Westminster (Politics & IR) Conversations
PIR Conversations are a new initiative. The programme of monthly events is open to all, from new students to members of staff and external attendees. The format is relaxed and moves away from the formal lecture presentation. Leading academic experts explain in an accessible way the background and context to their argument or analysis as well as presenting their key findings. For example, they might discuss with the audience how they came to the research area, the major ideas and thinkers they work with and the issues at stake in their research. The talk and discussion will be followed by a reception to which everyone is invited. Please register with Eventbrite.
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Wednesday 14 February
5.00pm Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street
Nicholas Michelsen (King’s College London), Global Nationalists, the New Right and Changing International Order
Nicholas Michelsen is a Reader in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. His work examines transformation in international order, particularly associated with the New Right and rising global nationalism, the history of ideas with a focus on the role of critique, Strategic Communications, and changes in the practice of warfare. His most recent books are Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State, Bristol University Press, 2022 (with Neville Bolt) and Global Nationalism: Ideas Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century, World Scientific, 2023 (with Pablo De Orellana)
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Wednesday 13 March 2024
5.00pm UG05, 309 Regent Street
Ida Danewid (University of Sussex) Resisting Racial Capitalism
Dr Ida Danewid is a social and political theorist based in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in anticolonial and black radical thought, gender studies, global political economy, and histories of internationalism “from below.” Her work has appeared in International Political Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, and with the Black Mediterranean Collective.
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Wednesday 17 April 2024
5.00pm Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street
Myriam Fotou (University of Leicester) Researching Death at the Border: the European Union and the Refugee Crisis
Myriam Fotou is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester. Her current research activities are centred around mainstream understandings of key migration figures (migrant, refugee, migrant smuggler, etc.) through the lens of crimmigration, death at the border, the language used migration studies and its colonial connotations along with issues of state and institutional responsibility in migration governance.
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Wednesday 15 May 2024 EVENT POSTPONED
5.00pm Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street
Paul Rekret (Westminster University) International Politics and Approaches: Using Music to Rethink Politics and Resistance
Paul Rekret’s research embraces a breadth of disciplines, from sound and cultural studies to political economy to understand contemporary popular cultures, media, and creative industries. He is the author of three books and his work has appeared in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Critical Inquiry as well as publications such as Frieze, The Wire, and Art Monthly. He teaches in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster.