Migration, Identity and New Information Technology

Odyssey Group workshop to be held at University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, 23rd-27th August 2004


Programme in Progress

Township, South Africa Gated development, South Africa University of Ghana, Legon Ghana Red Cross project

This page will record presentations and discussions as they arise and develop during the workshop -last updated 1pm Thursday August


  Morning Sessions:
University of Ulster,
Jordanstown Campus
Afternoon Activities:
Fieldwork
Evening Sessions:
Monday
23th August
09:00
Julian Hine, University of Ulster
New Approaches to Migration
Context and PowerPoint slide-show here

useful links:
Funeral trains - online links to resources about the necropolis and funeral trains in the Victorian era


10:45
Kay Axhausen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Hypotheses about the link between social network geographies and transport and telecom costs
Paper here in pdf format

Useful links:
Multilocality

Digital Tours and Virtual Capture
trips out
 
Material gathered by the participants and uploaded to this site.
trips out
Glenavna Forum: Glenavna Hotel

IT, Mobility and Migration
Facilitator: Steve Little, Open University Business School
Tuesday
24th August
09:00
Frank Go
Erasmus University, Rotterdam: Migration, Tourism and Micro-Banking: Branding Identity of Self Help Groups

Online version of Powerpoint here (large file - 1.2Mb)

10:45

Kay Axhausen
Measurement of social network geographies

Paper here in pdf format

Useful links:
Sensitivity of accessibility measurements to the underlying transport network model (large .pdf file - 1.2MB)

Accessibility and time-scaled maps of public and road transport for Switzerland, 1950-2000


14:00
Reception with members of the School of the Built Environment
University of Ulster, Jordanstown

Reception


Tours and Capture More material gathered by the participants and uploaded to this site.

road to West
Glenavna Forum:
Glenavna Hotel:

Len Holmes, London Metropolitan University
Irish Identities: Voicing Through Song

Irish song CD covers

Virtual presentation:
Migration and Skills: The Ghanaian Experience
Yaw Dankwa

Wednesday
25th August
Margaret Grieco, Napier University, Edinburgh
Migration, Methodology and Meaning: the Oaxaca Index Part 1: see also Note on the Oaxaca index
Steve Little
The Oaxaca Index Part 2
Tours and Capture
Continuing fieldwork

visit by Steve Little and Len Holmes to Ulster-American Folk Park

Glenavna Hotel:
Weblogging Workshop
Thursday
26th August
Melih Kirlidog, Marmara University, Istanbul
and
Steve Little
Turbulent Geographies: Divided Cyprus and the Internet
Paper and links here
Virtual Book Launch

Fiona Raje:
Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion: the need for ethnic perspectives

in Transport and Society Series, Ashgate Press


Tours and Capture: also discussion between Frank Go and Margaret Grieco on microfinance, migration and development
Meeting the moment
Glenavna Hotel:
John Hogan, University of Hertfordshire

Andreja Zivkovic, University of Cambridge:
Territorial correspondence in the electronic domain: Trade Unions in the Balkans

presentation

 

Friday
27th August
Virtual Book Launch:
Steve Little
Design and Determination:the role of information technology on redressing regional inequities in the development process

Closing Presentations
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and John Hogan, University of Hertfordshire:
The Polyphonic Spree - the Case of the Liverpool Dockers

Julian Hine
Close-down at Glenavna at 13:00

Closing statement by Professor Julian Hine, University of Ulster

 


 

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page last updated: 28th August 2004

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