Calendar of Whose Cosmopolitanism?
Launch Festival Events, March 2009
In March 2009 RICC will be holding an academic and cultural festival to celebrate its launch. Featured speakers include Professors David Harvey, Tariq Ramadan and Jacqueline Rose, as well as Don Flynn, Irene Kahn, Sir Richard Leese, Alex Poots, and Katya Sander. Please fill in the following registration form to attend these events.
Monday 2 March 2009, 6.30-8pm
Writers' Evening (with the Centre for New Writing)
John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre, The University of Manchester
With creative writers:
Jackie Kay
Joe Pemberton
Tickets are £5/£3 and will be available through the Centre for New Writing in early 2009.
Tuesday 3 March, 2-5pm
Debating Cosmopolitan Cultures: Common Places/Imagined Politics
Banqueting Room, Manchester Town Hall
Prof. David Harvey (City University of New York)
Prof. Tariq Ramadan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Prof. Jacqueline Rose (University of London)
This academic panel responds to the specificities of the current moment – a world characterised by an unprecedented global rescaling and accelerated speed and intensity of transnational communication – and address issues that lie at the heart of the tension between local affiliations and a universal imperative. To be opened by Professor Simon J Gaskell, Vice President (Research), The University of Manchester.
This panel has been structured around four provocations written by the RICC chairs and can be read by following the below links:
Prof. Nina Glick Schiller
Prof. Jackie Stacey
Prof. Galin Tihanov
Prof. Gyan Prakash
Tuesday 3 March, 5-6.30pm
Whose Cosmopolitanism? RICC Launch Festival Reception
Reception Room, Manchester Town Hall
To be opened by Lord Mayor Councillor Mavis Smitheman, with Professor Alistair Ulph (Vice-President and Dean of Faculty, The University of Manchester), Professor David Farrell (Head of School, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester), and Professor Kersti Börjars (Head of School, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester)
Tuesday 3 March, 6.30-8pm
Claiming the City: Belonging and Exclusion
Banqueting Room, Manchester Town Hall
Question Time Panel moderated by Jim Hancock (correspondent for the Manchester Evening News)
Don Flynn (Migrants’ Rights Network)
Irene Khan (Amnesty International)
Sir Richard Leese (Manchester City Council)
Alex Poots (Manchester International Festival)
Katya Sander (Artist, based in Copenhagen and Berlin)
How do people develop a sense of belonging to a place? Who has rights to a city, a region or a nation? Why do some people find difference so hard to tolerate? Who is different anyway? How have new global insecurities changed what it means to be a citizen? These are the kinds of questions that face us in our new research centre on 'cosmopolitan cultures' and we shall be debating them with panelists working in different fields (NGOs; creative arts; journalism; politics). In the style of BBC Question Time, we invite the audience to pose their questions to the panel who will share their reflections on cosmopolitanism and its relevance to vital social issues.
Questions can be submitted for The Right to the City: Belonging and Exclusion via email to: Tracey.Fallon@manchester.ac.uk, with the subject heading 'Question Time'.
Workshops with Professors David Harvey, Tariq Ramadan and Jaqueline Rose
Professors David Harvey, Tariq Ramadan and Jacqueline Rose will each lead a workshop providing an opportunity to debate further issues that arose in the session Debating Cosmopolitan Cultures: Common Places/ Imagined Politics. To attend these workshops on Wednesday 4 March you must also register for the debate at the Manchester Town Hall on Tuesday 3 March. Numbers are limited to 30 participants so it is advised to register early to avoid disappointment.
Wednesday 4 March, 10.30-1.30pm
David Harvey Workshop
2.016, Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester
To be co-chaired by Professor Noel Castree (School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester) and Dr Andrew Irving (RICC).
Wednesday 4 March, 11-1pm
Tariq Ramadan Workshop
G030/G031, Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester
To be co-chaired by Professor Stephen Hutchings (School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, The University of Manchester) and Dr Atreyee Sen (RICC).
Wednesday 4 March, 10-12pm
Jacqueline Rose Workshop
1.003, Roscoe Building, The University of Manchester
To be chaired by Professor Janet Wolff (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, CIDRA, The University of Manchester) with discussants Dr Daniela Caselli (School of English and American Studies, The University of Manchester), Dr. Adi Kuntsman (RICC) and Dr Madeline Reeves (RICC).
Wednesday 4 March, 6-8pm
Preview Screening of Jia Zhangke's 24 City/Ershisi chengji (2008)
Supported by the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester.
Introduction by Felicia Chan (RICC)
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Leading up to the RICC Launch Fesitval
If you read this, I'll give it to you, Katya Sander
Katya Sander (artist, based in Copenhagen and Berlin) enacts complex ideas through deceptively simple interventions. She will be working on a project in Manchester throughout February and March. Katya Sander's participation has been supported by The Danish Arts Council.