Seminars series
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Autumn 2011 series
- Cultural and legal logics of religion and secularisation in Europe
Empire, belonging and 'working class' identities: The silenced littoral histories of East London
- Identity politics, psychology and intersectional identities
Spring 2011 series
- Preventing extremist violence through raising Integrative Complexity
- New Ethnicities and Old Classities: Respectability and Diaspora
Autumn 2010 series
- Bias against understanding terrorism: the failure to learn from Afghanistan
- Qualified rationalism and marginal religion: responses to potentially dilemmatic positions within British Unitarian text and talk on rationalism and religion
- Islamic marriage: a haven in an uncertain world
- In praise of mistakes: superseding `race’ in the social sciences
Spring 2010 series
- Challenging ‘race’ and (re)creating identity in community arts workshops
- Identities at the margins: politics of space and belongings in French postcolonial banlieues
- Civility and progress: envisioning cosmopolitanism in the Greek islands of Mama Mia (2008)!
- Unveiled issues: reflections from a comparative pilot study on Europe's Muslim women
- Communism, Islam, Pan-Arab nationalism: Algerian nationalism and the French Left 1918 to 1939
Autumn 2009 series
- Confronting oppositions: the Catholic church and social polarisation in Frankfurt
- Do children’s emotions count? The relevance of affective factors for predicting children’s intentional behaviour in intra- and inter- ethnic contexts
- The decline of secular nationalism in the Middle East
- Why the English like turbans? The surprising history of multiculturalism in one country
- Acculturation and interethnic relations: evidence from the UK, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, and Chile
Spring 2009 series
- Shared communities and shared understandings: the experiences of Asian women in a British university
- How far can social capital take us? Immigrants, religion and civic social capital
- Space and landscape in Greek and Turkish nationalist imaginaries
- Reducing prejudice via direct, extended, and imagined intergroup contact
- Claiming group membership: a social psychological perspective on identity and belonging
Autumn 2008 series
- Challenging children’s attitudes towards ethnic out-groups in mainly white schools: What works and why?
- Regionalism in Western Europe – the case of South Tyrol
- Iraqi nationalism & sectarianism: the importance of a gendered analysis
- 'Suspect' communities in multi-ethnic Britain: comparing the impact of being 'suspect' on Muslim and Irish communities
- The making of a European public sphere: how far has it developed and how far can it go?
Spring 2008 series
- Immigration in Bulgaria: Theoretical and political challenges
- Mixed 'race', Families and Belonging
- One world, many cultures: Margaret Mead and the limits to Cold War anthropology
- Challenging children’s attitudes towards ethnic out-groups in mainly white schools: What works and why?
Autumn 2007 series
- Exploring the diversity of "mixed race" experiences in Britain
- Belonging and entitlement: shifting discourses of difference in multiethnic neighbourhoods in the UK
- Everyday multiculturalism: bringing the practice-turn into multiculturalism studies
- Do children construct or discover ethnicity? Insights from a west London primary school
- Multiculturalism, capability and human development: The Canadian immigration experience
Spring 2007 series
- The Uniting of Nations: An Essay on Global Governance
- Sleepwalking to a multicultural law? (paper)
- When Prophecy Fails: Lubavitcher Messianism and the Death of the Rebbe
- Who Ate All The Pride? National Football Support and English National Identity
- Stories about Strangers in Sweden
Autumn 2006 series - This seminar series will focus on nationalism and national identity.
- The development of children’s national identifications and attitudes (slides)
- Multiculturalism, cultural diversity and the narrowing of the political sphere (paper)
- Patterns of prejudice and discrimination - What do ageism, racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia, and attitudes towards people with disabilities have in common
- Reconstructing multiethnic society in Bosnia and Herzegovina (paper)
- Minority-Majority relations in Europe: a social psychological approach
Spring 2006 series
- 'Conserving Heritage in Bangladesh: Hindus in a Muslim-Majority Society'
- 'Researching Class and Ethnicity: London's 'New Poles'
- 'Institutionalising practices/practising institutions: multiculturalism and global flows in contemporary London Methodism'
- 'Superseeding race'
- 'A New Antisemitism in Britain ? Arguments and Counter-Arguments'
- 'The Polish "Intelligentsia" in London: a case study of young graduates working in the secondary sector'
Autumn 2005 series
- 'Researching Oral History: Cultural Heritage and Minority Ethnic Communities in Britain'
- 'Pilgrimage, Consumption and Religion in Contemporary Russia'
- 'The Politics of Researching Class and Ethnicity in London: Gujarati Mothers and Early Childrearing Beliefs and Practices'
- 'Welcome to Britain: Hospitable Places and the Strange(r) Figures of the Tourist and the Asylum Seeker'
- 'Anxiety Disorders in Young People: A Cross-Cultural Perspective'
- Travel, Travel Writing and Food Colloquium
Spring 2005 series
- 'Culture, Space and Time and the Creation of National Identity' (MS Word doc)
- 'Survival Against the Odds: Psycho-Social Impact of Conflict amongst Refugees'
- 'The Creation and Maintenance of a Social Memory of Violent Antagonism among Basque Radical Nationalists'
- 'Contesting Dominant Discourse: Women and Anti-Racism in East London'
Autumn 2004 series
- 'The Making of National Identity: The English Enigma'
- 'Nationalism in Action: Identification, Comparison and Description in National Identity'
- 'Social Identity and Attitudes towards Terrorism amongst British South Asian Muslims'
- Performance based on Ideas of Structure from the Odissi reconstruction
- 'Speaking English in Banglatown: Language Use and Language Choice of Bangladeshis in East London'
- 'Investigating the Sports Spectacle in an Era of Post-Nationalism'
- 'Globalisation and Democracy: The Limits of the Nation-State'
- 'Social Inclusion and Health Provision in London: A Case Study of Brent'
- 'Religion, Class and National Identity in South Asia: A Case Study of Pakistan'
- 'Old and New Nationalisms on the Far Right'
(originally announced as Monday, 6 December 2004 - This seminar will now be given early next term, date to be confirmed) - 'Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality' (Microsoft Word document)
Spring 2004 series
- 'New Challenges of Transnationalism and Migration'
- 'British? English? What Do "Faith Communities" Tell Us about Education in a Multicultural Society?'
- 'Transcultural Psychiatry: How Far Does It Help in the Understanding of Individual Experiences?'
- 'Researching Social Exclusion across Europe'
- 'All Quiet on the Eastern Front? British Bangladeshi Reactions to 9/11'
- 'The Rise and Fall of Multiculturalism: Philosophical Considerations'
- 'Civil Coercion of Impoverished Ethnic and racial Minorities in US Cities'
- 'Music and Identity in Multi-Cultural Britain'
- 'Dance, National Identity and Multiculturalism: A Comparison between Germany and Britain'
Workshops: - 'Youth, Ethnic Identity and the Future of Multiculturalism in Europe'
