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Forthcoming events

Some of the larger events such as the conferences and the seminar series have their own dedicated pages. You can find these by clicking on one of the bars in the box on the left hand side of this page. All the other events are listed below

18 March 2010

Ubiquity and Eternity: Heritage and Corruption in the Eurocentric Imagination

Chimera Inaugural Lecuture and this will be followed by Chimera Launch Reception at the Manchester Museum

Speaker: Professor Michael Herzfeld

Time: 17:00

All Welcome but place are limited, so to attaend please email: m.c.rostron@manchester.ac.uk

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19-20 March 2010

Making European Heritage

A Chimera Workshop

Venue: University Place 6.206, University of Manchester

For further information or to register please contact Sharon Macdonald: sharon.macdonald@manchester.ac.uk

This workshop explores the making and remaking of ‘European Cultural Heritage’. Through a range of cases, it examines hopes, dilemmas, struggles, negotiations and implications of defining of certain cultural heritage as ‘European’; and some of the consequences of materializing ‘Europe’ through heritage. What kinds of Europe, and what kinds of citizenship, are mobilised through heritage? And what kinds of work do different forms of cultural heritage – e.g. tangible, intangible, exhibitionary, edible – do in making versions and parts of Europe? Alongside considering the motives, assumptions, practices and challenges involved in policy-making, the workshop gives attention to the experience of making and living with European heritage in particular locales. This will allow us to probe the intersections between European, national, regional and local heritage-making; as well as heritage as a lived contemporary and future-oriented practice.

The workshop is supported by funding from the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, CRESC and the School of Social Sciences.

This is a Closed Event

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26 March 2010

CRESC Research Seminar - "Broke"

Speaker: Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC Researcher

Venue: CRESC Seminar Room, Manchester

Time: 11.30

26 March 2010

CRESC workshop - Race, Genomics and Mestizaje (Mixture) in Latin America: A Comparative Approach

Venue: 178 Waterloo Place

Time: 2pm-4pm

Speakers: Peter Wade, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Vivette García Deister, and Michael Kent, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

The project is a comparative analysis of how ideas of race and ethnicity interact with genomic research in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, where geneticists are mapping local population genomes, with the objective of combating diseases, and tracing “racial” ancestries. These countries have high levels of genetic “admixture” and interest geneticists pursuing the genetic components of disorders. Scientists in these countries often link their findings explicitly to questions of national identity, racial-ethnic difference, racism and multiculturalism, provoking media attention and public debate. Through ethnographic lab work and interviews, the project explores how racial, ethnic and national categories enter these scientific endeavours, whether the categories are reproduced and/or reformulated, and what are the ethical and normative implications of this research. Using discourse analysis, focus groups and interviews, it also explores how information that scientists disseminate enters the public domain and how it is received there by diverse publics. All three countries have a history and a national identity based on mestizaje (racial-cultural mixture between Europeans, Africans and indigenous Americans), but the idea of mixture is slightly different in each case; the project will explore how the knowledge produced about genetics reinforces or challenges particular national versions of the ideology of mestizaje.

12-14 April 2010

CRESC Conference - Finance in question/ Finance in crisis

Venue: Humanities Bridgeford street Building, The University of Manchester

This international conference about finance is distinctive in that it invites analysis by, and encourages debate between, researchers from many disciplines who represent different kinds of political and cultural economy as well as social studies of finance. The emphasis is on finance in question as much as finance in crisis because, well before the onset of crisis in 2007, there were many unresolved issues about the role of finance in present day capitalism. The conference aims to re-examine received ways of understanding finance and to consider what changes to financial arrangement may follow from present strains.

As with other major conferences, there will be multiple themes and an opportunity for academic researchers to present papers and propose sessions. Themes so far proposed include: money, capitalist calculation, market devices and techniques; financial crisis, social relations and trust;  the limits of prescience and the irrelevance of many economic knowledges; finance, restructuring and labour; politics/markets/moralities; states, re-regulation and governance of finance.

There will also be media and practitioner panels and plenary sessions where distinguished academics will be set to answer big questions about what and who is in crisis, why did nobody see it coming and whether more democratic control of finance is possible.

Plenary speakers and panellists include Michel Aglietta (CEPII), Andrew Gamble ( Cambridge) Donald MacKenzie (Edinburgh), Doreen Massey (OU), Philip  Mirowski (Notre Dame), Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Mike Power (LSE), Saskia Sassen (Columbia) and Nicolas Dorn (Rotterdam).

