| Researching migrant journeys: conceptual and methodological challenges |
Roger Zetter thinks about the nature and challenges of researching migrant (specifically refugee) journeys. |
Roger Zetter |
18 February, 2013 |
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| Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities: linking journeys and community development |
Melissa Siegel looks at migration and poverty at community level in Moldova and Georgia, in relation to a 2 year research project funded by the European Commission. |
Melissa Siegel |
18 February, 2013 |
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| The smuggling of migrants and refugees into Europe: social and economic aspects |
Thanos Maroukis talks about the social processes at play behind the migrant smuggling business. Based on his recently published book Thanos talks the audience throughout he methodology, theoretical framework and findings. |
Thanos Maroukis |
18 February, 2013 |
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| An arbitrary outcome: political and economic regulation of mobile labour |
Hannah Cross, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas term 2012: Migration Journeys on 25th October 2012. |
Hannah Cross |
18 February, 2013 |
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| What do highly skilled French migrants in London teach us about European talent migration? |
Drawing on qualitative data from an ESRC-funded project, this presentation will explore the nature and dynamics of intra-EU talent migration through a particular focus on the French highly-skilled working in London's financial and business sectors. |
Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland |
18 February, 2013 |
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| The injustices of high- versus low-skilled temporary labour migration programs: With evidence from Canada |
Among critics of temporary labour migration programs (TLMP), it is common to describe them as exploitative, rights-violating, and unfair. |
Patti Tamara Lenard |
29 January, 2013 |
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| Social marketing and public health with Change4Life |
Podcast looking at the way in which public health campaigns, in particular the Change4Life campaign are marketed. By Kevin Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. |
Kevin Chan |
21 January, 2013 |
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| What is the evidence about migrant living conditions in the private rented sector and how could they be improved? |
Outlining a new report for the Housing and Migration Network UK, 'Migrants and the Private Rented Sector', published in February is the first national report to explore the needs and experience of new migrants who live in the private rented sector. |
Gill Green, Neil Coles |
27 November, 2012 |
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| What is the latest picture from migration statistics? |
Jon Simmons, Home Office, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series. |
Jon Simmons |
9 November, 2012 |
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| What works in integration? |
Vidhya Ramalingam, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Vidhya Ramalingam |
9 November, 2012 |
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| Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity |
Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Megan Waren |
5 November, 2012 |
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| Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences? |
Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Jennifer Baker |
5 November, 2012 |
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| Resilience building in trajectories towards sustainability: an examination of communal growing in the UK |
Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Rebecca White |
5 November, 2012 |
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| Visual political economies and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro |
Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Udi Butler |
5 November, 2012 |
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| Parents as gatekeepers: introduction to family therapy in obesity treatment |
Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Paulina Nowicka |
5 November, 2012 |
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| 5 SOLDIERS - The Body Is The Frontline |
Embodying soldier's physicality through research and training and how this approach affected the final production and audience experience. |
Rosie Kay |
5 November, 2012 |
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| Migrants and the state of long term care in England: opportunities and challenges |
Shereen Hussein talks about migrants and long term/social care. She looks at what is meant my international migrants and at what constitutes long term care in the labour market sector. She also looks at the relevant work force. |
Shereen Hussein |
6 September, 2012 |
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| Migration and the resilience and vulnerability of place |
Talk based on a UK wide study of immigration an social cohesion, done between 2005-2008. Exploring the lived lives and practices of new immigrants as well as the long term settled population and through this consider social cohesion policies in the UK. |
Mary Hickman |
6 September, 2012 |
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| Understanding the neighbourhood impacts of new immigration |
Looking at new migration and large scale migration since the early to mid 90's, reflecting on local impacts. He looks at neighbourhood effects of immigration, and local experiences of those arriving to and those already living in a particular place. |
David Robinson |
6 September, 2012 |
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| Wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK |
Cinizia Rienzo discusses wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK. She assesses if there is a relationship between the increasing number of immigrants and the increasing levels of wage inequality seen in both countries. |
Cinizia Rienzo |
6 September, 2012 |
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| How does diversity affect the British neighbourhood? Can it reinforce segregation? |
Looking at trust of one's own ethnic group and trust of other ethnic groups and how this is related to both contact and possible conflict in the neighbourhood setting. |
Neli Demireva |
6 September, 2012 |
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| Crime and immigration |
Brian Bell looks at the relationship between crime and immigration in the UK. He considers the relevant literature, political motivations, and the particular group of immigrants that his research focuses on. |
Brian Bell |
6 September, 2012 |
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| What is the relationship between new migration and community change? |
Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration. |
David Robinson |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law |
Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights. |
Nicholas de Genoa |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons |
Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons". |
Ash Amin |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Homophily is not an explanation |
Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together. |
Talja Blokland |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto |
Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas. |
Jayani Bonnerjee |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs |
David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism. |
David Gilbert |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground |
Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire. |
Katharine Tyler |
6 August, 2012 |
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| New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire |
Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture. |
Helen Moore |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods |
Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany. |
Sarah Hackett |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants |
Deborah Phillips explores the 'neighbourhood' as a site where citizenship is practices and negotiated. She focuses particularly on the experiences of British Muslims in Bradford in their encounters with new migrants. |
Deborah Phillips |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Experiences at the sharp end: Practitioners' perspectives on inclusion and exclusion (Panel Discussion) |
Four experts discuss their practical experiences of migrants' access to services and exclusion from services. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series: Migrants and welfare states: inclusion or exclusion? |
Fizza Qureshi, Ruthanna Barnett, Bill Bolloten, Nick Clark |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question |
Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa. |
David Glover |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Gender and interventions in integration |
Eleonore Kofman discusses gender's role in relation to integration discourses, policies and practices. Part of the Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices (COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010) Series. |
Eleonore Kofman |
6 August, 2012 |
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| The national integration paradigm: where are we now? |
Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration. |
Adrian Favell |
6 August, 2012 |
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| When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005 |
Paul Baker talks about how asylums seekers and refugees were presented in the national press and the variations in discourses over time and across types of press. |
Paul Baker |
6 August, 2012 |
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| UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research |
Talk looking at the ways in which public administration and policy makers make use of academic research immigration policy making, looking at the British Home Office, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the European Commission. |
Christina Boswell |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Immigration and Political Trust in Europe |
Lauren McLaren looks at immigration and political trust, with focus on recent research data. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. |
Lauren McLaren |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Numbers and Needs - the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets |
Anne Kershen discusses the comparisons between immigrant settlements in Shropshire and London's Tower Hamlets, exploring different issues of the migrant experience arising in the two areas. |
Anne Kershen |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Between strategic nostalgia and banal nomadism: Arab diaspora watching satellite and digital television across Europe |
Myria Georgiou talks about uses of transnational television among Arab speaking populations in Europe to explore questions around citizenship. |
Myria Georgiou |
6 August, 2012 |
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| The politics of migration in the UK: Catering to a public of (at least) two minds |
Scott Blinder discusses the portrayal of the British public's opinion on migration, and the reality behind it. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. |
Scott Blinder |
6 August, 2012 |
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| 'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union |
Sergio Carrera examines how the process of Europeanization, the development of the European Union, has played a role in migration law and on the meaning and mechanisms of integration. |
Sergio Carrera |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border |
Discussion on the problematic of discussing integration in a context of security enforcement policies in the US and neoliberal policies, with a focus on immigrants in the US/Mexico border region and in the US as a whole. |
Neil Harvey |
6 August, 2012 |
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| What is the role of schooling in the integration and settlement process of new Polish migrants to the UK? |
The EU Enlargement of 2004 entailed an intensive large-scale migration wave from Eastern European countries to the UK, in particular from Poland. |
Pauline Trevena |
16 July, 2012 |
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| Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements? |
There is a very significant tension at the heart of UK immigration policy. Basic economic intuition, as well as considerable empirical evidence, suggests that skilled immigrants will benefit the economy. |
Jonathan Portes |
9 July, 2012 |
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| Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble' |
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012. |
Joy Hendry |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions |
In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012. |
Marta Hanson |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication |
Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory at the University Leeds, presented this paper at a workshop held in Oxford by the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in February 2012. |
Philip Mellor |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Reflections on geneticisation |
In this Medical Anthropology Research Seminar, Professor Paul Martin (University of Nottingham) examines 'social science and the making of biofutures'. 6 February 2012. |
Paul Martin |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012. |
Sandra Dudley |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Sweetness and Light |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012. |
Ann G Gold |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Negotiating Space, Buying Time |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) discusses 'the performance of housing politics in a Bangkok community under siege'. 2 December 2011. |
Michael Herzfeld |
27 June, 2012 |
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| What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism |
Nicola Tannenbaum, Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University in the United States, discusses Theravada Buddhism for this Anthropology Departmental Seminar. 4 May 2012. |
Nicola Tannenbaum |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Conflict in the Plural |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh) examines 'eastern Sri Lanka as a complex religious field'. 18 May 2012. |
Jonathan Spencer |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dhana Hughes (St John's College, University of Oxford) examines 'memories of revenge and denunciation in Sri Lanka's Southern Terror'. 11 May 2012. |
Dhana Hughes |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Martin Saxer (National University of Singapore)discusses 'Hidden Valleys, New Roads and Remote Cosmopolitans' in northern Nepal. 25 May 2012. |
Martin Saxer |
27 June, 2012 |
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| Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible |
In the 2012 Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Adam Kuper of the LSE and Fellow of the British Academy reviews a century of debate surrounding the anthropology of religion. The lecture took place at Exeter College, Oxford on 27 April 2012. |
Adam Kuper |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Altruism in cyberspace? |
In this seminar for the International Gender Studies Centre, Elinor Bastin presents an exploration of an on-line community for women and men with bipolar disorder. 10 November 2011. |
Elinor Bastin |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Beyond globalisation and localisation |
In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011. |
Holger Jebens |
24 May, 2012 |
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| The 'down side' of assisted reproductive technologies |
In this seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Soraya Tremayne (Director of the FRSG) discusses 'Third party donation and the 'happy family' rhetoric in Iran'. 17 November 2011. |
Soraya Tremayne |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Meat and Health |
In this Health, Environment and Development seminar, Peter Scarborough (a UL in Public Health) discusses the impact of achieving environmental sustainable diets on deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer in the UK. 18 October 2011. |
Peter Scarborough |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans |
Stephen Chance of the Neuroanatomy and Cognition Group, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, presents insights into IQ and social cognition in chimpanzees and humans. An ICEA Seminar from 1 June 2011. |
Stephen Chance |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Venom, pollinators and parasites |
Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University discusses 'how the poisonous slow loris may reveal the origins of social grooming amongst primates'. An ICEA seminar from 2 November 2011. |
Anna Nekaris |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? |
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Sallie Burrough of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment presents an environmental perspective from the Kalahari Desert (23/11/11). |
Sallie Burrough |
24 May, 2012 |
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| How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution |
A seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology by John Odling-Smee (an Emeritus research fellow from Oxford University), 30 November 2011. |
John Odling-Smee |
24 May, 2012 |
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| Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford |
The conference 'Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections', held at ICSA on 23-24 June 2011, marked the first ten years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. This podcast by Olivier Bazin formed part of the first panel. |
Olivier Bazin |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar |
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012). |
Eric Edwards |
10 May, 2012 |
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| There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jakob Klein (SOAS) discusses 'Food and locality in twenty-first century China' (11 March 2011). |
Jakob Klein |
10 May, 2012 |
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| Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar: |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Stephen Reyna (MPI-Halle) discussed 'regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy' (25 February 2011). |
Stephen Reyna |
10 May, 2012 |
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| On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Roy Ellen (University of Kent) discusses 'On the concept of cultural transmission' (18 February 2011). |
Roy Ellen |
10 May, 2012 |
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| Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar |
In this Anthropology Departmental seminar Michael Rowlands (University College London) discusses 'Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China'. 13 May 2011. |
Michael Rowlands |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size |
In this Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Seminar, Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge) discusses "The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size." 15 June 2011. |
Stephen Montgomery |
10 May, 2012 |
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| The right to participate: law, equality, and the prospective impact on immigrant integration in Europe and abroad |
Thomas Huddleston discusses European integration policies and access to health care and other benefits, in light of recent MPG research. |
Thomas Huddleston |
8 May, 2012 |
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| Shifts in the Public/Private Divide as mode of inclusion and exclusion |
Sarah van Walsum discusses Dutch and EU law's approach to care work and protection of rights. |
Sarah van Walsum |
8 May, 2012 |
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| Migrants' access to goods and services in the context of international human rights law |
Aoife Nolan (Durham Law School) takes us through the relationship between migrants' rights and international human rights instruments. |
Aoife Nolan |
16 April, 2012 |
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| What is the impact of new migration on cohesion and integration? |
The government and the media regularly make the case that migration must be restricted in order to ensure community cohesion and encourage integration. |
Robert Ford, Will Somerville, Shamit Saggar |
16 April, 2012 |
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| Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights |
Lydia Morris discusses the stratification of rights as a way to explain rights given or constrained by the state, in the migration context. |
Lydia Morris |
5 March, 2012 |
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| Between welfare states and markets: the migrant-policy nexus in comparative perspective and reflections on social rights and antidiscrimination law |
Virginie Guiraudon takes an interdisciplinary look at social and human rights and anti-discrimination laws, giving a historical, legal and sociological perspective, as well as considering the European situation. |
Virginie Guiraudon |
5 March, 2012 |
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| Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twentieth century |
Becky Taylor discusses issues of entitlement, belonging and outsiderness for Britain's Gypsy travellers in the 20th century, with a focus on housing, education and perception. |
Becky Taylor |
5 March, 2012 |
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| What does new Home Office evidence on the Migrant Journey and family migration tell us about migration in the UK? |
Jon Simmons, Director for Migration and Border analysis in the Home Office Science Directorate gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Jon Simmons |
2 February, 2012 |
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| What is migration policy for? |
Sarah Spencer, COMPAS, Oxford University, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Sarah Spencer |
13 December, 2011 |
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| Immigration and welfare chauvinism: Britain since 1800 |
Professor David Feldman, historian, describes the "welfare chauvinism" existing in Britain since the 18th century. |
David Feldman |
1 December, 2011 |
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| Identification and mobility Control: Police sciences, technology, and international cooperation in West Europe, 1900-1930 |
Dr. Ilsen About takes us through the fascinating development of technology used by police in the early 1900's to allow for the identification of criminals internationally, known as 'distant identification'. |
Ilsen About |
1 December, 2011 |
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| What are the impacts of restrictions on participation in the labour market and civic life on young migrants? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing |
Part of the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Les Back |
1 December, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir' |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar Marion Demossier of the University of Bath discusses 'territorial construction, hegemonic discourses and French wine culture'. 11 November 2011. |
Marion Demossier |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Professor Judith Okely of Hull University (and an associate of ISCA, Oxford) looks back over her anthropological career, especially her time spent working with gypsies. 4 November 2011. |
Judith Okely |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Helene Basu of Münster University examines 'Sorcery, Madness and Modernity in Western India'. 28 October 2011. |
Helene Basu |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex examines the impact of oil companies on 'corporate community engagement' in Bangladesh. 21 October 2011. |
Katy Gardner |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. |
Thomas Kirsch |
29 November, 2011 |
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| How will climate change impact on migration? |
Allan Findlay, Professor of Population Geography, School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series. |
Allan Findlay |
18 November, 2011 |
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| Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire and the Chinese Labour Question |
David Glover, University of Southampton, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series on 10th November 2011. |
David Glover |
18 November, 2011 |
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| No rights for the wicked; human rights and foreign national prisoners |
Retired immigration lawyer Fran Webber goes through case law pre and post the entry into force of the Human Rights Act. |
Frances Webber |
2 November, 2011 |
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| Punishment and Migration between Europe and the United States: A Gllobalized 'Less Eligibility'? |
Dario Melossi, University of Bologna, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. |
Dario Melossi |
26 October, 2011 |
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| Introduction to the Seminar Series 'A Chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, Crime and Citizenship' |
Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, Oxford University, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series entitled' 'A Chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, Crime and Citizenship'. |
Bridget Anderson |
26 October, 2011 |
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| What does migration mean for the 'white working class' in the UK? |
Podcast on what migration means for 'White Working Class' in the UK, Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor present their research findings. |
Ben Rogaly, Becky Taylor |
12 September, 2011 |
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| The Social Brain on the Internet |
In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction. |
Robin Dunbar |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche |
Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche. |
Andrew Whiten |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level |
I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. |
Chris Frith |
23 August, 2011 |
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| Experiencing Language |
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. |
Eva Jablonka |
23 August, 2011 |
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