Seminar Series Trinity 2012

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30
Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Everyday multiculturalism

Convened by the COMPAS Urban Change and Settlement cluster

Whereas multiculturalism has been steadily ‘downgraded’ on the policy agenda both in the UK and other parts of Europe during the 2000s, social life at neighbourhood level is increasingly characterised by an everyday negotiation of categorical boundaries such as migration histories, religions, migrant statuses, and socio-economic disparities. This series will focus on emerging empirical research and methodologies that engage with such localised, intercultural processes. The presentations are based on findings from a range of different settings, including London, northern England, the Netherlands and Germany, and also focusing on new 'zones of encounter' that go beyond the traditional inner-city perspective.

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

26 April 2012
Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons        
Ash Amin, University of Cambridge

03 May 2012
Homophily is not an explanation           
Talja Blokland, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

10 May 2012
Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto        
Jayani Bonnerjee, Queen Mary, University of London

17 May 2012
Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London’s suburbs       
David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London

24 May 2012
New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire
Helen Moore, University of Surrey

31 May 2012
Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants
Deborah Phillips, University of Oxford

07 June 2012
Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods
Sarah Hackett, University of Sunderland

14 June 2012
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground
Katharine Tyler, University of Surrey