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Race and the Academy: A Discussion
Goldsmiths College
June 20, 4-6pm, New Academic Building, LG01
Free, register with s.ahmed@gold.ac.uk
Chaired by Sara Ahmed (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths)
Panel Speakers:
Joan Amin-Addo (English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths)
Denise Ferreira da Silva (Centre for Ethics & Politics, Queen Mary)
Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
We will ask how whiteness is institutionalised and discuss the difficulties and challenges of ‘embodying diversity’. We will aim to account for the political labour entailed in describing the morphing contours of the dynamics of ‘race’. We will work from the position that all racialised bodies can’t be placed on a flat playing field. Conditions of privilege are differentiated. There is an inter-play between conditions of inclusion and exclusion. Thus it is absolutely vital to be cognisant to how marginality itself is claimed and embedded in global circuits of productivity.
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On Thursday 12th April, the MeLa team at POLIMI organized an internal workshop to discuss the advancement of research activities within the Research Fields 06.
The discussion has been enhanced by the presence of three guest discussants, expert in the field of Museography and Museology: Antonio Aimi, anthropologist, curator and museum consultant, Paolo Caponi, member of the scientific committee of the online research journal of the Università degli Studi di Milano «Altre Modernità. Rivista di studi letterari e culturali», and Guido Vaglio, director of the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà in Turin.
Follow these links to acces a report of the discussion and more information on the specific lines of inquiry:
- 20120412_REPORT_MeLa_POLIMI internal workshop
- web overview of all the presentations on Issuu
Migration Letters has just released the 2nd issue of volume 9.
The content list can be accessed by clicking on the link: http://metapress.com/content/121389/
BME Conference – The Future of Education: New environments and new challenges for Black and Minority Ethnic researchers and academics.
Venue: University of Birmingham, Lucas House, Edgbaston, B15 2TT Date: Friday 29th June 2012
The conference aims to provide a focussed opportunity to consider the:
• Contributions of BME researchers and academics to the development of knowledge related to ‘race’, ethnicity, education and society;
• Discuss the challenges for BME researchers within an age of austerity and shifting policy with respect to ‘race’, ethnicity and education
To register for this event, please visit: http://www.eventelephant.com/berabmeconference
Details can also be found at: http://www.bera.ac.uk/events/bera-bme-conference-2012
EUNAMUS next Conference will be held in Oslo on June 27-29.
“In a Europe realizing the impact of globalization and human mass migration, the role of the national museums is put to debate. Studies from five different countries on how nations (and EU) develop policy in order to deploy national museums in redefinition of the nation state will be presented at this conference, establishing an arena in which museologists and cultural politicians get the chance to meet and debate a matter deeply important to everybody concerned with cultural identity uses.”
You can find more information, the program and a list of the guest speakers on our website, here.
Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) further enriched RF03 fieldwork research with a visit to the Europeana headquarters in the The Hague in April 2012, and interviews with key staff members. Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe from European cultural and scientific institutions. It provides heritage institutions with the opportunity to reach out to more users, increase their web traffic, enhance their users’ experience and build new partnerships. It is a is a platform for knowledge exchange between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries. And it is a prestigious initiative endorsed by the European Commission as a means to stimulate creative economy and promote cultural tourism. Perla interviewed Annette Friberg (Head of Aggregation and projects), Els Jacob (Europeana Assistant Director) and Jan Molendijk (Technical and Operations Director, pictured below) about Europeana version 1 and 2 as described by SUDLAB in the RF03 online survey, collaborations and projects in the Europeana networks, the concept of European Cultural Commons and a forthcoming European project on migrations. Perla also met Harry Verwayen (Head of Business Development), with whom she discussed potential connections and collaborations with the work of MeLa RF03 team and RF03 events. Europeana will be a special guest at the forthcomign MeLa RF03 conference on Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions on 3-4 December 2012 at the University of Glasgow.
The deadline of the Call for Paper ‘Placing’ Europe in the Museum: people(s), places, identities, that will take place in Newcastle, UK, on the 3-4th September 2012, has been extended to 30th April.
You can find more information about the International Conference on our website, here.
Following the teaching block COLONIALITY, CURATING AND CONTEMPORARY ART organised by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, (UNIA), La Rabida and the Royal College of Art (London), The RCA organised a Round table.
On 23rd March 2012 a multidisciplinary cohort of participants (curators and directors from museums and galleries, theorists and practitioners) met at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, in order to discuss and combine different perspectives and experiences in the field of contemporary art in connection with history, coloniality, socio-cultural and national identity and the use of new technologies and exhibition design.
The theme of the “Encounter” represented a starting point for discussion and re-evaluation of the various artistic, curatorial and theoretic practices that take place in different contexts. It also enabled the exploration of holistic thinking patterns in a field which today seems far more concerned with standardisation.
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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 reform strategies by drawing lessons from past experience, exploring trends and studying emerging public sector coordination practices.
COCOPS is funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme as a Small or Medium-Scale Focused Research Project. The project starts on Jan 1st 2011 and will run for 3,5 years. With a budget of nearly 2,7 million €, this is to become one of the largest comparative public management research projects in Europe.
http://www.cocops.eu/
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