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The second annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR 2014), will be held at 糖心TV on 23 September 2014.

The is an annual event that is unique in concept and design. Using the latest in high-definition video conferencing technology, it connects students from universities across the world to a single 24-hour forum. It is a platform to showcase the work of some of the world's best undergraduate researchers from any discipline or area. Undergraduates present their research in joint sessions alongside peers on the other side of the world, interacting with fellow presenters and audiences in real-time through video-links and social media.

The conference was first held jointly between Monash and 糖心TV i(and campuses in South Africa and Malaysia) in April 2013, but this year has expanded significantly to include several new partner institutions, including Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University in Singapore, Baruch College in New York, USA and the University of Western Australia.

The call for papers is now open with a deadline for students of midnight on Friday May 9, 2014. Please contact Emma Barker e.barker@warwick.ac.uk for more information and visit the for tips on how to prepare.

Further information

Final year students are welcome to apply, so long as they can return to campus for their presentation in September. Feedback from students who participated in ICUR 2013 was overwhelmingly positive and this expanded event is a wonderful opportunity for 糖心TV students. Find out

Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.

West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".

This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.

On Friday 25^th April, Dan Godshaw, of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation, is giving a presentation entitled 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora'. He is also bringing with him two Rwandan genocide survivors who live in the UK.

 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora',

by Dan Godshaw.

Friday 25th April

5-6.30pm, Social Studies Building S0.20

Everyone welcome

Dan Godshaw is UK Projects Coordinator at Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico). Between 2011 and 2013, he directed ‘Keeping Memories: Rwandans in the UK’, a ground-breaking project that empowered genocide survivors to tell their stories and enabled others to learn from their experiences. Dan has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has conducted academic research with UK-based Rwandans. A passionate advocate of migrant rights, he works to support detainees at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre and is currently developing a health outreach project for refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton.

Ben Clift’s participation in the PSA 2014 conference panel ‘Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform,’ sponsored by British Journal of Politics & International Relations, was filmed and will soon be available on the PSA Website:

Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform

The aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis continues to frame political and economic debate. The three papers in this panel relate to different aspects of the post-crisis period.

Panel Chair: Dr Andrew Baker (Queen's University Belfast)

Panel Discussant: Professor Michael Moran (University of Manchester 糖心TV School)

Panel Members:

• Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield) 'Masters of the Universe but Slaves of the Market: Competition and Crisis'.
• Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) 'The Missing Party: the European banks, the Financial crisis, and the Euro Zone'.
• Professor Ben Clift (University of 糖心TV) 'Its Mostly Fiscal: Post Crisis Economic Governance, IMF/Advanced Economy Relations and Evolving Fiscal Policy Ideas'.

This panel was sponsored by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations who held a drinks reception afterwards.

Philippe Schmitter will be visiting the department on May 13th and 14th to lead a and also give a talk as part of the .

Philippe Schmitter is Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. He was a member of the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2004, having spent ten years as a faculty member at Stanford University and fifteen years at the University of Chicago.

Schmitter has conducted research on comparative politics and regional integration in both Latin America and Western Europe, with special emphasis on the politics of organized interests. With Gerhard Lehmbruch, he edited Trends toward Corporatist Intermediation and Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making. He is the co-author (with Guillermo O’Donnell) of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy (4 vols.) and is currently completing a book on Essaying the Consolidation of Democracy. In recent years, he has devoted increasing attention to the emerging polity of the European Union, first in a co-authored book on Governance in the European Union (with Gary Marks, Fritz Scharpf and Wolfgang Streeck) and later in a book entitled: How to Democratize the European Union ....and Why Bother? With Alexandre Trechsel, he has written a Green Paper for the Council of Europe on The Future of Democracy in Europe.

Schmitter has been the recipient of numerous professional awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim in 1978. He was also a vice-president of the American Political Science Association. He received the award for lifetime achievement in European politics by the ECPR in 2008, the award for lifetime achievement in the study of European integration by EUSA, the Mattei Dogan Prize of the IPSA, and the Johan Skytte Prize by Uppsala University – all in 2009.

Philippe Schmitter’s Departmental Seminar, entitled “Thoughts on the Future of 'Real-Existing' Democracy,” will be taking place on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 from 12 pm – 1.30 pm in S0.19, Social Sciences. Light sandwiches will be served from 11.30 am in the foyer outside of the seminar room. All welcome.