UK Identities Today - An Open University Conference.

Venue: RIBA, Portland Place, London.

This one day conference on emerging identity trends, will report the main conclusions from the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. It will also consider the policy implications.

The following questions, amongst others, will be addressed in a mix of parallel workshops and plenary panel sessions.

• Are traditional identities in decline?
• How do new migrants build 'identities on the move'?
• what new post-colonial identities and identity intersections are emerging in UK Cities?
• What is happenning to white English identities and to Britishness?
• What are the relationships between identity and social exclusion and identity and community cohesion?
• What are the new directions in identity theories and methods?
• How are class and gender being reconfigured?

For further information or to book a place please contact Kerry Carter (k.carter@open.ac.uk)