This ESRC seminar series aims to stimulate new agendas in thinking about mixedness and mixing – exploring aspects of life for people from ‘mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds (which may also encompass faith differences) and their families. The series will bring together different international, disciplinary and professional perspectives.

Seminar 1: Spaces and Places 12 December 2008, London South Bank University
Speakers: Ann Morning (New York University), Steven Holloway (University of Georgia) and Richard Wright (Dartmouth College), Charlie Owen (Institute of Education, London), Lisa McKenzie (Nottingham University), Chamion Caballero (London South Bank University). Chair: Hamish MacPherson (Office for National Statistics)

	Programme for day
	Overview report
	From ‘Draughtboard Alley’ to ‘Brown Britain’: the ‘ordinariness of ‘mixedness’ in British life,Chamion Caballero
	Scaling Diverity: Mixed Race Couples, Segregation and Urban America, Steven R. Holloway
	The Geography of Mixedness in England and Wales, Charlie Owen (Document not available)
	Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective, Ann Morning
	Finding Value: On a council estate in Nottingham; Voices of white working class women, Lisa McKenzie

Photograph of speakers and chair

Seminar 2: Cultural and Psychological Images and Resources 26 March 2009, London School of Economics
Speakers include: Ilan Katz (University of New South Wales), Minelle Mahtani (University of Toronto) and Mica Nava (University of East London)

	Programme for day
	Overview report
	Mixed race across time and place - in international perspective, Ilan Katz
	Complicit and complex identities: taking a reflexive stance in critical 'mixed race' methodologies, Minelle Mahtani
	Exhibition and discussion: 'Hafu' - half Japanese identities, Marcia Yumi Lise and Natalie Maya Willer

Seminar 3: Everyday Experiences and Social Divisions autumn 2009, London South Bank University

Speakers include: Mateja Sedmak (University of Primorska), Peter J Aspinall & Miri Song (University of Kent, UK)

• Programme for day
• Overview report
• When Ethnicity Became An Important Family Issue (A Case Study Of Slovene Istria), Mateja Sedmak
• What do 'mixed' categories mean anyway? Official recognition and lived identifications, Peter J Aspinall & Miri Song

Seminar 4: Promoting Research--Practice Dialogue, 16 March 2010, London School of Economics
Speakers:
Savita de Sousa (BAAF);
Yvonne Ayo (Tavistock Centre);
Val Hoskins and Jill Olumide (People In Harmony);
Anne Unterreiner (EHESS, Paris);
Fiona Peters (Goldsmiths);
Nicole Truesdell (Michigan State)

• Overview report (Document not available)
• The arguments for and against transracial adoption, Savita de Sousa
• Ways in which culture is addressed in systemic practice, Yvonne Ayo
• What has People In Harmony learned about mixed race and public policy?, Val Hoskins and Jill Olumide
• How to find 'mixed people' in quantitative datasets, Anne Unterreiner