ODID is hosting Professor Peggy Levitt of Wellesley College and Harvard University as an Astor Visiting Lecturer in Week 8 of Trinity Term.

Professor Levitt will give a lecture on "Putting the Nation and the World on Display: Museums, Multiculturalism, and Nations Unbound" at the Ashmolean Museum on 17 June. The talk is based on her current book project, The Bog and the Beast: Museums, the Nation, and the Globe, explores how museums around the world are responding to immigration and globalisation.

She will also give a talk on 19 June at Kellogg College on “Sites of Encounter: Making Sense of People and Culture on the Move“.

For more information on her talks see http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events

Peggy Levitt is a Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and the co-Director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University.

Her books include Religion on the Edge (Oxford University Press, 2012), God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001).  A film based on her work, Art Across Borders, came out in 2009.

Astor Visiting Lecturerships provide funding for visits to the University of Oxford by distinguished academics from the United States.