Tuesday 1 May 2007
City Centre Seminar - Valuing migrants in the city: justice for migrant workers
Venue : City Centre Seminar room [ map ]
Time : 3.30-5.30pm
Speakers confirmed:
Global Cities at Work project,
QMUL
Don Flynn,
Migrant Rights Network
Austen Ivereigh,
London Citizens,
Strangers to Citizens campaign.
This seminar will explore the situation facing migrant workers in low paid employment in London today. Original research data will be presented alongside arguments about the need to protect and extend rights for migrants working in the UK.
Trevor Dadson Inaugural Lecture - Don Juan and some myths of the Spanish Golden Age
Venue : Skeel Lecture Theatre [ map ]
Time : 6.30-8.30pm
For far too long, the Spanish Golden Age has been characterised, by historians and literary specialists alike, as a period where ordinary Spaniards lived in a country dominated by the Inquisition, an absolute monarchy and a strict hierarchical social structure, where the nobility lived off their rents and did little or nothing to invest in or develop the land and industry, where the peasants were ground down and starving, where there was no toleration of minorities and ‘others’ and pluralism was nonexistent, and where women were virtually invisible.
These ‘myths’ and their representation were the standard fare of the English Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and in truth few have changed substantially in the intervening centuries. For many aspects of the Spanish Golden Age the ‘Black Legend’ lives on. Drawing on much of his own research over the last thirty years, Professor Dadson will re-examine in this lecture some of these enduring myths in an effort to get closer to the ‘real’ Golden Age.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.