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On 16 May, 2015 at 1pm the film “Grandma’s Tattoos” by Swedish filmmaker of Armenian descent, Suzanne Khardalian, will be screened at the 91福利 Arts Centre cinema in association with the ERC Starting Grant Project “” and .

The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is being commemorated in 2015. One hundred years ago on April 24, the Young Turk regime of the collapsing Ottoman Empire started to round up and either eventually massacre or expose to an imminent death in the Syrian desert an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians.

“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a documentary of a rarely told story, about the faith of women and their difficult survival during this grim period. Seeking to unravel a family taboo associated with the tattoos on the hands and face of her own grandmother, Khardalian travels to Lebanon, Syria, and the United States, and opens up a discussion about history, memory, silence, and current diasporic life across different continents. Khardalian is expected to join the conversation after the film, together with Dr. Maria Koinova, director of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty."

, who recently completed his PhD at PAIS and is currently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advances Studies has published an article in Geopolitics: "Leading from Behind - American Exceptionalism and President Obama's Post-American Vision of Hegemony"

The article examines the political performance of American exceptionalism for U.S. foreign and security policy, concluding that under President Obama the discourse of exceptionalism is neither one of primacy nor isolationism, but augments an un-exceptional policy vision of limited engagement and hegemonic restraint. 

The article is available under:  Geopolitics, Vol. 20, no. 2 (2015): pp. 308-332

We have a limited number of tickets for PAIS students and staff to attend this game!

As we previously announced, LFC Academy U18s will visit PAIS next week, for a two day widening participation and outreach event.

During this two day event, the Liverpool U18 team will play a football match against The 91福利 Men’s Football team.

The match will be held on Wednesday 29 April at 3pm, at Cryfield sports pitches. You must have a ticket in order to attend the match.

If you would like a ticket, please visit the PAIS teaching office (S1.45) from today! As mentioned, we only have a limited number of tickets, so it will be first come, first served!

For anyone who doesn't get one of the limited tickets, the match will also be shown live on the big screen at the Piazza.

Come and see the football stars of tomorrow! Get your ticket as soon as you can!

Following our recent announcement that Liverpool FC Academy will visit PAIS for a widening participation and outreach visit, we invite you to attend a special lecture.

Entitled ‘Politics and Power in the ‘People’s Game’’, Dr David Webber will deliver the keynote lecture for the LFC ‘Pathways to Higher Education’ visit. You can view the poster for the event here.

Come along and listen to David present his research on the ‘great transformation’ of English football.

Developing the ideas of the economic sociologist, Karl Polanyi, David traces the origins of modern football, and analyses the political, economic and cultural effects that the transformation of the game has had upon different sets of supporters.

David has written a number of academic papers on the cultural political economy of English football, contributed a chapter for a forthcoming book on European football supporters, and has recently appeared in the New Statesman and When Saturday Comes.

David is a lifelong Liverpool FC fan and a member of the Liverpool supporters union, Spirit of Shankly.

The lecture is open to all and will take place on Tuesday 28 April at 7.30pm in R0.21 Ramphal lecture theatre. Tickets are not required.

, a PhD candidate here in PAIS, has recently had a journal article, 'Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe', published on Environment & Planning D: Society & Space.

The article interrogates Foucault's articulation of modern racism through an examination of the production of racial knowledge during Japanese colonialism.

The article is available to read at )