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News and events
2008
Launch of Citizen 2020
Crucible has launched Citizen 2020, an initiative that engages employers and employees in the private, public and voluntary sectors to support active citizenship in the workplace and the community. We offer:
- workplace citizenship audits
- community participation profiles
- local participation toolkits
- kite marking.
We are developing online programmes of education tailored for specific employee groups. For more information email us at crucible@roehampton.ac.uk
Cope initiative
Crucible is sponsoring an initiative to promote emotional wellbeing and empowerment in schools through creative expression. We are looking for students of all disciplines to help out, but in particular, we are hoping to recruit from the following areas: Education, Creative Writing, and Computing.
This work can help you develop skills in project management, website development, curricular innovation and book editing. Contributing to such projects looks very good on your CV so please come along, talk to the directors, meet fellow prospective contributors and have a free lunch in the bargain.
For more information or to ask a question email Pathik Pathak (p.pathak@roehampton.ac.uk).
Prison Reading Groups
Two of Roehampton's lecturers have started a number of prison reading groups. Their aims are to promote the spread of reading groups in prisons and to support those who run them. For more information see the Prison Reading Groups webpages.
2007
3 October
Workshop: Child soldiers and child trafficking
Rita Moustakim from St Mary's University College gave a talk to students from Roehampton.
11 July
Launch event: "So what is inclusion?"
The "So what is inclusion?" training pack explores journeys and pathways for workers seeking to improve inclusive practice. It is available from UK Youth or the Lifetrain Trust. Thanks to John Kelly, UK Youth, the Lifetrain trust, and Morpheus, who performed some of their songs from "Head over Wheels" at the launch event before taking it to the Edinburgh Fringe.
5–7 July
Conference: "Education and Extremism"
Roehampton University hosted the Second International Conference on Citizenship and Human Rights in Education.
16 May
Conference: "Darfur after Rwanda: Sudan's internal crisis and the international response"
Roehampton University hosted this one-day conference, which was attended by experts from the media and academic world.
16 May
Lecture: "Oscar Romero - a saint for the 21st Century?"
This Archbishop Romero Memorial Lecture was given by Mgr Ricardo Urioste. Wednesday 16 May was also Interfaith Day, and presentations from a range of faith groups were enjoyed.
12 February
Lecture: "The new Secretary-General of the United Nations – an impossible job?"
This lecture was given by Yves Beigbeder, a visiting professor on international organisation in universities in France, Switzerland, the USA and Canada. He has written 17 books and many articles on international organisations, administration, civil service and criminal justice. In 1946 he was a legal secretary at the International War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg, and went on to work as Personnel Officer in the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization.
2006
22 November
Crucible launch
The new Duchesne Building for teaching and learning was opened at Roehampton University by Cherie Booth QC, with the Chancellor of the University, John Simpson.
Autumn 2006
Questioning Citizenship Media Lab
29 November – Screening: Bang! Bang! In Da Manor (back by popular demand)
See 25 October.
22 November – Screening: Kidulthood
Before adulthood comes 'kidulthood'. One of the most controversial recent cinema releases, this acclaimed film represents a gritty slice of West London life and is produced by a former Roehampton student.
15 November – Brave New Field Producers
An exciting new development within new media is that of citizen journalists. The session focused on short clips made by video activists, including those of the ‘brave new field producers’, a YouTube group committed to showing alternative views that do not make the mainstream media.
8 November – Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
‘Outfoxed’ provided an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
1 November – What Muslims Want
What do Muslims in Britain really want? Are they a homogenous group sharing similar values? Is religion more important to them than nationality? This session discussed some of the questions the Dispatches Muslim Survey, conducted by NOP, sought to answer.
25 October – Screening: Bang! Bang! In Da Manor
Investigating the disproportionate levels of violence suffered by the black community in Britain, this independently made film talks to everyone from arms dealers to academics and suggests how the education system, a breakdown in family units and rampant consumerism define the social environment for disenfranchised youth in the inner city.
18 October
Lecture: The Citizens Exhibition
Guest speaker Cynthia Morrison-Bell, Director of Art Circuit Touring Exhibitions, and co-curator of the Citizens Exhibition, gave an illustrated talk on the exhibition that looked at the artistic and political strategies of 20 international artists whose works consider the experience of citizenship in today's global society.
The exhibition examines contemporary citizenship; citizenship as inclusion, citizenship as exclusion and finally a new way of thinking about citizenship that rejects these traditional dualities and looks for new ways in which to think about the relationship between the citizen and civic space.
8 June
Conference: Placement Education and Citizenship
Conference Powerpoint presentations:
Dr Mike Neary: "Citizenship, Placements and the Practice of Human Rights: Freedoms and Non-Freedoms in the Age of Terror"
Jesse Roberts: "Global Witness"
Prof John Annette: "Community-based Learning and Research"
Caroline Marsh and Steven Curtis: "The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics"
Dr Chris Gifford, Dr Paul Watt, Dr Judith Burnett and Dr Erika Cudworth: "Working with Schools: Active Citizenship for Undergraduate Students"
David Woodman: "The Use of Multimedia in Placement Education"
25 May
Voices production
Presented in association with Unifem in London.
23 May
Crucible social event
This was held for students of masters programmes in International Service and Voluntary Action Management.
10 May
Lecture: “The Female Face of God in Auschwitz”
Melissa Raphael gave a guest lecture following the publication of her book.
1 May
Lecture: “The Challenge of HIV AIDS”
Delivered by Christine Allen, Director, Progressio (formerly CIIR – Catholic Institute for International Relations).
27 April
Exiled Writers Ink evening
An evening of performance, poetry, music and discussion from Exiled Writers Ink, launching issue 5 of their magazine. The theme was memory in exile, with Silvia Balducci (guitarist), Samira Al-Mana (novelist), Alfredo Cordal (performance poet and playwright), Soheila Ghodinstat (writer), Nigar Hasan-Zadeh (poet). More information can be found on the Exiled Writers website.
15 March
Lecture: "The Future of the Arab/Israeli Conflict"
Delivered by Dr Ahron Bergman from the Institute of War Studies, King's College, London.
14 March
Lecture: "From Cold War to Long War"
Guest lecture by Professor Martin Shaw, one of Britain's leading sociologists of war and genocide, and Chair of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex.
5 March
Lecture: "Peace Education Theory"
BRaVE, Centre for Research in Beliefs and Values, presented this guest lecture from Professor Ian Harris, Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies, University of Wisconsin.
1 February
Student feedback session
Students participated in a feedback session for the new module, Questioning Citizenship. It was a very productive session with extremely useful contributions made by the students.