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Past Issues << | Issue 48: Monday 16 April 2007
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A brand-new digital radio station, created, presented and directed by our students launches today!.
UEL Radio will be streamed across the globe via Voicing the Truth Media (VTM), a multimedia company created by one of our graduates Jody Turay with the support of Knowledge Dock's enterprise development and support service.
Jody (26), who comes from Stratford, will present the UEL Radio Morning Show daily from 9-12am. He said: “The launch of UEL Radio is the culmination of a lot of hard work and the fulfilment of a personal dream. I'm a professional DJ and music has always been a really important part of my life.
"This new station offers fantastic opportunities for students to gain valuable experience of working in radio. I'm very confident that their enthusiasm, talent and passion for music will shine through in our shows and attract a wide audience across East London and beyond."
For further information, or to listen to UEL Radio, visit http://www.vtm-online.co.uk
SSMCS Professor of Cultural Studies, Mica Nava, is presenting one of the BBC documentaries in The Edwardians series, to be broadcast later this week (Sunday 22 April 2007 9pm-10pm BBC4).
The documentary, Shopping for England, makes the argument that shopping as a leisure experience as well as a necessity was a concept introduced to the UK by two Americans during the Edwardian period.
Join Mica Nava as she traces the careers of Gordon Selfridge, who created his eponymous department store as a glamorous escape for middle class women, and Frank Woolworth, whose low-cost household goods shops gave the working class their first taste of middle class materialism.
For more information visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/shopping-england.shtml. Mica's new book Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference is published by Berg later in the year: http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=Visceral%20Cosmopolitanism Mica is chair of the organising committee of Cultural Studies Now, an international four-day conference taking place at our Docklands Campus in July: http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow/
Tuesday 17 April, 6.30pm - 7.30pm East Building EB244, Docklands Campus
Inaugural Lecture - Professor Chandra Sriram, Director of the Centre of Human Rights in Conflict, School of Law
Chandra will discuss the rapid development of international criminal accountability since the end of the Cold War, and consider the range of experiments in justice with national, transnational, international, and hybrid courts and trials. She will focus in particular on debates about the purposes of international criminal accountability, its costs, and its effects upon post-conflict peacebuilding. In particular, she will talk about her research at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as well as the prospects for the cases that the International Criminal Court is now investigating, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Uganda, and the Darfur region of Sudan.
For further information please visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/chrc/index.htm
The official opening of the Graduate School’s new space takes place on Tuesday 17 April 2007.
The Graduate School is delighted to open the evening at 5.30pm with a public lecture to launch Dr Tim Brooks’ well-received debut publication British Propaganda to France 1940-1944: Machinery, Method and Message.
The evening starts off in the East Building room EB 1.41, moving to EB 1.43 for a wine reception.
Please RSVP to Janet Riddle at j.riddle@uel.ac.uk. ALL WELCOME.
War against cyber-crime tops agenda at International Conference on Global E-Security
On Wednesday 18 April, leading experts in internet security from all over the world will gather for the 3rd International Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS).
This year’s International Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS-07) will focus on emerging threats to technology such as VoIP with an emphasis on international security, fraud prevention.
ICGeS-07 has received submissions from more than 25 different countries in all continents. Only 28 papers were selected and will be presented as full papers. The programme will also include 8 keynote lectures by leading researchers, security professionals and government representatives.
For details about the conference; www.uel.ac.uk/icges, how to get to the venue, http://www.uel.ac.uk/icges/information.htm
conference programme, http://www.uel.ac.uk/icges/programme.htm
11th International Research Conference. Hosted by Luleå University of Technology. Friday 31 August – Saturday 1st September 2007
This Conference, organised jointly with Staffordshire University and UEL, will be hosted in 2007 by Luleå University of technology. It provides a forum for policy, organisational and critical sociological analyses of the human services including health, social services, housing, education and the voluntary sector. The theme of this year’s conference concerns governance and new public management and its relationship to identities in the public and voluntary sectors.
Papers that examine the following are particularly welcome:
Governance, new public management and identity in public and voluntary sectors
National, regional and local identities
Leadership, management and identities
Social work and identities
Identities and technology
Gender, identities and the Human Services
For further information please contact the conference organisers: Elisabeth Berg Elisabeth.Berg@ltu.se +46(0) 920491663 Saila Piippola Saila.Piippola@ltu.se +46(0) 920492941 Jim Barry j.j.Barry@uel.ac.uk 0208 223 2207 John Chandler j.p.chandler@uel.ac.uk 020 8223 2211
Information about Luleå see http://www.lulea.se/ Flights to Luleå: SAS http://www.sas.se or Flynordic http://www.flynordic.com/
To conduct a search of current funding opportunities , including all the major competitions , or to set up email alerts specific to your interests, visit www.researchresearch.com.
If you intend to submit an application for funding please contact Tim Brooks (Acting Research Funding Officer) in the Graduate School. Tim is retaining his other responsibilities within the Graduate School so the more notice you can give, the better!
Tuesday 17 April at 5pm in Business School Lecture Theatre, Docklands
Tickets £1.50 to non-members.
Our Student Film Society was recently set up. Contact Alejandra Fernandez uvona@hotmail.com or ross crabb shoeless_ross@hotmail.com for more information
All welcome - admission FREE
Events all afternoon from 12 - 8pm.
Celebrate the joys of spring at Mayfest 07, featuring free performances and fresh artistic productions on the waterfront at the University of East London Docklands campus.
An exciting programme of events, including art and photography exhibitions, music, dance, poetry, and literature performances will bring together the work of professionals, students, school pupils and community groups in a celebration of culture and creativity.
For more information and detailed listings visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/mayfest/
Brush up your IT skills and get an internationally recognised qualification online. Contact Greg Price, Organisational Development Manager on ext 4361 or email g.price@uel.ac.uk
Britain’s greatest ever gathering of sociologists took place last week with more than 600 delegates in attendance at the 2007 Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association (BSA) at UEL.
The conference, entitled ‘Social Connections: Identities, Technologies and Relationships’, was addressed by some of the world’s most distinguished contemporary sociologists including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen and Lord Giddens. By the end of the week, 500 research papers will be presented.
Judith Burnett, SSMCS Associate Head said: “We are delighted to have hosted this year’s BSA Conference. Over 500 presenters have come from all over the world to share their understanding of a wide range of contemporary sociological concerns."
Senior Lecturer Syd Jeffers and an organiser of the conference, said: “Sociology is an infamously broad subject and we have never been stuffy about other areas encroaching on it. In fact, it is the meeting point for a multitude of disciplines. I think there is an increasing recognition of the relevance of sociology to a lot of the issues that we face”
The conference received significant media coverage, including a full-page feature in the Independent.
For the full story visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/sociological.htm
Nine enterprising graduates are celebrating after each being awarded £1,500 from the Haberdashers' New Entrepreneurs Fund, recently established to help students and graduates to develop innovative business ideas.
Michael Perkins of the Haberdashers’ Company, one of the oldest city livery companies, presented the entrepreneurs with certificates of success at a ceremony held in the Knowledge Dock Centre on Monday 2 April.
The successful entrepreneurs will now develop their business ideas under the guidance of Knowledge Dock, enterprise development and support service. Many have already been working on plans in our HotHatch business generator, which offers crucial support to entrepreneurs during the set-up stages of their new companies.
For the full story visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press_releases/releases/haberdashers.htm
For a round-up of events see www.uel.ac.uk/events.
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