On Wednesday 25 April 2012, around 150 international students from Language schools in and around the Cambridge area arrived at Anglia Ruskin's Cambridge campus to attend a sample lecture.

The lecture, given by Professor of Postcolonial Studies Guido Rings and organised by our International Office, gave local International students an idea of the kind of teaching they might expect on a degree course.

Professor Rings' lecture explored the subject of multi-culturalism and its portrayal in contemporary culture, as he explains: "Probably more than any other European country, contemporary Britain has been deeply marked by mass immigration, in particular from India and Pakistan, and British-Asian Cinema has joined the often rather polemic media debate about the country's 'multiculturalism' as an outstanding example of minority reflections on the topic. Be it as a potential mirror of popular attitudes, ideas and preoccupations, or as regards the likely impact on common views and opinions on migration, research cannot afford to ignore the filmic portrayals.

In this context, my paper explores cultural self-representations in one popular example of British-Asian cinema: Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend it Like Beckham'."

Following the success of this event, our International Office hopes to provide a wider range of sample lectures in the future.

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