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Wednesday, 23 October 2019 from 18:00 – 20:30
Billiard Room, The Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU
CHE will host our Annual General Meeting for all current and potential members of our Education Co-operative and everyone who is interested in our current projects. We will also vote new people onto our Board of Directors. Please register for the AGM here.
If you would like to join the CHE as a member (to be eligible to vote) or director, or if you are currently a member and would like to vote by proxy, you can download the relevant documents below:
The public talk prior to the AGM will outline a project led by Alastair McIntosh, Maria Latumahina, Verene Nicolas and Sibongile Pradhan have been leading in the last few years, supported by CHE. The ‘Papua Project’ has been exploring the changing relationships between communities in Papua and the land, and organised visits of government and community delegates to island communities in Scotland. You can download the project report from our website.
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If you are interested in joining our budding education co-operative, this is a great time to become a member of CHE and get involved!
November Members’ Meeting:
Join us online on Wednesday 6th November, 7:30pm – 9pm.
If you’d like to attend, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we’ll send you instructions how to join.
For our online meetings, we use a video conferencing programme called Zoom – ideally you need access to a computer, but you can also dial in from a phone. Zoom is free to download from here. If members would like a free training session on how to use it, please let us know!
About CHE Members’ Meetings
CHE Members’ Meetings are open to members and everyone who considers joining CHE.
What we’ll discuss: Building on conversations at past meetings (see minutes below), we continue to review how we can work more co-operatively and involve more members. We’d like to hear your views on this and on how we can best involve you in our various work strands – including co-operative university, fundraising or events.
We’d also like to hear from YOU: our members. If there is something you would like to propose, contribute, discuss, or a specific question you’d like answered, please let us know by Tuesday evening before the meeting, and we’ll add it to the agenda.
For our online meetings, we use a video conferencing programme called Zoom – ideally you need access to a computer, but you can also dial in from a phone. Zoom is free to download from here. If members would like a free training session on how to use it, please let us know!
Minutes of past meetings:
Click on the links to read a summary of the updates and discussions, where available.
7th August 2019, and Roundtable with Maria Latumahina
3rd July 2019 (online)
29th May 2019 (online)
20th February 2019 (Pearce Institute)
Future meetings:
These will be held on the first Wednesday of every month.
6th November 2019 (online)
4th December 2019 in the Pearce Institute: seasonal get-together
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Public Lecture: 21st Century Internment Camps: Identity and Security in Xinjiang with Dr David Tobin
Monday 13th May 1830-2030
The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU (near Govan underground station)
One of the most concerning international issues- and one of the least-known- is the mass surveillance, disappearances and extra-judicial detention of the Uyghur population in China. Join us at this public lecture by David Tobin to find out more.
China’s “Great Revival” tells a story of the Chinese people uniting and rising to reverse ‘national humiliation’ by the West and return to their pre-modern, rightful place at the centre of world affairs. However, since outbreaks of ethnically targeted violence in Tibet and Xinjiang (2008-2009), the party-state has described the creation of a shared national identity based on Han culture and ‘ethnic unity’ as a “zero-sum political struggle of life or death” and a prerequisite to China’s rise. Towards dreams of unity and revival, China has operated mass extra-judicial internment camps since 2017 as “Education and Transformation Centres” in Xinjiang, interning approximately 10% of the adult Uyghur population.
This talk analyses the social and political dynamics behind China’s ethnic minority policy shift towards “fusion” that has culminated in both mass extra-judicial internment camps and the “One-Belt-One-Road” foreign policy initiative. The talk draws from ethnographic fieldwork during the riots of 2009 and the latest official documents from the 19th Party Congress and Xinjiang Working Group meetings. It argues that the party-state exacerbates cycles of insecurity in the region by targeting Uyghur identity as a threat to China’s existence and provoking Uyghur resistance to official policy.
About Dr David Tobin: Hallsworth Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China at the University of Manchester. He is currently researching how postcolonial relations between China and the West shape foreign policymaking and ethnic politics in contemporary China. His forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, Securing China’s Northwestern Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang, analyses the relationship between identity and security in Chinese policy-making and ethnic relations between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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Sociocracy is a model for both decision-making and governance that allows any organisation to behave as a living organism; self-organising and self-correcting. The term literally means governance-by peers, however it is sometimes referred to as Dynamic Governance.
The workshop will be led by Kim Scott and will explore the basic concepts: how we empower and connect teams and improve continuously over time. Participants will leave with practical tools and embodied knowledge of Sociocracy.
Tuesday 18th June 2019
10:15 am – 4:30 pm
Clyde Community Hall, Glasgow Ibrox.
Free for CHE members, £40 waged, £1.29 students/ low income (£10 deposit to secure a place).
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CHE Fellow Alastair McIntosh curated a Centenary International Conference on the ideas expressed in ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’ by Wassily Kandinsky (1911) in Govan, Glasgow on the weekend 21-23rd October 2011.
In October 1911 the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, completed in German the manuscript of a little book that he called “Über das Geistige in der Kunst” – usually translated as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. This webpage sets the context of a small but international centenary celebration conference, Kandinsky in Govan. It will be hosted by community groups in an area of Glasgow that suffers from high unemployment and many social problems, but which retains a powerful community spirit and much artistic talent. Like Kandinsky’s book the conference seeks not to promote “art for art’s sake”, but like the Russian Peredvizhniki school of “wanderers” or “itinerants”, to explore “art as service”. With keynote speakers including leading art experts and the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, we will be exploring how art can speak in places of poverty today. The conference will challenge the narcissistic nihilism of contemporary art forms that have turned their backs on beauty and, perhaps arguably, lost sight of art’s deepest function.
More information: http://alastairmcintosh.com/Kandinsky.htm
Draft Programme PDF: http://alastairmcintosh.com/kandinsky/Kandinsky-in-Govan-Programme.pdf
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