Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism

Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism International Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Portsmouth on 4th July 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Gurminder Bhambra, Jon Fox, Shruti Kapila, Siniša Malešević, Henning Melber, Sivamohan Valluvan Call: On 4th July we will hold the first in a planned series of international workshops at the University of Portsmouth. We invite contributions from scholars in all branches of the humanities and social sciences interested in developing new angles of research on the logics of citizenship. The topic of this first workshop addresses nationhood as a component of the

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Memory and Emotion: Refugee Week event with artist Hong Dam.

The second of JFI and CRaB’s ‘Coffeee Shop Conversations’ will be taking place on Thursday 21st June from 12.30 in Guildhall Cafe. To mark Refugee Week 2018 we welcome Hong Dam. Hong is a Brighton-based Vietnamese artist whose work deals with memory, loss and displacement in the context of her experiences of becoming a refugee as a child. She will read a short extract from her debut novel Sympathy for the Dandelion after which there will be audience discussion about the work and themes arising. Please come along – there will, as with all of these events, be free tea, coffee and cake!

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Conference on Englishness at University of Winchester, 28 March

One of our members, Charlie Leddy-Owen, is co-organising a conference on qualitative approaches to the study of English identities with John Denham from the University of Winchester’s Centre for English Identity and Politics. Charlie will be speaking at the event along with David McCrone, Anoop Nayak, Katharine Tyler, Lisa McKenzie, Sivamohan Valluvan, Robin Mann and others. The event will be held at Winchester Cathedral on 28 March. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-of-england-tickets-43440799601

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