It’s Tuesday so we’ve got a weekly update for you all.
National Student Survey, Act Now!
If you are a third year, please take a couple of minutes to reflect on your experience at City and fill in the NSS.
If you need a reason why, then watch the high concept video made by your friendly Politics Blog editor! And yes I will soon be retiring from academia to live my best life as a social media influencer
Michael Young Social Science, and the British Left
Wednesday 10February at 5.30pm (London) via Zoom
Join us as Dr. Lise Butler discusses her recent book, “Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970,” (Oxford, 2020). She will describe the life and work of the social scientist and policy maker Michael Young, and explore the close relationship between the social sciences and left wing politics in post-war Britain.
HART Prize for Human Rights
“We are HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), a small humanitarian aid and advocacy NGO focused on working with local partners in countries where other aid organisations don’t.
Each year we run the HART Prize for Human Rights, a competition aimed at engaging young people in human rights issues. We think the competition could be of interest to your students and society’s members and we would really like to encourage them to enter.
To take part, all you have to do is enter a creative piece of work (painting, drawing, poem, short story, song) or an essay (1,200 words) about any of the countries where HART works or a related theme or issue.
The competition is designed to be broad so that entrants can create or write about something that interests them. Some possible themes could be migration, the effect of war on education, women’s rights, human rights abuses etc…
The winner of the Senior Category (19-25 years) wins £300, tea in the House of Lords with our founder Baroness Caroline Cox (Covid-19 permitting) and work experience with HART. Additionally, 2nd and 3rd place win £50 each. Every entrant will receive a certificate and improve their CV by entering a well-known and prestigious academic competition.
It would be great if you could share the competition with your members and encourage them to enter. To learn more about our work and the HART Prize, visit our website: https://www.hart-uk.org/get-involved/humanrightsprize/
If you have any questions or would like more information, please email hart.competition@hart-uk.org.”
“New Research in Comparative Politics” Lecture Series – Rosario Aguilar, “Motivated Reasoning and Belief in Polls”
Wednesday 17 February: 4.00pm – 5.30pm (London) via MS Teams Live Event
All Welcome!
Speakers: Rosario Aguilar (Newcastle University)
Title: Motivated Reasoning and Belief in Politics
Joining link for attendees is here
THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF POWER “Global knowledge, global conversations, critical issues: A more critical global conversation on world politics”
Starting Friday February 19, 2020, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Professor Inderjeet Parmar and Dr. Juvaria Jafri are pleased to host this new webinar series.
How can we open up our minds and learn how to think differently about the world, its different regions and societies? How can we connect with streams of thought, ideas, thinkers, scholars, and experience, from around the world? How might we be better informed by intellectual currents beyond the global North and its circuits of knowledge? How can we have truly global conversations beyond the conventional elite circuits and boundaries of knowledge? What might truly global knowledge look like?
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.