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Breakfast Briefing Series 3
September 2012 - June 2013
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 48 Charles Street, London W1J 5EN
8:30 - 9:45
At the Breakfast Briefing series COMPAS seeks to make available and discuss topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues.
14 June: What does the 2011 census tell us about ethnic diversity and integration in England and Wales?
12 July: What are the consequences of changing policies for family migrants in the UK?
Rethinking Diaspora
30 June - 2 July, 2013
St. Annes' College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
This conference is jointly organized by COMPAS and the Oxford Diasporas Programme.
The Oxford Diasporas Programme draws together a number of projects looking at the social, economic, political and cultural impact of diasporas through a range of disciplinary perspectives and research methods.
The programme identifies three fundamental dynamics relating to the formation, maintenance, and impacts of diasporas:
- Connecting: the way that diasporas create networks encompassing those back home, others in diaspora and, more widely, their imagined communities based on co-ethnicity or other identities.
- Contesting: the contradictory processes of inclusion of diasporas within and exclusion from territorially-bound communities, and the emergence of potentially conflicting identities.
- Converging: the way in which diasporic communities de-emphasize their origins and blend with indigenous or other migrant communities to create new social formations, cultures and practices.
This conference aims to integrate humanities and social science perspectives in order to investigate the impacts of these three dynamics of diaspora.
Registration for the conference now open.
Call for Papers: "Fielding challenges, challenging the field: The methodologies of mobility"
27 - 28 September 2013
Oxford
Ethnography has long been the hallmark of anthropology, and most social science disciplines now routinely employ qualitative ethnographic research methods. While the ethnographic method has adapted to shifts within the discipline, growing interest in mobility-related research prompts new methodological questions in the field(s) of anthropology.
The EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network invites papers that explore how ethnographers are responding to questions being raised in the study of mobility. We are interested, in particular, in the 'zones of awkward engagement' between mobility's methods and the production of ethnographic theory, and the ways in which ethnographies of movement may provide novel theoretical horizons for anthropology. We welcome papers that originally grapple with mobility at any scale and in both classic and unexpected settings.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to easamobworkshop@gmail.com by Monday, 20 May, 2013. Be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation, paper title and contact details in your email. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for EASA-member participants.
This event is jointly convened by Jamie Coates (Australian National University), Alice Elliot (University of Leuven) and Roger Norum (University of Oxford).
The workshop is jointly organised by The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) with the Anthropology and Mobility Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and The Qualitative Methods Hub for the Social Sciences Division (OxQualHub), University of Oxford, Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe), University of Leuven
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