The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote empowerment and engagement with minority issues.
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LGBT History Forum
LGBT History Forum to celebrate LGBT History month in the University of St Andrews – 23rd February 2018 – Byre Theatre Studio (Support from Saints LGB, the History Society, the School of History and Kate Ferris, head of Equality and Diversity committee, School of History).
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Stavroula Pipyrou Book Announcement
Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, the Centre’s Founding Director, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, has a new book: The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics.
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Minority Politics in the Mediterranean World
Paul A. Silverstein reviews the following four books in the History and Anthropology review essay: Minority politics in the Mediterranean World. Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics, by Stavroula Pipyrou Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam, by Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar The…
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