In times marked by irreversible climate catastrophe, proliferating far-right politics and regimes of surveillance, war and genocide, and unprecedented migratory movements, borders remain urgent sites of investigation. As junctures of encounter, division, and control, borders produce and maintain conditions of crisis, while also generating emergent forms of solidarity, healing, and resistance that challenge the fixity … Read more
The Centre for Minorities Research is excited to launch My Life In…, a new public seminar series that highlights the professional journeys of individuals working with minorities and vulnerable communities across diverse sectors. Designed to reach beyond academic circles, the series offers an open and accessible platform for audiences to engage with real-world experiences and reflections from practitioners whose … Read more
Join us on the latest CMR seminar series as we bring together scholars exploring the complexities of reconciliation in an era defined by intensive transformations. Amidst the chaos of the contemporary world—where the future paradoxically poses as both a source of hope and an abyss of uncertainty—reconciliation offers a potential framework for forging pathways towards … Read more
Join us on the latest CMR seminar series. The event will bring together scholars working with the concept and context of living heritage that either constrains or enhances diversity, minority positions and dimensions of indigeneity. The proposed approach will consider the relevant framework spelt out by international UN agencies like UNESCO and their legal instruments … Read more
You are welcome to attend the latest CMR seminar series. The event will bring together scholars working across disciplines on migration, colonialism, othering, diversity, and indigeneity beyond conventional text-centred interpretations, to explore the social, experiential, affective and relational dimensions of performative approaches. Focusing on the senses, new technologies, disability, dance, music, theatre, martial arts, sports … Read more
We are very happy to share a new series “Routledge Advances in Minority Studies” which Stavroula Pypirou is co-editing with Kyriaki Topidi of the European Centre for Minority Issues. The series will be home to interdisciplinary approaches to intersectional understandings of minorities.
You are welcome to attend the latest CMR seminar series. The event will bring together scholars working crossdisciplinarily on migration, colonialism, othering, indigeneity and diversity who go beyond the conventional approach to resource scarcity as the product of demographic stress on the natural environment. The Covid-19 pandemic has increased perceptions that the availability and access … Read more