Lectures & Seminars
Book Presentation: Cosmopolitan Anxieties
by Ruth Mandel
April 27th, 2009, 2-4:00, HMNSS 1500
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the
more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within
its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she
argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been
charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a
Jewish "other." Mandel examines the tensions in Germany between race-based
ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of
multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other. She does so by
juxtaposing the experiences of Turkish immigrants, Jews, and "ethnic Germans"
in relation to issues including Islam, Germany’s Nazi past, and its radically
altered position as a unified country in the post–Cold War era.
Ruth Mandel teaches anthropology at University College, London.
Global Studies Lecture Series
The Minor and Errant Mobilities of Young Male Migrants from the Margins of Europe
Thursday, April 23, 2009
2-4 pm, INTS 1113
Nick Mai
Nick Mai is Senior Research Fellow in Migrations and Immigrations at ISET, the Institute for the Study of European Transformations of London Metropolitan University. He is currently leading the research team for a 2 year-long ESRC funded project on 'Migrants in the UK sex industry. From 2005 to 2007 he participated in 'Rhythms and Realities of Everyday Life,' the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's flagship project on immigration and social integration in the UK. His main current research interest is the mobility of minor and young migrants from Albania, Morocco and Romania within the EU. He has focused on their strategies of survival and the associated risks and opportunities, including issues of exploitation and the engagement in illegal activities. He has published articles on the trafficking and exploitation of Albanian girls in Italy, Migration and Male Sex Work in the EU, and the relationship between media, transnational identities and migration. Out of Albania, co-authored with R. King, will be published by Oxford University Press in fall 2008.
This Lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, at London Metropolitan university. www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset
Global Studies Lecture Series
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
2-4 pm, location TBA
Human Rights in China
Discourse and implementation in a global context
Susan H. Perry
American University of Paris
Susan H. Perry, a sinologist and specialist in international human rights law, holds degrees from Brown, Yale and Oxford universities and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (University of Paris). She is the current Chair of the Division of Politics and Government at The American University of Paris. Both a scholar and an activist, Professor Perry is the co-founder and organizer of the French Senate Conference series on "Women, Culture and Development Practices", and has been invited to present her research on women's rights at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, Indiana University, the OECD and UNESCO. Publications include Eye to Eye: Women Practicing Development Across Cultures (ZED Books, 2001), as well as a special issue on "Women's New Development Paradigms" for Signs, the flagship journal on women's studies in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Dr. Perry has worked extensively in China and in Africa as a women's rights consultant for the US State Department's Guest Speakers program.
Transidioma: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization
February 24th, 2009
2-4 pm, INTS Screening Room
Marco Jacquemet (B.A. UniversitàdiBologna; M.A. EHESS, Paris; Ph. D. U.C. Berkeley) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, University of San Francisco. His current research seeks to assess the communicative mutations resulting from the intersection in the Mediterranean area between mobile people and media idioms. He published three monographs (Credibility in Court: Communicative Practices in the Camorra's Trials, Cambridge U.P. 1996; Il Galateodel Cibernauta, Castelvecchi 1996; Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy, Autonomedia [forthcoming]) and multiple articles in edited volumes and refereed journals.
"The Geography of Theory and the Place of Knowledge:
Pivots, Peripheries and Waiting Rooms"
David Morley
Goldsmiths College, University of London
February 17, 2009, 2-4pm
Hmnss 1500
David Morley's research spans both micro-practices of media consumption and macro questions such as the role of media technologies in constituting the 'electronic landscapes' within which we live. His research has addressed questions of media consumption, especially in relation to broadcast television and, more recently, the uses of a variety of 'new' communications technologies such as the mobile phone. His interests are focused on the role of these technologies in articulating the public and private spheres, and he has done extensive ethnographic work in this field addressing both the functional and symbolic dimensions of communications technologies. He has also works on questions of cultural theory and globalisation - and has focussed on how to develop a non-Eurocentric media studies, within a cultural studies framework. Given his interdisciplinary approach, his work spans the fields of cultural geography and media anthropology and has been concerned with the role of media technologies in the construction of communities at different scales, in the context of processes of de/re-territorialisation, and in the re-constitution of boundaries and techno-regions. Having explored questions of 'newness' in relation to a variety of media in his last book, his most recent research attempts to re-articulate the study of virtual communications with that of material forms of transportation, so as to better theorise the varieties of mobility (and stasis) which characterise the contemporary world.
