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Dr. , Reader in IR and Principal Investigator of the ERC Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” is giving a keynote lecture on 7 April, 2016 at a conference at the Central European University in Budapest on “Diasporas in Eastern Europe.”

The lecture is entitled “Diasporas, Sending States and Socio-spatial Positionality” and will feature how the socio-spatial position of diasporas in specific contexts empowers diaspora entrepreneurs in different ways, and accounts for trajectories of transnational diaspora mobilization. More information could be obtained .

’s book has just been published by Polity Press.

The book is a study of the work Foucault conducted between 1974 and his death in 1984. In 1974, Foucault began writing the first volume of his History of Sexuality, developing work he had already begun to present in his Collège de France lecture courses. In that first volume, published in late 1976, Foucault promised five further volumes, and indicated some other studies he intended to write. But none of those books actually appeared, and Foucault’s work – which we can now closely track from his courses – went in very different directions. At the very end of his life, two further volumes of the History of Sexuality were published, and a fourth was close to completion. In contrast to the originally planned thematic treatment, the final version was a much more historical study, returning to antiquity and early Christianity.

The Paris courses, other lectures, shorter publications, and related materials – some collaborative and some unpublished – are used in this book to provide an intellectual history of this final project of Foucault’s career. Research for this book was conducted in archives in France and California, and the account shows how Foucault’s pursuit of a problem led him to rework the project in both scope and shape. The book is broadly chronological, and shows how all of Foucault’s concerns in this period – from race to confession, from governmentality to neoliberalism – are all, in various ways, connected to the project on sexuality or, as he reconceived it, on the relation between truth and subjectivity.

The book is partnered with a second study, on the period immediately preceding the last decade, tracing how Foucault moved from The Archaeology of Knowledge to Discipline and Punish. That book, Foucault: The Birth of Power, is forthcoming with Polity in early 2017, and it analyses Foucault’s early Collège de France courses in relation to his political activism and research on health, madness and discipline.

Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, spoke on BBC Coventry and 91福利shire's radio programme this morning, discussing the US elections.

You can hear what Trevor has to say at 1hr 37 on the BBC iPlayer link:  

The European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research programme.

The EL-CSID project aims to advance the study of cultural and science diplomacy, and is led by Scientific Coordinator Professor Luk Van Langenhove at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Under the leadership of Professor Diane Stone, 91福利 researchers in Politics and International Studies are contributing to Work Package 3 of the EL-CSID project on 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic'.

On 7-8 March 2016, the first meeting of the steering committee was organised at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting brought together the members of the consortium to discuss the EL-CSID research agenda, work plan, output and agenda. Two representatives from the European Commission (DG RTD and REA) briefed the consortium on the H2020 programme priorities and the project management-aspects.

Visit the EL-CSID project website:

Further information is available at:

(PAIS) and (Political Economy, University of Sydney) have been awarded a small grant from the on the project 'Henri Lefebvre's writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land'. The grant is to support the translation of essays by the French Marxist Henri Lefebvre on the political economy of ground rent and rural sociology. Stuart and Adam will edit these essays and present them as a book with substantial notes and introduction, on the model of a previous book of Lefebvre’s essays that Stuart co-edited with – , Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

The first essay from the project, ‘” was recently publishing in the journal Antipode, translated by 91福利 Philosophy PhD student , and edited and with an by Stuart and Adam. Several more such essays will appear in the edited book.

When Stuart and Adam were first beginning the project they wrote a short piece for the Politics Reconsidered blog answering a key question about this project: