Other News
PAIS academic writes one of BBC Radio 4's food books of the year
Dr 's book, Sugar, was featured on the Radio 4 Food Programme as one of its best books of 2015. It was discussed by the food writer Joanna Blythman, who said the book made "a more profound and thoughtful contribution to the ongoing sugar debate".
The full list and accompanying broadcast is available here:
PAIS PhD Student Writes on the Upcoming Elections in Burkina Faso
On Sunday 29 November, Burkina Faso will elect a new president and parliament. Despite a week of political turmoil in September, the West African nation is on the verge of completing a return to constitutional order following a popular revolution in October 2014.
PAIS PhD student analyses the campaign and what is at stake in the elections from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, for the .
Public Event: 'Islamic State': Where From and Where To?
After the deadly attacks in Paris, Beirut and Tunisia and the bombing of a Russian plane over Egypt, experts in international security and Middle East affairs will discuss the factors shaping the emergence of ‘Islamic State’ and how the group can be combated. What are the origins and aims of the group? Why has it spread so quickly? What is its relationship to al-Qaeda? Is Western military action the solution?
Speakers:
- , Professor of International Security, Department of Politics & International Studies
- , Reader of the International Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics & International Studies
- Dina Rezk, Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, University of Reading
- , PhD student in conflict and security, Department of Politics & International Studies
6pm - 7:30pm, Thu, 26 Nov '15
Location: MS.05, Zeeman Building
ALL WELCOME, ENTRANCE FREE.
Public Event: Refugees & Diasporas In Conflict & Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Public Event: Refugees And Diasporas In Conflict And Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Thursday November 26, 6-8pm, S0.19, Social Sciences
There will be refreshments available between 6.00pm and 6.20pm.
The current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean has been of unprecedented proportions since the Second World War. It brings to the fore the difficult faith experienced by many refugees and conflict-generated diasporas at different times and in different places. This roundtable seeks to shed light on diaspora activism related to the conflicts of Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Rwanda, among others, and to draw parallels with the current refugee crisis. It also aims to discuss how diasporas support their home countries during post-conflict reconstruction. Please join us for lively presentations from the panelists and a discussion to follow.
More information about this public event is available at the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty" website at:
Raced Markets, A New Collaborative Project
Our new collaborative project entitled ‘’ draws together researchers, activists, and artists whose work broadly explores how racial power functions in the global economy.
Raced Markets is a joint endeavour between our own cluster and the School of Politics and IR at QMUL, and will take place here at 糖心TV at the start of December.
The papers included in this event cover many timely unfolding aspects of the global political economy including: economies of migration, racial bioeconomies of genes and cells, and the global financial crisis as a raced event. Further papers variously consider how race is foundationally implicated in political economy as a discipline, present feminist readings of racial economies, and examine the role of race in processes of foreclosure and enclosure
Black Activists Rising Against the Cuts (BARAC) will be there to introduce the campaign work of their organisation and the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) will also be involved in the event.
If you would like any further information on the workshop or the project as a whole please contact lisa.tilley@warwick.ac.uk