{"id":4036,"date":"2021-11-01T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:56:15","slug":"october-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/11\/01\/october-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"October News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We celebrated Black History Month, welcomed an International Guest and prepared to debate International security, conflicts of the future, and possible conflict solving mechanisms in a hybrid conference across our Kent and Brussels campuses. Read all about it here. <\/p>\n<h2>We celebrated Black History Month!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To celebrate Black History Month, Liberal Arts student Glory Oluwaseun has been awarded the Medway African Caribbean Association Young Black Achievers Award. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4015\/glory-oluwaseun-wins-the-maca-young-black-achievers-award-for-contribution-to-citizenship\">Read more about the project<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New in!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/NPNFVVDKSP5VHNFBV6YV\/full?target=10.1080\/15387216.2021.1984267\">new article<\/a>\u00a0has been published by GEC Senior Research Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/global-europe-centre\/person\/thomas-kruessmann\/\">Professor Thomas Kruessmann<\/a> in Eurasian Geography and Economics. The article takes a critical look at shared governance between China and Russia on corruption in the case of the Arktik LNG-2 project. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/3975\/new-publications-by-gec-senior-research-fellow-prof-thomas-kruessmann\">Get a free copy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A special issue of the online journal Frontiers in Political Science focusing on political trust has just been published. Co-edited by Senior Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics, Dr Ben Seyd, the issue contains eight peer-reviewed articles. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4023\/new-journal-special-issue-on-political-trust\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Global reach<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/conflict-analysis\/person\/giulia_grillo\/\">Giulia Grillo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/conflict-analysis\/person\/anna-marie-louise-tiessen\/\">Anna-Marie-Louise Tiessen<\/a> decided we needed a divisional PhD forum for interdisciplinary early career research, so they set one up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/3986\/a-phd-led-platform-to-communicate-interdisciplinary-research\"><strong>Find out about Kent&#8217;s Centre for World Affairs (KCWA) within the Human and Social Sciences Division.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We received a visit&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugee puppet girl Little Amal, a performance art piece to highlight forced migration, visited our Canterbury campus after walking 8000km from Syria across Europe to the Kent coast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4002\/little-amal-visits-kent\"><strong>Read more about her visit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What we&#8217;re looking forward to&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Battlefields of the Future: a student-led hybrid conference on current debates around international security, conflicts of the future, and possible conflict solving mechanisms on November 6th. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=4042&amp;action=edit\">Find out how to register here.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Politics and International Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Black History Month, welcomed an International Guest and prepared to debate International security, conflicts of the future, and possible conflict solving mechanisms in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/11\/01\/october-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}