Agnieszka Bielewska
SWPS University of Social Science
and Humanities
Wroclaw, Poland
abielewska(at)swps.edu.pl
Zuzana Kršková gained her expertise and first teaching experience at the Faculty of Arts and since 2014 works as the assistant professor at the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno. Among her main research interests belong Caribbean and post-colonial literatures and cultures and also teaching literature in classroom.
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John McSweeney
Independent Scholar
Cork, Ireland
john.mcsweeney(at)yahoo.ie
Mary Ann Walter
Middle East Technical University - Northern Cyprus Campus
Kalkanli/Guzelyurt, TRNC
walter(at)metu.edu.tr
Paul Reynolds is Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy at Edge Hill University. His research interests and postgraduate supervision are in: sexual diversity, ethics and politics; radical philosophy, theory and politics, with particular reference to Marxist ethics and politics; and the role and responsibilities of the intellectual. In addition to Co-Directorship of CDSS, he holds a number of convening and advisory posts, notably: Co-Convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP) http://www.insep.ugent.be/insep/ and Co-Chief Editor of its Journal (JINSEP) http://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/insep; and Member of the Editorial Board, Historical Materialism: International Journal of Research in Critical Marxist Theory, (in Conjunction with Brill Publishers) – www.historicalmaterialism.org.
Link to External Webpage:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/socialsciences/about/staff/paul-reynolds/
Selected Publications:
3. Seksuele Toestemming Ontrafeld
4. Solidarity Through Practice? Macintyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism: A Marxist Reading
Reviewers, Editors, and Seminar Organizers
Paul Reynolds
Edge Hill University
Ormskirk, UK
reynoldp(at)edgehill.ac.uk
David Stoop
University of Cologne, Germany
mail(at)david-stoop.de
Scott H. Boyd is currently an independent scholar and author. He is a former department chair at Middle East Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus and has held tenured academic positions in humanities and literature at several US and international universities. He writes and publishes on issues in higher education and interdisciplinary cultural theory. He is the co-founder, with Paul Reynolds, of CDSS.
1. Boyd, Scott H. Considering and Theory of Autopoietic Culture.
2. Boyd, Scott H. The Theory of Autopoietic Culture: Processes and Inquiries Beyond the Frame.
Terry McDonough
University Centre at
Blackburn College
Blackburn, UK
Craig A. Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. In addition to writing and publishing research papers, he teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Gaining his PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in 2012, he has since gained recognition as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). His recent book Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education: Pedagogical Tactics for Alternative Futures, addresses and develops concepts and practices associated with democratic learning and radical creativity. In addition to his CDSS activities, he is the coordinator of the LJMU Centre for Educational Research group Critical Pedagogies and Theories for Post-compulsory and Informal Education, and one of the founding editors of the peer-reviewed journal Prism.
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Selected Publications:
Terry McDonough is Lecturer in English Language at the University Centre at Blackburn College and was formerly an Associate Lecturer in Linguistics at Liverpool Hope University. His interests involve the synthetisation of Critical Discourse Analysis with Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience within the context of investigating social constructionism, particularly in terms of a cultural political economy. Terry is also Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the peer-reviewed journal, PRISM; a member of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association; and a Doctoral researcher at Lancaster University.
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Mary Ann Walter has been at METU-NCC for seven years, following positions at Northwestern University and Plovdiv University, and earning her PhD in linguistics from MIT (2007). Her research focuses on phonology, phonetics, and sociolinguistics, in particular loanwords and language contact among languages of the Middle East and the Balkans.
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Who We Are
Giuseppe Raudino is a tenured lecturer in Media Theory at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, Netherlands. He graduated from the University of Siena (Italy) with a dissertation in Semiotics about Umberto Eco. His academic interests range from Interculturality to (New and Social) Media Studies, from Visual Language to Art,Literature and Religion. He also works as a freelance writer. Since 2016 he is the promoter of the Serialised Storytelling academic network.
Link to External Webpage:
http://hanze.academia.edu/GiuseppeRaudino
https://www.facebook.com/raudinomediatheory
Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity Network
Zuzana Krskova
Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
145169(at)mail.muni.cz
Directors:
Craig Hammond
Senior Lecturer in Education
Liverpool John Moores
University, UK
c.a.hammond(at)ljmu.ac.uk
Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity Co. is a non-profit educational initiative that promotes ethical, responsible, and reasoned discussions on cultural difference and social solidarity through conferences, seminars, publications, educational programs, and literary and artistic events.
Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity Co. is a domestic non-profit corporation incorporated in the state of Vermont, USA. It is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation.
Agnieszka Bielewska received her PhD in Social Geography from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2010 and is an Assistant Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wrocław, Poland. Her primary academic interests include international migration, ethnic minorities, diaspora and nationalism. Her research has been focused on the impact of globalisation on national identity (Poles in the United Kingdom), the connection between the identity and urban space and the highly skilled migrants (foreigners in Poland). She published with Peter Lang and “Ethnicities.”
Link to External Webpage:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agnieszka_Bielewska
Scott H. Boyd
Nashville, TN USA
scotthboyd(at)gmail.com
About CDSS
Giuseppe G. Raudino
Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Groningen, The Netherlands
g.raudino(at)pl.hanze.nl
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