The UCL FRINGE Centre wishes you a Very Fluid and Elusive New Year!
May your hopes and aspirations be ever multivalent and resistant to linear analysis!
We have an exciting roster of events coming up in the next few months—book launches, workshops and conferences—so please stay tuned or check out our website for further details. For those of you in the UCL area, we will be organising in the next couple of weeks a ‘FRINGE-In’, where FRINGErs both actual and potential can come to discuss their research, and how it might be FRINGE-y or made more so, in an informal atmosphere over wine and nibbles; details will be sent out soon.
The FRINGE Series (UCL Press) is flourishing: We not only have a growing list of volumes-in-progress, but in the next few weeks our first volumes are due out! Prof. Alena Ledeneva, ed., The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, vols. 1 and 2 (listed here on Amazon). We will have a book launch in March to celebrate this landmark!
With all best wishes for the coming year, and looking forward to seeing you in the near future!
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Crossing the Great Divide? Reassessing East-West Relations During the Cold War and After
When: 25 Jan 2018, 6pm to 7:30pm
Where: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, Wilkins Building, WC1E 6BT
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Evolving and multivalent, Russia’s relationship to the West is not a simple one to uncover, let alone to evaluate. This panel discussion, with authors Dr. Egle Rindzeviciute and Prof. Irina Busygina will shed new light on East-West relations by analysing sources of contemporary tension and evaluating little known areas of cooperation during the Cold War.
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Shame on You? Theorising Shame, Pride and Community in Contemporary Culture
When: 09 Feb 2018, 10am to 7pm
Where: Banqueting Hall Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU
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With shame still being used as a means of excluding groups on the basis of sexual identities, this event will explore the experiences of those that are marginalized and the ways in which excluded groups are using shame as a way of carving out new positive identities. With a focus of issues of gender, class, and pan-sexuality.
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 The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Vols. 1 and 2
January will mark the release of the first volumes in the FRINGE Series (UCL Press); Alena Ledeneva, ed., The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, vols. 1 and 2. A book launch will be held at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies on 22 March 2018.
Broadly defined as "ways of getting things done," the invisible yet powerful concepts of "informal practices" tend to escape articulation in official discourse. These practices include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. Yet, the possible paradox of the indiscernibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Alena Ledeneva's wholly unique two-volume work collaborates with over two hundred scholars across five continents, illustrating how informal practices are deeply embedded across the globe yet still remain underestimated in policy-making procedures.
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