Forthcoming Events
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Events Held by Award Holders
PROGRAMME EVENTS
During the lifetime of the programme there has been a variety of opportunities to participate in events, whether in postgraduate meetings, open seminars, workshops or conferences.
Events Held
Diasporas, Migration and Identities Final Showcase Event held at Tate Britain on 10 February 2010. View the programme for the day here. You can also see Kim Knott's Presentations: one and two. You can also see the following presentations by award holders: Laurence Brown, Philip Crang, Hella Eckardt, Marie Gillespie, Maggie O'Neill, Kate Pahl, Carol Tulloch, Kath Woodward. You can also see Keith Best's presentation at the Round Table discussion. There is also a showreel of images shown at the event. We would like to thank award holders for sending the images, especially Helen Scalway, Susan Lok, Maggie O'Neill and Kanwal Mand for contributing images and artworks for the exhibitions. We would also like to thank John Baily, Ulrike Meinhof and Dama and the Madagascar All Stars for providing the music.
"Research, Partnership and Impact in the Arts and Humanities ": Joint Conference, Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds, held at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, on 22 and 23 September 2009. Here is the Programme for the conference. You can also view the following presentations: Calvin Taylor, Andrew Dewdney and Victoria Walsh, Graeme Gooday and Almut Grüner, Ananya Kabir and Fareda Khan, Scott Palmer and Sita Popat, and Kate Pahl and Andy Pollard
Joint Conference with CRONEM, University of Surrey, 11 - 12 June 2009
Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
University of Surrey / Roehampton University
Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
The aim of this international conference was to examine the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics, law and values. For more information about the conference and to read some of the papers presented there, please visit: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm Click here to see some photographs from the conference
A postgraduate conference was held jointly with AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme at Camden Lock Holiday Inn, 15 December 2008. The keynote lecture was given by Thomas Tweed, who 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). Click here to see the Programme for the day. Click here to see a photograph of participants at the event. 19-21 November 2008: a Workshop was held for Award Holders in Leeds
RGS/IBG Annual Conference 26 - 29 August 2008: A three-panel session was presented at this much larger event in conjunction with the AHRC Landscape and the Environment Programme, and the Leverhulme Diaspora Cities project.
Joint Conference: Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities: 9-11 July 2008, St Catherine's College, Oxford
The Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme held a joint conference with the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, and the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme. Click here to see a booklet containing a list of the accepted abstracts.
A Book Symposium was held in Leeds on 9 and 10 April 2008 for contributors to a forthcoming book which will be an outcome of the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme.
On 21 June 2007 a Workshop was held at the University of Leeds for Large Grant award holders. A second workshop, for Large Grant and Network award holders, was held on 12 November 2007. Professor Kim Knott gave an update on the Programme's progress.
A Postgraduate Conference was also held on 13 and 14 December 2006. All these events were held at the University of Leeds. See the attached Powerpoint presentation which was given by the Director at the Postgraduate Conference.
A workshop for Small Grant award holders was held on 19 June 2006, and a similar meeting for Network and Workshops award holders was held on 27 November 2006.
