Multiculturalism

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Racial Culture: A Critique	What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? Richard Thompson Ford, the George Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and author of Racial Culture: A Critique, discussed his book at a free public lecture at the University of Oregon as the 2005-2006 Colin Ruagh Thomas O'Fallon Lecturer in Law and American Culture. In his lecture, Ford questioned the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices. The O'Fallon Lecture was established by a generous gift from Henry and Betsy Mayer, named in memory of their nephew, son of law professor James O'Fallon and his wife, artist Ellen Thomas.	100 views
Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People	Noted historian Nell Irvin Painter is a professor emerita at Princeton and the author of numerous books, including Sojouner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; Standing at Armageddon; and Southern History Across the Color Line.	2346
Multinationalism and nationbuilding in West Africa - the Case of Ghana: Michael Amoah	Dr Michael Amoah, Associate at LSE Ideas, presenting a seminar on nationalism in West Africa. Part of the 2010/2011 ASEN themed seminar series ""Nation building for the 21st Century: Reflections on the impact of migration, multinationalism and multiculturalism on the nation building project".	208 views
Ian Buruma: Eurabia, Truth or Paranoia?	Ian Buruma delivered the 2009 Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics on Thursday, October 15. Burumas talk, Eurabia: Truth or Paranoia dealt with the fears of Islamicization in the countries of Western Europe, with examples drawn from current debates in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Buruma, who is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, spoke about the ethical, political and cultural challenges rising from the changing demographics of Western Europe, and deftly separated unjustified paranoia over these changes from reasonable anxiety.	2220 views
the politics of religion. lecture 15. identity and multiculturalism	Lecture 15 for the module, 'the politics of religion'. Examines the themes of identity and multiculturalism, considering the extent to which identity politics are beneficial or negative. The module is taught by Dr Steven Kettell, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.	41 views
Is There A Future For Multiculturalism?	Speaker(s): Dr Jonathan Chaplin, Alan Craig, Claire Fox, Professor Tariq Modood Chair: Jane Little Recorded on 20 October 2011 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Recent years have seen politicians and commentators of all stripes lining up to condemn multiculturalism. This event asks whether we are right to bury state multiculturalism, having once praised it so energetically. The debate coincides with the launch of Multiculturalism: a Christian retrieval from Theos. Jonathan Chaplin is the first director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. Alan Craig is the leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance. Until May 2010 he also led the CPA councillors on Newham Borough Council in London. Claire Fox is director of the Institute of Ideas. Tariq Modood is director of the Centre for Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. Jane Little is a writer and broadcaster, regularly presenting Woman's Hour, Sunday, Last Word, and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. After a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard to study the relationship between religion and politics in the US she worked as a producer and reporter on The World at WGBH Boston, before returning to create the post of religious affairs correspondent at the BBC World Service. Audio mp3 podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEv...	2036 views
American Multicultural Studies - November 2, 2011	American Multicultural Studies 475, Globalization and Race in the U.S November 2, 2011: Grace Sato, Latino Social Entrepreneur	64 views
American Multicultural Studies - November 9, 2011	American Multicultural Studies Class lecture November 9, Nina Simons, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, BIONEERS	119 views
Dr John Hewson: Multiculturalism - success or failure? At ANU, March 2011	Australia's multicultural agenda has been under the spotlight. While migrants became an election issue, recent comments by European politicians about the failure of multiculturalism seemed to resonate with Australians. In this video, economist and Former Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson, talks about Australia's vision of multiculturalism and whether we can create a government and policy structure that can succeed where others have failed. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 17 March 2011. Dr John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system. He was a member of parliament for eight years, four of which were as Leader of the Liberal Party and Federal Coalition in Opposition for four years. Since leaving politics in early 1995, Dr Hewson has run his own private investment banking business and was, until December 2004, a Member of the Advisory Council of ABN AMRO, having previously been Chairman of the Bank. In addition he is Chairman of Osteoporosis Australia and Arthritis Research Taskforce. He is also a Director of a number of other companies. Dr Hewson also writes an opinion column for the Australian Financial Review and is a Panellist on the Sky News Agenda program. This lecture is being hosted by the Freilich Foundation and The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA). FECCA is the peak national body for all multicultural communities in Australia. They provide advocacy, develop policy and promote issues on behalf of their constituency to government and the broader community. FECCA supports multiculturalism, community harmony, social justice and the rejection of all forms of discrimination and racism.	3896
Multicultural Modernism	Steven Ehrlich Rice School of Architecture Fall 2009 Lecture Series	203 views
