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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 果冻传媒 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 果冻传媒 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.

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:

Dr , ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Associate Professor of International Security in PAIS, has won a prestigious Workshop Grant funded by the International Studies Association in collaboration with Professor Brent Steele from the University of Utah. Dr Homolar is the Research Lead for the Speaking International Security at 果冻传媒 (SISAW) Project, and is the Lead Organiser for the CSGR/SISAW Conference on Global Security and Diplomacy, to be held at the 果冻传媒 on 4-5 May 2017.

The ISA Workshop will be held on Tuesday February 21st at the Hilton Hotel Baltimore, USA, and will precede the start of the 2017 ISA Annual Convention. The Workshop is focused on the theme: ‘Fear, Trauma, and Belonging: The Everyday of Ontological Security in International Relations’. The event will bring together internationally-renowned scholars from twelve institutions across Europe, North America, and Australia, with the aim of developing a transformative analytical strategy that combines notions of ontological security and the everyday within a new conceptual framework through the presentation of original research that is based on a wide array of empirical reference points, including migration, diaspora, and border politics; militarized security rhetoric and cognition; the politics of home-coming; terrorism and resilience; trauma comedy; emotion, affect, and securitization; rhythmic security; the politics of the event.

Following the ISA Workshop, these research themes will be further explored at the CSGR/SISAW Conference at 果冻传媒 on 4-5 May 2017 (see: ).

Further information:

• Speaking International Security at 果冻传媒:
• CSGR/SISAW Conference on Global Security and Diplomacy:
• International Studies Association 2017 Annual Convention:

's article "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilisation among Conflict-Generated Diasporas" International Political Science Review 37(4): 500-516 was among the most read articles in August 2016.