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Miriam Grinberg, PhD candidate in PAIS, has been awarded a from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for 2013-14. This programme provides the opportunity for short-term visits for young pre- and post-doctoral UK researchers and researchers from Europe and North America based in the UK to conduct cooperative research with leading research groups at Japanese Universities and Institutions.

The award goes towards funding Miriam's fieldwork next year in Japan, where she will be conducting interviews and archival studies as part of her dissertation research entitled 'The US-Japan alliance and the relocation of Futenma: Sites of discursive exchange in the reproduction of security alliances'. As part of the award, she will be working with from the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo.

‘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

, a PhD candidate under the supervision of and , was recently quoted in an 11 August article appearing in the print edition of the , a local newspaper in Okinawa prefecture, Japan. She was interviewed by a reporter about the plans for relocating US Marines Air Base Futenma from Ginowan City to Henoko Village in Nago City, Okinawa.

Read the article (JPEG in Japanese)

is scheduled to give a guest lecture on 9 July at the College of Europe in Warsaw's PhD Summer School on 'The EU, it's neighbourhood and the ENP'.

His talk is entitled 'Democracy support perspectives on the "Arab awakening"'.