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The Graduate School is delighted to announce that we are launching a second round of the 91福利 Taught Masters Scholarships Scheme awarding a maximum of 15 new scholarships to support eligible postgraduate students for 2017/18 entry.

Awards are set at £5,000 per student and available to eligible Home/EU students from under-represented groups who wish to start a postgraduate taught masters course in 2017-18.

Applications for the second round of the 91福利 Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme will open on Monday 17th July 2017

Professor Pippa Norris will be visiting the department on Wednesday July 19th, before receiving an honorary award at 91福利's summer degree congregation.

More than 40 years ago, Pippa Norris did her undergraduate degree here at 91福利 University, at PAIS.

Now, she is an eminent political scientist, public speaker, and professor in Comparative Politics at Harvard University.

Her work has focused on a wide range of topics: elections, integrity, populism, democracy, gender and communication.

She has published around 40 books which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She's one of the most cited political scientists in the world; in fact, she's ranked 4th by Google Scholar.

See for more information: 

It's with great pleasure to welcome back Pippa Norris!

She will give not only a lecture (on the world-wide wave of populism), but also a seminar (on electoral integrity), while being here at 91福利 for a few days. Please see below, more information. The two events will take place on July 19, from 13.00-14.30 (lecture) and from 15.30-17.30 (seminar). The lecture is open to everybody. As space is limited for the seminar, please contact Renske Doorenspleet if you would like to participate.

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This workshop is organized as part of a larger conference "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty: Lessons Learned about Transnational Diaspora Mobilizations in Europe” on 28-29 September, 2017 at 91福利 University, and is sponsored by the European Research Council.

The workshop seeks to consolidate scholarly discussions about the role of diasporas linked to the Middle East and North Africa from the Global North and South, and to move on from initial consideration of diasporas as simply conflict or peace actors. It will look into broader conflict and postconflict dynamics, where a variety of domestic and international actors influence political processes, and endorse or challenge weak states, their governance or international recognition. When do diasporas mobilize with their loyalties towards sectarian or nationalist factions, and when do they do so on the basis of citizenship and cosmopolitan ideas? When and how do they seek transitional justice for past atrocities and what is the role of trauma for their mobilizations? How do original home-states in the Middle East and North Africa and non-state actors operating on their territories reach out to diasporas abroad? When do diasporas sympathize with their causes or when do they oppose them? How do contexts of host-states and spaces within and beyond them, as well as liberal and non-liberal regimes shape diaspora mobilizations?

If you are interested to participate, please send a paper abstract of max. 300 words by 10 July, 2017 to Dr. Maria Koinova, PI of the ERC project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” at m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk.

More information is available here.

In February, gave the . The topic was 'Legal Terrain: The Political Materiality of Terrain'.

The lecture, with the images and quotes integrated into the presentation, can be viewed here:

The plan is that a written version of the lecture will appear in the journal later this year.

Want a glimpse at how Thursday's general election will turn out? by , Mary Stegmaier (University of Missouri) and Mike Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa).

They discuss whether people rather than pollsters can accurately predict Thursday's UK election. Based on their "citizen forecasting" approach, they predict the following:

• Conservatives 361 seats, Labour 236 seats.
• Probability of a Conservative majority 77%, hung parliament led by Conservatives 20%, hung parliament led by Labour 2%, and Labour majority 1%.