Details of a forthcoming workshop - apologies for cross-posting
As you will see, we are planning to limit the number of participants to around 15, so if anyone is interested, please do get in touch as soon as possible. There are contact details at the bottom of the page.
Thanks,
Alison
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Post-socialism, ethnographies and everyday life:
a workshop
Friday 3rd May 2002
Medical Research Council, London
This workshop has been organised as an alternative to the more usual conference fora in which we are expected to present our work in fifteen minutes and have little time for discussion. There will no formal presentations and the day will be focused around facilitating discussion around current, future and potential research and writing. There will be two strands to the day’s discussions - methodologies and conceptual/ theoretical approaches, though it is expected that there will be considerable overlap between these two parts. We are planning to limit numbers of participants to around fifteen.
Plan of the Day
10.00-10.30 Arrival, coffee
10.30-12.30 Doing ethnographies in the post-socialist world
Please come with a couple of minutes’ (literally) introduction to your research and the methodologies you have employed “in the field”, identifying any particularly issues you’d like to discuss.
12.30-1.30 LUNCH
1.30-4.00 Conceptualising the transformation of everyday lives
Again, please come with some key questions you’d like to thrash out relating especially to conceptualising everyday changes under post-socialism.
4.00-5.00 TEA AND DISCUSSION
This should allow time to follow up together or in smaller groups ideas and debates which have emerged earlier in the day.
After 5 Depart to pub, to eat, home?
The workshop is free and includes a sandwich lunch and tea/coffee. Participants will, however, have to meet their own transport costs.
We are assuming that there will be a reasonable amount of common ground between us all if terms of knowledge of the literature but we will ask that everyone has read Michael Burawoy and Katherine Verdery’s ‘Introduction’ to their Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) before the workshop.
The Medical Research Council is located adjacent to Regents Park in central London. Maps can be found at http://www.mrc.ac.uk/pdf_about-map_of_headoffice.pdf
If you are interested in attending, please contact Alison Stenning ([log in to unmask]; 0121 414 6922) or Kathrin Horschelmann ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible for more details and/or to register.
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Dr Alison Stenning
School of Geography and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM
B15 2TT
T: + 44 121 414 6922
F: + 44 121 414 5528
E: [log in to unmask]
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