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Dear colleague you are warmly invited to: ‘Young Identities in the Baltic’ lecture by Professor Alistair Ross, 14th February at London Metropolitan University* The first in a series of lectures: Border Crossing, Crossing Borders. This first lecture will focus on the identities and experiences of young people in the Baltic countries. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania present a particularly fascinating context for identity formation. Briefly independent between 1920 and 1939, they have become independent of the Soviet Union in 1991, and joined the EU in 2004. The young people in the study are the first generation born in these post-Soviet countries, and have been socialised in greatly different circumstances to their parents and grandparents. This lecture is the first in a series of Jean Monnet Lectures: Border Crossings, Moving Borders examining the shifting identities of young people growing up in recent or near recent countries joining the EU by Professor Alistair Ross (Jean Monnet ad personam professor, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University) and will be introduced by Professor Malcolm Gillies (Vice-Chancellor, London Metropolitan University). The Lecture Series As part of his Jean Monnet personal Chair activities, Alistair Ross is researching how young people of secondary school age are constructing their personal identities, and becoming aware of their actual or potential European citizenship. This three year study planned until 2012, focuses on two groups of countries: some that have recently joined the European Union and the four candidate countries. Each country has either ‘crossed the border’ into the European Union, or is about to do so. The research with young people between 12 and 18 in each country examines the various aspirations and identities being constructed and used. How do they view Europe, and the potential for their role within it? Is this different from the views of their parents, their teachers? Does education have a particular role to play in helping them develop these identities? A growing number of young people in parts of the European Union are acknowledging an at least partial sense of European identity alongside their national identity: the degree to which this is acknowledged varies by nationality, gender and social class, as well as by age. Understanding how new young Europeans construct their idea of Europe, their role in it, and what it means to be European will be of value and importance to a very wide audience. *Future lectures in the series will examine the identities and aspirations of young people in:* · Turkey (June 2011) · Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (November 2011) · Croatia (2012) · Bulgaria and Romania (2012) · Macedonia The lecture will take place on Monday 14th February from 5.30- 7pm in Room GCG-08, The Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, London N7 8DB. The lecture is free of charge but places are limited. If you wish to attend please contact Angela Kamara on [log in to unmask] Please feel free to print and circulate the attached flyer and forward this e-mail to those who you think may be interested. Best wishes, Angela Kamara *** Apologies for any cross-postings *** -- Angela Kamara Projects Administrator Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University Room LB01,166-220 Holloway Road, London N.7 8DB Tel: 0207 133 4189 Fax: 0207 133 4219 [log in to unmask] www.multiverse.ac.uk -- Sumi Hollingworth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) London Metropolitan University Direct line: 020 71334170 www.londonmet.ac.uk/ipse <http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ipse> Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo