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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography: 28-29 November
Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography:
Politics, Spaces, Imaginations
Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of Warwick
28-29 November 2013
Keynote Speaker: Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London)
This two-day conference seeks to open up debates on a series of politico-spatialisation processes that have taken place both contemporarily and historically, locally and globally, and physically and virtually, in order to bring new insights into understanding space and politics.
PAIS participants include:
Prof Franklyn Lisk gives talk on UN's Post-2015 International Development Agenda
Franklyn Lisk, Professorial Research Fellow for the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), gave a talk on Saturday, 26 October at St Paul's Church in Leamington Spa on the UN's Post-2015 International Development Agenda Report for the Warwick District Branch of the UN Association.
Read more about the Beyond 2015 global campaign
IMF Economist Program opportunity
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now accepting applications for its next intake into its Economist Program (EP), an entry-level program for talented macroeconomists interested in pursuing a career in international economics and finance. It is a 3-year program specifically designed to enable participants to quickly gain operational experience and further develop macroeconomics expertise. EPs are given full professional responsibilities to carry out operations-related analysis, and to apply their studies and research to policy work that impacts the Fund's member countries.
Deadline: 31 October 2014
Workshop co-organised by PAIS PhD student funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation
The workshop "Performativity and Agency in International Politics", co-organised by PAIS PhD student Ben Braun, will be funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The workshop will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, in February 2013, with two PAIS PhD students and one postdoc accepted, PAIS will be represented by a sizable delegation from Warwick.
Juanita Elias - new book published
Juanita Elias (PaIS) and Samananthi Gunawardana (Monash University) have a edited collection out called the Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia. The book features contributions that: (a) examine how the household is increasingly being incorporated into development planning and policy making; (b) considerthe social consequencies of the tendancy to view households as marketizable spaces; and (c) explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region.
The book's case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region.
More details and a downloadable sample chapter can be found here http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=673377