Recent posts tagged with "Symposiums"

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.

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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.

Globalization in Question book launch

This book launch marks Globalization in Question's third edition, authored by Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson, Simon Bromley, a continuing intervention into current discussions about the nature and prospects of globalization.

CCIG/CRESC Cultural work and creative biographies

The last decade has seen a huge growth of interest in cultural labour, coinciding with increased attention to the media and other fields as 'creative industries', and underscored by technological changes that have brought into being new occupations such as web design, digital animation, electronic arts, etc. Suddenly there seems to be an acknowledgement that media and culture involve work!