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'