Symposium Announcement: Belonging: citizenship, difference and inequality
Sociology, Newcastle University, 10th September 2007
Key Speakers:
* Prof. Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of
New York.
* Prof. Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
* Prof. Rayna Rapp, University of New York
What does it mean to belong? A right and a choice, but also imposition
and stigma, belonging provokes large questions for social scientists
looking at the dynamics of contemporary life around the globe. This
symposium will address the paradoxes and politics of belonging. What does
it mean to seek home in a world of movement, transience and instability?
How are novel kinds of hybrid identity challenging and challenged by the
assertion of singular and inherited identities? And why do profound
transformations in our understanding of what it is to be human disrupt
traditional notions of belonging? Issues of justice, equality and
recognition come to the fore in debate around citizenship and difference,
and will be explored through the wide-ranging work of three celebrated
keynote speakers in engagement with the work of sociologists at Newcastle.
To register go to: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Sociology/Index.html
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Dr Janice McLaughlin
Director of Research
Policy Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/ PEALS
Citywall,
St James Boulevard,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4JH.
Tel: +44 (0)191 243 0778
Senior Lecturer
Sociology and Social Policy
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology 5th Floor Claremont Bridge
Building University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Tel: 0191 222 7511
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