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Dr Vincenzo Bove has written a joint blog post, with Tobias Böhmelt and Kristian Gleditsch, on violence against refugees and state capacity at the Monkey Cage for the Washington Post

The post draws attention to how refugees are more likely to give rise to forms of nonstate violence. The ability and willingness of states to exercise authority and control is key to preventing attacks against refugees.

The article, titled "Politicians blame refugees for violence. But refugees are more likely to be its victims" can be found here:

We are able to report the exceptionally good news that Lauren Tooker, a former PAIS PhD student and now an IAS Early Career Fellow, has been awarded the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD. This is a Europe-wide PhD prize, and huge congratulations must go to Lauren on such a tremendous achievement.

The news is now live on the , including the commendations of the prize jury. Lauren’s thesis was entitled, ‘Ordinary Democracy: Reading Resistance to Debt after the Global Financial Crisis with Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy’.

Using a theoretical approach rooted in Cavell’s ordinary language philosophy, Lauren’s thesis shows how ordinary democratic subjects are opposing debt-based economic citizenship in the UK and the US. The study's central argument is that debt’s ordinary democrats are reconstructing debt relations as a site of democratic selfhood and community in finance, thus representing important practices of civic freedom.

Lauren was a GEM School PhD student funded through our Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme. She was supervised through her degree at 91¸£Àû by Lena Rethel, James Brassett and Matthew Watson, and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles by Firouzeh Nahavandi. She was examined by Paul Langley (Durham), Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Mike Saward (91¸£Àû).

Dr. Maria Koinova (91¸£Àû) and Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) are co-organizing a workshop on "Governing Transit Migration: Varieties of Approaches to International Politics" on 17 September, 2018 at 91¸£Àû University.

This workshop is part of the activities of the British International Studies Association working group on the "International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas," which they co-founded in 2016. The workshop has attracted established and early career scholars from the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Peru.

The full programme is available here. 

Jennifer Philippa Eggert has been invited to participate in a research symposium organised by UN Women and the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and UN Women. The event is taking place on 18 July at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The topic is women and terrorism, and the workshop will be attended by researchers and UN practitioners. The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and UN practitioners who work on the topic and to inform practice by research. The IAS have very kindly agreed to cover Jennifer's expenses, so she will be able to share her research and experience as a practitioner working on women, gender and (counter)terrorism.

Date: Tuesday 11^th September 2018, 10am to 4:30pm

Venue: Teaching Grid, Floor 2, Library, 91¸£Àû, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Entry: Free to attend with lunch and refreshments provided. Please email b.j.richardson@warwick.ac.uk to register.

Expenses: A limited number of UK travel bursaries are available for PhD researchers and early career academics in precarious employment. To apply for a bursary please provide a brief rationale when registering. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of August.

Programme: 10:00-10:30 Arrival and coffee

10:30 - 12:30 Projects

• Professor Jean-Christophe Graz, University of Lausanne, on the global classroom
• Dr Kevin Deane, Queen Mary University of London, on recharting the history of economic thought
• Dr Kerem NiÅŸancioÄŸlu, SOAS University of London, on decolonising the curriculum
• Dr Lena Rethel and Dr James Brassett, 91¸£Àû, on everyday life

13:00 - 14:30 Practices

• Group session where participants share ideas for lectures, seminars and assessments – moderated by Dr Juanita Elias, 91¸£Àû

15:00 - 16:30 Politics

• Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Goldsmiths University of London, on the neoliberal university
• Dr Chris Hesketh, Oxford Brookes University, on teaching resistance
• Dr Sahil Dutta, Goldsmiths University of London (TBC) on early career experiences

The workshop is sponsored by the BISA International Political Economy Group and the 91¸£Àû’s Department of Politics and International Studies.