London 2014: Multicultural or Cosmopolitan?: Mica Nava at TEDxEastEnd

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Mica Nava is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. Since the 1980s her work has contributed to the expansion of the field of cultural studies in the UK and abroad. In the last two decades she has been invited to give keynote conference papers and/or special lectures in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Holland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States, as well as at universities and other venues throughout Britain. Her publications include edited and authored books Gender and Generation (1984), Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism (1992), Modern Times: Reflections on a Century of English Modernity (1996), Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption (1997) and Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (2007). Her most recent article is 'Sometimes Antagonistic, Sometimes Ardently Sympathetic: Contradictory Responses to Migrants in Postwar Britain' (2013). Her main academic interest is in the rapidly growing diversity and mongrelisation of London's culture and population. She is currently working on a fictionalised account of women anthropologists and sociologists working in the field of race relations in 1950s Britain. About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)