Outline of the seminar 

1.  Welcome and Introductions - (5 mins)

 

2.  PGR-led Discussion - (5-20 mins)

PGRs, please take this opportunity to raise any topic at all. 

 

3.  ‘PGR Presents: 'The Panic buying of paper during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK - a digital ethnographic approach'

With Ahmed Sayed Zaky Saoudy, PhD Candidate in Management.

(15 mins plus Q&A 5-10 mins)

Abstract

This paper aims to conceptualise the panic buying behaviour of consumers in the UK amid novel COVID-19 crisis using the assemblage approach. This study undertakes a digital ethnography approach and a content analysis of Twitter data collected over the period when panic buying was at its peak at the beginning of the lockdown.

4.  ‘Spotlight on: ‘Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: Liberalism, Culture and Coercion’ – an introduction to Professor Cohen-Almagor’s newest book.

With Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Chair in Politics, and Director of the Middle East Study Group (MESG), Faculty of Business, Law and Politics

(20 mins plus Q&A 5-10 mins)

Abstract

This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions: whether multiculturalism is bad for democracy, whether multiculturalism is bad for women, and whether multiculturalism contributes to terrorism. Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism argues that liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable if a fair balance is struck between individual rights and group rights. Raphael Cohen-Almagor contends that reasonable multiculturalism can be achieved via mechanisms of deliberate democracy, compromise and, when necessary, coercion. Placing necessary checks on groups that discriminate against vulnerable third parties, the approach insists on the protection of basic human rights as well as on exit rights for individuals if and when they wish to leave their cultural groups.

 

5.  'Any other business’

 

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If you have any general questions about the seminar programme, please contact Jackie McAndrew at the Doctoral College in the first instance on jackie.mcandrew@hull.ac.uk