Reblogged from Amber at Warwick: academic technology: You’re probably familiar with Linked-in: it is a profile service for many sorts of people and I’ve noticed that outside the UK it is used for academic networking too, more so than inside the UK,… Read More ›
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PhD & ECR summer school on Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life IAS Summer School, University of Warwick, 15-19 July 2013 The current moment seems to be one of ‘crisis’ or at least of dramatic change… Read More ›
Evaluative playgrounds Audit and government after neoliberalism
Evaluative playgrounds Audit and government after neoliberalism Dr. Will Davies Assistant Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies 4-5.30pm, Monday 11th February Cowling Room, S2.77, Social Sciences Building Neoliberalism depends on forms of audit and government, through which activity can be subjected… Read More ›
Research Seminars, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster
RESEARCH SEMINARS PROGRAMME Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster All seminars take place in room A6.9 at Harrow campus, University of Westminster All welcome, but please email Dr Anastasia Kavada at A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk if you’d like to attend [Please scroll… Read More ›
CSWG Graduate Seminar Series @SocioWarwick – 23rd of Jan!
The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series starts this term with a seminar session on the topic ‘Women, Work and Family’. The seminar will be held on Wednesday the 23rd of January, 5pm-7pm in the Ramphal Builing, room R0.14. Presentations include: NATALIE WREYFORD, Kings College London - Gender and Networking for… Read More ›
2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality
2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The NWSA Asexuality Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2013 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards the full NWSA 2013… Read More ›
Social Theory Postgrad Seminars @SocioWarwick
The Social Theory Centre Postgraduate Seminars will take place in the odd weeks of the second term of 2012-2013 in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. This series is particularly designed for postgraduate students interested in all aspects… Read More ›
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 28,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this… Read More ›
Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer
University of Wales, Newport (City Campus) 22 February 2013 | 09:45-16:45 Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer Andrew Sayer’s work in critical social science has ranged across political economy, social theory and ethics – combining insights from each, and shedding… Read More ›
Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?
Creating Publics keynote lecture event with Rachel Pain (University of Durham) Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together? Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 14:00 – 16:00 Michael Young Building, Room 1&2, Ground Floor, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes,… Read More ›
Qualitative360 Europe, April 17-18 2013 Berlin – Call for Abstracts – Deadline coming up soon!
Qualitative360 Europe: 3rd Annual Conference April 17-18, 2013 Berlin, Germany http://www.qualitative360.com For anybody wanting to submit a presentations synopsis for the upcoming Qual360 Europe conference, the deadline is coming up shortly – 22 December. Qualitative 360 Europe, now in its… Read More ›
Doing research inclusively, doing research well, 7-8 Feb, Southampton
Course: Doing research inclusively, doing research well Date and place: 7-8 February 2013, Southampton Presenters: Professor Melanie Nind and Dr Hilra Vinha Fees: £60 for UK registered PhD students; £120 for staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and… Read More ›
What does the future hold for ethnography? An interview with Alex Smith
In this interview I talk to Alex Smith (right) about the New Ethnographies book series he edits. I was interested in this series because of its deliberate intention to embrace and ferment the extension and productive growth of this most traditional… Read More ›
Seminar, 5th December – Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge: Two case studies
Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge: Two case studies Dr Mark Childs Wednesday 5th December Venue: WE029 1.30 – 2.30pm Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge have specific needs, barriers and solutions. This seminar will present two research projects conducted… Read More ›
Nordic Youth Research Symposium
CHANGING SOCIETIES AND CULTURES: YOUTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE NYRIS12 focuses on cultural and social changes in the digital age. Rapid technological developments, structural changes in society and economic uncertainty may influence young people in some respects more than other age… Read More ›
My favourite Zygmunt Bauman quote
In what we do we hardly ever start from a clean slate. The site on which we build is always cluttered: the past lingers in the same ‘present’ in which the future tries to take root.
Encounters, Morgan Centre Interdisciplinary Conference, 3-4 July 2013, University of Manchester – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
News from the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships & Personal Life, University of Manchester We are now inviting abstracts (presentations and posters) for our exciting interdisciplinary conference‘Encounters’, to be held on 3-4 July 2013 at the University of… Read More ›
Reminder: Deadline approaching for Queer London Conference cfp
Queer London Conference: Call for Papers Saturday 23rd March, 2013 Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matt Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London) This one-day conference is dedicated to a consideration of London… Read More ›
Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre
Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre With Peter Tatchell; Professor Jeffrey Weeks, OBE; Dr Kath Holden; Professor Sasha Roseneil; Professor Alison Oram; and Dr Matt Cook. Monday 17th December 2012, 6.30 –… Read More ›
