The 2015 Newcastle University Politics PGR Conference will provide a forum for the presentation, discussion and dissemination of the work of postgraduate researchers. It will provide an environment for students to present their research and receive feedback from other students and scholars from a broad range of fields in the study of Politics at Newcastle.

To reflect the diverse range of topics that students research, there is no specific conference theme. Instead, the conference will present a range of papers within the overarching field of Politics and International Studies. Presentations will either be in the form of a specific paper, research findings from the thesis, discussing of a thesis chapter, or an introduction to a broad theoretical framework and methodology.

The conference will take place on Friday 1 May 2015  in the Research Beehive, Room 2.22.

Newcastle University Politics PGR Conference Agenda

 

09:15 – Introduction and Welcome

Prof. Tony Zito

 

09:30 – International Politics

Sarina Theys – The Soft Power of Bhutan

Radzhana Buyantueva – Gay Rights Protests in Russia

Ben Coulson – “OK, so what about China?”

Ariel Shangguan – The Politics of Translation: International Relations in the Third Space

Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm

 

10:50 – Break

 

11:00 – The Politics of Iraq

Jalal Mistaffa – Political Instability in Post-invasion Iraq: Is Ethnofederalism Responsible

Nahwi Saeed – Prescription for Power Sharing in Contested Kirkuk

Sarwar Abdullah – Good Governance and Oil Resource in Iraq

Chair: Dr Emily Rainsford

 

12:00: Lunch (GPS Coffee Room)

 

13:00: – British Politics

Tristan Martin – The British Conservative Party and European Policy since 1997: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis.

Craig Johnson – Proposing a Framework: Political Parties and Co-operation in British Politics.

Anna Wambach – Europe in the News: Analysing Media Representations of the European Union.

Chair: Dr Alia Middleton

 

14:05 – Break

 

14:15 – Political Theory and African Politics

Thomas Liljedahl – A Standard for Judgement

John Davis – Dealing with the Unforeseen: The Tanzanian Election, Tradition, Religion and my Research

Benjamin Thorne – The Politics of Memory and the Conditions of Testimony: The Dilemma of the Past for Post-Conflict Political Transition

Chair: Dr James Bilsland

 

15:20 – Concluding remarks

Dr Kyle Grayson

15:30 – Finish