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Congratulations to Dr Thomas Moore
  15 October 2011
 
Attraction expert joins YouBeauty.com
  13 September 2011
 
SSHL Graduation Ceremony
  1 August 2011
 
DPIR lecturer appears in THE
  20 May 2011
 
History Trip to Northern Ireland
  12 April 2011
 
New book by Dr Viren Swami
  16 March 2011
 
DPIR Offers two PhD Studentships
  9 February 2011
 
Bial Foundation Grant awarded
  14 December 2010
 
New appointment for John Owens
  13 December 2010
 
Angela Clow: Visiting Professorship
  9 December 2010
 
PSA German Politics Specialist Group
  12 October 2010
 
BBC London Politics Show
  12 April 2010
 
The Apocalypse and Its Discontent
  31 March 2010
 
DPIR Staff Member wins award
  15 March 2010
 
Advising the House of Commons
  3 November 2009
 
Dr David Groome wins teaching award
  2 November 2009
 

Events

FILM SCREENING: ‘READYMADE’
  8 May 2012 4.00 pm -  8 May 2012 4.00 pm

Chinese film directors on sina weibo
  21 March 2012 3.00 pm -  21 March 2012 5.00 pm

Plug in your Brain - Heartbreak in Cyberspace
  15 March 2012 6.00 pm -  15 March 2012 7.00 pm

Plug in your Brain - Lovestruck
  16 February 2012 6.00 pm -  16 February 2012 7.00 pm

Seminar 3 - Eco-city politics: national policy, local leadership, public accountability
  10 February 2012 9.30 am -  10 February 2012 4.45 pm

Propaganda on the socialist periphery
  8 February 2012 4.00 pm -  8 February 2012 6.00 pm

How did the general become a chicken?
  24 January 2012 4.00 pm -  24 January 2012 6.00 pm

Plug in your Brain - Does Freud Suck?
  19 January 2012 6.00 pm -  19 January 2012 7.00 pm

Plug in your Brain - Money Talks
  15 December 2011 6.00 pm -  15 December 2011 7.00 pm

Psychology Research Seminar - Psychology and wine
  14 December 2011 2.00 pm -  14 December 2011 3.00 pm

Through the Lens:Embodying the City
  12 December 2011 6.00 pm -  12 January 2012 6.00 pm

Lao She: A Chinese Writer in Modernist London
  7 December 2011 4.30 pm -  7 December 2011 6.30 pm

‘The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina’
  23 November 2011 1.15 pm -  23 November 2011 2.30 pm

Plug in your Brain - Lost in Music
  17 November 2011 6.00 pm -  17 November 2011 7.00 pm

Psychology Research Seminar
  16 November 2011 2.00 pm -  16 November 2011 3.00 pm

SHS Open Seminar
  11 November 2011 5.00 pm -  .

‘Fictions of the Not Yet’
  9 November 2011 1.15 pm -  9 November 2011 2.30 pm

‘The Pragmatics of the Modern Greek Language System'
  2 November 2011 4.15 pm -  2 November 2011 5.30 pm

Psychology research seminar - Why do tunes get stuck in our heads?
  2 November 2011 2.00 pm -  2 November 2011 3.00 pm

‘Havelock Ellis and the Literary Imagination: On Sexology and Fiction’
  26 October 2011 1.15 pm -  26 October 2011 2.30 pm

Plug in your Brain - In Pursuit of Happiness
  20 October 2011 6.00 pm -  20 October 2011 7.00 pm

Queer comrades: Gay identity and queer politics in postsocialist China
  19 October 2011 4.00 pm -  19 October 2011 6.00 pm

‘Women at the Regent Street Polytechnic, 1882 – 1945’
  12 October 2011 1.15 pm -  12 October 2011 2.30 pm

Seminar 2 - Eco-city innovation: integrated systems management & policy coordination
  11 October 2011 9.30 am -  11 October 2011 4.30 pm

Witness Seminar – Internment in Northern Ireland: Forty Years On
  25 July 2011 11.00 am -  25 July 2011 4.00 pm

Language Contact-Change-Maintenance and Loss
  22 July 2011 9.00 am -  23 July 2011 5.00 pm

Creating Publics
  21 July 2011 10.00 am -  22 July 2011 1.30 pm

Through Time and Space with Chairman Mao
  4 July 2011 5.00 pm -  4 July 2011 6.30 pm

Eco-Cities in Pan-Asia: Comparative Issues and Perspectives
  17 June 2011 12.00 am -  18 June 2011 12.00 am

Artist in Conversation: Ori Gersht
  16 June 2011 6.30 pm -  16 June 2011 8.30 pm

W. J. T Mitchell
  13 June 2011 12.00 pm -  .

Role-Playing Exercise: Elections 2012
  11 June 2011 11.30 am -  11 June 2011 5.30 pm

Seminar 1 - Eco-City Governance: defining the research and policy agenda
  20 May 2011 10.00 am -  20 May 2011 4.30 pm

Poster Power: Images from Mao's China, Then and Now
  11 May 2011 6.30 pm -  14 July 2011 8.30 pm

The Politics of the Brain Workshop
  3 May 2011 9.15 am -  3 May 2011 6.15 pm

Global Climate Ethics
  14 April 2011 12.00 pm -  14 April 2011 1.00 pm

Governance and Sustainability Seminar: Global Climate Ethics
  14 April 2011 12.00 pm -  14 April 2011 1.00 pm

Governance and Sustainability Annual Lecture
  7 April 2011 6.00 pm -  7 April 2011 7.30 pm

The Annual Public Law Lecture 2011
  31 March 2011 6.00 pm -  31 March 2011 7.00 pm

Governance and Sustainability Seminar: Personal Carbon Trading
  31 March 2011 5.00 pm -  31 March 2011 6.30 pm

Personal Carbon Trading
  31 March 2011 5.00 pm -  31 March 2011 6.30 pm

Home and Away
  30 March 2011 6.00 pm -  30 March 2011 8.00 pm

Jean-François Bayart s’exprime sur les Etudes Postcoloniales
  30 March 2011 3.00 pm -  30 March 2011 4.00 pm

Positive change following adversity
  30 March 2011 1.00 pm -  30 March 2011 2.00 pm

Climate Change, Conflicting Duties, and the Priority Rule
  10 March 2011 5.00 pm -  10 March 2011 6.30 pm

Bosnia, Iraq and Lessons of Intervention
  2 March 2011 3.00 pm -  .

Sex and Appetite
  2 March 2011 1.00 pm -  2 March 2011 2.00 pm

Resilience: Friend or Foe?
  24 February 2011 5.00 pm -  24 February 2011 8.00 pm

Resilience: Friend or Foe?
  24 February 2011 5.00 pm -  24 February 2011 8.00 pm

‘Tunisia revolt? Tunisia spring?’
  16 February 2011 2.00 pm -  16 February 2011 4.00 pm

The Winds of Change in the Middle East: Alternative Perspectives
  15 February 2011 6.00 pm -  15 February 2011 8.30 pm

Careers in Languages Day
  12 February 2011 10.00 am -  12 February 2011 5.00 pm

Ethics, Sustainability and Climate Change
  10 February 2011 5.00 pm -  10 February 2011 6.30 pm

Governance and Sustainability Seminar: Ethics, Sustainability and Climate Change
  10 February 2011 5.00 pm -  10 February 2011 6.30 pm

An Encounter With Judith Butler at DPIR
  5 February 2011 10.30 am -  5 February 2011 7.00 pm

Studying terrorist behaviour
  2 February 2011 1.00 pm -  2 February 2011 2.00 pm

“Autopsy of War”
  26 January 2011 6.00 pm -  26 January 2011 8.00 pm

Book Launch: A S Byatt: Critical Storytelling
  20 January 2011 6.00 pm -  20 January 2011 8.00 pm

Bringing Global Politics to Westminster
  12 January 2011 12.00 am -  4 May 2011 12.00 am

‘Sociopragmatic approaches to the analysis of EModE discourse markers’
  15 December 2010 4.15 pm -  15 December 2010 5.30 pm

Towards a Polylogue of Western and Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism
  15 December 2010 4.00 pm -  15 December 2010 6.00 pm

The Apocalypse and Its Discontents
  11 December 2010 9.00 am -  12 December 2010 5.30 pm

Ghostmodernism and Ethics
  8 December 2010 1.15 pm -  8 December 2010 2.30 pm

‘Implicated Meanings in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night: a Neo-Gricean Approach’
  1 December 2010 4.15 pm -  1 December 2010 5.30 pm

The Olympic Legacy
  25 November 2010 7.00 pm -  25 November 2010 10.00 pm

How can future plans for the Olympic Park create a blueprint for a sustainable London?
  25 November 2010 7.00 pm -  25 November 2010 9.00 pm

Martian Astronomy and Popular Fiction
  24 November 2010 1.15 pm -  24 November 2010 2.30 pm

Spatial Justice: Radical Spatial Foundations
  19 November 2010 10.30 am -  19 November 2010 6.00 pm

Mao Zedong and China in the World
  17 November 2010 4.00 pm -  17 November 2010 6.00 pm

Migration and Social Change
  17 November 2010 3.30 pm -  .

Seminar: SCIBE: Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment
  16 November 2010 5.30 pm -  16 November 2010 6.30 pm

Seminar on 'Britain and Afghanistan'
  10 November 2010 4.30 pm -  10 November 2010 6.00 pm

J.G. Ballard and New Brutalism
  10 November 2010 1.15 pm -  10 November 2010 2.30 pm

Agency and Image in Poetic Language
  8 November 2010 5.30 pm -  8 November 2010 8.00 pm

Changing Subjects: Male Sexualities and Masculinities in Asia
  5 November 2010 10.00 am -  5 November 2010 5.30 pm

Inter-Active Digital Archiving and Original Documentation
  3 November 2010 6.00 pm -  3 November 2010 8.00 pm

‘Recent change in spoken British English: the perfect construction’
  3 November 2010 4.15 pm -  3 November 2010 5.30 pm

Naomi Mitchison: From Intermodernism to Science Fiction (via Mass-Observation)
  27 October 2010 1.15 pm -  27 October 2010 2.30 pm

Trees - not just for Christmas: Green space, biodiversity and human wellbeing
  20 October 2010 1.00 pm -  20 October 2010 2.00 pm

Gender and Uyghur-Han Variation in arranged marriages in Urumchi, China
  15 October 2010 2.00 pm -  15 October 2010 4.00 pm

"The Blitz and the 'Break-up' of Working class London, 1939-1960"
  13 October 2010 6.00 pm -  13 October 2010 8.00 pm

Seminar 'Najaf vs Qum'
  13 October 2010 2.00 pm -  13 October 2010 4.00 pm

What will Happen to the Euro?
  6 October 2010 3.00 pm -  6 October 2010 4.00 pm

The Blitz and its Legacy
  3 September 2010 8.45 am -  4 September 2010 5.00 pm

China and Revolution - History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art
  8 August 2010 12.00 am -  7 November 2010 12.00 am

Theatre for a Young Audience in the UK
  16 July 2010 9.00 am -  16 July 2010 6.00 pm

New Developments in Politics Short Course for Teachers
  5 July 2010 9.30 am -  8 July 2010 3.30 pm

Religion and the charitable society in China
  1 July 2010 5.00 pm -  3 July 2010 5.00 pm

Language Contact, Change, Maintenance and Loss
  25 June 2010 9.00 am -  25 June 2010 6.00 pm

GWACS Seminar
  23 June 2010 6.00 pm -  23 June 2010 8.00 pm

No more heroes anymore
  23 June 2010 6.00 pm -  23 June 2010 8.00 pm

“No Hawkers: No Models”: The Vicissitudes of the Modernist Muse
  19 June 2010 9.00 am -  19 June 2010 5.00 pm

International Seminar: The Legacy of Ismail Al-Faruqi
  6 June 2010 9.00 am -  7 June 2010 1.00 pm

Revisiting the China-India Border Dispute - A Conference
  2 June 2010 12.00 am -  3 June 2010 12.00 am

The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference
  27 May 2010 12.00 pm -  29 May 2010 4.30 pm

The Early Obama Presidency
  14 May 2010 10.00 am -  14 May 2010 4.15 pm

Cultural Heritage in China: Changing Trajectories, Changing Tasks
  6 May 2010 9.30 am -  7 May 2010 6.00 pm

Sustainable Communities Conference
  28 April 2010 12.00 am -  .

Westminster IR Forum: 15 April
  15 April 2010 6.00 pm -  .

Literature and Culture PG Research Seminar Series - Nick Hubble
  14 April 2010 1.15 pm -  14 April 2010 2.30 pm

WIR Seminar: China, Oil and Global Politics
  17 March 2010 6.00 pm -  .

Researching bilingualism and minority languages: Methodological issues
  17 March 2010 2.00 pm -  17 March 2010 3.00 pm

Citizens into Wolves? Seminar: Carl Schmitt’s Fictive Account of Security
  16 March 2010 3.00 pm -  16 March 2010 5.00 pm

Post-black, post-race? Anti-racism after Obama
  15 March 2010 6.00 pm -  .

Public Lecture Islam and Democracy: What Clash?
  10 March 2010 5.00 pm -  .

'Henry James's Ghost Stories'
  10 March 2010 1.15 pm -  10 March 2010 2.30 pm

DPIR PhD Student Conference,
  9 March 2010 11.15 am -  9 March 2010 6.00 pm

Interpreting Taster Sessions
  5 March 2010 12.00 am -  .

