Sociology Symposium – Belonging: Citizenship, Difference, and Inequality
Plenary Speakers:
Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
Steven Seidman, Professor of Social Theory, University at Albany, State
University of New York
Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
WHERE AND WHEN? Monday 10 September 2007
Research Beehive, University of Newcastle
WHAT? 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.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION 13TH JULY
To register go to: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Sociology/Index.html
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