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This roundtable called "In conversation with Sanaa Seif" will address Alaa El-Fattah's book of essays You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, his essayistic and political activism more generally and Sanaa’s campaign for Alaa's release. Both Alaa and Sanaa are prominent British-Egyptian activist involved in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Alaa has been imprisoned since the revolution,...
Ann Southworth, a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession at the University of California, will give a lecture based on her book which is entitled "Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending in America". Abstract: Americans across party lines believe that reducing the influence of...
Gemma Walker, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, will discuss her PhD research project entitled "Simple populists? Exploring the influence of populism on the integrative complexity of political communication". This research is set within the context of the growing popularity of populist movements and the increasing concerns about the way political communication is...
In this seminar, titled ‘Narratives about democracy: the use of parliamentary storytelling in Brazil and in the UK’, Cláudia Lemos, a Visiting Scholar from the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, will examine the type of language used by in-house communication teams of the Brazilian Congress and of the UK Parliament. Her presentation will draw from...