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  • The audio of the woman’s hour interview I did

    This has just been posted up on youtube courtesy of the asexuality media archive.

  • The future of twitter in two images

  • Using big data to quantify complex social processes

    Data Science Lunchtime Seminars February 27th, 12.30-1.30pm Room: B3.19 Free pizza! Speaker name: Alexander Petersen Title: Using big data to quantify complex social processes Abstract: New technologies are providing novel ways to curate, explore, analyze, visualize, and interpret massive sources of information, in some cases using previously inaccessible historical records, and in other cases tapping completely new…

  • The Feudal System of Online Content

    There’s a recent article in Salon which gives a great overview of the emergence of “viral publishers” (which need to be distinguished from “content factories”) which have grown rapidly but in a way entirely dependent upon the infrastructure of social media. They encompass everything that was wrong with the older content factories yet employ even…

  • The Sociology of Intellectual Faddishness and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

    I’m resisting pursuing this thought until my PhD is submitted (and probably until I’ve finished the bulk of my social media book) but if I’m ever going to do some real work on the sociology of intellectual faddishness, it’s increasingly obvious to me that the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit would be a pretty great place to…

  • NOFX live @ Padova 16/06/2013 Full Show

    The drunken banter gets really obnoxious at points. I would still love to see them live again though.

  • Not Your Typical Call for Papers (cc @idlEthnographer)

    With the 2014 Volume, the Berkeley Journal of Sociology will focus its efforts on writing a “history of the present.”  The journal will no longer publish academic research articles. Instead, we seek compelling essays, insightful commentaries, critical analyses, and topical symposiums on the most pressing political and cultural issues of the day. Our aim is to provide…

  • Writing with One’s Feet

    Not with my hand alone I write: My foot wants to participate. Firm and free and bold, my feet Run across the field – and sheet. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Prelude in Rhymes: 52 After spending much of the last three days cutting up my PhD and putting it back together again, what…

  • Beardyman at Coachella Festival 2013 – Full live set

  • Reach for the sky

    When I was young I was invincible I found myself not thinking twice I never thought about no future It’s just a roll of the dice But the day may come when you got something to lose And just when you think you’re done paying dues You say to yourself “Dear, God What have I…

  • Becoming Who We Are: theorising personal morphogenesis in a changing world

    This was a phrase suggested to me by my friend Holly Falconer in the early stages of my PhD. It resonated with me strongly and, since then, the working title of my PhD has been Becoming Who We Are: Theorising Personal Morphogenesis. What I’m trying to convey with this is a process (how people become who…

  • “You can’t change the past but you can make the future & anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil”

  • “in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream”

    We must talk in every telephone Get eaten off the web We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read And in the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair We must stare, we must stare, we must stare We must take all of the medicines too expensive…

  • BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Confernece 2014 – Call for Papers

    British Sociological Association MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2014 Call for papers Wednesday 10th – Friday 12th September 2014 Aston University, Birmingham We look forward to welcoming you to our 46th Annual Conference. We are pleased to announce Professor Arthur Frank University of Calgary and Dr.Tiago Moreira, Durham University have agreed to be our plenary speakers at the 2014…

  • Inside Llewyn Davis, or what is it like to be a fractured reflexive?

    I was expecting to like this film but it completely exceeded my expectations. Largely because it was such an interesting and accomplished exploration of a particular mode of being-in-the-world. Llewyn Davis is a struggling folk singer in Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, enmeshed in a tightly knit cultural world of fellow folk singers and shared…

  • As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry

    So now I hang out down by the train’s depot No, I don’t ride, I just sit and watch the people there The remind me of windup cars in motion The way they spin and turn and jockey for positions And I want to scream out that it all is nonsense And their life’s one…

  • The dark side of open access

  • Crisis and personal morphogenesis

    Sometimes by its very nature, routinization begets change, a desire for change that was laying dormant in the mind and cultural experience within the biography of the individual, which may then be trigged into activation by a concatenation of circumstances. Unanticipated crisis can break monotony and bring great change, anticipated change can bring realization of…

  • The empiricist army out to rescue ‘proper evidence-based science’ from the theorists

    So the weather in Britain has been a bit extreme recently, right? Well actually, argues Christopher Brooker, a quick perusal of the facts shows nothing of the sort: On the belief that Britain has recently experienced unprecedented rain, for instance, look at the analysis of the Met Office’s England and Wales rainfall data sets on…

  • The ‘creative confusion’ of the near to completion PhD student (part 2) #phdchat

    Am I procrastinating because I hate editing or because I don’t want to let go of my thesis? A follow up to this post. Currently contemplating the PhD as fetish object in psychoanalytical sense. Then becoming irritated with myself for getting distracted like this. Rather proving the point really. (the connection between this GIF and…

  • “No of course the roof won’t cave in”: ontological security and reflexive poise

    There are many things I dislike about 90s self-help Giddens. However one aspect that has stuck with me is his discussion of ‘ontological security’. This is established relationally between child and care-giver through the durability of trust, acting to “‘bracket out’ potential occurrences which, were the individual seriously to contemplate them, would produce a paralysis of…

  • Are Twitter now selling followers themselves?

