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Nuclear Weapons Master-classes
PAIS NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUP
presents
WORKING TOWARD A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Two practitioner masterclasses on contemporary challenges relating to nuclear weapons
FREE BUFFET LUNCH INCLUDED
Tuesday 20th May and Tuesday 27th May
Ramphal RO.14/RO.12
University of Warwick
The PAIS Nuclear Weapons Working Group invites you to attend two free lunches and practitioner masterclasses
May 20, 2014
Dr Kate Hudson
General-Secretary
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
May 27, 2014
Rachel Staley
Programme Manager
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Both speakers will discuss the daily workings and decision-making processes of their respective organisations, as well as outlining key challenges to contemporary nuclear policy-making. The masterclass will provide a key opportunity for students and staff to engage with figures with first-hand experience of nuclear weapons policy, as well as to grapple with fundamental questions arising from contemporary debate.
Programme:
Tuesday 20th May (RO.14): Dr Kate Hudson, CND
Tuesday 27th May (RO.12): Rachel Staley, BASIC
12pm-1pm: Free Buffet Lunch and Informal Talk and Q&A
1pm-3pm: Masterclass: Working toward a world without nuclear weapons: Two perspectives
3pm-3.30pm: Closing remarks and refreshments
For further information contact:
Nikita Shah, PhD candidate nikita.shah@warwick.ac.uk or Trevor McCrisken trevor.mccrisken@warwick.ac.uk
International Conference of Undergraduate Research 2014
The second annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR 2014), will be held at Warwick on 23 September 2014.
The International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) is an annual event that is unique in concept and design. Using the latest in high-definition video conferencing technology, it connects students from universities across the world to a single 24-hour forum. It is a platform to showcase the work of some of the world's best undergraduate researchers from any discipline or area. Undergraduates present their research in joint sessions alongside peers on the other side of the world, interacting with fellow presenters and audiences in real-time through video-links and social media.
The conference was first held jointly between Monash and Warwick i(and campuses in South Africa and Malaysia) in April 2013, but this year has expanded significantly to include several new partner institutions, including Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University in Singapore, Baruch College in New York, USA and the University of Western Australia.
The call for papers is now open with a deadline for students of midnight on Friday May 9, 2014. Please contact Emma Barker e.barker@warwick.ac.uk for more information and visit the student resources page for tips on how to prepare.
Further information
Final year students are welcome to apply, so long as they can return to campus for their presentation in September. Feedback from students who participated in ICUR 2013 was overwhelmingly positive and this expanded event is a wonderful opportunity for Warwick students. Find out Seven Reasons Why You Should Apply for ICUR 2014
Christopher Moran wins book award
Assistant Professor Christopher Moran's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 
The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.
He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.
West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".
This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.
A slideshow of photographs of the event is available on YouTube.
Week 1 Departmental Seminar on Rwandan Diaspora
On Friday 25th April, Dan Godshaw, of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation, is giving a presentation entitled 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora'. He is also bringing with him two Rwandan genocide survivors who live in the UK.
'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora',
by Dan Godshaw.
Friday 25th April
5-6.30pm, Social Studies Building S0.20
Everyone welcome
Dan Godshaw is UK Projects Coordinator at Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico). Between 2011 and 2013, he directed ‘Keeping Memories: Rwandans in the UK’, a ground-breaking project that empowered genocide survivors to tell their stories and enabled others to learn from their experiences. Dan has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has conducted academic research with UK-based Rwandans. A passionate advocate of migrant rights, he works to support detainees at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre and is currently developing a health outreach project for refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton.
Ben Clift'’s PSA Panel on Post Crisis Economic Governance filmed for the PSA Website
Ben Clift’s participation in the PSA 2014 conference panel ‘Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform,’ sponsored by British Journal of Politics & International Relations, was filmed and will soon be available on the PSA Website: http://www.psa.ac.uk/events/conference-highlights-2014
Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform
The aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis continues to frame political and economic debate. The three papers in this panel relate to different aspects of the post-crisis period.
Panel Chair: Dr Andrew Baker (Queen's University Belfast)
Panel Discussant: Professor Michael Moran (University of Manchester Business School)
Panel Members:
- Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield) 'Masters of the Universe but Slaves of the Market: Competition and Crisis'.
- Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) 'The Missing Party: the European banks, the Financial crisis, and the Euro Zone'.
- Professor Ben Clift (University of Warwick) 'Its Mostly Fiscal: Post Crisis Economic Governance, IMF/Advanced Economy Relations and Evolving Fiscal Policy Ideas'.
This panel was sponsored by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations who held a drinks reception afterwards.