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Dear Colleague
CRESC Annual Conference 2012 ‘Promises: Crisis and Socio-Cultural Change’ (5 – 7th September)
The CRESC Annual Conference 2012 ‘Promises’ is now taking shape with an exciting line up of key note speakers and paper-givers on the conference themes of ‘CRESC Roundtable’, ‘Capitalism’, ‘Cultures’, ‘Expertise’ and ‘Democracy’.
Our Keynote speakers this year are:
Barbara Adam, (Cardiff University) -
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/A-B/professor-barbara-adam-overview.html
Robert Boyer, (ENS, Paris)
http://www.jourdan.ens.fr/~boyer/presentang.htm
Will Hutton, (Oxford University)
http://theworkfoundation.com/
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
http://commitanthro.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/beth-povinelli/
Aditya Charaborrty (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/adityachakrabortty
Paul Mason (BBC Newsnight)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/paulmason/
The format of the conference will include parallel paper sessions across the five conference themes with panel topics ranging from ‘Micro-finance’, ‘Green City Promises’, ‘Inclusion, Mobility and Elitism’ to ‘New democratic Formations’ and ‘Anthropology, Science and Technology’. Meanwhile, for those desiring alternative stimulation there will be complimentary events taking place throughout the conference including a Photography Q & A with Maria Gruzdeva http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2170701/maria-gruzdeva-wins-ideastap-photographic-award to a guided tour of Manchester’s Modernist architecture.
In collaboration with the Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester and local primary schools, the CRESC Conference will also be hosting an art exhibition entitled, ‘Passmore: Transformations Imagining a City’.
More information on the Conference is available at - http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/cresc-annual-conference
On-line registration is now available at : https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/browse/department.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=122
We look forward to meeting you again soon.
Susan Hogan
Centre Manager
ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change
University of Manchester
178 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road
Manchester, M13 9PL
Tel: +44 (0)161 2758990 / Fax: +44 (0)161 2758886
CRESC is a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Manchester. For the latest news on CRESC activities please visit our new website at http://www.cresc.ac.uk/
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