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Wednesday, 8th June 5pm-6.30pm

Room MS.05, Maths Building, University of Warwick

So we can keep track of numbers, please register to attend at www.brem2016.eventbrite.co.uk

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown came to this country in 1972 from Uganda. She completed her M.Phil. in literature at Oxford in 1975. She is a journalist who has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and other newspapers and is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books. Her book, No Place Like Home, well received by critics, was an autobiographical account of a twice removed immigrant. From 1996 to 2001 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research which published True Colours on the role of government on racial attitudes. Tony Blair launched the book in March 1999. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. In 2000 she published, Who Do We Think We Are? which went on to be published in the US too, an acclaimed book on the state of the nation. Andrew Marr and Sir Bernard Crick among other reviewers found the book exceptionally wise and challenging. After Multiculturalism, a pamphlet re-assessing the multicultural ideology in Britain was the first critical examination by a social democrat of a settled and now damaging orthodoxy. She is also a regular international public speaker in Britain, other European countries, North America and Asian nations. In 2001 came the publication of Mixed Feelings, a book on mixed race Britons which has been praised by all those who have reviewed it to date. In June 1999, she received an honorary degree from the Open University for her contributions to social justice. She is a Vice President of the United Nations Association, UK and has also agreed to be a special ambassador for the Samaritans. She is the President of the Institute of Family Therapy. She is married with a twenty eight year old son and thirteen year old daughter.

In 2001 she was appointed an MBE for services to journalism in the new year’s honours list. In July 2003 Liverpool John Moore’s University made her an Honorary Fellow. In 2003 she returned her MBE as a protest against the new empire in Iraq and a growing republicanism. In September 2004, she was awarded an honorary degree by the Oxford Brookes University . In April 2004, her film on Islam for Channel 4 won an award and in May 2004, she received the EMMA award for best print journalist for her columns in the Independent. In September 2004, a collection of her journalistic writings, Some of My Best Friends Are… was published in 2005. Since that year, she has been seen on stage in her one woman show, commissioned and directed by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their new work festival. In 2005, she was voted the 10th most influential black/Asian woman in the country in a poll and in another she was among the most powerful Asian media professionals in the UK. In 2008 she was appointed Visiting Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln.

The event will be followed by a reception with juice, wine and snacks

This is a public lecture and all are welcome

So we can keep track of numbers, please register to attend at www.brem2016.eventbrite.co.uk

Find out more about Warwick’s Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) Network at www.warwick.ac.uk/brem

Amy Hinterberger has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Humanities & Social Science for her project, Blood and tissue samples as ‘human subjects’. The Award is for £39,897. The project will run from October 2016 – July 2017. The research will investigate transformations in the definition of the human research subject in biomedicine across the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

The Department of Sociology is proud to announce the publication of Dr Mark Carrigan’s new monongraph. Social media is an increasingly important part of academic life that can be a fantastic medium for promoting your work, networking with colleagues and for demonstrating impact. However, alongside the opportunities it also poses challenging questions about how to engage online, and how to represent yourself professionally.

This practical book provides clear guidance on effectively and intelligently using social media for academic purposes across disciplines, from publicising your work and building networks to engaging the public with your research. It is supported by real life examples and underpinned by principles of good practice to ensure you have the skills to make the most of this exciting medium.

It is with great pleasure that the Department of Sociology is able to announce that Professor Gurminder K Bhambra has been elected to the 2016 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. This is an honorary position and will involve a series of high-profile activities in Coimbra in the autumn.

The Department of Sociology is very proud to announce that Professor Gurminder K Bhambra has been named Current Sociology’s Sociologist of the Month. Current Sociology is the International Sociological Association’s main journal and they will be featuring a profile of Professor Bhambra and her publications over the month of March.

The call for papers has been released for an upcoming event, Arguing with Justice. This event is being organised by Ros Williams and Amy Hinterberger and sponsored by our Markets, Technology, Expertise research theme. We look forward to abstracts from Early Career Researchers interested in the broad intersection of social justice and the biosciences. More information can be found here: https://arguingwithjustice.wordpress.com/cfp/

SOCIOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE
 

The Lens of Race: Conceptualizing Difference in Italy and the United States

19 May, 2016 in S0.11 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm
All welcome

Department of Sociology

Co-hosted by the Inequalities and Social Change & Economy, Technology, Expertise Research Groups

Ann Morning, Department of Sociology, New York University

Marcello Maneri , Department of Sociology, University of Milan – Bicocca

Download Poster/Abstract here

As part of the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series, you are warmly invited to attend a special talk given by Dr Blu Tirohl, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Gender Studies, on ‘How to Get Published’ taking place from 3pm to 5pm on THIS THURSDAY (18^th February). Please note the room change to R3.25 in Ramphal.

In this seminar, which will be particularly valuable to PhD students and early career researchers who are planning to publish research on gender, Dr Tirohl will discuss the journal’s aims and objectives, how papers are refereed and managed by the journal, factors that commonly lead to rejection, and tips for getting published. All are welcome and no registration is required.

DATE: Thursday 18^th February 2016

TIME: 3pm to 5pm

VENUE: R3.25, Ramphal Building

Dr Tirohl’s seminar will be directly followed by another CSWG event, which is being organised jointly with CREW (Connecting Research on Employment and Work):

· Assoc. Prof. JaneMaree Maher, Monash University, Australia – ‘Sex work, work and women as workers: beyond definition debates’ from 5pm to 7pm in R1.13, Ramphal Building.

· For more information on Prof. Maher’s seminar please visit the CSWG website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/calendar/?calendarItem=094d434552b0d2e20152b634b5c8725b

With best wishes,

The 2015/16 organising committee

(Elizabeth Ablett, Emine Erdogan, Heather Griffiths, Iro Konstantinou, Kate Mahoney, Isabel Nuñez-Salazar and Carli Rowell

Thursday 19 May:

A roundtable discussion with visiting scholars and the Toxic Expertise team on 'Pollution, Health, and Global Governance' this will be co-hosted by the Global Research Priority 'Global Governance' here at Warwick. Following this there will be a screening of the film 'Warriors of Quigang'.

New article by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra looks at the dominant intellectual genealogy of the concept of citizenship and examines its deeper racialized structures. The article, ‘Citizens and Others: The Constitution of Citizenship through Exclusion’ is published in the journal, Alternatives. You can read it here. http://gkbhambra.net/articles/