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TNS Workshop 6th July

The Centre for Transnational Studies is pleased to announce their upcoming workshop. Moving Stories: Exploring Transcultural Storytelling in Contexts of Migration When: 10:00 – 17:00, 6 July 2017 Where: Building 27 (side entrance) Room 1133, Highfield Campus Speakers: Divya Tolia-Kelly, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Durham. Annika Lems, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern. Umut Erel, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Continue reading →

TNS Seminar Wednesday 3rd May: Prof Ulrike Meinhof

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 3rd May, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177 Who: Prof Ulrike Meinhof, University of Southampton A researcher’s tale – Revisiting research through the eyes of a camera and a diverse public Part of the annual seminar series for the Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS). Continue reading →

TNS Seminar Wednesday 22nd February: Prof Patrick Stevenson

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 22nd February, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton The Language of Others: Writing Berlin Lives Berlin is a multicultural and multilingual city in the heart of Europe. Continue reading →

Next TNS event: ‘Cross-Faculty Debate on Migration Research’

The Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) and the interdisciplinary Migration@Soton Research Network are organising a joint meeting to discuss the current state of the art in migration research, and to develop new plans for joint initiatives in research projects and joint publications. This event will take place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 27th April 2016 in Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus, and is entitled ‘Cross-Faculty Debate on Migration Research’. Continue reading →

Next MeXsu seminar: “Popular music and migration in the northeast of Mexico. Circuits and conjunctures in a transnational context.”

The next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar will take place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 20th April 2016, in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘Popular music and migration in the northeast of Mexico. Circuits and conjunctures in a transnational context’ and will be presented by Dr José Juan Olvera Gudiño (CIESAS Unidad Noreste, Monterrey, Mexico). Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar Wed 20th April 2016: Dr José Juan Olvera Gudiño

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration seminar (MeXsu). When: Wednesday 20th April, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr José Juan Olvera Gudiño, CIESAS Unidad Noreste, Monterrey, Mexico Popular music and migration in the northeast of Mexico. Circuits and conjunctures in a transnational context This paper will provide a sociological perspective on popular music and migration in the northeast of Mexico and the south of Texas. Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar Wed 17th February 2016: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 17th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle. Continue reading →

ESRC network grant success

Laura Domínguez and Roumyana Slabakova have been successful in securing an ESRC network grant (£30,000) as part of an international network of researchers led by Monika Schmid (Essex). This will fund a series of seminars on the topic of First Language Attrition – the process by which the first language of a speaker who uses another language predominantly (e.g. migrants) becomes compromised and shows signs of cross-linguistic interference. Continue reading →