91福利

12 May 2017, Scarman House, 91福利; co-organised between PAIS and the Department of Philosophy.

A unique opportunity for a conversation between terrorism researchers and epistemologists about the epistemological challenges and fallacies of counterterrorism. The workshop will have a broad focus and will include discussion of the nature of knowledge, calculation, ignorance, illusion, epistemic vices and counterfactual thinking in counterterrorism.

This cross-disciplinary one day workshop, which supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will be one of the first events of its kind in the UK.

The speakers will include:

• Ruth Blakeley (University of Kent)
• Quassim Cassam (91福利)
• Stuart Croft (91福利)
• Hamed El-Said (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School)
• Charlotte Heath-Kelly (91福利)
• Richard Jackson (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS))
• Lee Jarvis (University of East Anglia)
• Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
• Sara Silvestri (City University)

No registration fee; please email q.cassam@warwick.ac.uk to reserve your place.

The research workshop bringing together PAIS colleagues with scholars from the Balsillie School of International Affairs took place in Waterloo in September 22^nd-24^th, 2016.

This was a tremendously successful and fruitful set of substantive research discussions between a variety of established scholars and early career researchers from Waterloo, Wilfried Laurier, and eight 91福利 academics.

Keynote lectures were given by Lena Rethel on ‘The Politics of Financial Ideas: Grafting Islamic Finance’ and Nick Vaughan-Williams on ‘European Border Security and the “2015 Mediterranean migration crisis”’.

Centred on two broad thematic areas – migration, borders and security on the one hand, and the global political economy of trade and finance on the other – the workshop has led to no fewer than five well-developed research project ideas.

These ideas are being actively pursued, with follow up meetings planned amongst the project groups to coincide with various international conferences - and bids for external funding in prospect within the next eighteen months.

Thanks in particular go to John Ravenill, Suzan Ilcan and Andrew Thompson of the Balsillie School who made us feel so welcome, and organised a wonderful programme of events, both academic and social. On the 91福利 side Ben Clift, Jill Pavey, and Jade Perkins were key to making the visit such a success.

With our double MA degree already established we look forward to further deepening the relationship with BSIA over the coming years across research and teaching activities.

has been interviewed about his recent book for the New Books in Critical Theory series podcast– or .

There is also an interview about the book at and a piece about its writing at . A discussion with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor will appear in Symposium later this year, and Stuart will also be interviewed for the Bulgarian journal KX - Critique and Humanism.

A second linked book by Stuart, , will be published by Polity Press in early 2017.

The PAIS Film Club gets underway on Tuesday 11th October at 7pm in MS.01.

We are screening 'Eye in the Sky', and there will be a discussion of the film with Dr Erzsébet Strausz, Dr Trevor McCrisken, Dr Rhys Crilley & Jules Gaspard.

There will also be free pizza for all audience members, and of course all students and staff are welcome.

PAIS PhD 's paper was acceepted at IDRC Davos 2016 (Davos, Switzerland), the world's leading conference on risk management, which was organised under the patronage of the European Commission Joint Research Centre, OECD, Science Council of Japan, UNCCD, UNESCO, UNEP and UNITAR.

Her interview "How to secure reputation by designing behavioral risk strategies?" can be viewed below: