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Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams gives keynote lecture at University of Jyvaskyla
On 27 November 2018 Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams delivered the keynote lecture at the ' at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. The lecture, entitled '"Taking Back Control" in an Age of Walling: Crisis, the Desire for Borders, and Everyday Immunization', presented the findings of the Leverhulme 'Border Narratives' project and was discussed by . '' is a four-year profiling area funded by the Academy of Finland and Prof Vaughan-Williams is a member of its international scientific advisory board.
New research article published in European Journal of International Security
A new full-length research article by Georg Lofflmann and Nick Vaughan-Williams has been published online by the European Journal of International Security (EJIS) - a new journal supported by the British International Studies Association (BISA) and published by Cambridge University Press.
The article, entitled 'Vernacular imaginaries of European border security among citizens: From walls to information management', is based on two years of underpinning research into how diverse publics construct the so-called "migration crisis", conceptualise border security, and narrate their own identity in relation to it.
The online first version of the article can be accessed .
'Border Narratives' featured in 2017 Leverhulme Trust Annual Review
The features the 'Border Narratives' project and an interview with Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams (see p.78).