Events

2019/20 Young Women Lead Project

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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

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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!

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

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  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

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

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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

The Orthodox Neoliberal: Religious Ethics and Market Practices in Post-Soviet Russia

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  Victoria Fomina (PhD candidate at Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Central European University)   Thursday 22 November, 4-5.15pm, Buchanen Building, Room 216   This talk will explore how Christian Orthodox conceptions of economy come together with neoliberal visions of the market and social virtue in post-Soviet Russia. It analyzes Orthodox intellectuals’ recent attempts … Read more

International Minority Education: Opening New Collaborative Research Possibilities

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Itinerary: 26th -30th November (Week 11)  *********** Subject to Change ************* 26/11 – Open Seminar at the Department of Anthropology “Indigenous and quilombola education in Brazil: an introduction” 27/11 – Invited meeting with research groups about minority education and collaborative research. 27/11 – Meeting in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Department … Read more

The Impact of the UK Immigration Act on Housing and Public Services

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Friday 8th June 2018, 10am-16.15pm University of St Andrews    9.30 – 10.00       Registration & Coffee 10.00- 10.05       Kim McKee (Chair), University of St Andrews – Welcome 10.05 – 11.00     Hannah Jones, University of Warwick ‘Go Home – whose home? How both immigration and the ‘hostile environment’ are ordinary in … Read more

CMR Inaugural Event: February 16, 2018

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We are very happy to announce that the inaugural event of the Centre for Minorities Research will take place on 16th February 2018, 1-4pm, at Parliament Hall. The Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews Professor Sally Mapstone will open the event and the keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Philomena Essed, Antioch University, known for … Read more

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