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Losing Ground: On Holes and Other Absences, a two-day event which includes a workshop, an exhibition and a round table, will take place on May 19th and 20th.

Both the workshop and the exhibition are funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), the department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and The New School in New York.

The exhibition will feature the work of Heide Fasnacht and Jenny Perlin (The New School, New York). They will be joined in a roundtable session by Professor Teresa Stoppani (Leeds-Beckett) and Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Durham).

The event will be held in the Humanities Studio at the University of 糖心TV on the 19th and 20th of May, 2017.

Programme details, news and biographical information on the artists, panellists and chairs can be found on their blog: .

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For more information, please contact Marijn Nieuwenhuis: m.nieuwenhuis@warwick.ac.uk

The Six Day War at 50 and the Balfour Declaration at 100

An interdicsiplinary conference organised by early career scholars in Law, Sociology and PAIS assessing past legacies, present accountability and future visions.

2017 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Six-day war which ushered in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 had already claimed 80% of historic Palestine), as well as the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in which the UK declared its support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” laying the foundations for the present political geography in the region and enduring conflict.

This one-day conference will assess the research gaps on the Israel-Palestine conflict at this time in history, explore the future of the West Bank caught between a military occupation and a ‘civilised’ annexation (supported by the new US administration), and identify interdisciplinary synergies to fill those gaps. The conference aims to revisit key themes of the Israeli-Palestinian context in light of various disciplines, uncovering overlooked issues that remain under-explored and under-theorised.

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The European Union is experiencing considerable turbulence, both in the domestic politics of its member states and in its international environment. A key characteristic of this turbulence are the close linkages between what is seen as ‘domestic’, ‘European’ and ‘international’, with many tensions and disputes rooted in at least two of these domains. This round table event is designed to explore these linkages and their political consequences with a focus on one area of concern: borders and their maintenance or modification. The event takes place on Thursday 18th May, at 6pm, in OC0.04, The Oculus.

Despite ideas of a ‘borderless world’ that have gained currency as part of globalization, there is no doubt that borders retain substantial symbolic and practical importance, and that if anything this has increased in recent years. The tension between borders as barriers and as crossing-places can be seen in a range of European and international processes:

• Peace-building and conflict transformation
• Integration and disintegration
• Migration and its management
• Movement of goods and capital

In this round table, we focus especially on issues relating to peace-building and conflict transformation, and migration and its management. Speakers will present a range of views focusing on the politics of North/South relations in Ireland, of Scotland’s place within the United Kingdom, of Cyprus and of migration into the EU and its member states, with the aim of uncovering the conceptual and political dimensions of border management in a turbulent EU.

Dr George Christou, PAIS
Dr Dallal Stevens, 糖心TV Law School
Francie Molloy, MP (Mid-Ulster, Sinn Fein)
Don Flynn, Founder and Former Director of Migrants' Rights Network
Chair: Professor Michael Smith, PAIS

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Dr. 's article "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilization among Conflict-generated Diasporas" International Political Science Review 37(44): 500-516, has been selected by the editors of the IPSR journal for their Choice Collection on the topic of "Borders and Margins" in view of the forthcoming World Congress of the International Political Science Association in July 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.

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Dr. , has been invited by the Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, USA, to give a lecture. The talk is titled "Taking Pierre Nora to the Bombsite: Memory, Death and Capital."

Pierre Nora has argued that: ‘we speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left’. For Nora, industrialisation and capitalist acceleration were the destroyers of traditional societal structures. Memory industries emerged as methods by which societies could then imagine continuity and identity in response to social dislocation. This talk takes Pierre Nora, and other scholars of memory’s political economy, to the terrorist bombsite. Building upon their historical sociologies of memorialisation, and using her fieldwork from the reconstruction efforts which followed the 9/11 attacks and European bombings, I explore the sublimation of the memorial (and the dead human) to economic agendas and broader rationales of ‘regeneration’ and urban renewal. In post-terrorist reconstruction, the human subject is profoundly displaced by governance which triages economic injury and blight. Economy thereby emerges as the terrain upon which counterterrorism is fought.

The lecture takes place on Thursday April 6th, for more information, please see: