Decade of Migration, Session 3: Mobility and the global labour market: What can the past tell us about the future? |
In the third panel of the Decade of Migration conference Martin Ruhs, Monique Kremer, and Roger Waldinger gave different insights into mobility and the global labour market. |
Martin Ruhs, Monique Kremer, Roger Waldinger |
24 September, 2014 |
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Decade of Migration, Session 1: How does the growth of the world’s cities reframe our understanding of the social, the economic and the political? |
In the first panel of the Decade of Migration conference Ash Amin and Vicki Bell focus on cities. |
Ash Amin, Vicki Bell |
24 September, 2014 |
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Decade of Migration, Introduction |
Michael Keith, Paul Boyle, and Andrew Hamilton introduce the conference "Decade of Migration" and discuss the challenges and hopes for the topics and discussions. |
Michael Keith, Paul Boyle, Andrew Hamilton |
24 September, 2014 |
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"We're all excluded together": work-related conditionality and the welfare entitlements of UK, EEA and non-EEA citizens |
Based on a project conducted by LSE and COMPAS Isabel Shutes talk examines inclusion and exclusion with regards to welfare rights. |
Isabel Shutes |
29 July, 2014 |
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"The next day you are on the street": The tactics of time in managing welfare support to young people subject to immigration control as they make the transition to adulthood |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements |
Elaine Chase, Jenny Allsopp |
29 July, 2014 |
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Feeding a xenosceptic culture: legal and administrative penalties for being European |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements |
Charlotte O'Brien |
29 July, 2014 |
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Provision of welfare to irregular migrants: exploring the borders of the Norwegian welfare state |
Jacobsen, Bendixsen and Karlsen outline findings from the project PROVIR, examining the access to welfare and its limitations for irregular migrants in Norway. |
Christine M. Jacobsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen |
29 July, 2014 |
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Becoming less illegal: Deservingness frames and undocumented migrant incorporation |
COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements |
Sébastien Chauvin |
29 July, 2014 |
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The fundamental social rights of irregular migrants under the European Social Charter: Central or marginal to their access to services in Europe? |
COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements |
Colm O’Cinneide |
29 July, 2014 |
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How to strike a balance between mainstream and targeted efforts for immigrant integration in Europe? |
Liz Collett and Milica Petrovic from the Migration Policy Institute give a talk |
Liz Collett, Milica Petrovic |
14 July, 2014 |
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What is the role of NGOs in the assisted voluntary returns of asylum seekers and irregular migrants? |
Derek McGhee and Claire Bennett, University of Southampton, give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Breifing series |
Derek McGhee, Claire Bennett |
14 July, 2014 |
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What shapes migrant destitution and what can be done about it? |
Sue Lukes former member of the Housing and Migration Network and John Perry former member of the Housing and Migration Network and Policy Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Housing and manager of housing rights give a talk for the COMPAS Series |
Sue Lukes, John Perry |
14 July, 2014 |
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The Disenchantment of the Plate |
John Coveney, Flinders University, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
John Coveney |
30 June, 2014 |
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What would the British food system look like if it took ecological public health at its heart? |
Geof Rayner gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Geof Rayner |
30 June, 2014 |
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Bodies of water |
Amy Sharrocks, Artist, filmmaker and sculptor, gives a talk forhe UBVO seminar series |
Amy Sharrocks |
30 June, 2014 |
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Microbes matter: metabolism and chronic disease in contemporary biomedicine |
Nadine Levin, Exeter University, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Nadine Levin |
30 June, 2014 |
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How many bodies? The clinic, the kitchen and the context of obesity |
Emily Yates-Doerr, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, gves a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Emily Yates-Doerr |
30 June, 2014 |
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Obesity in the news media life cycle: ethics, responsibility, and stigmatisation |
Catriona Bonfiglioli, Media Studies, Social and Political Change Group, University of Technology Sydney, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Catriona Bonfiglioli |
30 June, 2014 |
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Migration and Human Rights: Trends and Priorities for Action |
This talk was hosted by COMPAS and the University of Oxford's Human Rights Hub. It was chaired by Dr. Sarah Spencer (COMPAS) and comments provided by Dr. Cathryn Costello (Director, Human Rights Hub). |
Nils Muiznieks |
3 June, 2014 |
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Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared |
Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa |
Verkijika Fanso |
29 April, 2014 |
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Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes |
A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon |
Verkijika Fanso |
29 April, 2014 |
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Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch |
Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Iain Morley, Mette Berg, Marisa Wilson, Elizabeth Ewart |
29 April, 2014 |
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'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery |
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology |
Elizabeth Povinelli |
29 April, 2014 |
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Inequality, insecurity and obesity |
A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
29 April, 2014 |
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Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity |
Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed. |
Emily Henderson |
29 April, 2014 |
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Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK |
Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan |
