What's On? - Events & Exhibitions at ICOSS
ICOSS is the home of Social Science in Sheffield and as such we play host to a wide range of events from across the faculty and aim to run Social Science themed exhibitions every month. While many of the meetings held here are private, project-related or invitation only, there are lots of others open to academics, researchers and students from across the university. Below are details of upcoming events and exhibitions at ICOSS which may be of interest to, and open to, a wider audience:
MAY 2013 - Exhibition: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law
In an increasingly globalised world, law and legal issues often have a dimension that is not confined by national boundaries. The research of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) focuses on the global and European aspects of legal issues, and more broadly draws on the Law School’s strengths in many forms of International, European and Comparative Law to consider the wider implications of current problems.
An exhibition of SCIEL's work will run throughout May in the ICOSS Foyer, beginning Tuesday 7th May.
22 MAY 2013 - SIID Seminar: Taming the Risk: The World Bank Group and Mining Regimes in Asia
Sheffield Institute of International Development (SIID) is pleased to announce that Pascale Hatcher, Associate Professor at the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan will be discussing her latest research into the role of the World Bank Group in fostering New Mining Regimes in Asia.
This event will take place at 3pm in the ICOSS Boardroom.
Please email Chris Willman (gga10cpw@sheffield.ac.uk) to register your attendance.
The presentation will examine the emergence of new mining regimes in the Asian region. An emphasis will be given to the specific role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) - including its parts such as International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency - in re-invigorating the mining sector in the region, notably the Philippines, Mongolia and Laos. While the World Bank has been quick to advocate for new fiscal incentives for foreign investors and for further deregulation, it has also been advocating for greater socio-environmental safeguards. However, the case-studies show that this new "pro-poor" development model for the mining sector comes despite significant local opposition and despite the Bank's own Extractive Industries Review.
The cases show that the multi-front presence of the WBG has been transforming the roles, responsibilities and legitimacy of the stakeholders involved in mining activities. It is argued that beyond the newly defined social-development narrative championed by each member of the Group, the actual safeguards and policies being carried out in the mining sector may be better understood as tools to circumscribe the risks faced by the Industry, rather than by local populations. This further stresses the particular contradictions inherent to the concerted actions of on the one hand, the World Bank itself, which has been especially active in promoting new mining regimes in country clients, and on the other hand, IFC and MIGA, which have been benefiting from such regimes by engaging in for-profit
activities in the very sector.
Pascale is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Groupe de Recherche sur les Activites Minieres en Afrique (GRAMA), Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Canada). More information on her research interests can be found here: http://research-db.ritsumei.ac.jp/Profiles/91/0009042/prof_e.html
22 MAY 2013 - Methods Workshop: Questionnaire Design
Dr Alvaro Martinez-Perez, ICOSS Research Assosciate, is running a workshop on designing surveys and questionnaires.
This will run 22nd May (3-5pm) in the ICOSS Conference Room.
Numbers will be limited. Please book your place with Jayne Parkin (J.E.Parkin@sheffield.ac.uk)
5 JUNE 2013 - Seminar: "A social experiment in the musical economy: Terra Firma, EMI and calling creativity to account"
On Friday 5th June, ICOSS hosts a seminar on "A social experiment in the musical economy" by Professor Andrew Leyshon of Nottingham University.
The event will take place at 5pm in the ICOSS Boardroom.
For more information, please contact Jayne Parkin (J.E.Parkin@sheffield.ac.uk)
13 JUNE 2013 - Faculty Fellowship Seminar: "Viral Citizenship: Considering the use of ICTs in Citizenship"
Dr Dan Hammett of the Department of Geography and a Faculty Research Fellow gives a seminar titled "Viral Citizenship: Considering the use of ICTs in Citizenship".
This talk will take place on Thursday 13th June at 12pm in the ICOSS Boardroom.
For more information, please contact Jayne Parkin (J.E.Parkin@sheffield.ac.uk)
19 JUNE 2013 - Seminar: "Negotiating Boundaries of Tween Culture on Stardoll"
On Wednesday 19th June, IRiS and the Centre for Gender Research jointly host a seminar on "Negotiating Boundaries of Tween Culture on Stardoll" by Izzy Gutteridge of Warwick University.
The event will take place 12-1pm in the ICOSS Boardroom.
For more information, please contact Jayne Parkin (J.E.Parkin@sheffield.ac.uk)
19 JUNE 2013 - Faculty inaugural lecture: Professor Elizabeth Wood
Professor Elizabeth Wood, School of Education, will give her inaugural lecture "Magic, mayhem and moral order in young children's play" on Wednesday 19th June 2013, 5pm, in the ICOSS Conference Room.
"Children’s play is often interpreted from an educational perspective in terms of its contribution to their learning and development. But the rhetoric of progress has come to embody the taming of play and the taming of children. Both seek to constrain the apparent chaos and disorder that play represents, and have the effect of denying or ignoring the cultural, social and symbolic complexities that are typical of freely chosen, child-initiated play.
What emerges when we foreground those complexities are children’s different routes to power through imagined selves, including their inventive uses of magic as a means of both creating mayhem and apparent disorder. They skirt the boundaries of rebellion, resistance, deviance, misrule, propriety and confrontation; they manage multiple identities, and exercise power and agency in ways that may not be approved by adults. But at the same time, they resolve contradictions, negotiate rules and compromises, and create the conditions in which their own versions of moral order can be restored.
I will examine the ways in which children create their own social and symbolic complexity, based on the creation of semiotic associations, and shared meanings and intentions. I will consider the theoretical implications of the different ways in which play is understood, and the different sites in which those understandings are constructed."
For more details, please contact Gaynor Hague (g.hague@sheffield.ac.uk)
2 JULY 2013 - Seminar: "The power of co-operation"
On Tuesday 2nd July, ICOSS hosts a seminar on "The power of co-operation" by Ed Mayo of Co-operatives UK.
The event will take place at 5pm in the ICOSS Boardroom.
Booking is not required but is recommended. Please contact Jayne Parkin (J.E.Parkin@sheffield.ac.uk)