Politics and International Relations Seminar Series

Date: Wednesday 27th March 2018

Time: 1.30pm – 3pm

Location: Geoffrey Manton, GM302

Tickets: Free – available on Eventbrite here: https://julia-welland-pir.eventbrite.com 

Julia Welland is an Assistant Professor of War Studies at The University of Warwick and a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. Her publications include "Joy and war: reading pleasure in wartime experience" in the Review of International Studies an she was an editor of the Handbook on Gender and War (2016).

Her Leverhulme project (titled, 'Pleasure and Performance in Military Afterlives') explores positive or joyful experiences of veterans 'after' war. Focusing specifically on the embodied experiences of British and American veterans in a range of sites, the project contributes to sociological explorations of the military by taking the academic literature beyond a focus on trauma. Instead, the project traces the range of physical and emotional sensations experienced in order to produce a fuller conception of war and militarism's affective landscapes, and how they become an accepted part of national life.

Part of the Politics, International Relations and Public Services Research Seminar Series at Manchester Met. The Politics, International Relations and Public Services Research Seminar Series is a unique, cross-disciplinary seminar series that was launched in 2017 to bring together scholars working across several research centres whose work focuses on political questions. The series brings together scholars from the History Research Centre, the Centre for Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics, and the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences. We are supported by the Politics, International Relations and Public Services section, and our members also have connections to the Critical Theory Network, Gothic Research Cluster and the Religious and Intellectual History Cluster. The series aims to bring together scholars from around the UK and Manchester Metropolitan to explore political research with a strong emphasis on knowledge exchange. We welcome the public, students, practitioners and researchers to attend, with a view to showcasing the variety of world-leading Politics, IR and Public Services research at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Booking a ticket will guarantee you a place at this event, although feel free to just turn up as well!