Emma Coleman-Jones, Mara Yamauchi |
29 April, 2014 |
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Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay |
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s. |
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado |
29 April, 2014 |
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Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia |
Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Rebecca Empson |
29 April, 2014 |
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Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present |
Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Simon Cohn |
29 April, 2014 |
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The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon |
This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford) |
Morgan Clarke |
28 April, 2014 |
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Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity |
Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar. |
Timothy Larsen |
28 April, 2014 |
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Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon |
An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE. |
Harry Walker |
28 April, 2014 |
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The end of history? What follows the demographic transition? |
An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford) |
Chris Wilson |
28 April, 2014 |
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How can far-right extremism be tackled through policy? Lessons from 10 EU countries |
In recent years, many European countries have been grimly reminded of the threat from far-right violence motivated by hatred towards migrants and minorities. This talk explores how 10 European countires are attempting to address this. |
Vidhya Ramalingam, Nicola Perry, Sarah Pinnock |
14 April, 2014 |
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'We don't want to be sent back and forth all the time': Chagossian reflections on compulsion and choice in the context of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return |
This talk draws on a case study of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return within the living memory of one community, and explores questions of freedom and force ethnographically: |
Laura Jefferey |
14 April, 2014 |
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Forced marriage and immigration policies: understanding diversity or punishing difference? |
Geetanjali Gangoli, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series on forced marriage and its implications on immigration and human rights |
Geetanjali Gangoli |
14 April, 2014 |
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Immigration Policies: The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Index |
This seminar discusses the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Index. This project builds a dataset on immigration policies in all OECD countries for the period 1980-2010. |
Marc Helbling |
14 April, 2014 |
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Brief interventions for weight management in primary care |
Amanda Lewis Department of Primary Care Health Science, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Amanda Lewis |
22 March, 2014 |
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Comparative political ecologies of food and diet: systems of provision in Trinidad and Cuba |
Marisa Wilson, University of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the UBVO semianr series |
Marisa Wilson |
22 March, 2014 |
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The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating |
Emma-Jayne Abbots University of Wales, Trinity St David, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Emma-Jayne Abbots |
22 March, 2014 |
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Obesity and physical activity: from behaviour to environment |
Jean-Michel Oppert Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine (CRNH), Paris, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Jean-Michel Oppert |
22 March, 2014 |
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Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the reconfiguring of social being |
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Karin Eli |
22 March, 2014 |
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Roads of separation: infrastructure politics, "creeping migration" and de facto delimitation in rural Central Asia |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism |
Madeleine Reeves |
11 March, 2014 |
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Everyday practices at the Russia - China - Mongolia border |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism |
Caroline Humphrey |
11 March, 2014 |
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Postsocialist subject as a new other: global coloniality, border thinking and decolonial option |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism |
Madina Tlostanova |
11 March, 2014 |
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Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement |
Alexander Betts, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series |
Alexander Betts |
3 March, 2014 |
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Precarious outcomes to the Pursuit of Happiness: Lifestyle migration and liminality |
Karen O'Reilly, University of Loughborough, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series |
Karen O'Reilly |
3 March, 2014 |
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A matter of convention? Drawing lines between slavery and freedom, and between forced and voluntary migration |
Julia O'Connell Davidson considers historical notions of slavery and how they can or cannot be applied to modern situations of forced migration. |
Julia O'Connell Davidson |
3 March, 2014 |
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The Political Economy of Tied Migrant Labour |
Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS podcast series |
Martin Ruhs |
3 March, 2014 |
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Where does migration sit within the debate over the future of the UK and Scotland? |
Allan Findlay, David McCollum and Jakub Bijak give a talk on migration and Scotland |
Allan Findlay, David McCollum, Jakub Bijak |
3 March, 2014 |
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Political ecology of disease |
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013 |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
3 February, 2014 |
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Disease transitions |
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
3 February, 2014 |
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Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers |
Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013) |
Angela Davis |
3 February, 2014 |
