Hi All,
It’s the second week of the new term and we’ve got some great articles, opportunities, and information.
The Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition
Pitch your sustainable business idea and get access to mentoring, training and the chance to win £20,000 to make your idea a reality. Past winners have gone on to develop successful and meaningful business, one worth £18 million today.
Last year’s winner was a student from City, University and what great joy it would be if this year’s winner potentially emerges from City as well.
There are already scheduled workshops holding throughout this week and over the next two months, that will help in developing critical thinking skills and creating business solutions. No obligation to enter the competition at this stage!
You can get more information here!
The Good Entrepreneur Festival
2nd February – 2nd March
The theme of this year’s Good Entrepreneur Festival is People, Planet and Profit and at the festival you’ll be able to meet new people, hear the stories about how entrepreneurs are making the world a better place, along with getting lots of practical guidance and be inspired to start something of your own!
Who is it for?
We have prepared a festival open to everyone interested in social entrepreneurship, social innovation and more broadly social responsibility of business and the role they play in the local and global environments.
Why should you attend?
The festival starts on the 2nd of February and ends on the 2nd of March with the brilliant pitching competition – Pitch for Good – where City students and recent graduates will compete for a £2000 prize pot.
So every Tuesday from 6.30pm, we will be talking to an eclectic group of experts that are setting up companies, products or services supporting the local and global community as well as trying to put social impact at the forefront of the current agenda.
On each session will have plenty of time for questions from audience and there will also be a drop-in session should you require additional support.
“New Research in Comparative Politics” Lecture Series – Term 2
Wed 3rd February: 4.00pm – 5.30pm (London) via MS Teams Live Event All Welcome!
Speakers: Cassandra Emmons (Harvard University) & Tommaso Pavone (University of Oslo)
Title: “The Rhetoric of Inaction: Failing to Fail Forward in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis” Joining link for attendees is here
This Term’s Full Schedule is here:
Book Launch: Jelena Đureinović, The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia
Wednesday January 27th 2021, at 5.30pm
Jelena Đureinović will present her new book on the politics of memory. The book explores the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution.
Since the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second World War and its aftermath is understood and interpreted. The glorification and romanticisation of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland has become the central theme of Serbia’s memory politics during this period. The book traces their construction as a national antifascist movement equal to the communist-led Partisans and as victims of communism, showing the parallel justification and denial of their wartime activities of collaboration and mass atrocities.
Jelena Đureinović is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the Research Platform for the Study of Eastern Europe and Transformations at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in History from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. She also works as the coordinator of the Memory Program at the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, Serbia.
PhD Opportunity: Future of Humanity Institute, The University of Oxford
Applications close on 14th February at 11:59pm GMT.
FHI is excited to announce that applications are now open to its DPhil scholarships programme. FHI will be offering full funding to up to 6 DPhil students at the University of Oxford, from the academic year 2021/2022.
We are looking for outstanding students whose research aims to improve humanity’s prospects over the long term. Candidates will be considered from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, economics, international relations, mathematics, philosophy, and public policy. Successful applicants will be awarded full funding for their DPhil, office space in FHI, and the chance to participate in FHI activities.
You can find out more and apply here.