Mediterranean Displacements Project

Friends, don't miss the talk "Forced Migration Through the Eyes of Two Rutgers Refugee Graduate Students" on Wednesday, March 9, from 11:30-1:00. For zoom information please email Aslam Kakar at [email protected].

The Division of Global Affairs Colloquium Speaker Series invites author and Professor Emeritus Kath Woodward to speak on Identities, Mobilities and Migration on Wednesday, February 2, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

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Bio: Professor Kath Woodward is an author and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University, where she has chaired women's studies, sociology, and gender and technology courses at all levels. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change and researches gender identities and diversity, most recently in sport.

Abstract: The concept of identity has moved in and out of fashion within scholarly discourse, from the 1980s when identity politics burst onto the scene, presenting an activist, egalitarian challenge to meta-theories such as those based on socio-economic class. Identity politics embraced ethnicity, race, gender, location, generation and disability and engaged with the minutiae of lived experience. Identities are multiple, hybrid and fluid. They are also oppositional, framed by a binary logic of us and them. John Berger called the 20th century the century of migration. The 21st century is already marked by massive movements of people across the globe; from the global south to the global north, from Africa to Europe. How can an understanding of identities help us to understand the inequalities as well as the differences in play? This talk revisits identities and theories of identity in light of 21st-century mobilities.

Conference: The Morisco Diaspora and Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean on 16-17 September 2021 on zoom. Organized by the EuQu project and IS-LI. Conveners: Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers.
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