EEA/EU Staff Immigration Advice Seminar

Places are still available on the EEA/EU Staff Immigration Advice Seminar on Thursday 22 September, 9.30-10.30am […]

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EEA/EU staff immigration advice seminar and workshops – additional date 22 September

A full day of Staff Immigration Advice Seminars with Paragon Law was held on Wednesday 27 […]

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Working with mathematics teachers to develop whole-class talk – CANCELLED

A Centre for Research in Mathematics Education seminar presented by Dr Jenni Ingram, Oxford University Department of Education.

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How leaders succeed in challenging reform contexts

CRELM Launch Event. Presented by Dame Alison Peacock, Professor Judyth Sachs and Professor Christopher Day.

Tags: CRELM, Dame Alison Peacock, Professor Christopher Day, Professor Judyth Sachs, School of Education, seminar

Symposium on Rasch Analysis

The School of Education would like to invite you to attend a Symposium on Rasch Analysis, culminating with a seminar presented by Professor David Andrich, Chapple Chair in Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia.

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Heavenly sounds in hi-fi: the art and philosophy of easy listening

Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multifaceted and complex genre.

Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar

The rebirth of the protest song in the era of #BlackLivesMatter

Music has played a key role in the angry response to racist policing and contemporary America. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, plays and discusses some examples and asks whether the protest song is enjoying an artistic and political renaissance.

Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar

‘Black Man Struggle’ – Jamaican Pop from Mento to Dancehall

Patrick Henderson, doctoral student and C3R associate, surveys Jamaican pop music from the 1950s to the present day, playing and discussing examples of mento, ska, reggae and dancehall and considering their cultural significance.

Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, Patrick Henderson, race and rights, seminar

‘I must keep fighting until I’m dying’ – Paul Robeson’s Freedom and Protest Songs

In this session, C3R postdoctoral co-director Hannah Durkin plays and discusses the slave spirituals and international protest songs of African American singer Paul Robeson to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.

Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Hannah Durkin, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar

China (Shanghai) pilot-free trade zone: innovation reform and bottleneck restriction

Dr Guilong Shen, Shanghai Academy of Social Science, delivers this seminar. Part of the China Seminar Series.

Tags: China, Guilong Shen, Innovation, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, seminar, Shanghai