Glorea
Centre for Global and Regional Ethnographies at Aarhus University
Founded in July 2008 with a European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers Reintegration grant, GLOREA (The Centre for Global and Regional Ethnographies at Aarhus University) is directed by recently appointed Professor of European and International Studies at IHO, Adrian Favell.
The centre is a broad umbrella for interdisciplinary research on the “human” dimensions of globalisation and regional integration in Europe and East Asia, in particular migration and mobility in a macro-regional context, the dynamics of creative cities, and the practice of urban ethnography. GLOREA also puts a special emphasis on research training and methods in Sociology and Human Geography at the advanced MA and PhD level.
Adrian Favell is the author of Philosophies of Integration (1998/2001) and Eurostars and Eurocities (2008), and co-edited The Human Face of Global Mobility (2006) with Michael Peter Smith. In 2010 he was awarded a national EliteForsk prize by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, worth a further 1 million DKK towards activities of the research centre. Further information about all his work can be found via his personal webpage.
European Studies
Current Activities
Adrian Favell published Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the European Union, co-edited with Ettore Recchi (Edward Elgar) in September 2009. The book is the outcome of a 2003-2006 EU FP5 funded project, PIONEUR.
GLOREA is a partner in an EU funded FP7 network project entitled: “The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens". This is looking quantitatively and qualitatively at the impact of growing cross-border practices in a European context, and their significance relative to other international, transnational and global integration trends.
In January 2011, Adrian Favell published a text book co-edited with Virginie Guiraudon on Sociology of the European Union (Palgrave).
In Spring 2011, GLOREA sponsored the 2011 European Studies MA Project on Turkey in Europe, which generated new MA student-led projects on the Europeanisation of Turkey, transnational Turkish culture and business in Europe, and other related topics. The project was co-directed by Adrian Favell and Christian Axboe Nielsen, Associate Professor in South-East European Studies.
Associates
Anna Nikolaeva, PhD researcher, working on the construction of transnational urban public space using the example of international airport terminals.
David Reimer, Postdoctoral researcher, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, a specialist on educational inequality in European societies.
Ann Zimmermann, Assistant Professor, European Studies, IHO, a specialist on media, political communication, and the sociology of European Union.
Janne Solgaard Jensen, PhD researcher, coordinating EUCROSS activities and investigating the Europeanisation and internationalisation of the Danish population.
Juliane Klein, intern (Jan-June 2011), working on east-west migration and the sociology of the EU. In Sept. 2011 she begins a PhD at Bremen University, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.
Luca Cavinato, MA researcher, investigating Romanian business entreprenurship and social capital in Northern Italy.
Asian Studies
Current Activities
GLOREA co-organised two weekend of events, lectures and debates on Visualising Asian Modernity in collaboration with Copenhagen University, and in partnership with Aarhus ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus Kunstbygning, and Arken Museum in March and May 2009. The events were part financed by grants from the Danish Arts Council and the Japan Foundation. Papers from the conference have been published as a special edition of Kontur. Printed copies of the journal are available on request via the email address below.
Adrian Favell was Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) 2009-10, which developed a comparative research project on “Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Japanese and British cities in comparative perspective” about the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, London, and Manchester and organized a conference, "The Creative City After the Crash" in June 2010 at the Manchester Museum.
GLOREA sponsored the 2010 European Studies MA Project on Asia in Aarhus, Asia in Europe which generated new MA student-led research projects on globalisation in local contexts, and the multiple ways East, South East and South Asian people, products, cultures and representations are found in Danish and European society.
Adrian Favell was visiting professor at the Dept of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, in March 2011. He gave lectures at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University on the Japanese art world, Islam in Europe, and visual data methods.
Associates
Rivka Eisner, Postdoctoral researcher, a specialist on artists, urban development and censorship in Vietnam.
GLOREA also collaborates with the Contemporary India Study Centre at Aarhus University, directed by Uwe Skoda, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies.
For more information, please contact Adrian Favell: ihoaf@hum.au.dk.
Image: Photo of Chen Zen, Back to Fullness, Face to Emptiness (1997), taken at the 53rd Venice International Art Biennale