It’s reading week and it’s awful quiet around here, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a bunch of things to do.
The City Politics Podcast, Episode 8: Global Problems, National Solutions
The City Politics Podcast is back. This week David and Konstantin talk with Anastasia Nesvetailova and Stefano Pagliari about the revival of the state.
Also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
Webinar Series: International System of Power
Friday 26 February: 4:00pm – 5:45pm
Lecture Series “New Research in Comparative Politics” Term 2 – # 1: Cassandra Emmons & Tommaso Pavone
Speakers: Cassandra Emmons, Harvard University, and Tommaso Pavone, University of Oslo.
Title: “The Rhetoric of Inaction: Failing to Fail Forward in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis”.
Chair: Allyson Benton & Konstantin Voessing (City, UoL)
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
18-26 March, 2021
Online
“We will be running from March 18 – 26 online across the U.K. As always, our films will span a range of current and pressing human rights issues from around the world, and our Q&As will feature filmmakers, film subjects, human rights leaders and journalists with a focus on prioritising space for identities, viewpoints, forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalised in the film industry, news and media. We are offering £4 tickets for students who register for free with the ‘Young Barbican’ strand, as well as a festival pass, and free tickets for those members of the public whom otherwise may not be able to participate.
Tickets for this online edition of the festival will be going on sale February 18 You will be able to purchase tickets and keep track of our program announcements here: ff.hrw.org/london
We do not want the cost of entry to these films to be a barrier for participation in these events. If the price of buying a ticket to this film would prevent you from participating, please email the following address (filmticket@hrw.org) for a free ticket code. We have set aside a set # of tickets per film on a first come first-served basis. Once the free tickets are no longer available, the code will no longer work. For anyone that purchases a ticket, we appreciate your support. Your ticket purchase enables us to continue the work we do at Human Rights Watch, as well as support our filmmakers.”
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History Book Club: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid,
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
All are welcome to the book club (even if you didn’t have time to finish the book).Please Click here to join the meeting on the day.