| Workshops
In the run-up to and during the project, we ran two
workshops to introduce our project and to explore the findings of other research projects
addressing diaspora:
These informal
events combined short presentations and open
conversation in order to stimulate and inform
ongoing research on the AHRC-funded ‘Devolving
Diasporas’ project.
1. Migration and Reception
in the Arts and Education: A Workshop
(hosted by Stirling University)
Wednesday 29 November
D1, Pathfoot Building
Stirling University
2.00-2.30
Registration
2.30-4.00
New Research on Migration, Reception and Diaspora
James Procter (Newcastle),
Bethan Benwell
(Stirling), Gemma Robinson (Stirling)
‘Making Sense of “Diaspora”
in Central Scotland: an introduction
to the AHRC “Devolving Diasporas”
Project’
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/large_research_projects.htm
Corinne Fowler (Lancaster)
‘How the Experience of Migration has Informed
and Influenced
Writing in Greater Manchester from 1960 to the
Present: a mid-point
assessment of the AHRC “Moving Manchester
/ Mediating Marginalities”
Project’
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/
Gail Low (Dundee)
Diaspora and English Studies in Scotland’s
higher education institutions: an English Subject
Centre Project
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/studexp/studexp1.php
4.00-4.15
Break
4.15-5.30
Locating Diasporas in the Arts
Juliet Wragge-Morley (British
Council)
‘EnCompassCulture: the British Council
and worldwide reading
groups’
http://www.encompassculture.com/
Grant Williams (Macrobert
arts centre)
Adapting Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers
with macrobert youth
theatre
http://www.macrobert.stir.ac.uk/MACROBERT/whoweare/index.htm
2. Reading, Reception, Diaspora
(hosted by Newcastle University)
An afternoon workshop run
in conjunction with the AHRC ‘Diasporas,
Migration & Identities’ initiative
and the Postcolonial Research Group.
Speakers:
»
Derek Attridge (University of York)
»
Beatrice Colley (Liverpool Reads and Small Island
Read 2007)
»
Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester)
»
Lynne Pearce (Lancaster University)
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