Commonwealth Research Seminar Series

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series


All seminars are on Wednesdays and begin at 1730

TERM 1

14 November 2012
Ben Muda, Commonwealth Business Council, London: Malaysia at Fifty: The Commonwealth in Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Filippo Menozzi, University of Canterbury, Kent, The Boundaries of Politics: Arundhati Roy's Transversal Activism

12 December 2012
Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow ICwS, Unveiling the Veiled Protectorate: The Untold Stories of British Labourers and Criminals in Egypt, 1882-1922
Maria Mut Bosque, Visiting Fellow and PhD student, ICwS, Gibraltar: National Identity and Language Issues

TERM 2

16 January 2013
Peter Fraser, Visiting Fellow ICwS: An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton Maloney and Trinidadian intellectual history
Giorgios Charalambous, Visiting Fellow ICwS: The Cypriot Left in Government: A Preliminary Assessment

13 February 2013

Bill Clarance, Visitng Fellow ICwS: Understanding Leonard Woolf : his role in decolonization
Paulo Rigueira, Doctoral Student ICwS: Globalisation & Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach


13 March 2013

Mandy Banton. Senior Fellow ICwS: Title TBA
Yiannos Katsourides, Visiting Fellow ICwS: Political conflicts in Cyprus in the 1940s and 1950s


TERM 3

17 April 2013
Abess Taqi, Doctoral student, ICwS: Arab perspectives on Western efforts to promote democratic reform in the Arab world
Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow ICwS, The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story?

15 May 2013
Shihan de Silva, Senior Fellow ICwS: Connecting the Portuguese Burghers to the Commonwealth and Beyond: Language Matters
John Cowley, Fellow ICwS: Numberless Are The Sands On The Seashore : 'The Real Bahamas' and the field recording experience (1935-1965)

12 June 2013
Susan Williams, Senior Fellow ICwS, and Dr Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library: The screening of decolonisation: from book to film

Convenors: Susan Williams (susan.williams@sas.ac.uk) and Shihan de Silva (shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk )

Commonwealth Scholarships – Trinidad and Tobago

Commonwealth Scholarships – Trinidad and Tobago


The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has invited the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission to nominate two candidates for Commonwealth Scholarships for Master’s and PhD study.

The scholarships are tenable at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine or the University of Trinidad and Tobago for the academic year commencing September 2013.


Eligibility

Citizens of Commonwealth countries other than Trinidad and Tobago
•Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Scholarships 2013 prospectus – includes full terms and conditions and eligibility criteria
Further information can also be found on the Scholarships and Advanced Training Division website.

Please note that the 30 November deadline given in the prospectus is for nominations to reach Trinidad and Tobago, not for applications to the CSC.

How to apply

•Application form

Your application form and one copy (two in total) must be sent in hard copy with supporting documents to:

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (HA)
c/o The Association of Commonwealth Universities
Woburn House
20-24 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9HF

The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 October 2012.

Please note that candidates nominated to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago will be required to complete an online application form.

For further information about the scholarship eligibility criteria and how to apply, email csfpout@acu.ac.uk