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02/12 12:30pm-2pm: Department seminar

PAIS Web Resource — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:35:40 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 02 Dec '26

Where: E2.02

Department seminar

E2.02 John Narayan (Department of European & International Studies, King's College London), “Racism changes in order that capital might survive: Black Power, the EEC and post-Brexit immigration”.

2 December 2026, 12.30-2pm

No registration required

04/12 2pm-3:30pm: LAWN/IRS Talk: J. Luis Rodríguez, "Orders to Protect Latin America, Humanitarian Intervention, and Constraints on Great Power"

PAIS Web Resource — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:02:42 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Fri, 04 Dec '26

Where: TBC

The book asks why Latin American states, long the champions of nonintervention, helped build the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This norm could authorize military force in response to humanitarian crises. Drawing on diplomatic records and interviews, it shows how Brazil, Chile, and Mexico shaped R2P’s terms, making collective responses to atrocities possible while building safeguards against abuse. From these cases, I develop a framework I call “republican ordering,” arguing that weaker states seek rules and institutions that effectively address security challenges and constrain powerful states regardless of their intentions. This challenges accounts of international order that rest on great-power restraint. The argument runs from a century of Latin American diplomatic thought through to today’s debates over nuclear and autonomous weapons.

08/12 3pm-5pm: IPE Research Cluster session - A Feminist Political Economy of Trade

PAIS Web Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:13:57 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Tue, 08 Dec '26

Where: FAB 0.23

Adrienne Roberts & Silke Trommer present their new book ‘A Feminist Political Economy of Trade: Beyond Free Trade Feminism’.

Email Ben Clift (B.M.Clift@warwick.ac.uk) to register.

20/01 12:30pm-2pm: PAIS Departmental Seminar

PAIS Web Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:16:01 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 20 Jan '27

Where: E2.02

Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent: “Disposable Palestinians: Israel's Wars and Genocide in Gaza”

27/01 12:30pm-2pm: PAIS Departmental Seminar

PAIS Web Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:33:31 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 27 Jan '27

Where: Online

Priyanka Chandra, Jindal School of International Affairs: "Undisciplining IR: Beyond Mainstream International Relations"

10/02 12:30pm-2pm: PAIS Departmental Seminar

PAIS Web Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:40:02 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 10 Feb '27

Where: E2.02

Daniel Conway, University of Westminster: "The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism"

11/02 5pm-7pm: PAIS Departmental Seminar

PAIS Web Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:41:35 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Thu, 11 Feb '27

Where: TBC

Co-hosted with the Centre for Critical Legal Studies and Social Theory Centre

12/05-14/05: PAIS co-organises EUIA conference

PAIS Web Resource — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:17:30 GMT

When: Wed, 12 May - Fri, 14 May '27

PAIS is a co-organiser of the EUIA (European Union in International Affairs) conference, which means that PAIS colleagues do not have to pay a registration fee. Some of us are hoping to attend, and it would be good fun to go together if others are interested.

The call for papers is now open here: Call for Papers | #EUIA27 | 12 – 14 May 2027

The conference will take place 12-14 May 2027, with a submission deadline of 6 December 2026. It is a really good conference and it is very well attended. At the last one, the keynote was given by the European Commissioner for Enlargement.

The conference is focused on the EU in international relations, but your research does not need to be specifically about the EU. Work on global challenges and Europe’s role in addressing them would be very relevant, so there could be quite a broad range of projects that would fit.

Please contact Özlem Atikcan if you have any questions!