Ram Gidoomal CBE - Sustaining Dialogue: Multicultural Societies Under Pressure	Ram Gidoomal CBE presents the lecture: "Sustaining Dialogue: Multicultural Societies Under Pressure" for the Festival of Social Sciences 2011.	34 views
Diversity and the Boundaries of Belonging	Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (Sep 10, 2006 at the Class of 2010 Freshman Assembly, Princeton University)	53 views
Social Movements and Participatory Cultural Democracy in Latin America and the U S	James Counts Early, Director, Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian Institution The financial crash in the United States and the economic "push and pull" factors of migration, immigration, and transnational cultural identity have sparked new conservative and radical perspectives on social movements and participatory cultural democracy. Across the ideological and political spectrum there are growing challenges to the status-quo, including the Tea Party Movement in the U.S. and new democracy movements among Latinos. Dr. Early will examine the nexus of participatory democracy and pluralist socialist movements that have altered the state of national politics and cultural identity in Latin American and the U.S. Sponsors: Dresher Center for the Humanities, Language, Literacy and Culture Program, and the Department of Sociology	584 views
The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?	As part of UMBC's Humanities Forum, this is a lecture by Claudia Koonz, Department of History, Duke University. Even as the European Union promises to create shared cultural values, vehement disagreements about the Muslim headscarf reveal deep divisions within German, French, and British attitudes to immigrants. Does a woman wearing a headscarf, or hijab, signify subservience to oppression, an identity statement, or religious piety? Who has the right to decide? Professor Koonz explores the answers to these questions within three visual cultures as a way of connecting gender, Islam, and human rights.	1239 views
Robert Jensen;Beyond Multiculturalism
Why We Defend Multiculturalism - Regine Pilling	Socialist Voice about multiculturalism	375 views
Slavoj Zizek Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism discussion	The master class analyses phenomena of modern thought and culture with the intention to discern elements of possible Communist culture. It moves at two levels: first, it interprets some cultural phenomena (from today's architecture to classic literary works like Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise) as failures to imagine or enact a Communist culture; second, it explores attempts at imagining how a Communist culture could look, from Wagner's Ring to Kafka's and Beckett's short stories and contemporary science fiction novels.	1024 views
Interculturalism and multiculturalism: the new European debate	'Multiculturalism is dead, long live Interculturalism!' Some people think that given the extensive critiques of multiculturalism have rightly finished it off, interculturalism is a suitable successor concept for productively engaging with the diversity that is a social fact in many of the large towns and cities of western Europe. Advocates of a political interculturalism wish to emphasise its positive qualities in terms of encouraging communication, recognising dynamic identities, promoting unity and critiquing illiberal cultural practices. Yet each of these qualities too are important (on occasion foundational) features of multiculturalism. At best, on this reading interculturalism would be a version or revision of multiculturalism not its successor. I explore some other readings of interculturalism to probe further why some might think or pretend otherwise. They may think interculturalism is about lived experience and locality. Or, they may think like their Quebecan counterparts, that interculturalism appropriately recognises the normative claims of a national culture (perhaps within a larger federation). Or, they may think that interculturalism is a much-needed rebranding of multiculturalism. While something can be learnt from each of these, none of them is able to substitute multiculturalism, which accommodates parts of the population that other modes of integration do not and so is indispensable to the integration of post-immigration 'difference' in Europe.	268 views
Rights of women and the crisis of multiculturalism: Prof. Anne Phillips	Professor Anne Phillips, Director of the Gender Institute at LSE, presenting on "rights of women as a crisis of multiculturalism".	492 views
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe: Umut Özkırımlı	The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the dangerous nature of the current debates on immigration and multiculturalism in today's 'omniphobic' Europe, plagued not only by a severe economic crisis, but also a more general normative crisis, a 'crisis of values', which has been consistently overlooked or manipulated by politicians and academics alike, or reduced to an epiphenomenon bound to disappear when financial balances are restored. Prof. Özkırımlı will argue in this context that nationalism (in some cases even outright racism) is key to understanding this crisis, a catalyst acting either as a cause or a symptom, and almost always as a profound source of legitimacy. Following a brief critique of the literature on the purported 'death' of multiculturalism—the academic side of the same coin—he will conclude by sketching the normative contours of an alternative model of multiculturalism, one that stresses the importance of the ideas of recognition, redistribution and participation.	204 views
Peoples, self-determination and secession: Prof. Michel Seymour	Professor Michel Seymour, Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, presenting "Peoples, self-determination and secession".	503 views
Ethnicity in France: Professor Alec Hargreaves	Prof Alec Hargreaves (Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French and Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University) presenting on "Ethnicity in France". Part of the 2010/2011 ASEN themed seminar series ""Nation building for the 21st Century: Reflections on the impact of migration, multinationalism and multiculturalism on the nation building project".	185 views