Apart from the plenary sessions there are some 38 open sessions scheduled throughout the conference.

For more information and registration please click here

13-14 April 2020

Studies of Cultural Distinctions and Social Differentiation (SCUD)- Network Seminar on Cultural Legitimacy and Class Domination

Workshop 5: Cultural Capital: Limits and Prospects

Venue: The Mercure Parkside Hotel, Milton Keynes

The sociological debate about the relationship between processes of social differentiation and the formation of lifestyles and cultural consumption has gained momentum in recent years. This debate has its origin in Pierre Bourdieu’s important workDistinction(1984 [1979]) in which he analysed the dynamics of social divisions in contemporary society and their interrelationship with the formation of lifestyles.AlthoughDistinctionis one of the most – if notthemost – quoted works within the sociology of culture, only a few scholars have actually attempted to assess the functioning of cultural distinctions in broad scale studies like Bourdieu did.The aim of the SCUD network is to bring together these scholars with like-minded researchers from different European countries. Furthermore, the goal of the network is to assess Bourdieu’s theory through a systematic confrontation with other sociological theories and recent empirical studies; this also involves a detailed examination of other methods applied within the sociology of cultural consumption.

International cooperation is central to this endeavor. Therefore, the network organizes regular workshops and seminars in participating countries.Previous meetings have been held in Aalborg, Denmark, Bergen, Norway and Manchester.

This is a Closed event, Participation is by Invitation Only

Further information:http://www.socsci.aau.dk/scud/index.htm

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23 April 2010

ESRC Seminar Series: Studying Elites - Seminar 3: International Elites

Venue: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Conventry CV4 7AL

Speakers:

For more information please click here

7 May 2010

CRESC Visualisation Workshop - Digital Visualisation & Power

Venue: University of Manchester, University Place 6.207

Practices and techniques of digital visualisation have come to proliferate across a myriad of domains - including medical research and treatment, urban planning, architecture and engineering, the military, and the entertainment industries. The emergence of these new techniques of visualisation in such varied contexts reveal unexpected crossovers, borrowings and shared histories which pose questions about the politics of these still-emerging visualisation techniques.

This seminar will scrutinise the relationship between digital visualisation and power, to explore how power dynamics have shaped practices of digital visualisation, and what these practices can tell us about how power functions.

Themes to be explored include:

For further details please contact Andrew Hill a.hill@open.ac.uk or Hannah Knox hannah.knox@manchester.ac.uk 

26 May 2010

CRESC Workshop - Anthropological Approaches to Social Class in Contemporary Britain: conversations with ethnography

Venue: Hanson Room, University of Manchester

"Order of papers and paper titles to be confirmed"

This workshop explores issues to do with working class life and the politics of community and national belonging in contemporary Britain.
Six speakers who share a commitment to social anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork debate the contribution of recent research to existing literature on social class in Britain. CRESC scholars with an expertise on social class from the perspectives of sociology and social history are discussants of the workshop papers, making inter-disciplinary debate possible and requiring of speakers that they interrogate what's distinctive about the way anthropologists of Britain analyse social class.

For more Information click here

This is a Closed Event

28 May 2010

CRESC Visuality Seminar - Museology, Visuality & Power

Venue: Hanson Room, University of Manchester

What is the relationship between the museum and visuality?

Questions of seeing - of what seeing is and how seeing functions - are central to the theory and practice of the museum. This seminar looks again at the relationship between museology and visuality, through focusing both on the ways in which visuality is mounted by the institution and also on the individual’s experience of seeing from a first person perspective. In particular the seminar addresses the relationship between visuality and power - what visuality can tell us about how power functions, and how power shapes visuality - via the site of the museum.

The seminar will bring together academics, curators and architects to explore the following themes (as well as others):

For further details contact Helen Rees Leahy (Director of the Centre for Museology, University of Manchester) helen.rees.leahy@btinternet.com or Andrew Hill (CRESC, The Open University) a.hill@open.ac.uk. 

