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Feminism Course - Free Spots Available for PACS Students

26.03.2024 -

 

Dear all, 

Registration for seminars for the summer semester is open now and in this regard, Alba Kugelmaier Lopez informed us that there are still some spots in her seminar "Feminism", the syllabus is attached in this link.

The course will cover topics such as post-colonial feminism, decolonial feminism, and further topics.

Here is the link for more details and registration:

https://lsf.ovgu.de/qislsf/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=210245&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung

If you have further questions about the course, reach out to  

Best wishes, 
Gabriela

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Commented Lecture Directory - Summer Term 2024

26.03.2024 -

In the link you will find the commented lecture directory for the summer term 2024

You can simply click on the name of the class and it will automatically lead you to the respective page in LSF. Nevertheless, please check LSF yourself as information might be updated. This document is just a guideline to give a a bit of an overview. 

If you find any discrepancies or have any questions please send an email to  

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New Module Handbook

06.03.2024 -

We would like to introduce you to the new handbook of PACS where you can find all information about the compulsory and optional modules so you can better understand the programme structure and objectives and better plan your study.

 

Please find the handbook here

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New Article: "Laughing at Failure or Failing to Laugh: Humour as a Strategy for Dealing With Foreign Policy Failure?"

22.02.2024 -

New Article - Feb 24 - Spencer

Our Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer has just published his latest research article in Sage Journal: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.

 

Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer in this article investigates how research in customer service management and crisis communication points to the use of humour as an additional strategy for dealing with foreign policy failure.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the Paper

The paper considers the role of humour in dealing with failure in foreign policy and brings insights together from the studies of policy failure, humour studies, customer service management and crisis communication. It investigates how research in customer service management and crisis communication points to the use of humour as an additional strategy for dealing with foreign policy failure. This research has provided valuable insights into the benefits of humour for dealing with minor service failure, reducing the level of damage done to the standing of the actor responsible for the failure. The paper transfers these insights into IR and investigates the benefits and drawbacks of self-deprecating humour by policy makers responsible for failure. To illustrate this, we consider the humour employed by US President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2004 when making fun of his administration’s inability to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. We argue that humour can be a tool to address policy failure only in front of a sympathetic audience when humour can be a means of addressing the cognitive tension between support for a policy and its empirical failure.

 

Get access to the paper from here

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