Work in Progress Seminars

Work in Progress Seminars

Works in Progress - 2004

Programme 1: The cultural roots of Maltese Identity.  Christian myths and social memory in a Mediterranean frontier society?
Dr Carmel Cassar
Programme 1 continued

Programme 2: Refugees, illegals and immigrants in Malta
Fr Pierre Grech Marguerat, Ms Marcia Grima
Programme 2 continued

Programme 3: Why Catholicism can understand Islam.  Anthropology and religious awareness
Dr Paul Clough
Programme 3 continued

Programme 4: Suicide in the Jane tradition
Dr James Laidlaw
Programme 4 continued

Programme 5: Theorising in the humanities the post 9/11 period
Dr Ivan Callus
Programme 5 continued

Programme 6: Unravelling queerness in social research
Mr Robert Mizzi
Programme 6 continued

Programme 7: Recent Maltese literature and its understanding of racial and cultural difference
Dr Adrian Grima
Programme 7 continued

Programme 8: Articulating the Klandestini experience. Literary and refugee voices.
Dr Adrian Grima; Popol; Norbert Bugeja
Programme 8 continued

Works in Progress - 2005

From Inmate to Stalemate - the rejected asylum seeker
Dr Ruth Farrugia

Refugees and Immigrants - the view from anthropology
Dr Paul Clough, Dr Mark Falzon, Mr Ranier Fsadni, Dr David Zammit

Attitudes of university students towards Maltese, English and Italian languages
Dr Sandro Caruana

Critical Pedagogy from a Southern European Perspective
Dr Carmel Borg, Prof. Peter Mayo

Gender and the Digital Divide:  Who knows? Who cares? 
Dr Mary Darmanin

Works in Progress - 2005 Special Series

The Protestant Ethic turns 100.

Revisiting Weber's Protestant Ethic. A Critical Exposition
Prof. Peter Mayo

Protestantism, Ethnicity and the Spirit of Capitalism
Prof. Ursula Apitzsch, Goethe University

The Muslim Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Dr Paul Clough

Works in Progress: 2006-2008

A Passion for the Birds: Historical, ecological and social aspects of hunting in Malta and the Mediterranean
Dr Mark Anthony Falzon

Ethnographic knowledge has the power to transform: it may also be ignored, blocked or misappropriated
Judith Okely

George Bataille's Interpretation of Potlach and the Gift
Francois Zammit

God protect me from my friends, prelates, politicians and psychologists in contemporary Malta
Dr Mark Anthony Falzon

Humour and Pluralism. Kirkegaard on Religious Diversity
Prof. George Connell

Nostalgia, History and Sheiks in the Libyan Ma'luf: Listening in the Shadows of the Past
Dr Philip Ciantar

Political and cultural formation in the work of Antonio Grimsci
Prof. Peter Mayo

Reading Gramsci: Philology and Critical Method
Prof. Joseph Buttigieg, Professor of English, Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.

Towards an Anthropology of Migrating Scene Culture: What does Walter Benjamin offer in the age of Globalization?
Dr John Grech, International Communications lecturer, MacQuare University, Sydney

Works in Progress - 2009

Arts Pedagogical Policy
Prof. John Baldacchino

Music and the Global Order
Dr Martin Stokes

On Performing Statues
Dr Jon Mitchell

Cookery books and Maltese national ideology
Elise Pisani, Anthropologist

Works in Progress - 2010

Conflict management among irregular migrants: the micro-politics of intercultural respect
Prof. Paul Clough

Is this play? Maltese children's negotiations of play in a drama classroom
Ms Sharon Attard

Non-Self Help: How immunology is reframing the enlightenment
Prof. David Napier

Gramsci: The Southern Question and the Mediterranean
Prof. Peter Mayo

Neanderthal
Prof. Ivan Callus


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