Upcoming Seminars
Christian Polish women: dedicated rescuers of Jews during WWII
Dr Joanna Michlic
14th March 2012 at 1800
Room KSW.G.1.04 at the LSE
"Symbolic Categorization of Dedicated Christian Polish Women Rescuers as Outcasts, and its Everyday Practices in Polish Society During and After the Second World War."
It is recognized that anti-Jewish prejudices played an important role in the formation of modern Polish national identity and nationalism. Starting in the late nineteenth century, anti-Semitic attitudes and practices were not only directed against members of the Polish Jewish minority, but also against those members of the ethnic Polish community who the ethno-nationalists symbolically categorized as "Jews," "Jewish uncles," and "Jewish saviors". This paper considers the history of symbolic categorization of dedicated Christian Polish female rescuers as "Jews," during the Second World War and its aftermath, by members of their local communities who disapproved of their rescue activities, arguing that the rescuing of Jews "served against Polish interest." It focuses on the discussion of emotional communications and everyday practices that categorized ethnic Polish female rescuers as "Jews" and "Jewish aunts," and the impact of these categorizations on the rescuers' sense of social belonging. My main argument is that the dedicated women rescuers constituted a rather atypical cohort within Polish society, and for that reason were marked as outcasts within their own communities, or in extreme cases, within their own families. By studying the everyday manifestations of the symbolic exclusion of the rescuers, we learn a great deal about the making of symbolic boundaries within society in which ethnonationalists employ anti-minority prejudice in discourse about national belonging. We also learn a great deal how these symbolic boundaries impact destructively on humanitarian action in time of war and genocide.
All welcome and no ticket required.
Uncertain Masculinities: Youth, Ethnicity and Class in Contemporary Britain
Emeritus Prof. Mike O'Donnell
7th March 2012 at 1800
Room KSW.G.1.04 at the LSE
The talk will draw mainly on the research published in Uncertain Masculinities which focuses on how a sample of year-eleven boys from four London schools construct their masculinities particularly in relation to their ethnicities. Reference will also be made to a later piece of research indicating that significantly different cultural values and reference points between a small sample of Muslim and non-Muslim students exist. This point opens up into a wider argument that while difference should generally be respected there is a need for substantial inter-cultural communication to avoid misunderstanding, sterotyping and social fragmentation.
A recording will be online shortly.
Recording of previous seminars
Seminar series 2011/12: 'Is a multicultural formulation of the nation able to further gender equality?'
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"Peoples, self-determination and secession"
Prof Michel Seymour
|University of Montreal
23rd February 2012
A video recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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'Women's rights and the crisis of multiculturalism'
Prof. Anne Phillips
|Professor of Political and Gender Theory, LSE
1st February 2012
A video recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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'An intersectional gaze at nationalist projects: men and women of particular contexts'
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis,
|Professor in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies
School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London
25th January 2012
A video recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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'Muslim women' in Europe: Secular normativities, bodily performances and multiple publics'
Dr. Ruba Salih,
|Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
16 November 2011
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National Belonging and Everyday Life in Britain
Dr. Michael Skey
|School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
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Seminar series 2010/11: "Nation building for the 21st Century: Reflections on the impact of migration, multinationalism and multiculturalism on the nation building project"
How are the tensions between the increasing heterogeneity of the nation and nationalisms tendency to stress the integration and assimilation of the nation playing out?
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Theoretical background: Modern Nation building and its challenges
Professor Michael Hechter
|Professor, School of Government and Politics, Arizona State University
Thursday, 11 November 2010
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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The Problems of Multinationalism and Nation building Post Regime change in Iraq
Professor Charles Tripp
|Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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Multinationalism Nation building in West Africa: The case of Ghana
Dr Michael Amoah
|Research Fellow, The Open University
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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Scottish Nationalism as "Region building": Nationbuilding and autonomous regions under the EU
Professor Michael Keating
|Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.|
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Ethnic Minorities and Europe: Integration under the French Republic
Dr Alec Hargreaves|
Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French
and Francophone Studies
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.
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Building ethnic difference into the nation: Ethnic power sharing in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution
Dr Michael Kerr|
Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, Kings College London, University of London
Mr Nadim Shehadi
|Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of Strategic Affairs (Chatham House)
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
A recording is available on the ASEN YouTube channel.
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Revolutions, Protest and Recent Unrest: Reflections on Nationalism in the Contemporary Middle East
Professor Sami Zubaida|
Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology
Nadim Shehadi|
Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of Strategic Affairs (Chatham House)
Friday, 13 May 2011
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Revolutions, Protest and Recent Unrest: Reflections on Nationalism in the Contemporary Middle East
Professor Sami Zubaida|
Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology
Nadim Shehadi|
Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of Strategic Affairs (Chatham House)
Friday, 13 May 2011
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