Human Trafficking and Slavery – Its closer than you think

The Fife Centre for Equalities is hosting an event on human trafficking and modern day slavery. 10:30am-12:30pm Friday, November 8th, 2019 Gillespie Centre in Dunfermline. The event is free, however requires registration. This event is particularly targeted at local professionals, although all are welcome. CMR’s Kathryn Fredricks will be attending, representing CMR. ~~~~ Event Description: … Read more

Black Italy: In Conversation with Igiaba Scego

Thursday 31st October at 4 pm at St Mary’s College, Lecture Room 1. Igiaba Scego, born in Rome to a family of Somali origins, is a well-known writer, journalist and activist. She will be discussing race in Italian society today as well as her recent non-fiction title, Al Roma Negata: Percorsi postcoloniali nella città (Ediesse), about Italy’s negated colonial … Read more

Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

We are very happy to announce the Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG), and the Centre for Minorities Research, University of St Andrews. The general purpose is to acknowledge a mutual desire to establish specific educational relations and cooperation between the two Institutions in … Read more

University of Messina, Department of Cognitive Science, Psychology, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies

We are very happy to announce the Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Messina, Department of Cognitive Science, Psychology, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (Dipartimento di Scienze cognitive, psicologiche, pedagogiche e degli studi culturali), and the Centre for Minorities Research, University of St Andrews. The general purpose is to acknowledge a mutual desire to establish … Read more

2019/20 Young Women Lead Project

The 2019/20 Young Women Lead (YWL) Project The Project is aimed at recruiting young women (30yrs and under) and seeks to increase the political participation of young women. The 2019/20 project is aimed specifically at young women from minority ethnic communities. The first half of Young Women Lead will consist of training workshops on topics such as … Read more

Dis-Place-Ment: Reflections on being in & out of place

Please join us for a one-day workshop on ‘dis-place-ment’, hosted by CMR, where we shall reflect on being in and out of place.

When: May 2nd, 2019; 10am-5pm

Where: Arts Lecture Theatre

This event is free and open to all.

Programme:

10am – 10.15am   Welcome: Dr. Stavroula Pipyrou, Founding Director, CMR
10.15am – 12pm    In/Out of Place: Prof. Rebecca Sweetman, Prof. Stephen Reicher, Fife Migrants Forum Participants & Dr. Natasha Saunders
12pm – 1pm          Open Forum: Dis-place-ment in Fife
1pm – 2pm            Lunch
2pm – 4pm           Dis-place-ment in Dialogue: Bennett Collins, Kathryn Fredricks, Manar Kawasmi & Dr. Stavroula Pipyrou
4pm – 4.30pm      Coffee Break
4:30pm – 5pm      Closing Speech: Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)

We look forward to welcoming you!

Invitation to Tender – Hard Up Communities in Fife: Welfare Reform and Equality

Full pdf attached below: FCE Invitation to Tender – Hard Up Communities in Fife – Welfare Reform and Equality 190328[39630] Key Themes: Welfare Reform, Poverty, Universal Credit, Equality Act 2010, Protected Characteristics This invitation to tender is to undertake investigative research to better understand the barriers experienced by communities of protected characteristics that are affected … Read more

Research Activity Day – Dr. Emma Bond & Prof. Aine O’Healy In Conversation

  Please join us for a conversation between CMR’s Dr. Emma Bond (University of St Andrews) and Professor Aine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount University), who will be discussing their recent publications: Writing Migration through the Body (2018) and Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (2019), respectively. This event is hosted by the Department of Italian, … Read more

Emma Bond Book Announcement

Dr. Emma Frances Bond, CMR Assistant Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews Department of Italian, has published a new book: Writing Migration through the Body. The book is part of the Palgrave Macmillan series Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture and was published in 2018. Book synopsis: Writing Migration through the Body builds … Read more

This is My Face (Esta es Mi Cara) – Film Screening

This is My Face (Esta es Mi Cara) what lies inside a journey with HIV CMR is pleased to invite you to a screening of the film (work in progress) ‘This is My Face‘, directed and produced by Angelica Cabezas Pino in collaboration with people living with HIV in Chile. The film will be shown at … Read more