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On 28th June the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group is hosting a workshop to discuss 'The Limits of States - Ethics, War, and Migration'.

From the refugee crisis to the newly shifting plates of the world order, the limits of states have never been more critical. This workshop brings together a series of thinkers whose research examines the frontiers of war and security. How can we treat people ethically at borders? What special obligations towards refugees arise out of military intervention? How far can an existing state-based international order be hospitable to the protection of individual and global security in a nuclear world? What counts as a military victory and what rights do victors acquire? Each raises important further questions about the way that we understand the relations between states, and this workshop will provide an opportunity both to examine those issues independently and to identify their interdependencies.

Speakers include Prof. Tom Sorell (糖心TV); Prof. Jason Ralph (Leeds); Prof. Nicholas Wheeler (Birmingham); Dr. Cian O'Driscoll (Glasgow); and Dr. Tom Walker (Belfast). To sign up please contact F.Melhuish.1@warwick.ac.uk.

You can view the workshop schedule here.

Every year the leading International Relations journal Review of International Studies, in collaboration with the British International Studies Association (BISA), awards a Best Article Prize for an article selected from the previous volume of the Review.

The members of the selection panel for this year’s BISA Best Article Prize were Professor Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), Professor Tim Dunne (University of Queensland), and Professor Mervyn Frost (King’s College London), who awarded the prize to (University of 糖心TV) and (University of the Witwatersrand) for their article:

The publication is the lead article in the 2015 Special Issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: The Normative Agendas of Global Benchmarking’, edited by Broome and Quirk, which is part of the Global Benchmarking Project within the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

The prestigious award will be presented at a prize ceremony at 5.30pm on Wednesday 15^th June 2016 at the in Edinburgh.

Further information:

Theory, Culture and Society have recently published a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon which took place in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and was transcribed by PAIS PhD student Katie Dingley on the basis of a tape recording made at the time.

Foucault and Simon begin with a discussion of Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’, and move to a discussion of notions of danger, psychiatric expertise in prosecution cases, crime, responsibility and rights in the US and French legal systems.

The transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction by PAIS Professor Stuart Elden and a retrospective comment by Jonathan Simon, now a Professor at Berkeley.

Simon was one of a group of students who met with Foucault in a working seminar, many of whom can be seen in this archive picture. The wider context is further discussed in Elden's recent book,

The discussion can be downloaded .

Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 糖心TV had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

We are delighted to announce that Dzeneta Karabegovic and Lisa Tilley of PAIS are on the short-list of the 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR). Many congratulations to them both!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper were nominated and on the long-list of the 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Kawther Alfasi, Ilke Dagli, Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira, Lorenzo Genito and Lucy Hatton were nominated and on the long list of the WATE PGR.

This is a further reflection of our teaching excellence in PAIS and our standing as a Department and we thank our students and staff for their nominations

Many congratulations to all those recognised. Winners and Commendees will be announced at the end of June! Best of luck to Dzeneta and Lisa in the final stages!

The full list of those short-listed and long-listed across the University can be found here: