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The University of Glasgow is pleased to host a half day conference this Thursday, 17 May, on “National Identities – A Scottish – Bavarian comparison”. The conference begins at 2pm and is being held in the Gannochy Room at the Wolfson Medical School Building.
Speakers include:
Angus Robertson MP on “Identity in Scotland ahead of the Independence Referendum”
Dr Ludwig Spaenle, Bavarian Minister for Culture and Education, “Bavaria and Germany and Europe. Annotations to his present-day position and identity”
Prof Dauvit Broun and Dr Catriona MacDonald , University of Glasgow – “Between States: historical perspectives on being Scottish”
Prof Ferdinand Kramer, University of Munich, “A Thousand Years and more of History”
Attendance is free but you are required to register in advance via: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/events/conferences/nationalidentities/ . A more detailed programme can also be found via this link.
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The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of European public administration scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries. It will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citizens’ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of NPM’s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of assessing these impacts.
In eight related international research projects, COCOPS will map and analyse innovative mechanisms in the public sector to improve social and policy coordination, especially when the public sector is facing the public crisis. The research will contribute to our understanding of the impact of NPM by integrating sectoral and national analyses and to the development of future public sector [...]
International Conference as part of the
MeLA* – European Museums in an Age of Migrations European Commission FP7-funded project
Organised by the International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, Newcastle University 3-4 September 2012
Call for Papers
The imperatives surrounding the museum representation of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. This is in part because the political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, recognition of changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. These issues, taken historically, have particular significance for contemporary understandings of the role [...]
Lecture series
Dublin, 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012
How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture is a part of the lecture series EUNIC/UNIQUE Thoughts: Public Discussions on European Issues. The lectures will take place in the Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012 from 2 to 5 pm.
Ireland is one of just two EU countries that has a majority of migrants from the EU member states. The diversity and scale of EU migration is a recent phenomenon though there is a long tradition of migration to Ireland from some EU-15 states, especially the UK, Germany and France. Ireland has also become home to a range of people from outside the EU including Nigeria, China, India, Philippines and Brazil. The lectures and panel discussions for each theme will assess how migrants are [...]
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