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Paul Gilroy Lecture: Multiculture, Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality:
Tuesday 5th July 2011: 5:15pm
Prof Paul Gilroy (LSE) will give a public lecture at the University of
Manchester discussing the politics of race, nation and civilisation in
contemporary Europe, seen in the context of endless war as a
postcolonial phenomenon. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
*Location*: Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, University
of Manchester. The Samuel Alexander Building is no. 67 on the Campus Map
<http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/googlemap/>.
*Tickets*: This is a free event but tickets must be booked in advance
viahttp://gilroymigrantsandcities.eventbrite.com/
*Biography:*
Paul Gilroy is the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in
Social Theory as LSE. His intellectual background is multi-disciplinary
and he has extensive interests in literature, art, music and cultural
history as well as in social science. He is best known for his work on
racism, nationalism and ethnicity and his original approach to the
history of the African diaspora into the western hemisphere.
<http://gilroymigrantsandcities.eventbrite.com/>
Gilroy received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies at Birmingham University where he was part of the group which
collectively produced "The Empire Strikes Back" (Routledge, 1982). After
that, he worked at the GLC for a number of years before taking up
academic positions at South Bank and Essex where one of his principal
responsibilities was teaching on the joint degree in Sociology and
Literature. Gilroy moved to Goldsmiths College in 1991 and was appointed
Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies there in 1995. Before
joining the LSE in the summer of 2005, he taught at Yale University
where he was Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of Sociology and African
American studies as well as chair of the African American Studies
department. <http://gilroymigrantsandcities.eventbrite.com/>
Some of Prof Gilroy's publications include: /Darker than Blue: on the
Moral Economies of Black Atlantic culture /(2010), /Postcolonial
Melancholia /(2006), /After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?
/(2004), /Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of
Race/ (2001), /Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the
Color Line/ (2000), /The Black Atlantic/ (1993), /Small Acts: Thoughts
on the Politics of Black Cultures /(1993).
<http://gilroymigrantsandcities.eventbrite.com/>
*Associated event:
This lecture precedes a workshop on Diasporic Conviviality,
Cosmopolitanism and Urban Spaces. Please email caitriona.devery [@]
manchester.ac.uk for more details.
<http://gilroymigrantsandcities.eventbrite.com/> ***
*A poster for the event is attached, please publicise through your
networks. *
This lecture and workshop are hosted by the Research Institute for
Cosmopolitan Cultures, with support from the Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change, the School of Social Sciences, the Faculty of
Humanities, the Pathways to Cosmopolitanism Research Programme (National
University of Singapore and the University of Manchester), Institute for
Development Policy & Managementand [log in to unmask]
Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Simon Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology/
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
_http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_
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