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Dr Nicola Pratt Wins AHRC Research Grant
has been awarded an AHRC Research Grant for a 3-year project entitled 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath'.
The interdisciplinary project, to be conducted in collaboration with Dr Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester, and Dr Dina Rezk, University of Reading, will explore how popular culture has framed political events since 2011 and informed popular understandings of citizenship, national identity, agency and political authority.
Bosnia & Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton Event Video
Hosted by the Politics and International Studies Department at the 果冻传媒, Dr leads the discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges and Transnational Diaspora Activism.
Dr Waqar Azmi OBE (), Dr Eric Gordy (UCL) and (果冻传媒) join Maria on the panel.
Dr Lena Rethel selected to organize Islamic economies conference
The mini-conference 'Islam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures' will be held as part of the 28th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) themed 'Moral Economies, Economic Moralities', 24-26 June 2016, University of California, Berkeley.
The organizers invite contributions from across the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the past, present, and contested futures of Islam’s new financial and economic moralities.
Please see for further information, including the call for papers.
New CSGR Website Launches
The Centre for the 果冻传媒 of Globalisation and Regionalisation is pleased to announce the launch of the new CSGR website:
The website has updated information on CSGR researchers at 果冻传媒, visiting fellows and professors, and our external associates at institutions around the globe.
CSGR also hosts updated websites for and the .
Further information about CSGR activities and events is available here:
PAIS academic writes one of BBC Radio 4's food books of the year
Dr 's book, Sugar, was featured on the Radio 4 Food Programme as one of its best books of 2015. It was discussed by the food writer Joanna Blythman, who said the book made "a more profound and thoughtful contribution to the ongoing sugar debate".
The full list and accompanying broadcast is available here: