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Superdiversity and trans-ethnography

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Thursday 4 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:30

As part of its Sadler Seminar Series 2016, the Leeds Voices project is delighted to welcome Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) to the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) presents a seminar on Superdiversity and trans-ethnography on Thursday 4th February, 2:00-3:30pm in Seminar Room 1, Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

There will be time for questions following the Seminar. All are welcome.

Suzanne is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Research Fellow, LSE Cities, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She is an urban ethnographer, currently working on the micro-economies and spaces of urban migration. Suzanne was recently awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2015-2017) for a comparative project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and Spaces of Migration in UK Cities’, which builds on a previous London-based project, ‘Ordinary Streets’ http://lsecities.net/objects/research-projects/ordinary-streets. Recent work on Rye Lane markets in London is showcased in this film: https://lsecities.net/media/objects/events/ordinary-streets-film-launch

Her research monograph, City, Street and Citizen: The measure of the ordinary, was published in 2012.

Leeds Voices: Communicating superdiversity in the market

Leeds Voices is the first phase of a trans-disciplinary programme to explore modes of accommodation across diverse public spaces within the city of Leeds. Taking a multimodal focus on superdiversity, this project focuses on the voices of Leeds Kirkgate Market – a historical linguistic/cultural hub for dense interethnic exchanges that is currently undergoing rapid change. Over this Seminar Series, we consider processes of exceptional multi-ethnic accommodation and micro-interaction in Kirkgate Market within a wider discursive context of inter-ethnic conflict as increasingly normative.

 Sadler Seminar Series 2016:

Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) Superdiversity and trans-ethnography

Thursday 4 February 2:00pm-3:30pm LHRI Seminar Room 1

William Gould and Penny Rivlin (Leeds), Superdiverse stories: Oral histories of the market

Thursday 3 March 2:00-3:30pm LHRI Seminar Room 1

Simon Popple (Leeds), Community Digital Archiving: Leeds Voices and 'Yarn'

Tuesday 26 April 2:00-3:30pm LHRI Seminar Room 1

Elisabetta Adami (Leeds), Multimodality and superdiversity: towards a sociosemiotic landscape of trans, inter and multicultural layering in Kirkgate Market

Tuesday 24 May 2:00-3:30pm LHRI Seminar Room 1