CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1.) ENOCH POWELL AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION
Saturday 21st February 2004
10am -6pm @ the Churchill Archive, University of Cambridge
What has been the place of race in English national identities?
How close were Powell's policies to the mainstream?
What are the similarities and differences between the politics of
immigration between then and now?
Sponsored by CRASSH as part of their Migration year, this timely
conference aims to reassess the politics of immigration in the 1960s and
1970s as history, dealing with the issues of Powell and Conservatism and
the development of government immigration policy.
Speakers include:
Bill Schwarz (Goldsmiths' College, London)
Mark Garnett (University of Leicester)
Shamit Saggar (Queen Mary, London)
and a panel of activists of the time.
For further information and full conference programme, including booking
form:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ events/events2004/enochpowell.html
or email [log in to unmask]
or telephone 01223 766886 / 765279
2.) THE REFUGEE PROBLEM AND THE PROBLEM OF REFUGEES IN THE TWENTIETH AND
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23 March 2004
The British Academy, London
Co-sponsored by The British Academy, Birkbeck, University of London,
CRASSH & the Wiener Library
Historical and contemporary perspectives on refugee movements and the
institutions that respond to them.
Monday 22nd March, 6pm
Keynote Public Lecture
"The western asylum crisis: the way forward" Prof B. S. Chimini (The
W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, India)
Admission Free (please not seating is not numbered and will be allocated
on a first come, first served basis)
Tuesday 23 March, 10am-6.30pm
One day conference on refugees in the 20th and 21st centuries. This
conference will bring together historians, social scientists and legal
scholars for discussion across disciplinary boundaries.
Speakers include:
Aristide Zolberg (New School for Social Research, New York)
Gil Loescher (Institute of Strategic Studies)
Liza Schuster (London School of Economics)
Graeme Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre) and many more.
For further information and full conference programme, including booking
form:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ events/events2004/refugees.html
or email [log in to unmask]
or telephone 01223 766886 / 765279
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