RICC lunchtime seminar series
Seminar Series 2009
RICC lunchtime seminar series poster 2009
5 May 2009
Chambers Room, Whitworth Building, 12.30 - 2.30pm
Feminism, AntiRacism and Cosmopolitan Cultures Workshop
Nira Yuval Davis (University of East London): Intersectionality, Politics of Belonging and the Cosmopolitanism Question
Mica Nava (University of East London): Cosmopolitanism, Gender and Race Relations Sociology in 1950s
19 March 2009, 4.15-6.00pm
A114, Samuel Alexander Building
Professor Ulrich Schmid (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Cultural Presuppositions of Media Theories in Post-totalitarian Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Russia
This public lecture is in collaboration with the School for Languages, Linguistics and Culture
11 March 2009, 12.30 - 2.00pm
Room 4.213, Univeristy Place
Adi Kuntsmand (RICC Leverhulme Fellow, The University of Manchester): The Currency of Injury and the Raciology of Victimhood: Queerness, Nationalism, Humanness
Anastasia Valassopoulos (The University of Manchester): 1968: Egypt's 'New Cinema Collective' and the Influence of Italian Neo-Realism and British New Wave Cinema
10 March 2009
Level 2 Arthur Lewis Board Room, 12.00 - 1.30pm
Xiang Biao (RCUK Academic Fellow, Oxford University)
Making Order from Transnational Migration: Labor, Recruitment Agents and the State in Northeast China
This talk is in collaboration with Centre for Chinese Studies and British Inter-University China Centre
Seminar Series 2008
3 December 2008
G19, Arthur Lewis Building
Bridget Byrne (The University of Manchester): Considering Britishness
Madeleine Reeves (RICC and CRESC): Black work, green money: dilemmas of absence and accumulation at a time of migration
12 November 2008
Arthur Lewis Boardroom
Robert Spencer (The University of Manchester): Cosmopolitan Criticism
Ewa Ochman (RICC and LLC): Municipalities and the Search for the Local Past: Fragmented Memory of the Red Army in Upper Silesia
22 October 2008
Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, 2nd Floor
Helen Rees Leahy (Centre for Museology, The University of Manchester): Museum Bodies
Darien Rozentals (RICC and Art History and Visual Studies): Memory Installations: Artistic Responses to Monumental Urban Narratives
15 October 2008
Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, 2nd Floor
Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver): One World, Two Cities: Olympic Showcases in Beijing and Vancouver
Respondent: Gillian Evans, RICC and CRESC
8 October 2008
G19, Arthur Lewis Building
Uma Kothari (Institute for Development Policy and Management): Global Peddlers and Cosmopolitanism
Atreyee Sen (RICC and CIDRA): Inventing "Women's History": Female Valour, Martial Queens and Storytellers in the Bombay Slums