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Dear colleague IRiS is holding its sixth international interdisciplinary conference on 9-11 September 2020 at the University of Birmingham. The title of the conference is 'Beyond 'deficits and dividends': Interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on migration and superdiversity'<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/superdiversity-institute/events/2020-conference/paper-and-panel-submission.aspx>. Keynote speakers are Professor Gracia Lui-Farrer<https://waseda.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/gracia-liu-farrer>, Director of Institute of Asian Migrations at Waseda University, Japan and Professor Nasar Meer<http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/nasar_meer>, Chair of Race, Identity and Citizenship at the University of Edinburgh. Plenary speakers include: * Dr Michaela Benson<https://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/benson-michaela/>, Reader of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London and Managing Editor of The Sociological Review * Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/stonebridge-lyndsey.aspx>, Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights and author of the award winning Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees * Professor Carlos Vargas Silva<https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/carlos-vargas-silva/>, Director of the University of Oxford's Centre of Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS<https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/>) We welcome academics from a range of disciplines including but not exclusively anthropology, sociology, social policy, cultural studies, geography, linguistics, history, psychology, economics, business, medicine, demography, politics, and development studies, policymakers, and practitioners to submit innovative paper, panel and workshop proposals<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/superdiversity-institute/events/2020-conference/paper-and-panel-submission.aspx>. The deadline for submissions, using our online system, is Wednesday 15 April 2020. If you have any academic related questions please contact IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Any logistical queries can be directed to IRiS Administrator, Ann Bolstridge<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. All best wishes, Ella Mortlock IRiS Communications Manager Ann Bolstridge IRiS Administrator Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) School of Social Policy Room 929, Muirhead Tower University of Birmingham Tel: 0121 414 4967 [IRIS P308 2] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email list is maintained by the BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group. Visit the BSA website for further information about the group: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/race-ethnicity-study-group/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Please DO NOT REPLY to this message - unless it is for circulation to ALL list subscribers *** To reply to the sender of this message, use ONLY their email address, NOT the main list address. To post a NEW message to this list, email: [log in to unmask] (requires subscription) To unsubscribe from this list, email [log in to unmask], leave the Subject line blank, and in the message body write: UNSUBSCRIBE BSA-RACE-ETHNICITY