Politics Community Newsletter - Week 4

Posted on 7 January 2025

All the latest from the Department

Hi everybody.

Good afternoon everybody. This week is York International Women's Week so there is plenty to get involved in on campus and around the city. As well as the usual community and writing events running in the department.

The Politics Coffee morning this semester is on Wednesday from 09:30-11:00 in the Politics Reception. It was really great to see you all last week and I look forward to a nice chill start to the day this Wednesday.

Shut-up and Write is back on from 11:00 - 13:00 on Wednesday in J/P/003. This is a change of day and time from the usual Tuesday slot. We will be back to the usual schedule as of next week. But as always make sure to check the schedule to be certain.

Finally if you are considering a Masters in Law the York Law School is running a series of taster workshops next week that look really interesting. Sign up for the taster workshop.

Dr John Evemy,
Welbeing and Community Officer

YGA 2025 Writing Competition

Deadline: 12:00 30th March 2025

York Global Affairs invites you to take part in our 2025 Writing Competition! They are looking for student writers who can offer us new knowledge, perspectives, and insights into anything and everything global affairs. Submissions can be up to 1000 words long and should aim to tell us something new: this might be an under-reported global issue, or a fresh perspective on international developments. Submissions must be emailed to us at yorkglobalaffairs@yorksu.org by 12:00 on 30/03/2025.

Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man's World

Wednesday 5 March 2025

6.30pm to 7.30pm, (book tickets)

For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places.