Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Details to follow
At a time when funders, activists, policy makers, scholars and others are increasingly calling for forms of publicly engaged social science research, CCIG launches a new Research Project: Creating Publics.
As part of a two day training school, the International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is hosting two keynote lectures:
John Law, Professor of Sociology, The Open University, Co-Director of CRESC
“NON-COHERENT RESEARCH: OR THEORY IN PRACTICE”
As part of a two day training school, the International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is hosting two keynote lectures on 3 & 4 March 2011:
Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University
This keynote lecture is hosted by the CCIG Bodies Programme and the OpenSpace Research Centre
We are delighted that Robyn Longhurst, Professor of Geography at University of Waikato, New Zealand is coming to the Open University for a two day visit, 9-10 February 2011. During the visit she will be giving a guest lecture, undertaking a session with postgraduates in the Faculty and taking part in an interview to be uploaded onto the CCIG and OpenSpace Websites.
Jill Korbin, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, and Andrea Doucet, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Carleton University, will each be giving keynote lectures within CCIG Forum 15.
Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at York University, Canada, will be giving a CCIG keynote lecture within CCIG Forum 12.
Large numbers of people in the global south have no access to land or a living wage. They are 'surplus' to the needs of capital, and not plausibly described as a labour reserve. What are the social forces that might assemble to keep these people alive, and why would they do so?
Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations at The University of Queensland, Australia, will be visiting the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance for a special keynote lecture.
“Visualizing War: Politics Between Image and Text”