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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing at Victoria University would like to invite you to a Pop Up Seminar titled:
</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Food, gender and refugee community moments: security and freedom?
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">presented by Dr Hannah Lewis from the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr Hannah Lewis is Critical Geography Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests are in refugee community, immigration policy, contingent socialities,
multiculturalism, and food. She recently completed an Economic and Social Research Council project, ‘Precarious Lives’, the first study of forced labour experiences among refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">This paper considers the cultural and symbolic significance of food for recently arrived refugees in the UK. Food-related spaces and practices can build social ties and uncover the dynamic interaction
of delimited social spheres and imagined community. Although rarely considered in studies of refugees, food can elucidate the operation of community boundaries and the role of women in facilitating adaptation or ‘integration’. Rather than being peripheral
to the needs of refugees, this paper argues that food is central to community praxis and imaginings and is instructive for improving knowledge of how refugees cope and negotiate new environments.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Tuesday 17 September 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> 4.00pm to 5.30pm
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Where:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Room G467 Bld G Footscray Park<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>campus, Victoria University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RSVP </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">by Friday 13 September to Polly Probert at:
<a href="mailto:polly.probert@vu.edu.au"><span style="color:#0070C0">polly.probert@vu.edu.au</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find attached details for this seminar.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Isabelle de Solier<br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<br>
Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing<br>
Victoria University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: +61 3 9919 5657 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:Isabelle.deSolier@vu.edu.au"><span style="color:windowtext">Isabelle.deSolier@vu.edu.au</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web: <a href="http://www.vu.edu.au/centre-for-cultural-diversity-and-wellbeing">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://www.vu.edu.au/centre-for-cultural-diversity-and-wellbeing</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Editor, <i>Food Cultures</i>: <a href="http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/issue/current">
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/issue/current</a></p>
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