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Contextualising the 'new parenting culture' |
Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013) |
Charlotte Faircloth |
3 February, 2014 |
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Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia |
Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013) |
Elizabeth Rahman |
3 February, 2014 |
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'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!' |
In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents |
Robert Pralat |
3 February, 2014 |
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'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion' |
Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013) |
Ekaterina Hertog |
3 February, 2014 |
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Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles |
Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013) |
Adom Philogene Heron |
3 February, 2014 |
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Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 1 November 2012, Henrike Donner of Oxford Brookes University looks at how different kinds of property and ownership arrangements affect relationships between people among the urban middle classes of Kolkata |
Henrike Donner |
3 February, 2014 |
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Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 8 November 2013, Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus and Masaryk Universities) investigates ritual behaviour, bringing it into the lab, to work out why people put themselves through such ordeals |
Dimitris Xygalatas |
3 February, 2014 |
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New York stories: the lives of other citizens |
In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 22 November 2013, Andrew Irving of the University of Manchester investigates memories, thoughts and reminiscences about New York City. |
Andrew Irving |
3 February, 2014 |
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The adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia: a biocultural approach |
A School of Anthropology departmental seminar from 29 November 2013 by Alexandra Alvergne of ISCA, University of Oxford |
Alexandra Alvergne |
3 February, 2014 |
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What choices and constraints do undocumented migrants experience in the labour market? |
Alice Bloch, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Breifing series |
Alice Bloch |
27 January, 2014 |
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More migrants, fewer rights?: How shall we balance openness and rights in labour immigration policy? |
Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Breifing series |
Martin Ruhs |
27 January, 2014 |
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What are the social and public service impacts of international migration at the local level? |
Jon Simmons, Home Office Migration and Border Analysis, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breaskfast Breifing series |
Jon Simmons |
27 January, 2014 |
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Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma |
Professor Alexandra Brewis, Director of Human Evolution and Social Change and ASU-Mayo Obesity Solutions, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar series |
Alexandra Brewis |
9 December, 2013 |
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Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity |
Harry Rutter. Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Harry Rutter |
9 December, 2013 |
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Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013 |
Jenna Jensen, University of Copenhagen, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series |
Jenna Jensen |
9 December, 2013 |
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Behavioural economics and eating habits |
Michèle Belot, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Michèle Belot |
9 December, 2013 |
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Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Dr Julien Bonhomme (École normale supérieure, Paris) discusses the cultural significance of rumours of deadly alms and gift giving that first appeared in Senegal in 2010. |
Julien Bonhomme |
13 November, 2013 |
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Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Dr Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) focuses her study of the indeterminacy of natural resources on the small island state of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. |
Gisa Weszkalnys |
13 November, 2013 |
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Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Professor Michael Houseman (l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris) presents a brief analysis of several small ceremonies to make a theoretical argument about ritual in a new age and neopagan context. |
Michael Houseman |
13 November, 2013 |
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Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013) |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Joao de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent) discusses the creative use of personal names in Brazil. |
Joao de Pina-Cabral |
13 November, 2013 |
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Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013) |
This lecture formed part of the 2013 Evans-Pritchard Lecture series held at All Souls College, Oxford, in which Zuzanna Olszewska discussed 'Authentic Voices, Modern Selves: An Ethnography of Afghan Refugee Poetry and Personhood in Iran'. |
Zuzanna Olszewska |
13 November, 2013 |
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Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013) |
David Zeitlyn discusses parallels between visual and digital anthropology and the dangers of historical myopia. It is too easy to disregard earlier parallels because of the mistaken claim that everything is new and different. |
David Zeitlyn |
13 November, 2013 |
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Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013) |
Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) argues for a pluralisation of past, present and future. There are many unconnected or only partially connected literatures on time related issues. |
David Zeitlyn |
13 November, 2013 |
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Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013) |
Professor Alexander Kiossev (University of Sofia in Bulgaria)drawing on his background in cultural studies, spoke about the ways in which 'alternative utopias' can enable creative imaginaries for the types of futures we are able to realise or create. |
Alexander Kiossev |
13 November, 2013 |
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What are the consequences of changing policies for family migrants in the UK? |
