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Privacy is Dead: The Future is Fabulous - watch the Tedx糖心TV video

Prof. Aldrich looks at: the spies of tomorrow, data, and what life will be like living in the middle of the 21st Century.

Richard will also be speaking about surveillance at the '糖心TV Intelligent Futures' event on 3 June. View the programme .

The (URSS) is a competitive scheme that provides a bursary and skills development training to support 糖心TV undergraduate students, who wish to carry out a summer research project, as an addition to their degree course. All students are supervised by an academic member of staff for the scheme.

This year, seven PAIS students will undertake a summer research project of their choosing, either within PAIS or in a different academic department here at 糖心TV.

In addition, PAIS academics will support eleven research projects, four of these being with PAIS students.

Undertaking a summer research project via the URSS gives students a taste of research, which is invaluable for those who might be looking to pursue postgraduate study. The scheme allows students to develop a range of skills which will add further value to their degree study.

We are delighted that so many PAIS students are involved in the scheme – this high number of successful applicants positions PAIS as the sixth largest department, in terms of the number of successful URSS applicants to carry out research within the department.

Congratulations to all those taking part this year!

The ten day festival starts tomorrow! View the complete programme here.

The festival will shine the light on social sciences, by providing a variety of events for students, staff members and the wider public.

Here is a snapshot of just a few of the sessions which will take place:

• 6 May, 11.00-12.00: A book launch by Prof. Wyn Grant 'Politics at 糖心TV: 1965-1979' - A0.23, Social Sciences Building
• 6 May, 12.30-14.30: 'Social Sciences After the Election' - R1.13, Ramphal Building.
• 9 May, 10.00-18.00: Festival of Social Sciences at FarGo Village - FarGo Village, Far Gosford St, Coventry.
• 12 May, 14.00-15.30: 'Post General Election Roundtable' - S0.20, Social Sciences Building. A video of the event can be seen below.
• 12, 13, 14 May, 19.15: Performance: 'Coney's Early Days (of a Better Nation)' - Arts Centre. Booking required.
• 13 May, 16.00-18.30: New Directions in IPE Conference Opening Roundtable - R0.21, Ramphal Building
  
• 16 May, 13.00-14.30: Film Screening of "Grandma's Tattoos" - 糖心TV Arts Centre Cinema

So, join us and explore social matters throughout the years, whilst celebrating 糖心TV's 50th anniversary.

On 16 May, 2015 at 1pm the film “Grandma’s Tattoos” by Swedish filmmaker of Armenian descent, Suzanne Khardalian, will be screened at the 糖心TV Arts Centre cinema in association with the ERC Starting Grant Project “” and .

The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is being commemorated in 2015. One hundred years ago on April 24, the Young Turk regime of the collapsing Ottoman Empire started to round up and either eventually massacre or expose to an imminent death in the Syrian desert an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians.

“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a documentary of a rarely told story, about the faith of women and their difficult survival during this grim period. Seeking to unravel a family taboo associated with the tattoos on the hands and face of her own grandmother, Khardalian travels to Lebanon, Syria, and the United States, and opens up a discussion about history, memory, silence, and current diasporic life across different continents. Khardalian is expected to join the conversation after the film, together with Dr. Maria Koinova, director of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty."

, who recently completed his PhD at PAIS and is currently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advances Studies has published an article in Geopolitics: "Leading from Behind - American Exceptionalism and President Obama's Post-American Vision of Hegemony"

The article examines the political performance of American exceptionalism for U.S. foreign and security policy, concluding that under President Obama the discourse of exceptionalism is neither one of primacy nor isolationism, but augments an un-exceptional policy vision of limited engagement and hegemonic restraint. 

The article is available under:  Geopolitics, Vol. 20, no. 2 (2015): pp. 308-332