Author Archives: Vivienne Bates

Integration and Integration Policy Roundtable Meetings

Thompson - Integration Brief ImageIntegration and Integration Policy Roundtable Meetings

Following the highly successful ‘Making History Work’ seminars organised by AHRC Care for the Future, AHRC Translating Cultures, and Institute for Government, Andrew Thompson was asked to participate in the roundtable on 20 October 2014, ‘What is Integration?’

The following information and text is from http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/globalexchange/working-with-the-department-for-communities-and-local-government/

COMPAS Oxford co-organised three roundtables on Integration and Integration policy with the Integration and Faith Division of the UK’s Department of Communities and Local Government, hosted at their London office. The aim was to inform understanding and stimulate debate on integration processes, outcomes and policy interventions.

What is Integration?

This roundtable explored differing concepts of integration processes, aims of integration policies and the history of policy approaches in the UK: highlighting integration as not one but a series of processes; the role of local versus national approaches and of mainstream versus targeted integration policies.

Briefings

Thompson’s briefing can be downloaded here: Thompson Briefing, What is Integration – 20 Oct 2014

Post-Colonial Disasters project

‘Reframing Disaster’ – activities from the Post-Colonial Disasters project

2014 is a really significant one for global disaster commemoration – the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster in India; the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide;  the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Activities include an exhibition at The Tetley gallery (26 Nov – 7 Dec: http://thetetley.org/reframing-disaster/); a conference; film screenings in collaboration with the Leeds International Film Festival; various talks & public engagement events; fundraising; and schools workshops. There are more details about these events on the website: http://postcolonialdisaster.com/activities/.

Reframing Disaster Activities Poster

Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict symposium

Marlene Steyn. Blended brothers, 2011; Oil and mixed media on canvas, 168 x 151, 5 cm. Image used with permission of the artist. ©Marlene Steyn

Art and culture is often given some prominence amongst the tools that are used to reconcile communities and to help deal with personal and collective trauma. Why is that the case, how effective is it and what complexities surround its use?

On 9th and 10th September 2014, AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and the Cultural Value Project held a symposium on Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict. The symposium brought together leading researchers and practitioners across disciplines to consider the role of arts and cultural practices and performances in the process of post-conflict resolution and transformation. Topics were explored with special reference to conflict and post-conflict situations within the boundaries of states, primarily South Africa, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. Continue reading →

Call for Papers

8_abbaye-de-royaumontCall for Papers

AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and Labex Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory are pleased to announce a series of three joint workshops. The workshops seek to bring together researchers, ECRs and practicioners/professionals from project teams across the two programmes for two days of ideas exchange and discussion on shared themes.

Applications are now being accepted for the 1st workshop, to take place at the Royaumont Foundation near Paris on 16th and 17th January 2015. Please see the Care for the Future and Pasts in the Present 1st Franco-British workshop – Call for contributions for more information and the short application form. The deadline for applications in 17th November 2014.

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Education, Value, and the Art of Living event

Education, Value, and the Art of Living event

14 November 2014, St Michael’s Cornhill, City of London, 10pm to 5pm

This one-day event aims to prompt discussion about the meaning and purpose of education in the context of its perceived instrumentalization in the United Kingdom at present. Exploring the topic from a host of perspectives—contemporary and historical, political and cultural, personal and institutional, at home and away—the colloquium will open up a set of arguments about teaching, learning, value, and the ‘art of living’. In contradistinction to any conception of education as merely a service industry for advanced capitalism, the papers offer a bracing challenge to prevailing orthodoxies in the search for a more adequate understanding of what education can be for human flourishing.

Twenty-minute papers will include the following and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion (paper titles subject to confirmation).

The Joys and Dangers of Distinctiveness
The Revd Dr Matt Bullimore

Union and Division: Irish Education around 1801
Professor Claire Connolly

More value than many sparrows?
Marius Carney, English Martyrs Catholic School, Leicester

Education and the Common Good
Lord Glasman

On forgetfulness
Professor Francis O’Gorman

The liberal tradition and human flourishing
The Rt Revd Dr Stephen Platten

Teaching Contested Pasts: the Educative Value of the History of Empire
Professor Andrew S. Thompson

JOINING DETAILS: Waged: £17; unwaged £13: lunch (included) will be provided by the Drapers’ Company in Drapers’ Hall. To reserve a place at the colloquium, please send a cheque made out to ‘St Michael’s Cornhill P.C.C.’ to Kay Norman, St Michael’s Cornhill, St Michael’s Church Vestry, Cornhill, London, EC3V 9DS or email kay@st-michaels.org.uk by 1 November 2014.