Dear all
One or two places left. Please e-mail to book a place.
Bests
Kevin
Kevin Ward, Geography, School of Environment and Development, University
of Manchester
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The third annual EWERC symposium
The work of cities and regions: contemporary experiences of migrant workers
When will the symposium take place?
Friday 16 November 2007
Who are the speakers?
Dr Bridget Anderson (Senior Researcher and Programme Head, COMPAS,
University of Oxford), Dr Samantha Currie (Europe in the World Centre, and
the Department of Law, University of Liverpool), Dr Alison Stenning (Co-
Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, and the
Department of Geography, University of Newcastle) and Professor Jane Wills
(Director of The City Centre, and the Department of Geography, Queen Mary
College, University of London).
Who will speak in the roundtable discussion?
Ian Fitzgerald (Northumbria University), Jane Hardy (University of
Hertfordshire), Catherine May (Programme Coordinator, UK Poverty Programme
in England), Dave McCall (North West Regional Secretary TGWU and Chair of
the North West Migrant Workers Institute) and Simon Pemberton (University
of Liverpool and Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory)
What is the symposium schedule?
Tea and coffee are served from 11 o’clock, and the symposium will run from
11.20 through to about 5 o’clock, with a short lunch and afternoon coffee
break.
Where will the symposium take place?
It will take place on the tenth floor of the Harold Hankins Building at
the University of Manchester – maps can be found at
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/maps/campusmap.pdf
What is the cost?
Attendance is free, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Jean Monnet
Centre of Excellence
(http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/jeanmonnet/) and the Brooks
World Poverty Institute (http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/) but there are
now only a handful of places remaining.
Where can I find more details?
At
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/events/conferences/cityandregions/
Who should I contact to book a place?
Kevin Ward, Co-Director of the European Work and Employment Research
Centre, and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester
(http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/staff/ward_kevin.htm). His e-
mail is [log in to unmask]
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