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Dr Nicola Pratt Wins AHRC Research Grant
has been awarded an AHRC Research Grant for a 3-year project entitled 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath'.
The interdisciplinary project, to be conducted in collaboration with Dr Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester, and Dr Dina Rezk, University of Reading, will explore how popular culture has framed political events since 2011 and informed popular understandings of citizenship, national identity, agency and political authority.
Bosnia & Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton Event Video
Hosted by the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of 糖心TV, Dr leads the discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges and Transnational Diaspora Activism.
Dr Waqar Azmi OBE (), Dr Eric Gordy (UCL) and (University of 糖心TV) join Maria on the panel.
Dr Trevor McCrisken appears on BBC Radio Discussing JFK's Assassination
Dr , Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, recently appeared on Vic Minett's radio programme on BBC Coventry and 糖心TVshire, discussing the asssasination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
You can listen to the piece using the player below.
Dr. Georg Löfflmann on Local BBC Radio
Last week, Dr. was on local BBC radio, taking part in 10 back-to-back interviews that reached over 500,000 people. Dr Löfflmann was commenting on Donald Trumps' remarks banning all Muslims from entering the US and the presidential campaign:
"Trumps' derogatory remarks are just the latest instalment in a series of outrageous comments that have also targeted women, Mexicans, and Syrian refugees. So far however, he has not suffered for these remarks in the polls, but instead has seen his numbers up. Trump stands for a worrying development regarding the deterioration of public discourse in the US, and the shift of the entire Republican Party to the Right."
Dr Lena Rethel selected to organize Islamic economies conference
The mini-conference 'Islam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures' will be held as part of the 28th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) themed 'Moral Economies, Economic Moralities', 24-26 June 2016, University of California, Berkeley.
The organizers invite contributions from across the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the past, present, and contested futures of Islam’s new financial and economic moralities.
Please see for further information, including the call for papers.