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News archive for December 2009

Engin Isin awarded ERC Advanced Grant

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Prof Engin Isin has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his research project Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism. The project focuses on the interaction between two controversial and contested concepts:  citizenship – the process by which belonging is recognised and enacted – and orientalism – the assertion of the superiority of western culture over its eastern counterparts.

The project will formally commence in April 2010.

Watch Wendy Brown's Keynote Lecture

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A video of Professor Wendy Brown's recent lecture within the CCIG keynote lecture series - including responses from Professor Stuart Elden, Department of Geography, Durham University, and

Listen to Two Recent CCIG Seminars

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Audio recordings of two recent seminars have been added to the CCIG website:  Angharad Closs Stephens from the Department of Geography at Durham University on The Imaginary Geographies of the War on Terror; and Patricia Wood from the