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Successful RF03 Brainstorming workshop on European heritage, migrations and new media

MeLa RF03  Brainstorming workshop on European heritage, migrations and new media: networks and collaborations across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions was held on 23 April 2012 at the University of Glasgow. During this successful and interactive event, MeLa Consortium members and invited guests from the Research Field 03 expert group discussed topics of collaboration across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions, migration and European cultural and scientific heritage.

The workshop was kicked off by the local hosts Dr John Richards, Head of History of Art at the University of Glasgow and Perla Innocenti, Research Fellow and RF03 Leader, who provided an overview of MeLa and Rf03.

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May 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Conferences & Symposia, Field 03 | Comments are closed

How Migration Challenges Notions of Society

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 [...]

February 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Field 04 | Comments are closed

Conference Report: Zeitgeist Seminar on Multiculturalism and Germanness, Birmingham University, 3 February 2012

On 3rd February 2012 Susannah Eckersley of UNEW attended one of the Zeitgeist seminars organised by the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University. The topic of the seminar was ‘Multiculturalism and Germanness’, with a paper presented by Dr Birgit zur Nieden of the Institut fuer Sozialwissenschaften’s Diversity and Social Conflict Team at the Humboldt University, Berlin and Simon Green, Professor of Politics at Aston University and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe as discussant. The seminar provided a wide-ranging and thorough exploration of the intellectual discourses and everyday realities of multiculturalism in contemporary Germany, with particular reference to how the question of ‘Germanness’ is, and has been, perceived in the public realm.

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February 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Field 01 | Comments are closed