In a blog for Public Policy Network, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens’ sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of …
If you happen to be in Italy, why not pop along to the exhibition currently running at Castello di Udine? The exhibition, Adriatico Senza Confini, showcases cultural contact around the Adriatic Sea between 6000-4000 BC and includes work by Helen Farr on navigation and seafaring. It will be running until the 22 February 2015, see exhibition page above, …
Last week’s YouGov poll and official launch of the project stimulated discussion about the impact of public disengagement with formal politics in the present. The poll’s results were included in The Independent’s daily catch-up, whilst Nick Cohen suggested in The Spectator that our early research indicates the difficulty of the …
Saturday 22nd November 10am – 5pm Free This event will bring together researchers, local cultural institutions, and the wider public for a series of talks, workshops, and hands-on activities around the theme of The Sea. We’ll be considering everything from pirates to shipwrecks to sound and the sea. As a port city, …
The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the project and to invite comments from participants to help guide our research over the forthcoming months. The workshop revealed an interdisciplinary concern with popular understandings of politics by bringing together political scientists, geographers, pollsters and historians In his introduction, Gerry Stoker …
It was a sunny Saturday morning at the end of September around noon when I first made my way to Villeneuve. I decided to just walk through and take notes of what I was seeing and thinking: my first impressions.
To mark the project’s official launch, and the 70th anniversary of a Gallup poll in July 1944 that asked: “Do you think that British politicians are out merely for themselves, for their party, or to do their best for their country?”, YouGov carried out a survey for us asking precisely …
Dr Helen Farr will be guest chairing the CAHO discussion group on early hominin finds in the eastern Mediterranean and the implications for early seafaring . This will take place on Tuesday 4th November at 5pm in the John Wymer Lab. All welcome!
Here in Zaragoza, Spain, I was fortunate enough to see the Fiestas del Pilar – a huge festival which takes place every year around the 12th October (el día de nuestra Señora del Pilar).