{"id":5781,"date":"2023-03-02T16:44:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2023-03-03T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:07:57","slug":"february-news-roundup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-3\/","title":{"rendered":"February News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shaping the Future: Our New Curriculum.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ve updated our entire curriculum so that it meets the cutting-edge issues that are going on in politics today. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5736\/the-launch-of-our-new-politics-and-international-relations-degree\"><strong>Dr Ben Turner explains more here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Tik-Tokking Labour MP on a mission<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Alumna Abena Oppong-Asare returned to her alma mater to give us the low-down on a life in Politics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5725\/alumna-asare-oppong-asare-giving-students-food-for-thought-on-a-life-post-university\"><strong>Ben van Broeckhuijsen blogs here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">My circus, my monkeys<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Iain MacKenzie talks about his new book, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5766\/comedians-clowns-and-critical-thought\"><strong>Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;, an investigation of the little-explored dynamic between comedy and critical thought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Does the Windsor Framework Cut the Mustard?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Feargal Cochrane ponders if this week&#8217;s agreement with the European Union over the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol will, finally, <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/02\/the-windsor-framework-and-the-so-called-stormont-brake\/\">Get Brexit Done.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cautious optimism<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Latin America Conference hosted the world&#8217;s politicians, journalists, academics, activists, social movement leaders, and country ambassadors. Most importantly, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5705\/the-progressive-present-and-future-of-latin-american-politics\"><strong>Joel Nugent, was there<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t miss&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>International Women&#8217;s Day<\/strong>! As part of our Inspirational Speaker Series, we are delighted to host political activist and University of Kent alumna Aba Amoah. Join us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5783\/aba-amoah-joins-us-this-international-womens-day\"><strong>Wednesday 8th March<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marriage or Mortgage<\/strong>? Development economist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2278\/wahhaj-zaki\">Professor Zaki Wahhaj<\/a> will speak on <em>Marriage Decisions in Low-Income Countries<\/em> next in our HSS Inaugural Lecture Series, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5679\/hss-inaugural-lecture-series-2023\">Friday 10 March<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaping the Future: Our New Curriculum. We\u2019ve updated our entire curriculum so that it meets the cutting-edge issues that are going on in politics today. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-3\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781"}],"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\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}