WLRI DProf Seminars: Globalisation

Last updated: 16/04/10

WLRI DProf Seminars: Globalisation

We are delighted to invite colleagues to the Working Lives Research Institute seminar on Friday 21^st May.

This is a ‘double’ seminar which focuses on aspects of Globalisation and enables two of our esteemed Londonmet colleagues to share their research and writing with us.

Professor Mike Newman will speak on 'The Contradictions of Humanitarian Intervention’ and Dr Lyn Thomas on: 'The construction of Muslim and Irish communities as 'suspect' in Britain 1974-2007: representations and experiences'.

The session runs between 12.15 and 3.30. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Room: JS2-75

Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry St
London EC3N 2EY

See our contact page for directions and map.

Mike Newman is a Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies. He is the author of several books, including Socialism and European Unity (Hurst, 1983), Harold Laski – A Political Biography (Macmillan, 1993), Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union (Hurst, 1996) Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left (Merlin 2002), and Socialism – A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005). His latest book is Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009).

Lyn Thomas is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University, where she taught French from 1989 to 2005. Her writings include Annie Ernaux, an introduction to the writer and her audience (Berg, 1999), Fans, Feminisms and ‘Quality’ Media (Routledge, 2002) and Annie Ernaux, à la première personne (Stock, 2005). She was responsible for the media study in the ESRC/AHRC ‘Cultures of Consumption’ Programme research project on ‘Alternative Hedonism and the Theory and Politics of Consumption’ and co-edited The Theory and Politics of Consuming Differently with Kate Soper and Martin Ryle (Palgrave, 2008). She is currently editing Religion, Consumerisam and Sustainability: Paradise Lost? for Palgrave. She is co-applicant in an ESRC project on the representation of ‘suspect’ communities in multi-ethnic Britain and the impact on Muslim and Irish communities, where again, she is leading the media study. Her research interests include religion, spirituality and media; audiences and fan cultures; and lifestyle and reality television. She is a member of the Feminist Review Editorial Collective.