Caroline Oliver and Juan Camilo give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Caroline Oliver, Juan Camilo |
2 September, 2013 |
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Building Regionality into Immigration Policy: Does it Work? Evidence from Canada |
Professor Robert E Wright gives a talk for the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society. |
Robert E Wright |
2 September, 2013 |
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What does the 2011 census tell us about ethnic diversity and integration in England and Wales? |
Ludi Simpson and Stephen Jivraj give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Ludi Simpson, Stephen Jivraj |
2 September, 2013 |
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Rethinking Migration: Joining the dots between migration, trade theory and business strategy |
Diane Coyle discusses labour migration movements across borders through firm's decision problems and strategic thinking. |
Diane Coyle |
2 September, 2013 |
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Feeling like a citizen, living as a denizen: deportees' sense of belonging |
In the United States, the right to territorial belonging is the only inalienable right U.S. citizens have, and this right is exclusive to U.S. citizens. |
Tanya Golash Boza |
29 May, 2013 |
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Lives in Limbo; Immigration, Schooling, and the and the Transition to Illegality |
The recent political debates in the United States have raised awareness of the untenable situation facing more than 2.1 million undocumented immigrant children and young adults who have lived in the U.S. since childhood. |
Roberto G Gonzales |
29 May, 2013 |
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Campzenship: rethinking the camp as a political space |
Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. |
Nando Sigona |
29 May, 2013 |
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Citizenship Shadow; Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant Irregularity |
This talk introduces the proposition that citizenship and alienage (or migrant status) may be best understood as two key figures of a spectrum of bordered identities. |
Nicholas de Genova |
29 May, 2013 |
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Care, Markets and Migration in European Welfare States: Why the study of migration is important to social policy and vice versa |
Fiona Williams looks at different approaches taken by social policy to race, ethnicity, and migration, and proposes implications for social justice that emerge. |
Fiona Williams |
29 May, 2013 |
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Decades of Migration and 'Europe' in Question |
Nicholas de Genova examines what Europe is and means through the existence of migrants. |
Nicholas de Genova |
29 May, 2013 |
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Migration and inter-generational replacement in Britain and Europe |
Chris Wilson discusses replacement migration in Britain and Europe, from a demography perspective, explaining a newly developed system for looking replacement ratios. |
Chris Wilson |
29 May, 2013 |
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The Price of Rights. Labour immigration policy and the rights of migrant workers |
Martin Ruhs outlines the findings of his new book 'The Price of Rights', discussing the trade off between openness to migrants and access to rights. |
Martin Ruhs |
28 May, 2013 |
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Border Regimes and Human Rights |
David Miller examines the effects and results of border regimes on human rights, from a political philosophy perspective. He states that border regimes are damaging in terms of human rights. |
David Miller |
28 May, 2013 |
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Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case |
Stephen Meili looks at how human rights treaties are applied in the UK court systems to applications by asylum seekers. |
Stephen Meili |
28 May, 2013 |
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Integrating the human rights of migrants into the global governance of migration: the 2013 High-Level Dialogue and beyond |
Oberoi discusses the process of migration being governed with a focus on human rights. |
Pia Oberoi |
28 May, 2013 |
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In Defense of the Migrant Workers Convention: Standard Setting for Contemporary Migration |
Bernard Ryan discusses the possibilities of the Migrant Workers Convention, the relevant committee and its work. |
Bernard Ryan |
28 May, 2013 |
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What are the migration pathways of UK graduates? |
It is often assumed that the pathway from home to university and onwards to the labour market is a linear upward trajectory, ultimately resulting in improved opportunities and social betterment. |
Joanna Sage |
20 May, 2013 |
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With a lot of help from my friends: How do migrants use social networks to access jobs? |
This briefing provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. The speakers will explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. |
Jackie Wahba |
20 May, 2013 |
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Are potential supporters of the English Defence League economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or xenophobes? |
n recent years several European states have seen the emergence of 'counter-Jihad' movements, which in contrast to the established populist radical right eschew electoral politics and put stronger emphasis on mobilizing opposition to Islam and Muslims. |
Matthew Goodwin |
20 May, 2013 |
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Status Food and State Food: Notes on Obesity in Cuba |
Giovanna Neri, Study Coordinator in Clinical Trials, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Giovanna Neri |
29 April, 2013 |
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Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (22 February 2013) by William Sax of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, focuses on 'oracular authority and distributed agency' in the western Himalayas. |
William Sax |
18 April, 2013 |
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Capital's new frontier |
Dr Catherine Dolan of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, discusses 'yoghurt mamas, solar sisters and the remaking of 'unusable Africa' at the bottom of the pyramid'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar from 15 February 2013. |
Catherine Dolan |
18 April, 2013 |
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Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe |
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (8 February 2013) by Joost Fontein from the Department of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh focuses on northern Zimbabwe fieldwork and research. |
Joost Fontein |
18 April, 2013 |
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