10 March 2010, 5.30pm
Roberts Lecture Theatre 106, Roberts Building,  Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

Speaker: Professor Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, US)

Discussant: Professor John Eade, Director of CRONEM, University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor in the Migration Research Unit

Chair: Dr Claire Dwyer (Migration Research Unit, UCL Geography)

Followed by a drinks reception in the Roberts Building Foyer.
Accompanied by an exhibition of UCL affiliated artists Liz Hingley and Saad Qureshi.

Peggy Levitt is a Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Her books include God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation  (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001).

Hosted by the UCL Migration Research Unit in cooperation with the UCL Global Migration Network and the Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction.

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