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February 2010

Diasporas, Migration and Identities Final Showcase Event held at Tate Britain on 10 February 2010. Click here for 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.

September 2009

"Research, Partnership and Impact in the Arts and Humanities ": Joint Conference, Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds, Weetwood Hall, Leeds, 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

August 2009

Europe and the Rest: a dialogue between Etienne Balibar and Zygmunt Bauman.

This debate, hosted by Leeds Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, between Balibar and Bauman on Europe in postcolonial context: Europe and the Rest: a dialogue between Etienne Balibar and Zygmunt Bauman has now been posted on LU tube (Leeds University UTube) and is accessible from this link - http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk/hrienk/videos/1113 or via the ICPS website – www.leeds.ac.uk/icps.

June 2009

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

December 2008

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.

November 2008

A workshop for large grant award holders was held at Weetwood Hall in Leeds from 19-21 November at which award holders showcased their work.

August 2008

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.

July 2008

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.

June 2008

The Programme is now more than half way through (it ends in February 2010). All the projects are well under way with nearly all the small projects and workshops, and some of the networks now completed. Further information about them can be found on the 'Research' pages. As well as project details from grant applications you will now find progress and highlights for 2007 for large projects and networks (listed as 'End of Year Report 2007' beneath project titles). You can read my report for 2007 on the 'Publications' page (open '2007').

You will find information about forthcoming events on the 'Events' page, including details of the next postgraduate event to be held in London, 15-16 December. You will find information about other events organised by project teams on the same page.

April 2008

A book symposium was held in Leeds on 9 and 10 April for contributors to a forthcoming book which will be an outcome of the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme.

Two new working papers were added in April 2008, by Russell King and Anastasia Christou (on Cultural Geographies of Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism: Perspectives from the Study of Second-Generation ‘Returnees’) and Sonia Ashmore (on Colour and corruption: issues in the nineteenth century Anglo-Indian textile trade). Don't forget to check out our affiliated Inter-Sections blog (about migrations past and present), on http://intersections.wordpress.com.

November 2007

A 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.

June 2007

A Workshop was held for Large Grant award holders at the University of Leeds on 21 June 2007. Professor Kim Knott gave a presentation which described progress of the Programme to date.

April 2007

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

March 2007Professor Kim Knott gave a lecture about the Diasporas programme and some aspects of her own research at the annual Leeds-Durham-Sheffield PGR Training Lecture on 5 March 2007. The title of the lecture was "Diasporas and the Contemporary Politics of Faith". You can see a video of Kim's lecture: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/languages/facility/smlcit/smlc_research_seminars/research_seminars.html

December 2006The first of two planned Postgraduate Conferences was held at the University of Leeds on 13 and 14 December. See our Postgraduate page for further details. For an update on the Programme see the attached Powerpoint presentation, which was given by the Director at the Conference.

November 2006

A Workshop for Networks and Workshops award holders was held on 27 November at the University of Leeds.

September 2006

Details of the Large Grant awards have now been posted on the website under Large Research Grants.

August 2006

Final decisions about large grants were made. Fifteen awards were made. Thanks to all those who submitted full applications, and many commiserations to those of you who were unsuccessful.

June 2006

A Workshop for Small Grant award holders was held on 19 June at the University of Leeds.

March 2006

The Commissioning Panel considered 157 applications for large Research Grants at a meeting in early March, of which 25 were invited to proceed to full application stage. Full applications will be submitted in early May. We would like to thank everyone, whether successful or not, for their interest in the Programme. We appreciate the considerable amount of work that colleagues put into preparing outline proposals and that many will have been disappointed.

January 2006

Small Grants and Network and Workshop Grants awarded, and most have begun work on their projects. You can find out more about these by looking on the Research page.

November 2005

Announcement of results of Small Grants and Network and Workshop competitions.
AHRC Call for Applications, Diasporas, Migration and Identities Large Grants Scheme (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/dmi) click on "Research Grants Scheme"), closing date for outline applications 20 January 2006.