Visiting Research Fellow in Humanities

During the autumn term the Faculty of Arts' School of Humanities at Pavilion Parade will host a Visiting Research Fellow. Dr Alice Feldman is a Lecturer in the School of Sociology at University College Dublin (UCD) and co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative. She is visiting University of Brighton as a Marie Cure Transfer of Knowledge Fellow in the programme 'Toward a Egalitarian and Socially Inclusive Europe'. The aim of this Transfer of Knowledge programme is to develop organisational capacity in interdisciplinary approaches to equality and social justice, and specifically, to develop the Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI) at UCD. The School of Humanities (formerly Historical and Critical Studies) is a partner in the Marie Curie programme, and in 2008 hosted the visit of another Transfer of Knowledge Fellow, Dr Geraldine Moane.

Alice's current work focuses on the evolving notions of identity‚ and heritage‚ in the contexts of everyday social and civic life that are obscured and silenced by official, nationalist/state-based discourses and practices. It draws on the experiences and creative agency of both host‚ and new migrant residents, articulated through a variety of media and methodologies, to gain greater insights into the dynamics of inclusion and belonging in the new‚ Ireland. She can be contacted at alice.feldman@ucd.ie (mobile: +353 868223068) See also www.ucd.ie/sociology and www.ucd.ie/mcri

Alice Feldman delivers a paper entitled, 'Transforming Dissonance: The Creative Dislocations of Global Un/belonging in Everyday Life "Heritage"' at the Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetics Seminar, 6.30pm on Thursday October 15, 2009.

Venue: Lecture Theatre G7

Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities

Pavilion Parade