Three group sessions on Mindfulness in Politics will be held in Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building at 12:00pm on Monday 19 February, Monday 26 February, and Monday 5 March.

These sessions are designed to deepen your experience and understanding of mindfulness, and to explore its utility for increasing wellbeing and managing stress and overload at work and in studying. Participants will learn a variety of evidence-based mindfulness practices, the theory behind them, and how to integrate them into their day.

Further details to follow.

All welcome
Tea, coffee and biscuits from 11.50

How do state agents who guard the Greek and the European border experience the collapse of the border? Why are people committed to performing bureaucratic procedures they consider irregular and futile? When does the UNHCR “become” the state? What does it mean to “work for Europe?” This paper is concerned with how the lived experiences of people governing irregular migration help us understand broader processes regarding sovereign power and the state.