"British ‘Soft Power’ in Perspective: Culture and Diplomacy"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Winter 2013/14

  • Date: Dec 5, 2013
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie Gillespie (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
  • Marie Gillespie is Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She researches diaspora and national media cultures comparatively, historically and ethnographically. Her interests cluster around South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas, cultural transnationalism, and changing configurations of audiences and publics in relation to question of citizenship. Marie was awarded an AHRC Public Policy Fellowship in 2011 to develop research on the interface between international broadcasting and social media, specifically in relation to the BBC Arabic Services.
  • Location: Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15
  • Room: Hörsaal Ethnologie
"British ‘Soft Power’ in Perspective: Culture and Diplomacy"
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr

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