Recent posts tagged with "Symposiums"

Affective Activism: a symposium

This symposium will be chaired by Professor Paul Stenner and comprises presentations from two speakers followed by discussion

Children's Family Troubles? Changes and Challenges Through Diverse Lenses

This symposium will consider children’s family lives and ‘troubles’ through diverse lenses, across varied disciplines, cultural contexts, and practice settings, addressing such themes as:

Gender, Migration and Space

This event is co-organised by Umut Erel (CCIG) and Nira Yuval-Davis (CMRB - Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London).

Symposium: Liminality, process and paradox in practice encounters

Focusing mainly on processes at the interface of psychology, medicine and law, the project develops a psychosocial approach to practice problems characterised by liminality (experiences of being on or crossing a threshold).

The symposium featured thinkers/practitioners whose work is of great value in the development of this psychosocial approach to liminal practice problems:

Oecumene Symposium: Deorientalizing Citizenship?

Oecumene Second Symposium Deorientalizing citizenship? Experiments in political subjectivity has taken place on 12-13 November 2012 at the Goodenough College in London.

Citizenship after Orientalism

A six-day event with conference, international PhD school and a series of workshops addressing topics on critical new ways of conceptualising citizenship.

Further details about the event

Publics research symposium

This is a follow up to the Emergent Publics seminar series and a way of continuing the work of the Publics Research group within CCIG at the Open University. The event seeks to extend the analysis of publics and publicness to the domain of public policy, and to develop our work on mediated publics and public mediation.

Family Troubles? Exploring changes and challenges in the family lives of children and young people

Two day conference exploring changes and challenges in the lives of children and young people

Book Launch: Narratives of Identity and Place

This book launch celebrates the release of Dr Stephanie Taylor’s Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2009), which investigates the continuing importance of place for women’s identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology.

Book Launch: Publics, Politics and Power

Publicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform of public services are at the top of the political agenda in many countries.