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Dr Steven Kettell Research Quoted by Christian Today
Dr 's research has been extensively quoted by Christian Today.
Steven Kettell, points out that the US Christian right is enjoying a resurgence under the new presidency of Donald Trump, one in which its influence appears to be renewed as the source of 'religiously inspired policy-making'.
And he acknowledges that, 'Compared to their US counterparts, conservative Christians in Britain are far fewer in number, tend to engage with a different set of issues, are typically more left-of-centre in their economic outlook and have far less political clout.'
The full article, titled Does Britain Have A 'Christian Right' And If So How Successful Is It?, can be viewed .
Professor Richard Aldrich Receives the 2017 ISS Distinguished Scholar Award
We are delighted to announce that Professor was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Intelligence Studies Section at ISA 2017 in Baltimore.
The Intelligence Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award recognises a distinguished record in publishing and service to ISA by a scholar whose work has made substantial impact in the area of intelligence studies.
At the reception honouring Richard’s work, the section chair emphasised the strong contribution that PAIS as a whole had made to Intelligence Studies over the last ten years.
Jennifer Philippa Eggert Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed
Jennifer Philippa Eggert recently attended the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Baltimore. During this time, she was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for an article on how the Muslim ban affected researchers attending the convention this year.
The article can be read on their website:
Diasporas and Transitional Justice Workshop
Maria Koinova and Dzeneta Karabegovic are organizing a workshop “Diasporas and Transitional Justice” on 21 February, 2017 in Baltimore, MD.
The workshop is conducted within the framework of the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” and will take place prior to the annual convention of the International Studies Association 2017. It will discuss a novel research line to study the involvement of diasporas and other non-state actors in transitional justice processes in deeply divided societies. The workshop will gather established and early career scholars working on issues of reconciliation and remembrance of the past, genocide recognition, and mobilization activities such as competition, cooperation, and coalition-building through offline and online activism. Empirical cases are derived from all parts of the world, with specific references to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Ukraine, Kurdish areas in the Middle East, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Vietnam, among others.
A follow-up workshop with a different group of scholars will take place at 糖心TV University on 3 April, 2017.
Jennifer Philippa Eggert Writes Blog for the LSE Gender Institute
has written a blog post on Donald Trump's visa ban / Muslim ban and the reasons why, as a Muslim woman, she is still planning to attend the upcoming ISA conference in the US.
Jennifer's blog, for the , can be read here: