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Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Recent posts tagged with "feminism"
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
23 October 2009, 10:30 - 17:30
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed.
Report from Beirut
5th October. I'm here attending the conference on Arab Feminism: a critical perspective, organised by the Association of Lebanese Researchers (Bahtithat) and the Women and Memory Forum in Cairo. It started last night with a keynote by Mervat Hatem, who is president of the Middle East Studies Association, and who has written a lot about women and politics.
CCIG Forum 10
2 February 2010, 10:30 - 18:00
February's forum includes two seminars - Nando Sigona from the University of Oxford and Marja Kim Hutchings from the London School of Economics - and a CCIG Keynote Lecture by Tania Li from the University of Toronto. In addition, Jane McCarthy and Rachel Thomson will be leading a session on Young People and Intergenerational Relationships.
Reflecting on Managed Migration
The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.
Going Public? People, Policy and Politics – Professor Janet Newman Inaugural Lecture
This inaugural lecture by Professor Janet Newman explores the changing fortunes of the public domain. The boundaries between the public, private and personal have become increasingly contested and blurred. In the process, we have become less clear about what constitutes a public domain and how we should act in it. How should the public interest be expressed?
Summoning the Active Citizen
Responsibility, participation and choice summon different images of the 'active' citizen and produce different publics. The tensions between them, however, tend to be displaced onto citizens themselves, colliding with other repertoires of action and political engagement.
'Race', Gender, Postcoloniality: A Colloquium on the Work of Avtar Brah
'Race' and Feminism will be the topic of a forthcoming panel to be held at Birkbeck, University of London on Friday, 3 July 2009, which will form part of a colloquium on the work of Prof Avtar Brah.