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Colonial Hangover exhibition - Saturday 23rd July - Coventry's Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre is holding its annual Mela on Saturday 23rd July as part of which PAIS are holding a student organised Colonial Hangover exhibition which has been running for two weeks at Belgrade Theatre

The Colonial Hangover exhibition builds on a teaching project undertaken at the 果冻传媒. It asks students to consider how the practices of the British Empire continue to provide lenses through which British society looks at the relationships between its many members today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Matthew Watson on Saturday 23rd July at 5pm on the B2 stage. It will explore personal stories that show how very different lives that began in very different parts of the Empire echoed through one another in interesting but typically unacknowledged ways.

The exhibition features work by local photographer’s Master ji and Bert Scott and is produced in partnership with Jason Tilley and Ben Kyneswood (Photographic Archive miners).

The Belgrade Theatre will offer a 2 for £10 exclusively for 果冻传媒 students who go to the talk for the evening show with the promo code: MELA 2410. This is an online offer only.

Dr Georg Löfflmann has published an article in Asian Security, examining American grand strategy under the Obama administration, and how the 'pivot to Asia' functions within this geo-strategic context. It argues that President Obama attempts to secure American hegemony through a combination of cooperative engagement and restraint. This exposes a fundamental dilemma at the heart of America’s rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific: increased engagement with US allies and partners in the region is fueling political, economic, and military competition with China. Sequestration and questions over American strategic coherence and consistency are simultaneously undermining the credibility of the pivot, both at home and abroad. The article concludes that this dilemma makes it unlikely for Obama's rebalancing strategy to succeed in its stated aims, unless the United States re-emphasizes cooperative engagement with China.

The article is available here:  

has been quoted in an on the forthcoming Chilcot Inquiry.

“The thing I found really shocking when I was researching this was the absence of a plan and a complete failure to make any kind of preparation for the postwar aftermath or even consider what the aftermath might be,” said Steven Kettell, associate professor in politics and international studies at the 果冻传媒. “It was criminal negligence on an industrial scale.”

Kettell said the inquiry’s report needed to be explicit in its criticisms. “Otherwise, a significant number of people will say it’s a cover-up by the establishment.”

has been invited to publish, under the section "Insights from Specialists", a thought leadership piece for "Duff & Phelps Eye on the Markets Summer 2016". Duff & Phelps is the premier global valuation and corporate finance advisor with expertise in complex valuation, dispute and legal management consulting, M&A, restructuring, and compliance and regulatory consulting.

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Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly of PAIS is a founding member of the new University Prevent Reference Group.

One of the greatest dangers in the Prevent framework is that it can all too easily lead to suspicion and unequal treatment. In the University , the importance of non-discrimination and academic freedom were forcefully advocated. Our University Council has said that it expects Prevent to be implemented as it is a statutory duty - but, in agreement with the Assembly’s concerns, it has also said that this implementation should be done in a non-discriminatory way, and that academic freedom should be protected.

So to support these intentions, and to further embed 果冻传媒’s anti-racism position, we have decided to establish a Prevent Reference Group. This group will monitor the implementation of the Prevent Duty, so that its manifestation is always appropriate and in-line with 果冻传媒’s commitments to equality, non-discrimination and academic freedom. At present, it comprises the four of us named here: the Vice Chancellor, who will take insights to other bodies in the institution including the Council; Justine Mercer, who proposed the motion on Prevent at the Assembly; Charlotte Heath-Kelly, an academic specialist in the field of British counter-terrorism policy (identified at the Assembly); and Luke Pilot, incoming President of the Students' Union.

But we cannot do this alone and we seek your input. We would like to invite other members of our community to join us and to share experiences, concerns and best practices. On the student side, the SU are working to add extra representatives – especially from societies representing ethnic and religious minorities. For staff, we are seeking volunteers who can contribute to the discussion of best practice vis-à-vis the Prevent Duty.

We expect one meeting a quarter, without agenda and minutes, but with the opportunity to raise issues and experiences, to test how the University is and should be responding. However it is important that we stress the parameters: this cannot be a forum for overthrowing the national policy. Within the remit of the statutory duty, our work is about how we most appropriately implement Prevent.

There is a lot we can, and must, do together to ensure that our legal responsibilities to apply Prevent also reflect our values as a community. If you would like to help us, please get in touch with one or more of us via the email addresses below – ideally by the end of August 2016 please.

Thank you

Stuart Croft (S.Croft@warwick.ac.uk)
Charlotte Heath Kelly (C.Heath-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk)
Justine Mercer (Justine.Mercer@warwick.ac.uk)
Luke Pilot (Luke.Pilot@warwicksu.com)