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Special Seminar - Racism in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization - 7 March
CCG Book Launch - 15 February
Dr Michele Lobo - Double Booked!
PhD scholarship at CCG
Racism in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization
with Dr Philomena Essed
March 7 2012 12pm, The Blue Room
RSVP Essential by COB 1 March - RSVP now
Abstract
The European unification has been foremost a project of whiteness. Notions of tolerance, multiculturalism and antiracism, somewhat popular in the 1980s, have all but disappeared from political agendas. The turn of the century has been witness to the emergence of what I call entitlement racism: the idea that majority populations have the right to offend and to humiliate the ‘Other’. Expressions of this form of racism vary according to racial, ethnic and religious group attributions and can range from assimilative paternalism to extreme cultural humiliation. The Netherlands is a case in point.
Discover more about the event, including information about Dr Essed's professional background on our event website.
CCG Book Launch
CCG will host a book launch for two recent publications Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Relations in a Global World at 12:30pm on the 15 February in C2.05.
The event will include special guests, Deakin University Vice Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander, Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Brenda Cherednichenko and Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Dr B Hass Dellal OAM. 
Visit our event website to view details of the publications including abstracts, reviews and information about the editors.
For more information, or to RSVP to the event email CCG.
Read from Dr Michele Lobo's about her double book launch here.
PhD scholarship at CCG
Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, is currently inviting outstanding candidates to apply for a PhD scholarship to be undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) project.
Since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has suffered an extraordinary era of both heritage destruction and devastating spikes in violence. The core aim of this project is to empirically test the assumption that a significant relationship exists between these two phenomena. To do this, the project will develop the world's first database of heritage destruction in Iraq via interviews, archival research and fieldwork. This database will then be correlated with existing measures of violence in Iraq to determine the precise nature of their relationship. This will set the precedent for studies of both heritage and violence and enable policy formation towards the minimization of heritage destruction and spikes in violence during times of conflict.
The project aims are:
- Developing the world's first database that documents, over a crucial almost nine-year period (2003-11), the destruction of heritage in Iraq.
- Examining whether or not, and to what extent, a significant relationship exists between the heritage destruction documented in this database, and spikes of violence as documented in existing and reliable measures such as the Iraq Body Count database.
- Setting a significant precedent in studies of both heritage and violence by providing innovative methods that can then be applied to other contexts (past, present or future) in which the destruction of cultural heritage and violence occur simultaneously - and to thereby enable policy formation that minimises (or prevents altogether) heritage destruction and spikes in violence during times of conflict.
For more information including eligibility requirements, visit our website.
