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‘Security and the Everyday’
31 October - 1 November 2013
Keynote: Professor Jutta Weldes (University of Bristol); Professor François Debrix (Virginia Tech)

More and more research in critical security studies pays attention to the realm of everyday experience, popular culture and fictional narratives, and how they produce and reproduce discourses of security and representations of identity. At the same time, distinctions between politics and entertainment seem increasingly tenuous in a world of globalized spaces of hyper-reality. From the real-time images of remote controlled drone strikes to the imagined realities of video game franchises, and from the realpolitik of TV shows and comic books to the narratives of IR textbooks, virtual and actual realities blend into each other. This conference explores the interconnections and implications of this inter-textuality of security and image, narrative and identity, and power and fiction.

If you are interested in participating please send details of your affiliation, an indicative title, and an abstract of no more than 250 words to Georg Löfflmann (g.lofflmann@warwick.ac.uk).

Deadline for abstracts: 9 September 2013

recently wrote a briefing paper for the Security and Defence Committee of the EU Parliament entitled 'The positions of Russia and China at the UN Security Council in the light of recent crises'. Dr Ferdinand is due to present this paper to the committee this Thurday, 16 May, at the EU Parliament in Brussels.

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PhD Candidate Damian Gannon was recently selected as the cabinet member for finance in Coventry. Damian has been a councillor for two years and will now be responsible for the City Council's budget.

Damian's PhD research focuses on the role of subjective understandings of democracy in shaping democratic practice.

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Lauren Tooker, a first-year Erasmus Mundus doctoral fellow in PAIS, has been awarded a prestigious international fellowship by the US Social Science Research Council. Granted through a competitive global selection process, the six-month fellowship in Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles funds participation in international workshops at 果冻传媒 and at Carnegie Mellon in the US, as well as preliminary summer field research.

Lauren’s doctoral research looks at how we imagine and respond to indebtedness as a question of ethics in the global political economy.

Want to go to Australia and team up with students at Monash University? The University has up to £20,000 funding for student organised projects that will bring 果冻传媒 and Monash students together. This may be of particular interest to students already leading student societies and events such as the Politics Society, WIDS, One World Week, etc.

Here's what the University says about the scheme: "The aims of the scheme are to support the integration of the student bodies of both universities, to develop students as ‘global citizens’ through working as part of international teams, to increase both the impact and profile of existing student-led activities at both universities and to transfer knowledge and innovation in student activities across our campuses."

The next deadline for all funding applications is 15 May.