The York Politics Society

🇮🇳CHEESE AND WINE NIGHT WITH DR UDIT BHATIA🇮🇳

Join us in SLB/203 on Thursday 7th November for our first cheese and wine night of the year! Dr Udit Bhatia will be joining us to talk about the outcome of the 2024 election, with refreshments available.

Cheese and wine will be provided but feel free to bring your own! See you there! 🧀🍷

🇺🇸US ELECTION NIGHT WITH POLSOC, CLUB OF PEP AND UNA🇺🇸

Join us in Courtyard on Tuesday night to watch the US elections live! Academics will be dropping in to give their thoughts early in the evening before programming starts! 🦅

🎃POLSOC’S HALLOWEEN PUB CRAWL🎃

Grab your spookiest costumes and meet us in V-Bar at 7pm on Thursday night for our Halloween pub crawl! We’ll be spending around 30-40 minutes at each location before finishing off in flares!

We can’t wait to see you there! 👻🎃

‼️HOW TO SPOT A CRISIS WITH CHRISTOPH DWORSCHAK‼️

Join us in D/L/006 on Tuesday at 7pm for a talk from Dr Christoph Dworschak on crisis early warning. Chris is leaving us in January to work with the German government on this very thing, so get learning while you can!

Can’t wait to see you there! 🩵💛

📣MEET THE COMMITTEE!📣

Meet our final section of the committee: the welfare and liberation officers! They’re in charge of making sure people’s voices are heard and supporting you in the best way possible.

1st year officer: Charlie
3rd year officer: Jacob
Postgrad officer: Bob
LGBTQ officer: Tyler
Women and Non-Binary officer: Grace

📣MEET THE COMMITTEE!📣

Our events, press and socials team are in charge of running our academic events, fun socials and run our podcast, journal and social media!

Events officers: Molly, Oscar
YPR Editors: Ethan, Matthew
Podcast officer: Alice
Social secs: Ethan, James
Press and pub: Theodore

📣MEET THE COMMITTEE!📣

Meet the executive members of the polsoc committee! Their job is to manage official business and oversee the running of the society as a whole!

☢️NUCLEAR DEBATES WITH DR NICK RITCHIE☢️

Join us for our casual debate event on Tuesday 15th! Dr Ritchie will give us a short presentation on nuclear proliferation and disarmament then we’ll have mini debates on random topics surrounding it!

Hope to see you there! 💛

🗳️ COMMITTEE ELECTIONS 🗳️

The time has come for our committee elections! We have plenty of roles up for grabs that we’re looking for someone like you to fill! 🫵

If you’re interested in a role, send us a DM then prepare a short speech as to why you think you’d be a good fit and come along to D/N/056 on Thursday! If you can’t make it, don’t worry! Just send us your speech and one of the lovely existing committee will read it out for you.

If you’d like any more information on any of the available roles, please send us a DM! 💛

🤫WHITE LIES NIGHT: POLITICAL SCANDALS…🤫

Meet us in SLB/003 on Thursday evening for our white lies night!! We’ll start the event there before moving to The Lounge in James for games and drinks and then into town! Bring your own drinks!

‼️BRING A WHITE SHIRT YOU DONT MIND WRITING ON‼️

Join us at 7PM on Thursday 26th September for our first speaker event of the year - our UK politics panel! 🎤

We’ll be joined by Dr John Evemy, Dr Pavlov Vasilopoulos, Dr Chris Featherstone, Dr Anna Sanders and Rachael Maskell MP!

Come and listen to their thoughts on the election, its outcomes and their impacts. There will also be an opportunity for audience questions, so watch out for the Q&A on our story!

We hope to see you there! 🇬🇧

🚨Announcing PolSoc’s First Social🚨

Come along to Courtyard next Thursday for our Icebreaker Social!

Here’s a chance for all returning members to catch up with each other and all freshers to meet their new coursemates. There will be an afterparty in town after the event.

Welcome to York!

We know its a little late (sorry!) But congratulations and welcome to York!

We can't wait to meet you in September, in the meantime keep an eye on the page for more info about polsoc!

Here is your new exec for 2023/24!

Introducing your new exec for the 2023/24 committee!!

Feeling slightly overwhelmed by the intensity of summer term? Come join Polsoc for a relaxed evening in the courtyard. As always open to all so feel free to bring a friend along if you wish. See you in Courtyard at 7:30 tonight