Inter-Sections:
This is a new blog run by postgraduate researchers and affiliated to the Programme. It is concerned with migration, past and present, in all its forms - refugee, diaspora, exile, return, temporary, labour, tourist - and related issues of identity and community organisation.
See http://intersections.wordpress.com
Postgraduate Conferences
Postgraduate Workshop: 15 December 2008, Holiday Inn, Camden Lock, London
As the second of our two planned postgraduate conferences, the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme will be co-hosting a postgraduate workshop and keynote lecture with the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Attendance will be free (though we are unable to pay any costs associated with attending).
It will commence at 2.00pm with a workshop entitled Researching Diasporas, and will be followed by a Keynote Lecture by Thomas A Tweed* (see below). It will conclude with a drinks reception and time for networking.
Thomas Tweed is currently Shive, Lindsay, and Gray Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in religion and transnationalism; religion and place; method and theory in the study of religion; Catholicism in America; Asian religions in America. An acclaimed and award-winning scholar, he edited Retelling U.S. Religious History (1997) and co-edited Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (1999), and wrote The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent (1992; 2000), Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (1997), and, most recently Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (2006).
The first of our two planned conferences for postgraduate students was held in Leeds on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 December 2006 - see the Conference Programme for details.
The keynote address was given by Dr Sean Mcloughlin, Dr William Gould and Dr Emma Tomalin from the Networks Project "From Diaspora to Multi-Locality: Writing British-Asian Cities"
www.leeds.ac.uk/writingbritishasiancities/.
A wide variety of papers was given by Postgraduates over the two days of the Conference. Click here to see the abstracts of these papers.
The Conference closed with a Programme Update given by Professor Kim Knott.
Click here for more photos.
