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Situating the Partition of India in global history – AAME seminar with Yasmin Khan, Wednesday 15 March 2017 5.15-6.30 in FW101
March 6, 2017

Dr Khan will talk about Partition's place in global history, and situate the South Asian refugee within the wider histories of refugee narratives.

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Situating the Partition of India in global history – AAME seminar with Yasmin Khan, Wednesday 15 March 2017 5.15-6.30 in FW101 | AAME | Centre for Politics in Africa, Asia and the Middle East Dr Khan will talk about Partition's place in global history, and situate the South Asian refugee within the wider histories of refugee narratives. The 1940s was...

Happy New Year! We're looking forward to seeing our students back next week.

Join us for for an exciting line-up at this term's PIR Research Seminars, featuring, amongst others, Martin Lodge (LSE), Caroline Kuzemko (Warwick), Wendy Sigle (LSE), Roland Dannreuther (Westminster) and Thomas Rid (King's, tbc), in addition to our own wonderful colleagues Ivica Petrikova, Licia Cianetti, Michelle Bentley and Kaat Smeets.

Join us every Tuesday at 5.15 in FW101 :-)

Will Jones and Alexander Betts publish a new article in Refugees Deeply in which they examine the political lives of exiles and how they are often shaped by the ambivalent role of outsiders.

The Political Lives of Refugees Refugees are not passive, apolitical victims, say Oxford University’s Alexander Betts and Will Jones in their new book ‘Mobilising the Diaspora.’ In an extract, they examine the political lives of exiles and how they are often shaped by the ambivalent role of outsiders.

New staff profile: Dr Ivica Petrikova

Ivica Petrikova joins us as a lecturer in International Relations. This year she will teach International Relations Theory and two Masters’ courses: Theories of Development and Politics of Inequality. She has a PhD in Political Science from UCL. She is originally from Slovakia but before moving to the UK she lived in several other countries, including the United States, Spain, Mexico, India, and Belgium. Her research revolves mainly around development issues such as aid effectiveness, food security, inequality and social capital, and movements for agrarian change. She is also interested in the links between religion, politics, and development.

Welcome Ivica :-)

New staff profile: Dr Will Jones

Will is the incoming lecturer in International Relations. He was previously a lecturer in the Politics of Forced Migration at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. His main interests are in refugee studies and African politics. He has recently finished a book, Mobilising the Diaspora (coming out this autumn), which is about the political organisations and movements founded by Rwandan and Zimbabwean exiles to challenge authoritarianism back home and protect their rights. He is also involved in redesigning refugee resettlement to empower refugees and the communities which host them. You can find out more about this at www.refugees-say.com

Welcome Will :-)

New AAME seminar series starts January 2017:

http://www.aame.london/single-post/2016/10/10/Events-AAME-new-seminar-series-starts-January-2017