The 2019 Holberg Masterclass with Paul Gilroy: "Multiculture or Melancholia?"

Five PhD candidates from Nordic universities are invited to participate in a masterclass with the 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy.
From a historical perspective, this class will consider the complex patterns of interaction and interdependency evident in urban centres that have accommodated postcolonial incomers and other settler populations. Against the assumptions of civilisationism and ethnic absolutism, we will explore examples that reveal the inter- and trans-cultural character of everyday life. Social and Human sciences seldom give those fluid patterns either the status or the attention that they merit. Related theoretical discussions nested around the key concept of “conviviality” will also be taken into account. - Paul Gilroy
The PhD candidates are:
Tora Djúrhuus, University of Copenhagen
Anders Westerström, University of Gothenburg
Lotte Danielsen, University of Oslo
Branislav Bédi, University of Iceland
Ella Alin, University of Helsinki
Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy is Professor of American and English Literature at King’s College London.
Venue: Auditorium A, Ulrike Pihl House, University of Bergen, Norway
Time: 02:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M. (CET +1)
Image: Mural in Philadelphia. Photo: Susan Sermoneta (via Flickr CC 2.0)

[@nightoftheworld]

1:29:40 _"'I want my woundedness and the loss of my society to be recognized. I want you to be able to address my sense of loss. I want a political representative who will mirror my loss and mirror my anxiety and amplify my loss and amplify my anxiety.'_ I think these are big patterns actually now and they have an interesting place in the history of fascism actually. In earlier iterations where people were offered images of themselves as victims and their political leaders mined that victim image for them and enacted it in what was left of the political space that they created-often in a very spectacular way. I think that that really is the mainstream."

[@maxxwellbeing9449]

…the foolish jabbering of a blubbering leftist simpleton, Shoot me now…

[@emilybeausoleil]

Hello, do you have the reading list to which Prof. Gilroy refers as assigned to the class?

[@HolbergPrize]

Dear Emily. Yes, here is the full reading list: Claire Risbeth and Ben Rogaly: “Sitting ouside: conviviality, self-care and the design of benches in urban public space.” In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Royal Geographical Society, 2017. Emma Jackson: “Valuing the bowling alley: Contestations over the preservation of spaces of everyday urban multiculture in London." The Sociological Review, Vol 67 (1), 2019: 79-94. Malcolm James: “Diaspora as Ethnographic Method: Decolonial Reflections on Researching Urban Multi-culture in Outer East London." Young, Vol 24 (1), 2016: 222-237. Les Back & Shamster Sinha: “Multicultural Convivality in the Midst of Racism’s Ruins." Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 37 (5), 2016: 517-532. Dennis Dworkin: “Paul Gilroy and the cultural politics of decline.” Rethinking History, Vol 13 (4), 2009: 521-539. Suzanne Hall: “The Politics of Nearness." In City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary. London: Routledge, 2012: 95-109. Sivamohan Valluvan: “Conviviality and Multuculture: A Post-integration Sociology of Multi-ethnic Interaction.” Young, Vol 24 (3), 2016: 204-221