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On 23 November Her Excellency Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, The President of Malta and Honorary Professor in PAIS, gave a lecture entitled 鈥楨nsuring Equity: The Importance of Wealth Distribution in a Globalised World鈥�.

Introduced by Nick Vaughan-Williams, Head of PAIS, Her Excellency spoke of the escalation in inequality, discrimination, and poverty globally, and argued for sustainable investment in human rights and dignity. She called for students to be activists in support of the transformations required for more equitable patterns of wealth distribution. Before becoming the 9th President of the Republic of Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca served as an MP in the Maltese National Parliament and is former Minister of State for the Family and Social Solidarity. In 2016 Her Excellency received the 鈥楢gent of Change鈥� award, conferred by the United Nations, in recognition of her work as a champion of gender equality and women鈥檚 empowerment in the Mediterranean region.

Photos from the event can be found on Her Excellency's and the President's features commentary of her lecture.

The full text of Her Excellency鈥檚 lecture at The Shard can be found in the following press release:

Stuart Elden two books (Polity 2016) and (Polity 2017) have recently been reviewed and discussed in a number of places.

A review of both books can be found in by Bruce Robbins and in by Peter Gratton (along with Foucault鈥檚 The Punitive Society).

A review of Foucault鈥檚 Last Decade by Kurt Borg is in ; and one of Foucault: the Birth of Power at the by Syamala Roberts.

He has also taken part in discussions with Dave O鈥橞rien for the New Books in Critical Theory series on both books – Foucault鈥檚 Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power .

Among earlier discussions of the books there is one with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor in ; and with Antoinette Koleva in , also in Bulgarian translation in Sociological Problems [小芯褑懈芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈 锌褉芯斜谢械屑懈]. There is also a longer piece about the writing of the books at . All the above links are open access.

Stuart is currently writing a book on The Early Foucault, and updates on its research and writing can be found at his blog, .

We are delighted to announce that the UK Political Studies Association has launched a new prize in recognition of Professor Shirin Rai鈥檚 "significant contributions to the discipline of feminist International Relations and International Political Economy."

The Shirin M. Rai dissertation prize, for the best dissertation in International Relations, has now officially been launched. A blog announcing the PSA鈥檚 new framework for prizes and awards, and further information about the application process, can be accessed here: .

While many professional associations name prizes after those who have retired, the PSA鈥檚 new framework is designed to acknowledge active and leading scholars in the discipline; very many congratulations to Shirin on this hugely impressive accolade, which is yet further recognition of her leading status in the discipline and an important projection of PAIS鈥� standing in the field.

The Politics Society recently hosted Baroness D'Souza, former Lord Speaker, who discussed her vision for the House of Lords.

The event was filmed by RaW and is available to view below:

After her talk, she also was interviewed by RaW, you can find the link for the interview .

Annual IPE Lecture: Both Sides, Now: Paradigms, Power, Psychology, and Pragmatism at the Midpoint of Crisis

Wesley Widmaier, Griffith University, Australia

2nd November, 17:00-18:30, MS.04 (Zeeman Building)

This year's Annual IPE Lecture offers an overview of IPE and IR debates on ideas, crises and change from a social psychological constructivist perspective. Wes Widmaier is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. His research interests include International Political Economy, International Relations Theory, in particular constructivist thought, and the specific role of wars and crises as mechanisms of large-scale change. Wes is also the editor-in-chief of the Review of International Political Economy.