Tag Archives: transnational studies

TNS Seminar Wednesday 14th December: Dr Eleanor Jones & Dr Scott Soo

‘Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?’ When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Eleanor Jones –  ‘Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africa’ From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory […]

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TNS Seminar Wed 27th April: Cross-centre seminar

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 27th April, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Avenue Campus Cross-Faculty Debate on Migration Research The Centre for Transnational Studies in the School of Humanities and the interdisciplinary Migration@Soton Research Network are organising a joint discussion meeting to discuss the current state of […]

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AHRC follow-on funding award: Madagascar in the World

Professor Ulrike Meinhof has been awarded a grant under the AHRC’s Follow-on-Funding scheme worth £100,216 for her project  ‘Madagascar in the World: the impact of music on global concerns’. The project will start on 1 December 2015, and its purpose is the co-production (with the Parisian film company Laterit) of a film, working title  ‘Songs […]

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TNS seminar Wed 7th October: Dr Britta Schneider

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies seminar. When: Wed 7th October 2015 5-7pm Where: 65/LTC Ethnographic Insights into the Superdiverse Language Context of Belize In this presentation, I discuss the multiple indexical meanings of languages in a non-European and multilingual context with strong transnational traditions to study the links between social […]

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TNS Seminar Wednesday 6 May: Professor Helen Sampson, Cardiff University

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies Seminar on Wednesday 6 May from 5.00pm-7.00pm in 65/1177. Challenging research settings: gender, risk, and resistance Prof. Helen Sampson Cardiff University Tankers, container vessels, bulk carriers, and refrigerated fruit ships….these are some of the vessels I have experienced when undertaking ‘on board’ fieldwork in my […]

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TNS Seminar 18 March: Prof. Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London

Please join us for the Transnational Studies Seminar on 18 March 2015 from 5:00-7:00 PM in 65/1177  when we will welcome Professor Caroline Knowles from Goldsmiths, University of London. Globalisation on the Ground This paper interrogates some of the intersections between work, globalisation and youth. It is based on empirical research following the trail of […]

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TNS workshop 11 February: Impact and benefits of the arts

Please join us for the next Transnational Studies seminar/workshop: Wednesday, 11 February 2015 4.00pm-7.00pm Venue: 65/1177 Impact and benefits of the arts: How arts institutions relate to the public and reach out to new audiences     This workshop is introduced by short presentations from three directors of institutions of the visual and performing arts, […]

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TNS seminar 19 November: ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’

Please join us for the next seminar in the Centre for Transnational Studies/ILC seminar series: ‘Now you see it, now you don’t!’  It features two compelling speakers from Birkbeck, University of London: Dr Andrew Asibong and Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine. Wednesday, 19th November 2014 5.00pm-7.00pm Venue: 65/1177 Dr Andrew Asibong (Birkbeck, University of London) ‘Nothing to […]

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TNS Seminar Wednesday 26 March: Cesar Paes, film director and Mark Dinneen, Southampton

Please join us for the next TNS seminar on Wednesday 26th March 5.00pm (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre A). Working with Popular Culture: The Case of Brazil Cesar Paes, film director, Paris  Dr Mark Dinneen,  Southampton   Please join us for the screening of the film Saudade do Futuro (2001), in the presence of its Brazilian-born […]

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TNS workshop TODAY 4:20 PM 65A/2251 A network of ties, or tied to a network?

Please join us for a TNS workshop today, Wednesday 12 March, 4.20pm-7.00pm in 65a/2251. A network of ties, or tied to a network? Led by: Jenny Cuffe & Heather Meyer PhD students Heather Meyer and Jenny Cuffe lead a workshop on transnational social ties, using examples from their current research to illustrate what it means […]

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