Before joining the faculty at Goldsmiths he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham and then taught at Lanchester Polytechnic and at Brunel University. He has held positions as Visiting Professor/Scholar at the University of Stockholm, University of Madison –Wisconsin, University of Southern California, North Western University (Chicago), University of Western Sydney, University of Toulouse, and at Ramon Llull University (Barcelona). At Goldsmiths he co-founded both the Transnational Research Unit and the Pacific Asia Cultural Studies Forum. He is the editor of the Comedia book series for Routledge and is on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of a number of journals, including Cultural Studies, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Television and New Media and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
David Morley's work has been translated into 15 languages and his books include Everyday TV: Nationwide (with Charlotte Brunsdon, BFI 1978) The Nationwide Audience (BFI 1980); Family Television (Comedia 1986); Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (Routledge 1992) Spaces of Identity (with Kevin Robins, Routledge 1996); Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (co-edited with Kuan Hsing Chen, Routledge1996); British Cultural Studies (with Kevin Robins 2000) Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity (Routledge 2001) Media and Cultural Theory(edited with James Curran, Routledge 2005) and Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New (Routledge, 2006).
Sponsored by the the Department of Media and Cultural Studies
and
The Global Studies Program
The Global Studies Program and the Faculty seminar
on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
On the contemporary Maghreb,
from the Local to the Global: Limits of the journey
Nabiha Jerad
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
4-6pm
Interdiscipinary Seminar Room
3rd Floor INST
Nabiha Jerad is a socio-linguist and specialist in post-colonial studies. She earned her doctorate at the University of Paris before taking a position as associate professor at the University of Tunis. She is also an Associate Researcher with CNRS, France and co- Chair of the Research group: "Gender studies in the Mediterranean".
Professor Jerad has also worked on the semiotics and linguistics issues in multilingual contexts and on the question of language and identity in the postcolonial Maghreb. Her work on the construction of narratives of the self in the Maghreb and among people of Maghrebi background in Europe has led her to analyze a variety of genres, ranging from novels to rap and rai music, letters to the editor in the daily press to architecture.
After Orientalism, the Representation of the Self in the Postcolonial Maghreb is the title of Professor Jerad's current project for which she has received a Fulbright grant to spend ten months in the United States. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationship between the Orient and the Occident by positioning the Arabs as the "Master of the discourse" both on themselves and on the Occident, rather than as the object of the West's discourse. Through the examination of visual and linguistic productions, the project explores collective identity and representations of the self in the post-colonial Maghreb.
Professor Jerad's publications include:
- "On language planning in postcolonialTunisia". In Trames de langues.J.Dakhlia Edit. Maisonneuve et Larose. Paris. 2004.
- "From the Maghreb to the Mediterranean: immigration and transnational locations. In Susan Ossman. The Places we share. Lexington Books. 2007.
- "The representations of gender in Maghrebi Cinema". In Between reality and imagination, the construction of women images in the Mediterranean. Beit AL-Hikma Press. Tunis. 2007.
- "The postcolonial Maghreb: mobility and identity''. In R. Dainotto and E. Zakim Ed. Rethinking the Mediterranean. MLA, in press.
Books
- On language, discourse and society in Tunisia and France. Press of the University of Tunis.2004
- New perspectives on Gender issues in the Maghreb". Edit N. Jerad. Arcantères. Tunis and Paris. December 2008.
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
Blogs in the Arab World
May 13, 2008
3:40-5:00
Watkins 1350
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano is the director of the Gremmo (Groupe de recherches et d'études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient). He also teaches at the University Lyon II. He founded the « Arab Worlds » collection for the Actes Sud publisher, and he has translated many contemporary Arab authors, including Hanan el-Cheikh, Sonallah Ibrahim, Mahmoud Darwich and Rachid el-Daïf. He has carried out research in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and the Arab Gulf region. He is the author of several books and many articles on topics ranging from publishing to the media, as well as contemporary literature and culture. He writes a weekly blog on contemporary cultural issues. (http://culturepolitiquearabe.blogspot.com/ and http://arabpoliticsofculture.blogspot.com/).
Zacarias Moussaoui:
Moroccan Muslim? French Terrorist? Benighted Zealot?
War Criminal? Serial Migrant? All of the Above?
Susan Terrio, Georgetown University
March 4, 2008
11 am
INTS 1121
Susan Terrio is a cultural anthropologist and teaches at Georgetown University where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and French. She has written widely on minority youth, juvenile justice systems, children's rights, race and ethnicity, and global penality. Her latest book is entitled, Judging Muhammad. Juvenile delinquency, Immigration and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice, due to appear in early 2008 from Stanford University Press.