21st-Century Writing London
  4 March 2010 6.00 pm -  .

Language Immersion Saturdays
  27 February 2010 9.45 am -  27 February 2010 2.15 pm

'Conceptual Metaphor in the Language of Early Nineteenth-Century Portraits'
  24 February 2010 4.15 pm -  24 February 2010 5.30 pm

'Milton, Life, Heresy'
  24 February 2010 1.15 pm -  24 February 2010 2.30 pm

Careers in Languages Day
  6 February 2010 10.00 am -  6 February 2010 5.00 pm

Visual Culture Studies in Europe
  5 February 2010 10.00 am -  .

Making up sustainable places after growth
  26 January 2010 5.30 pm -  .

An Encounter with Charles Taylor
  15 January 2010 10.30 am -  15 January 2010 6.30 pm

Whitechapel Gallery Salon: Hope 4:
  14 January 2010 7.00 pm -  .

Cultural Policy Redux
  13 January 2010 5.00 pm -  .

Language and Linguistics Seminar
  16 December 2009 4.15 pm -  .

Agonistic Citizenship
  15 December 2009 12.00 am -  .

English Literature PG Seminar Series
  9 December 2009 1.15 pm -  9 December 2009 2.30 pm

Trait Emotional Intelligence
  9 December 2009 1.00 pm -  9 December 2009 2.00 pm

Language and Linguistics Seminar
  2 December 2009 4.15 pm -  .

Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde
  27 November 2009 12.00 am -  28 November 2009 12.00 am

The David Roberts Art Foundation Events
  26 November 2009 6.30 pm -  26 November 2009 8.30 pm

The psychological impact of consumer culture on individuals’ well-being
  25 November 2009 1.00 pm -  25 November 2009 2.00 pm

English Literature PG Seminar Series
  25 November 2009 1.00 pm -  25 November 2009 2.15 pm

The David Roberts Art Foundation Events
  21 November 2009 2.00 pm -  21 November 2009 4.00 pm

Language and Linguistics Seminar
  18 November 2009 4.15 pm -  .

Eco-Cities: Between Vision and Reality
  13 November 2009 2.00 pm -  13 November 2009 6.00 pm

The Future of Democracy: Prospects and Challenges
  13 November 2009 10.30 am -  13 November 2009 6.30 pm

The David Roberts Art Foundation Events
  12 November 2009 6.30 pm -  12 November 2009 8.30 pm

English Literature PG Seminar Series
  11 November 2009 1.15 pm -  11 November 2009 2.30 pm

How bad can it be? How good can it get?
  11 November 2009 1.00 pm -  11 November 2009 2.00 pm

The David Roberts Art Foundation Events
  5 November 2009 6.30 pm -  5 November 2009 8.30 pm

Representations of ‘Africas’
  5 November 2009 6.00 pm -  5 November 2009 7.30 pm

The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards
  4 November 2009 5.00 pm -  4 November 2009 7.00 pm

Language and Linguistics Seminar
  4 November 2009 4.15 pm -  .

Life histories and fertility scheduling in a modern human population
  28 October 2009 1.00 pm -  28 October 2009 2.00 pm

'Urban Cultures' Guest Lecture
  16 October 2009 5.15 pm -  16 October 2009 7.15 pm

Eco-Cities – A Preliminary Survey
  23 March 2009 12.00 am -  .

Classical Liberalism and the Case for Polycentric Environmental Law
  4 March 2009 5.00 pm -  4 March 2009 7.00 pm

Absent Environments
  14 January 2009 5.00 pm -  14 January 2009 7.00 pm

Opening up the politics of sustainability: reconciling science, participation and power
  18 November 2008 5.00 pm -  18 November 2008 7.00 pm

Invented Edens: Techno-cities of the 20th Century
  15 October 2008 2.30 pm -  15 October 2008 7.30 pm

The Race is On - Trailing the Beijing Olympics
  28 May 2008 2.30 pm -  28 May 2008 6.00 pm

Launch Event
  20 September 2007 12.00 am -  .

Was Mao a Monster?
  13 June 2006 2.00 pm -  13 June 2006 5.30 pm

Chinese Political Language from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao
  16 May 2006 2.00 pm -  16 May 2006 4.00 pm

Contemporary Short Films from Taiwan
  11 April 2006 7.00 pm -  .

Painting for the Revolution
  31 January 2006 5.00 pm -  31 January 2006 7.00 pm

Reflections on Political and Cultural Change in China
  8 June 2004 10.00 am -  8 June 2004 5.00 pm