr. Maria Koinova, director of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty."

Synopsis of the Film

Maurice Stierl, former PhD candidate here at PAIS, recently accepted a job offer from the University of California, Davis. He will be Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies for the duration of two years.

Georg Löfflmann, who recently completed his PhD at PAIS and is currently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advances Studies has published an article in Geopolitics: "Leading from Behind - American Exceptionalism and President Obama's Post-American Vision of Hegemony"

The article examines the political performance of American exceptionalism for U.S. foreign and security policy, concluding that under President Obama the discourse of exceptionalism is neither one of primacy nor isolationism, but augments an un-exceptional policy vision of limited engagement and hegemonic restraint. 

The article is available under: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14650045.2015.1017633?journalCode=fgeo20# Geopolitics, Vol. 20, no. 2 (2015): pp. 308-332

Congratulations to PAIS student Markus Markert, our iPad Air 2 winner in our 90% NSS completion rate competition.

We remain number 1 at the university with a 92 per cent response rate, if you have not filled in the survey yet, you can do it here: www.thestudentsurvey.com

PAIS PhD candidate Thomas Parr's chapter ‘From Philanthropy to Philanthropists’ has recently been published in Behrooz Morvaridi (ed.), Philanthropy and Social Justice: Debating the Conceptual and Policy Discourse (Bristol: Policy Press, 2015), 65-78.

Details are available here: http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781447316978&.