Research cluster B6: Linguistic, cultural and religious diversity and related policies
Contact
Cluster leader: Steve Vertovec/Susanne Wessendorf
Institute: Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
University: University of Oxford
Address: 58 Banburry Road
Postal Code: OX2 6QS Oxford
Country: United Kingdom
Email: Susanne Wessendorf: susanne.wessendorf@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk
Work Programme until October 2008
This cluster is organized into 5 thematic streams: 1) cities of diversity: the spatial nexus; 2) public religion and secular democracy; 3) language policy and practices; 4) ethnic minority and immigrants cultural productions as forms of political expression; and 5) debating cultural differences. The 1st stream will organise a follow-up workshop in Rabat to discuss publication possibilities, research proposals and policy recommendations. Sstream 2 will organise a conference on Changes in Colonial and Post-colonial Governance of Islam. The 3rd stream will continue its work on biliteracy issues in cooperation with the interdisciplinary and international project Literacy Acquisition in Schools in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism (funded by the German Volkswagen foundation). They will organize an international conference that will focus on issues of classroom interaction and literacy acquisition. The aim of stream 4 is to develop a research project that will study arts and culture as forms of political expression from a transnationalist perspective. Finally, stream 5 will prepare two publications (Legal practice and cultural diversity and Debating cultural Difference: the family) and organise an international conference on Interlegality and internormativity in multicultural Europe. More info:...
