While the North Korean regime continues to expand its nuclear weapons program to secure its regime legitimacy and survival, the North Korean people are losing their faith in the government. Drawing from her recently published book, North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press 2016), Jieun Baek will discuss how outside information and media flows covertly into North Korea and how this phenomenon creates fault lines in the country’s attempts to seal its informational borders.

Professor Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London. He is a co-author of Brexit and British Politics, published on 27 October 2017. Besides being the Director of UK in a Changing Europe, an independent research institute focused on UK-EU relations, he is also a fellow of Chatham House and co-editor of the journal West European Politics. He can be followed on Twitter as @anandMenon1 and the UK in a Chancing Europe podcast (available on iTunes), where he engages in debate and commentary about Brexit as it happens.

**Special Seminar - Please note this is a Friday**

Sandwiches are available!

*Abstract:* What explains the near total absence of women in histories of international thought and the disciplinary history of International Relations? In this lecture, Professor Patricia Owens argues that women’s absence from histories of international thought is not based on a lack of women’s thinking about international politics or contribution to the early science of IR. A diverse array of historical women thought deeply about international relations and significant numbers were present in the early years of IR, especially in the first decades of the twentieth-century.