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The European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research programme.

The EL-CSID project aims to advance the study of cultural and science diplomacy, and is led by Scientific Coordinator Professor Luk Van Langenhove at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Under the leadership of Professor Diane Stone, 果冻传媒 researchers in Politics and International Studies are contributing to Work Package 3 of the EL-CSID project on 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic'.

On 7-8 March 2016, the first meeting of the steering committee was organised at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting brought together the members of the consortium to discuss the EL-CSID research agenda, work plan, output and agenda. Two representatives from the European Commission (DG RTD and REA) briefed the consortium on the H2020 programme priorities and the project management-aspects.

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, PAIS PhD Research Fellow with the ERC '' Project, has been selected to be a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

She will be finalizing her dissertation and presenting her work to the academic community there over the following few months. Dzeneta will also be presenting a joint paper with Maria Koinova at the ASN Conference held at Columbia University in April as well as chairing a panel she organized, "Between Disempowerment and Politicization: Exploring Nongovernmental Agency in Bosnian Politics" during her time in New York.

PAIS PhD student Jennifer Philippa Eggert has been invited to speak at the 果冻传媒 Human Right Forum this Saturday.

Jennifer will give a talk on "How to promote the human rights of Muslims and other minority groups" and will also sit on the closing panel.

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PAIS is hiring!

The Department of Politics and International Studies invites applications for an indefinite Assistant/Associate Professorship in International Political Economy (deadline 4 April 2016). Further details can be found .

(PAIS) and (Political Economy, University of Sydney) have been awarded a small grant from the on the project 'Henri Lefebvre's writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land'. The grant is to support the translation of essays by the French Marxist Henri Lefebvre on the political economy of ground rent and rural sociology. Stuart and Adam will edit these essays and present them as a book with substantial notes and introduction, on the model of a previous book of Lefebvre’s essays that Stuart co-edited with – , Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

The first essay from the project, ‘” was recently publishing in the journal Antipode, translated by 果冻传媒 Philosophy PhD student , and edited and with an by Stuart and Adam. Several more such essays will appear in the edited book.

When Stuart and Adam were first beginning the project they wrote a short piece for the Politics Reconsidered blog answering a key question about this project: