The programme for IRiS seminar series for the first term of the new academic year is now available. We start on 22nd October at 2pm with Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer of Waseda University, Japan. She will present a paper based on her forthcoming book on Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society. It is hard... Continue Reading →
Zygmunt Bauman on multiculturality on a diasporized planet
Online booking is now open for Zygmunt Bauman's distinguished lecture to be held at the University of Birmingham on 19 October, 5 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public but limited places are available so we recommend booking in advance. Followed by drink reception.
Please, no more white people writing smug articles about leaving London
"You can call that diversity, or even super-diversity, or just life", Aisha Mirza writes in The Guardian