7 June 2010

Conference - The Future of Cultural Work

Venue: Open University London Regional Centre, Camden

Keynote speakers: David Hesmondhalgh, Georgina Born, Mark Deuze, Melissa Gregg (final list TBC)

As ‘creativity’ and ‘creative work’ have become buzzwords for progress, so the cultural and creative industries have become an instrumental feature of national economic and cultural policies. Most recently, cultural, artistic and creative labour has been identified as leading the transition to a more fluid, affective and converged ‘innovation’ economy, where cultural work is valued more for its ability to diffuse ideas and ‘creative energies’ than for its intrinsic value, or for its (potentially) socially transformative or redemptive potential. Firms, national governments, promoters of ‘creative cities’ and development agencies alike have offered a plethora of interventions designed to stimulate growth through organizing and managing creative and cultural work (see ‘Creative Britain’ for example). Such a process has rested on the assumption of a frictionless and mutually beneficial relationship between capital and labour, and culture and economics; where distinctive forms of artistic and cultural production and economic and governmental priorities appear to co-prosper in harmonious union. However, while the specific qualities of cultural and creative work are now assumed to be progressive and beneficial to both capital and labour, recent events cast doubt on the status of creativity as (in Andrew Ross’s words) ‘the oil of the 21st century’. The instrumental gearing of culture to innovation policy, the consolidation of ‘free’, ‘co-creative’  - but precarious, individualized and poorly-remunerated - work in media, cultural and arts organizations, a deep-rooted global recession that has eviscerated opportunities for cultural labour, and in the UK a general election that may alter fundamentally the creative industries script, has markedly transformed this discursive and material field. Here, the benign union of culture and economics, the prospects for rewarding and meaningful cultural industry employment, and the extent to which creative/cultural work could or should meet the demands of economic restructuring and governments, come once again under scrutiny. This conference therefore asks: What is the status of creativity and creative work in this new decade? What is the current and future relationship between the creative and cultural industries and the discursive and material practices of culture and economy?

For the full call for papers please click here

24 June 2010

CRESC workshop - Ageing, generation and participation

Time: 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Venue: to be confirmed)

Aim of workshop: It is commonplace to note the existence of age divisions in cultural, political and social participation. However, possible explanations of these age patterns are less well understood, and the familiar references to ideas of generational or cohort change have not been adequately theorized. Their empirical application also faces many difficulties.

The workshop aims at exploring this relationship between participation, ageing and generational change. It will reflect upon how ageing and the succession of generations can add to our understanding of stability and change in participation, both on individual and overall level, and bringing into dialogue theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Questions to be discussed include:

Keynote speakers: Louis Chauvel (Sciences Po, Paris), Paul Higgs (UCL, London)

Registration and costs
To register, please email CRESC@manchester.ac.uk. For external participants, there will be a small fee of £10.

For any further enquiries contact Simone Scherger: Simone.Scherger@manchester.ac.uk

12-13 July 2010

CRESC Methods Workshop - Feminism and its Methods: an interdisciplinary colloquium

Venue: Manchester Museum

Convenors: Bridget Byrne, Niamh Moore, Sophie Woodward (University of Manchester) and Jacqui Gabb, Kath Woodward (Open University)

More info is to follow soon.

12-16 July 2010

CRESC Summerschool - Using Bourdieu's Theory and Methods in Social Research

Venue: CRESC/CCRS training Lab, University of Manchester

As part of CRESC’s new programme of training and dissemination, we are launching a summer school in 2010, aimed at post-graduate students, probably towards the start of their studies, who seek an intimate and supportive environment in which to develop their theoretical and methodological expertise. This summer school is aimed at students who are interested in the relevance of Bourdieu’s ideas for their research, exploring both their theoretical and methodological implications. Although some of the course will consist of lectures, there will be ample scope for students to discuss their research plans informally and gain the advice of the course tutors.

The course will draw on the extensive experience of CRESC researchers who have engaged with Bourdieu’s ideas over the past decade, as well as that of a international experts who will share their thoughts on the use of Bourdieu’s thinking in different intellectual contexts. The following have agreed to teach on the week long course

For more information, price and registration please click here

31 August-3 September 2010

CRESC Annual Conference - The Social Life Of Methods

Confirmed speakers: Nicholas Dirks(Columbia University); Katie King (University of Maryland); Patti Lather (Ohio State University) ; John Law (Lancaster University); Celia Lury( Goldsmiths, University of London); Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh); David McDougall (Australian Nationa University); Susan Leigh Star (University of Pittsburgh)

11-12 November 2010

Conference - Jazz and Race, Past and Present.
CRESC in associating with the AHRC project What is Black British Jazz?

Keynote speaker: Guthrie Ramsey, Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania and author of Race Music:Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (2003).

For the full call for papers please click here

Conference convenors are Catherine Tackley, What is Black British Jazz? The Open University; Jason Toynbee, What is Black British Jazz? The Open University; Tony Whyton, Salford University; Nicholas Gebhardt, Lancaster University.

 

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