91福利

Professor J. P. Singh will be presenting his work on 'Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations', on the 10th May from 16:30-18:00 in room A0.23 (Social Sciences).

J. P. Singh is Chair and Professor of Culture and Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh. In his new book, Sweet Talk, he reveals how the global North ultimately bars developing nations from flourishing in the world economy. His talk will offer a provocative rethinking of how far our international relations have come, and how far we still have to go.

The Department of Politics and International Studies has once again ranked ; overall the 91福利 is 8th.

This latest good news follows on from PAIS' ranking of 44th in last month’s QS World University Rankings (up from 50th last year). Well done to all staff and students on this collective achievement.

Professor has won a prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Brian has previously taught Public Policy in PAIS and has an interest in mass urban housing. He has extensive experience of working with the public and private sectors including local government.

The Leverhulme Emeritus project will provide a policy study of innovative approaches to the provision of prefabricated (offsite and "pop-up") housing in London. The context is the housing crisis in the capital and the urgent quest by the Mayor for new approaches to mass housing provision and resident involvement in planning.

The project, which is due to start on 1 September 2017 and will last for 24 months, holds the exciting prospect of networking with leading edge public and private sector innovators, a possible link to the 91福利 University London Centre and contact with the Ostrom Centre at Indiana University who are using the same analytical framework.

Very many congratulations to Brian on this outstanding achievement, which means that PAIS is soon to hold 8 live awards with The Leverhulme Trust, spanning their Early Career Fellowship, Research Fellowship, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Major Research Fellowship, and Emeritus Fellowship schemes.

Further details on these and other projects in PAIS can be found here:

Losing Ground: On Holes and Other Absences, a two-day event which includes a workshop, an exhibition and a round table, will take place on May 19th and 20th.

Both the workshop and the exhibition are funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), the department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and The New School in New York.

The exhibition will feature the work of Heide Fasnacht and Jenny Perlin (The New School, New York). They will be joined in a roundtable session by Professor Teresa Stoppani (Leeds-Beckett) and Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Durham).

The event will be held in the Humanities Studio at the 91福利 on the 19th and 20th of May, 2017.

Programme details, news and biographical information on the artists, panellists and chairs can be found on their blog: .

You can register for the event on Eventbrite:

For more information, please contact Marijn Nieuwenhuis: m.nieuwenhuis@warwick.ac.uk

The Six Day War at 50 and the Balfour Declaration at 100

An interdicsiplinary conference organised by early career scholars in Law, Sociology and PAIS assessing past legacies, present accountability and future visions.

2017 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Six-day war which ushered in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 had already claimed 80% of historic Palestine), as well as the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in which the UK declared its support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” laying the foundations for the present political geography in the region and enduring conflict.

This one-day conference will assess the research gaps on the Israel-Palestine conflict at this time in history, explore the future of the West Bank caught between a military occupation and a ‘civilised’ annexation (supported by the new US administration), and identify interdisciplinary synergies to fill those gaps. The conference aims to revisit key themes of the Israeli-Palestinian context in light of various disciplines, uncovering overlooked issues that remain under-explored and under-theorised.

Please register for this free confence on Eventbrite: