Events for 2013/2014 will be announced shortly.
Book Launch - 'Refugee Women: Beyond gender versus culture' by Leah Bassel
4-6pm, Monday 18th March 2013, EB.G.05 Docklands Campus, University of East London
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit.
A recording of the event will be available shortly.
Women, Sexuality and Christian Fundemantalism
2-5pm, Saturday 9th March 2013, Room G2, SOAS
The second in a series of events exploring women and religious fundamentalism and co-hosted with SOAS' Centre for Gender Studies, this well-attended event investigated the global implications of Christian fundamentalism for women and queers. Speakers included: Dr. Ann Rossiter, Dr. Carmen Sepulveda (UCL), Dr. Rahul Rao (SOAS), Dr. Sukhwant Dhaliwal (Goldsmiths) and the leader of the Green party Natalie Bennett.
A recording of the event will be available shortly.
Gender, Migration and Space: A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris
2-6pm, Friday 8th March 2013, Open University, Camden office, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, NW1 8NP
Co-hosted with the Open University's Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance, this event explored multiple facets of gender, migration and space as a tribute to Tijen Uguris. Speakers included: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL), Dr. Umut Erel (Open University), Prof. Floya Anthias (Roehampton University), Prof. Heaven Crawley (Swansea University, Prof. Randi Gressgard (Bergen University), Prof. Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University), Dr. Jon Binnie & Dr. Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan, Dr. Niloufar Pourzand (UN), Dr. Mastoureh Fathi (Birkbeck University) and Dr. Necla Acik (Manchester University).
A recording of the event will be available shortly.
Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue
13th February 2013, 2pm-4pm, EB.G.10, Docklands Campus, UEL
This workshop will host a delegation from the EU ‘Youth in Action – Democracy Project’ led by Bengt Persson from the municipality of Lund, Sweden. It will provide an opportunity for scholars, activists and members of statuary and voluntary organizations engaged in similar activities to discuss the project’s results and their political and policy implications.
Contesting Senses of Belongingness in the Making of a Diaspora: the Case of Chinese Migrants' Political Mobilisation in Paris, Ya-Han Chuang
30th January 2013, 2pm-4pm, EB.1.40, Docklands Campus, UEL
This presentation explored the interaction between 'Chinese Transnationalism' (Ong and Nonini 1996, Lee 2007) and integrationist and assimilationist European societies by examining the case study of the Chinese community in Paris.
Women and the Arab Spring
8th December 2012, 2pm-5pm, Khalili Theatre, SOAS
Co-hosted with SOAS' Centre for Gender Studies, this lively event explored the various dimensions of the place of women in the so-called 'Arab Spring'. Speakers included Prof. Nadje Al Ali (SOAS), Layla El-Wafi Women4Lybia), Afaf Jabiri (SOAS) Dr. Mariz Tadros (IDS), Prof. Sami Zubaida (Birkbeck), Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL), Dr. Ruba Salih (SOAS).
For a recording of the talks click here. For a recording of the discussion they stimulated click here.
CMRB AGM & 'Never Going Back' - Egypt's Ongoing Revolution, Phil Marfleet
26th November 2012, 4-6pm, EB.1.07, Docklands Campus, UEL
The CMRB AGM was a well attended event in which the past year's activities were discussed and strategies for CMRB moving forward were formulated. The AGM was followed by Prof. Phil Marfleet's seminar that offered insight into Egypt's ongoing revolution and some speculation on where it might be heading.
Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky Festschrift
16th November 2012, 4pm–6.30pm, V211, Vernon Square Campus, SOAS
Co-hosted with SOAS' Centre for Media and Film Studies, CMRB celebrated the contributions to the fields of cultural and film studies, Israel/Palestine and Holocaust studies, as well as the academic leadership achievements of Professsors Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky.
A recording of the event will be available shortly.
Book Launch: Gender and Cosmopolitanism, Ulrike Vieten
7th November, 1.30-3.00pm, EB.G.18, Docklands Campus, University of East London
CMRB had great pleasure in co-hosting with the Feminist Research Group and the Centre for Narrative Research, the book launch for Ulrike Vieten's Gender and Cosmopolitanism. The book combines a feminist critique of contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in Britain and Germany are drawn.
For a recording of the event click here.
Intersectionality and the Spaces of Belonging
28th-29th June 2012, Bangor University, UK
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL), Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University), Dr Gurminder K. Bhambra ( University of Warwick).
This conference explored critical contributions on all aspects of ‘spaces of belonging’ under the perspective of the concept of intersectionality. Humanities and social sciences scholars as well as social and community activists or artists all contributed papers on the following subjects:
• Citizenship, cultural and state membership • Nation, race, ethnicity, nationality • Indigeneity • Diasporas • Religion • Cosmopolitanism and human rights • Longing and the non-space of utopia • Majority-minority relations • Class and belonging • Sex, gender and sexuality • Standpoints, dialogues and politics of recognition • Virtual spaces of belonging • Belonging, feeling, intimacy • Belonging and equality • Age-spaces and ability-spaces
Programme details are here.
London: City of Paradox
3rd-5th April 2012, Docklands Campus, University of East London
The 2012 Olympic Games have focused attention on London. Official representations of the Games stress the city’s inclusiveness and its history of bringing together the peoples and cultures of the world. This three day conference hosted hosted internationally renowned scholars explored this and other discourses around London as a city of paradox.
A conference programme is available here.
A selection of audio recordings from the conference:
Plenary 1 ( Saskia Sassen, Jerry White, Phil Marfleet), Migrant London (David Feldman, David Glover, Mica Nava), Olympic Games, London 2012 and Civil Society (Graeme Hayes and John Horne, Daniel Nilsson DeHanas and Zacharias P. Pieri, Penny Bernstock), Militarised London part 1& part 2 (Dan Hancox, Barnaby Pace, Vron Ware), East London Organising (Estelle Du Boulay, Ana Lopes and Tim Hall, Gayle K Munro), Plenary 2 (Alexander Geppert, John Marriott, Mike Rustin), Empowerment and the Spectacle (Dion Georgiou, Aletha M. Holborough, David Howe), Religion in London (Ben Gidley, Alex Goldberg and Sara Abrams; Angus Ritchie, Abel Ugba), Inequality in London (Hannah Jones, Christy Kulz), Plenary 3 (Gillian Evans, Vassil Girginov, Gavin Poynter, Mike Raco), London Fictions (Lucinda Newns, Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise), Plenary 4 part 1 & part 2 (Claire Alexander, Floya Anthias, Michael Keith, Ann Phoenix), London and Home (Emma Jackson, Nicola Samson, Michael Skey, Helen Taylor), Migrants in the Capital (Don Flynn and Juan Camilo Cock, Rahila Gupta), Plenary 5 (Rob Berkeley, Paul Gilroy, Nira Yuval-Davis)
Everyday Belongings: Theorising the self, society and change
Friday 17th February 2012, Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum
Belonging has been identified as a 'fundamental need' for humans across time and space. Moreover, questions of belonging continue to dominate the media and political agendas, whether in relation to youth gangs in inner cities or ethnic minorities in national settings. This one day symposium, co-organised by CMRB, offered a framework for thinking critically about the different scales, sources and modes of belonging. It drew together experts from a range of disciplines and concluded with a round-table discussion that featured some of the leading scholars currently working in the field.
For more information and a programme of events click here.
Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging: A conference on race, religion, and public policy
Thursday 27 January 2011
Organised by CMRB and Runnymede Trust, this conference explored the ways in which questions of race, religion and religious affiliation operate in state policies and civil society in Britain and beyond. It examined how matters of faith are constructed in relation to old and new forms of racism and to other contemporary political projects of belonging. It considers the implications for citizenship and social solidarity in the context of “the Big Society”. These issues were examined in relation to specific questions which have occupied the British public in recent years: constructions of “faith communities” in relation to ethnic identities; the place of religion in equality legislation and legal pluralism; debates about dress codes; and the effect of particular forms of religious education, including separate faith schools. The conference brought together academics and researchers, community activists, race equality groups, and leading figures from secular, Christian, Muslim and Jewish organisations. Speakers included: Dr Rob Berkeley (Runnymede Trust), Baroness Prof Haleh Afshar (York University), Gita Sahgal, Prof David Feldman (Birkbeck) Prof Sami Zubaida (Birkbeck).
A publication of the conference’s papers can be found here.
Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012
January–June 2012, Matrix East Research Laboratory (UEL)
Continuing on from last year’s highly successful ‘Imagining Migrants] seminar series, CMRB’s Marta Rabikowska invited academics, activists and practitioners to apply visual methodologies to discussions of the aesthetics, ethics and politics of the visualisation of migration. Topics ranged from the situation of migrants crossing the Calais border in France, the unequal position of manual workers at UEL, changes inside the Haredi community in Israel, transformation and memory of communism, and domestic abuse. All presentations engaged with visual methods, such as documentary, photo-elicitation, participatory exhibition, videoed theatre, participatory drawing, and photography. The seminars were well-received and many of the speakers from the series expressed an interest in gathering the research presented at the series into a peer-reviewed publication on interdisciplinary applications of visual methods within migration studies and social anthropology. The seminars were as follows:
Documentary: Calais: The Last Border , Marc Issacs (film-maker), 13th Februaury 2012
The Cleaner's Voice Luis C.Sotelo and Anna Lopes (University of East London), 29th February 2012
Gevald and the role of truth in documentary, Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth) 28th April 2012
Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony, March Helene Kazan (Goldsmith’s College), 25th April 2012
A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK, Nela Milic (journalist and film-maker), 2nd May 2012
Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK, Janet Bowstead (London Metropolitan University)
For more details on these seminars, click here.
Audio from seminars at Oxford are available here.
CMRB is very pleased to announce the schedule for the 'Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration' series, jointly organised with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford.
Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or RSC location. The RSC location is: Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA. The UEL location is: Room EBG.08, East Building, Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD. Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway.
19 Jan: Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire
Audio available here.
26 Jan: Citizenship, autochthony and the question of forced migration
Audio available here.
2 Feb: Reconciling integration and return: Rethinking Palestinian Refugeehood
9 Feb: ‘Collective amnesia’ - refugees and the problem of History
16 Feb: Refugees and the definition of Syria
23 Feb: Citizenship and residence: rights, mobility and refugees
2 Mar: Is deportation a form of forced migration?
9 Mar: Refugees, the state and the concept of home
16 Mar: Refugees, states and the ‘security’ agenda
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Venue: Goss Room, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
All welcome, no need to book.
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Ruba Salih (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Wednesday 2 February: UEL
Podcast available here .
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Audio available here
Speaker: Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London
Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10
How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on trans-jurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority trans-jurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.
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