HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Catherine Arthur & Anna Vainio
| Dates: | 6 November 2018 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Catherine Arthur, Anna Vainio |
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HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate research students.
First Speaker: Catherine Arthur
Title: Political Symbols: How we Build Nations and National Identities
Description: The topic of the paper will broadly be the critical importance of analysing political symbols in studies of nation-building, as they're often overlooked, taking examples from Timor-Leste to illustrate.
Second Speaker: Anna Vainio
Title: Who decides what's 'recovery'?
Description: Anna will be talking about her research findings from a 13-month ethnography in the Tohoku region in Japan between 2015-16. The talk will focus on the gap between theory and practice of community-based approaches to post-disaster recovery, and why understanding this gap is important for developing better recovery programmes and approaches.
For more information about the Institute, our anniversary, events, and more, visit: https://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/about/10-years-hcri/
Speakers
Catherine Arthur
Role: Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies
Organisation: The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)
Biography: Catherine Arthur's research focuses on post-colonial, post-conflict state- and nation-building and national identity construction, taking the case study of Timor-Leste as a focal point of analysis. This research is informed by Northern Ireland, as a similarly transitional post-conflict society. Her expertise is more broadly in the areas of identity studies, symbols, and peace and conflict studies, framed by theories from Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology. Dr Arthur's background is in Modern Languages and International Relations
Anna Vainio
Role: Visiting Research Student
Organisation: The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)
Biography: Anna is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield and currently a visiting research student for two months at HCRI. She is undertaking anthropological research on long-term community recovery after disasters in post-growth societies, with a special focus on Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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