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From: BSA ACTIVISM IN SOCIOLOGY FORUM [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jones, Hannah [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 5:08 PM
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Subject: Racism and Digital Communications/Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging - events at Warwick 11th June

Dear colleagues,
The Warwick Sociology Department will be hosting two exciting events with excellent speakers on 11th June.

Workshop on Race, Racism and Digital Communications, 10.30-1pm, Gillian Rose Room (R3.25), Ramphal Building, University of Warwick [with the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, Warwick]
Discussion featuring Alana Lentin, Sanjay Sharma, Kirsten Forkert and Nathaniel Tkacz on transformation of race through digital communication networks, ambient racism and racism denial on social media, and social media responses to government immigration campaigns. Lunch provided.

Seminar and book launch for Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location (eds Hannah Jones and Emma Jackson), 1pm-4pm, Gillian Rose Room (R3.25), Ramphal Building, University of Warwick
[with Urban Studies, University of Glasgow]
Discussions on home, migration and belonging including Kieran Connell on music and Black British identity in Birmingham and Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia on public housing struggles in Puerto Rico, with contributions from Emma Jackson, Hannah Jones and Goldie Osuri. Lunch provided.

More information in the attached flyer, ALL WELCOME – please feel free to circulate.

For the sake of managing numbers and planning catering, please do register at either http://digitalracism.eventbrite.co.uk and/or http://cosmobelonging.eventbrite.co.uk if you plan to come.

Hope to see you there!
Hannah

PS in the unlikely event you feel the need for an additional reason to make the trip to Warwick worthwhile, the Jeremy Deller exhibition All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is showing at the Warwick Arts Centre that day (and from 2nd May until 21st June) with free entry from noon until 9pm. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/2014/jeremy-deller-curates-all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air/<http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/2014/jeremy-deller-curates-all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air/>



Dr Hannah Jones

Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Warwick

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Check out my book: Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change: Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government<http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?k=9781447310037>, winner of the 2014 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize<http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/PAM.aspx>
Latest article: "The best borough in the country for cohesion!": managing place and multiculture in local government<http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/gj59XXk6r7T3mH4Di9MM/full> in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Current ESRC project: http://mappingimmigrationcontroversy.com<http://mappingimmigrationcontroversy.com/>
Staff profile: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/hannahjones/
Twitter: @uncomfy<https://twitter.com/uncomfy> and @micresearch<https://twitter.com/micresearch>




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