Exiled Writers Ink invites you to participate in:
4 FREE POETRY WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR REFUGEES AND EXILES
Tuesdays 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October, 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Where do you come from, what is your identity?
If you are interested in writing poems about your life experiences and what it is like to be exiled in a new [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 25, 2007
Free poetry writing workshops for refugees and exiles
September 25, 2007
Lecture on ‘Stereotypes and Strangers: Muslims in Film and Television Drama since 9/11′
23 October 2007, 5.30pm, Room NG 15, Senate House, University of London
Dr. Peter Morey
‘Stereotypes and Strangers: Muslims in Film and Television Drama since 9/11′
Seminar ‘Inter-University Postcolonial Studies’, organised by the Institute for English Studies, University of London
Dr. Peter Morey is Reader in English at the University of East London. He is author of ‘Fictions of [...]
September 25, 2007
Call for Contributions: Exiled Ink Magazine
The editorial committee of Exiled Ink magazine, a magazine featuring the work of exiled writers, invite contributions for the next issue.
Deadline: end of September 2007
Please send contributions to: jennifer@exiledwriters.fsnet.co.uk
For more information see: http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/
September 25, 2007
Rrahman Dedaj at the Exiled Lit Cafe
Monday 8th October 2007 (2nd Monday of the month) at 7.30 pm
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2 (Covent Garden tube)
Rain Cries in Kew Gardens
SHIU QAN NË KEW GARDENS
The evening is dedicated to one of the greatest Kosovar Albanian poets: Rrahman Dedaj who recently died in exile in London with with poetry performed by his daughter, Arta [...]
September 18, 2007
Weblogs effects on Social Interactions/Capital
A group of researchers at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are investigating effects of Weblogs on “Social Capital”. Therefore, they have designed an online survey. By participating in this survey you will help researches in “Management Information Systems” and “Sociology”. You must be at least 18 years old to participate in this survey. It will [...]
September 17, 2007
CFP: Conference on Museums and Refugees
Museum in Docklands, London, 13-14 March 2008
Deadline for call of papers: 17 October 2007
How do museums and more broadly the heritage sector engage with refugees and asylum seekers and the increased global focus on forced migration? The collective and individual voices of the people are rarely heard and often misrepresented in the media. Museums, academic research centres, non-government [...]
September 12, 2007
Free IT Courses for Refugees and Asylum Seekers – Update
Community Media Design have a few places left on their course ‘Introduction to Using Computers’.
This is a FREE COURSE specially designed for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Suitable for absolute beginners to intermediate users the course covers Word Processing, File Management, Spreadsheets, Computer Management, Emails, Using the Internet, and Computer Security.
13 weeks, 2 flexible afternoon workshops [...]
September 12, 2007
Seminar: ‘Distant Voices’
Culture East Midlands & ‘Making the Connections’ present
‘DISTANT VOICES’
Migrant workers, representation & the arts
THE 5th ‘MAKING THE CONNECTIONS’ RESEARCH SEMINAR
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Trinity Arts Centre, Grantham
11am – 4pm
These days, everyone seems to be talking about migrant workers. But while the views of politicians, academics, researchers and campaigners fill the airwaves, the voices of those [...]
September 12, 2007
Online debate about immigration and refugees
Join in a lively online debate about immigration, inclusion, and refugees at www.friction.tv
Three volunteers from 19 Princelet Street, the Museum of Immigration and Diversity, have uploaded three very different videos about these issues, and need your support to help make this a hot debate. To join the debate please visit:
http://www.frictiontv.com/debate.php?debateno=774
http://www.friction.tv/profile.php?userid=7bfc85efb233dd4097a587f3125b39cb
http://www.frictiontv.com/debate.php?debateno=774&videono=775
September 11, 2007
CFP: Media and Migration
Call for papers
Media and Migration Workshop
at the 14 Nordic Migration Researchers Conference in Bergen Norway, hosted
by IMER/UiB, the International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit
at the University of Bergen 14-16. Nov 2007.
Submission of abstract: 15 September
Submission of paper: 15 October
Registration : 25 October
Mediated communication plays an influential role in demographically and
culturally changing societies. It is [...]
