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WEDNESDAY 11th January, 4-5.30 pm, in SO.18. The Departmental Seminar with Professor Sir Robert Worcester, Honorary Professor of Politics and Chancellor, University of Kent; Founder and Chairman of MORI. Presentation topic: "Elections, US and UK" Place of seminar: room S0.18, with tea outside the seminar room from 3.30pm, yo give you the opportunity to engage with the speaker prior to the talk.
TUESDAY 10th January, 2-3.30pm, in S1.50. CELPA seminar by Terry MacDonald from Monash University. Terry will discuss her paper, 'Disembodied Demoi and Bodies Politic: Global Political Agency and the Democratic Boundary Problem'. For more information, please contact Matthew Clayton, m.g.clayton@warwick.ac.uk
Ongoing event! Every Tuesday, 5-7 PM, PaIS film club, showing films about political and economic crises, conflict, democracy, neoliberalism, political transformation, Middle East, national and international politics and more. Click here for more information
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 24-25 NOVEMBER! Conference on 'The Arab Spring: Implications for Security and Democracy Promotion', which will take place on the 24-25 November at the University of Warwick. For more information, please contact one of the organizers Joao Nunes, J.L.Nunes@warwick.ac.uk. See also http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/nunes/arabspring/
Recent event! This week's Departmental Seminar (Wednesday, 23 November) will feature Gabrielle Lynch (PaIS/ CSD) who will give a talk on 'Truth-Telling and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Kenya'. As usually, the seminar will take place in room S0.18 from 4-5.30pm, and there will be tea and coffee outside the seminar room from 3.30pm, which gives you the opportunity to engage with the speaker prior to the talk.
Recent event! Mark Philp (Oxford Uni) will be coming to talk to the Corruption Network on Tuesday 22 November at 5pm in the IAS Seminar Room in Milburn House. His theme will be 'Defining Corruption'. We shall provide some drink and nibbles. Everybody is more than welcome! For more information, please contact Mark Knights (History) or Renske Doorenspleet (PaIS/ CSD), renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! The Departmental Seminar on Wednesday, 16 November invited Garrett W. Brown (University of Sheffield) who gave a talk on ‘The Constitutionalization of What?: International Norms and what Cosmopolitans Should be Mindful of’. The seminar took place in room S0.18 from 4-5.30pm.
Recent event! The Grammars of Politics & Performance, 8 November 2011, Millburn Studio G 53, with speakers such as Susan Haedicke (Theatre and Performance, Warwick) on ‘Performing Democracy on a Grand Scale’ and John Parkinson (PAIS, Warwick) on ‘Performing democracy: actors, roles and stages’. For more information, please contact Prof. Shirin Rai, shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! The Departmental Seminar on Wednesday, 2 November featured Tina Freyburg (ETH Zurich, EUI Florence) who gave a talk on ‘Transnational Influences and Democratic Socialization in Authoritarian Contexts’. The seminar took place in room S0.18 from 4-5.30, with tea outside the seminar room from 3.30pm, o give you the opportunity to engage with the speaker prior to the talk. For more information, please contact Renske Doorenspleet, renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk
Recent Event! Conference 'Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament', 27 and 28 October, in THE HOUSE OF LORDS & THE BRITISH LIBRARY. Plenary Speakers: Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman, QC, MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Dr. Frene Ginwala, First Speaker of the post-apartheid South Africa. Many other speakers, click here for more information:  GCRP Conference Programme Oct 28-29 2011.pdf(371KB) FINAL CONFERENCE POSTER.pdf(185KB) For more information, please contact Prof. Shirin Rai, shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk and please visit the GCRP website
Recent event! Symposium 'Gendering the Arab Spring', Friday 28 October 2-4.30pm, in Warwick University's Library . How significant is gender in understanding the Arab spring? What do Arab women hope to achieve from their participation in the uprisings? What is the future of women’s rights and gender relations in the aftermath of dictatorship? ALL WELCOME. ENTRANCE FREE. Please email K.Throsby@warwick.ac.uk to register. Click here for more information: Gendering the Arab Spring flyer final.pdf(1MB)
Recent event! Robert Barrington, Director of External Affairs at Transparency International UK [http://www.transparency.org.uk/] will lead a discussion about how to measure corruption and how academics can contribute to policy debates. The event will be held in S0.19, on Wed 26th October, 12-2 PM. For more information, contact Dr. Renske Doorenspleet (PaIS/ CSD) at renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk, or Prof Mark Knights (History) at m.j.knights@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! Dr Mathew Humphrey (University of Nottingham) and Professor Marc Stears (University College, Oxford) will present their paper 'Respect, Judgement, and Democratic Politics', Wednesday, 26 October, as part of the departmental seminar series of PaIS. This seminar will be at 4pm (SO.18) with tea served from 3.30pm outside the seminar room. For more information, please contact paispg@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! Special Lecture Series for MA Students by Prof. Jan Aart Scholte 'Civil Society: A More Democratic Global Politics?' October 19, 6.30-8 PM. For more information, contact paispg@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! Peter Rosendorff from New York University visited Warwick on Monday, 17 October, 4 PM in S2.79. He presented the Political Economy seminar, and his talk was entitled "Does Human Rights Treaty Accession Delay Democratization". For more information, please contact Prof. Vera Troeger, v.e.troeger@warwick.ac.uk
Recent event! Prof. Leslie Green from Oxford (http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/leslie.green) will present his paper 'What is freedom for?', Wednesday, 12 October. The seminar will be at 4pm (SO.18) with tea served from 3.30pm outside the seminar room. This is a joint PAIS-Law event. For more information, please contact Prof. Victor Tadros (v.tadros@warwick.ac.uk).
Recent event! Prof. John Dryzek (Australian National University) talked about "Deliberative Democracy and Global Climate Governance", Monday, 10 October 2011, 4pm, Social Studies Building Warwick University. For more information, please contact John Parkinson, J.R.Parkinson@warwick.ac.uk
Recent Event! CSD's International Conference 'Party Systems and the Future of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa', 22-24 September 2011, Warwick University Program Conference: click here Note Conference: click here
News! CSD welcomes Dr Gabrielle Lynch who joined the Department of Politics and International Studies and CSD as Associate Professor in October 2011. Gabrielle's research focuses on democracy in Africa, ethnic identities, inter-communal and inter-personal violence and processes of peace and reconciliation in Kenya.
MORE RECENT EVENTS: Click here or email renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk
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