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Welcome Meeting Slides Now Online!
You can find the all the welcome/welcome back meeting presentation slides here.
TWO DAYS IN OKINAWA: REFLECTIONS ON WAR MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
A KnowledgeCentre article by Miriam Grinberg, PhD candidate
For those who visit Japan, the Okinawa prefecture is unlikely to feature on most travellers’ holiday itinerary. Okinawa is where the United States has developed its presence, and military bases in the region, and the presence of American soldiers in the prefecture has impacted upon the lives, businesses and culture of the local Japanese people.
Undergraduate research published in METIS journal
Two Warwick students, Eletra Ardissino and Michael Shneerson, have had their research published in the annual METIS journal compiled by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), one of the UK's leading public policy think tanks. METIS consists wholly of student-led research, and some parts are edited in-house by Warwick Think Tank Society.
Eletra's article, the introduction to the issue, is entitled 'Introduction: Why does internet access matter?', and Michael's is entitled 'The internet, social networks and death'.
MA student reports from APSA Conference in Chicago
MA student Emanuel Ingold, who graduated from PAIS this September, recently attended the 2013 Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Political Science Association from 29 August to 1 September in Chicago. He presented a paper at the conference entitled 'The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Respect for Human Rights after the End of the Cold War' on the Human Rights and Global Governance panel.
This paper is available for download on the Social Science Research Network's website, where it has been listed on the SSRN's Top Ten download list for PSN: Conflict Processes (Topic).
Read Emanuel's full report on the APSA Conference in Chicago
Dr Gabrielle Lynch awarded two ESRC grants
Associate Professor Dr Gabrielle Lynch was recently awarded two ESRC grants.
The first is an ESRC knowledge exchange grant entitled “Kenya 2013-2014: From election monitoring to longer-term reform” for which Gabrielle is principal investigator and Nic Cheeseman (Oxford) and Justin Willis (Durham) are co-investigators.
The second is an ESRC standard grant entitled “The impact of elections: voting, political behaviour and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa”, on which Willis is the principal investigator and Cheeseman and Gabrielle are co-investigators.