Dear all,

Please see below, and the attached flyer, for details of the first event of the ESRC Seminar Series 'Critical Diversities @ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives' (2012-2014), which is organised by Yvette Taylor (Head of Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University) (PI) and Sally Hines (Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds) (Co-I).  Seminar 1: 'Different Subject, Diverse Strands: Diversity at the (Inter)discipline' will be held on 18th January 2013 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds.

Places at the seminar will be limited so early booking advised. Please email me if you would like to book a place.  A full programme will be sent out to participants nearer the time.

All best,
Sally

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ESRC Seminar Series 'Critical Diversities @ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives' (2012-2014)

Series Outline
The Series will reflect a current wave of work within the social sciences, humanities and arts which offers new ways of conceptualising and empirically researching diversity, and which turns its attention to previously marginalised and mainstreamed positions. The series includes:

•       Four seminars with papers from established and emerging scholars
•       Author meets critic and book launch sessions.
•       Two day International Conference Critical Diversities: Policies, Practices and Perspectives (July 2014)
•       Dedicated Postgraduate/ECR panels. Graduate Student Paper Prize.

Seminar 1: Different Subject, Diverse Strands: Diversity at the (Inter)discipline, 18th January 2013: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds

Seminar 1 will examine the contributions made by different disciplines to understandings of diversity and the continuities and conceptual shifts therein:

Speakers: Prof. Brian Heaphy (University of Manchester); Prof. Diane Richardson (Newcastle University); Dr. Surya Monro (University of Huddersfield); Dr. Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University); Prof. Yvette Taylor (Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, LSBU

Postgraduate/ECR Panel: Michelle Addison; Victoria Mountford (both Newcastle University); Madeline-Sophie Abbas; Angelica Pesarini (both University of Leeds).

Book Launch: Taylor, Y. (ed) (2012) Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects. Palgrave Macmillan.


*To book for Seminar 1 please RSVP to Sally Hines: [log in to unmask]
Places are limited so early booking advised

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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
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