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

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

  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

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

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

Call for Papers: The Impact of the UK Immigration Act on Housing and Public Services

Date: Friday 8th June 2018 Venue: University of St Andrews Organisers: Dr Kim McKee, University of St Andrews ([email protected]) and Dr Sharon Leahy, University of St Andrews ([email protected]) Keynote speakers: Dr Hannah Jones (University of Warwick), Dr Sharon Leahy (University of St Andrews), Eloise Nutbrown (COSLA), Prof. David Robinson (University of Sheffield) Funded by: the … Read more

CMR Inaugural Event: February 16, 2018

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