Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Seminar Series: Activism,
Volunteering and Citizenship
>
> With apologies for cross posting:
>
> We are pleased to announce the forthcoming ESRC seminar series,
> 'Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship', to be held jointly between
> Northumbria, Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities, in the UK, with
> five
> seminars over the coming year.
>
> The first seminar is scheduled for the 18th and 19th May 2009, at
> Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, and registration to
> attend
> this seminar is now open. The outline for the first seminar is below
> and
> further information can be found on our website:
> http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/res_con/cpp_main/cppevents > /esrcsemseries
> Unfortunately we are unable to cover transport costs, but dinner and
> accommodation will be provided for all participants at the first
> seminar.
> There are a number of travel bursaries available to postgraduate
> students and participants of voluntary sector organisations.
> Places are strictly limited so please register your interest as soon
> as
> possible by filling in the registration form available on the
> website or
> emailing Jessica3.scott@???.
>
> With best wishes from the seminar series steering committee:
> Dr Matt Baillie Smith and Dr Katy Jenkins (Northumbria University)
> Prof
> Nina Laurie and Dr Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University) Prof Liz Bondi
> and Dr Betsy Olson (Edinburgh University)
>
>
> Seminar 1 - Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship: Mapping the Themes
> (Northumbria University) Confirmed speakers:
> Professor Michael Goldman, University of Minnesota Dr David
> Featherstone, University of Glasgow Dr Pablo Regalsky, CENDA, Bolivia
> Judith Brodie, Director of Voluntary Service Overseas
>
> This opening seminar in the series will introduce the
> interdisciplinary,
> cross-cutting themes of the series. Cutting across academic, practice
> and activist divides, the four speakers will provide thought-provoking
> interventions around the broad areas of activism, volunteering and
> citizenship in a variety of international contexts, engaging with the
> concept of 'emerging' and 'abandoned' citizens and highlighting how
> forms of activism, volunteering and citizenship are ruled in and out
> by
> the shifting global and local dynamics of neoliberalism, mediated
> through the experiences of different social actors in diverse local,
> national and global contexts.
> The seminar will take place over two days (the afternoon of 18th May
> and
> the morning of the 19th) with dinner and accommodation provided for
> all
> participants.
>
> Subsequent seminars are scheduled as follows:
> October 2009 - Faith and Activism (Newcastle University) December
> 2009 -
> Processes of Professionalisation (Northumbria University) Jan 2010 -
> Biographies of Activism and Social Change (Newcastle University) March
> 2010 - Synthesis and Links to Policy and Practice (Edinburgh
> University)
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dr Matt Baillie Smith
> Director of the Centre for Public Policy School of Arts and Social
> Sciences Northumbria University, NE1 8ST
> + 44 (0)191 2274970
> matt.baillie-smith@???