  • Angry Johnny & the Radio

    Don’t think twice I still believe it John, we lived those nights Like we were dyin’ on the long haul drives For our Maria, with the ragged sails high And the radio on And I always have remembered, in case you’re wonderin’ 84 takes a lifetime but Bobby does it better I still sing ’em…

  • Representing Interiority in Film and TV

    The notion of ‘internal conversation’ can be contentious in some quarters within the academy. However, outside it, I’ve found that anyone I’ve spoken to about my research instantly knows what I mean when I say ‘internal conversation’ or ‘inner monologue’. I’d suggest that the notion of internal conversation, as something we listen in to needs to be…

  • Funding Opportunity – Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities

    Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, Being Human will be the first nationwide festival of humanities research in the UK. From 15-23 November 2014, it will draw together a programme of activities hosted by HE institutions and their…

  • Changing Intimate Exchanges and Emerging Forms of Resistance to Intensified Self-Commodification

    13th EASA Biennial Conference. Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution . Tallinn, 31st July-3rd August Call For Papers : Changing Intimate Exchanges and Emerging Forms of Resistance to Intensified Self-Commodification (P099) This panel seeks to explore the recent transformations of individuals’ relationship between ‘self,’ ‘body’ and ‘commercial exchange’ and resistances to the expansion of intensified commodification covering…

  • Regulating Intimacy Graduate Symposium

    Regulating Intimacy Graduate Symposium Indiana University, Bloomington October 17-19, 2014 http://regulatingintimacy.wordpress.com/ Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2014 Symposium registration deadline: July 31, 2014 Intimate relationships exist in many forms but register most often in the popular imagination as sexual. Regulatory systems like marriage, criminal law, social norms, and sex education privilege sexual intimacy and promote…

  • Penguins grieving

  • CfP: What are seminars for? What are conferences for? Towards DIY academic events

    The Sociological Imagination invites short articles (500-1500 words) critically reflecting upon the prevailing forms of intellectual meeting within the contemporary academy. What are their strengths? What are their weaknesses? How could they be done differently? What are the sociological implications of these standardised forms of intellectual meeting? Whose voices do they amplify and whose do…

  • A public address to the British Government by Anonymous

    I wonder how much more stuff like this we’ll see post-2015

  • I’m in the US version of the Metro (which I didn’t realise existed until recently)

      The full story is here. Though it’s strengthening my discomfort with repetition given it’s a less articulate version of something I’ve said elsewhere on 30+ occasions.  

  • If I circulate something via my blog do people assume it’s my event?

    I often post calls for papers and announcements on my blog. Initially this was just for things I was organising or for things someone asked me to circulate. Then I started posting anything I was considering submitting an abstract for (etc) so that I could have a URL to put into Omnifocus. In the last six months…

  • Has anyone else noticed this disturbing trend? Superstar profs doing ‘research’ in TV and web adverts

    Witness Daniel Gilbert, superstar psychologist of TED fame, starring in adverts for Prudential: And the rather less well known Adam Alter, who’s an assistant professor at NYU Stern, Weirdly Robin Dunbar, he of Dunbar’s number, starred in a Guinness advert which has now been taken offline: Any other examples? This appropriation of the trappings of…

  • CfP – Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters

    Second Call for Papers  ‘Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters’ The Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Thursday 19th and Friday 20th of June 2014. Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are: Ann Phoenix, University of London Ken Plummer, University of Essex This conference builds on the University of Huddersfield’s long held tradition…

  • PhD Funding Opportunity: Graduate Teaching Assistantships at Leicester

    Leicester Sociology is pleased to offer three funded Graduate Teaching Assistantships for October 2014 entry to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme. These Graduate Teaching Assistantships are available for full-time registration and are payable as a full UK/EU tuition fee waiver for four years subject to annual progress review. The successful applicants will also receive an annual stipend and…

  • Cameron’s declaration that “money is no object” has destroyed his austerity message

    George Eaton really hit the nail on the head with this. The difficulty is how to make this case, that contra TINA there is an alternative, without it sliding into an unintended attack on the flood relief action itself: Britain today is a country in which more than half a million people have turned to…

  • Social Media for Academics

    Are you an academic? Are you interested in social media? Given you’re reading a blog post with the title ‘Social Media for Academics’ then I’ll assume that you are. In which case I hope you’ll be interested in the book that I’ll be spending much of this year writing. I’m due to deliver it to…

  • CFP “International Conference on Men and Masculinities”, 11-13 September 2014, IZMIR TURKEY

    Please distribute widely 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities: “Identities, Cultures, Societies” will be held on 11-13 September 2014 in Izmir Turkey. Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM) invites proposals for the first international conference on men and masculinities to take place in Turkey, in collaboration with Stony Brook University Center for the Study of…

  • CfP: Sociologies of Everyday Life

    Sociology A journal of the British Sociological Association Sociologies of Everyday Life Special Issue Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2014 Everyday life sociology is a well-established tradition in the discipline and interest in ways of understanding day-to-day worlds continues to be significant. These engagements are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, across the social sciences as…

  • Social Theory and Health: Celebrating the work of @GrahamScambler (March 5th 2014)

    ‘Social Theory and Health: Celebrating the work of Graham Scambler’ Old Refectory UCL Main Campus 2pm -5pm Wednesday March 5th 2014 An afternoon of reflection on the connections between social theory and health in honour of the retirement of Prof Graham Scambler chaired by Prof Graham Hart, Dean of UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences. Speakers…

  • About Participation Now

    Participation Now is a new Open University/OpenLearn web platform built for those interested in exploring and critically reflecting on emerging developments in the field of public participation and public engagement. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/participation-now Participation Now offers access to: – A unique, searchable and expanding collection of over 100 very diverse examples of participatory public engagement sourced from…

  • QLRF: Monday 17th February: The Ageing Queer Populations of London

    Monday 17th February: THE AGEING QUEER POPULATIONS OF LONDON (7pm, The Boardroom, 309 Regent Street) Places at the event are free but must be reserved, please email queerlondonresearchforum@gmail.com to book. This panel discussion will explore the challenges, opportunities and difficulties facing London’s ageing queer populations. How do older queer populations experience London and how do they read it differently?…

  • The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell!

    The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell! Am I condemned to scrawl? Boldly I dip it in the well, My writing flows, and all I try succeeds. Of course, the spatter Of this tormented night Is quite illegible. No matter: Who reads the stuff I write? – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Prelude: 59

  • Data Science Lunchtime Seminars at Warwick: Andrea Baronchelli

    Data Science Lunchtime Seminars: Andrea Baronchelli 12:30 – 13:30, Thu, 13 Feb ’14 Location: B3.19 (Boardroom), Warwick Business School Andrea Baronchelli (City University London) Unconsciously Rational: Optimal Strategies in Human Mental Searches in Online Auctions Characterizing how we explore abstract spaces is key to understand our (ir)rational behaviour and decision making. While some light has been shed…

  • Repeating yourself in academia

    I just did a short phone interview about asexuality and I was struck by the extent to which I feel I’ve been repeating myself for the last couple of years. I have nothing new to say on the subject and the repetition involved in talking about it is starting to get a bit weird. There…

  • 4D Research: Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research.

    4D Research:  Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research. 7th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference, 14th  November 2014 Call for Abstracts This conference aims to bring together post-graduate researchers from a variety of disciplines to facilitate shared critical engagement with the various obstacles and opportunities of the PhD process.  We are pleased to confirm our…

  • Workshop: “Feminist ‘turns’ and the political economy of knowledge production”, Univ. Warwick, 28 Feb. 2014, 2-4pm

    Workshop ORIENTATING FEMINISM(S): FEMINIST ‘TURNS’ AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick Friday 28th February 28th, 2014, 2.00pm  – 4.00pm Social Sciences Building, Room A0.23 Speakers: ·         Prof. Clare Hemmings (LSE) ·         Dr. Carolyn Pedwell (Newcastle) ·         Dr. Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths) ·         Prof. Valerie Hey (Sussex) ·         Prof. Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths) (More speakers may…

  • Freedom Lasso

    A rope tightens breath constricted No hand pulls this is self-inflicted sickness Sickness self diagnosed without witness Wish list grip fist the beggary of riches A belly full fights never willingly An empty stomach does not have the energy to finish it Layers in between padded by a dream Stretching for the means Without thought…

  • iOS7 broke my iPad (part 2)

    Ever since I installed iOS7 on my iPad, my disk space has been mysteriously vanishing at a slightly terrifying pace. I’ve been forced to delete things every time I download something new, to the point where my iPad has few apps and zero music or videos remaining on the disk. The usage metrics on the…

  • British Society of Criminology Conference 10-12 July, 2014

    In July 2014, the British Society of Criminology conference (including the post-graduate conference) – Crime, Justice, Welfare: Can the Metropole Listen? – will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool. Based within the legendary city of Liverpool the conference will primarily…

  • Final CFP: Geographies of Public-Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics?

    Annual International Conference, London, 26-29 August, 2014Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG) CFP: Geographies of Public-Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics? Sponsored session by the Space, Sexualities & Queer Research Group (SSQRG) Update: seeing the current SSQRG sponsorship of this session, we actively seek contributions…

  • CfP: Educating Young People About Sex

    Date: April 11-13th, 2014 Place: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Website: http://www.gender.fss.muni.cz/poradane-akce/67-educating-young-people-about-sex.html AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE This conference aims to highlight the challenges we face in educating young people about sex and the impact that current social and educational discourses and practices may have on young people’s gender and sexual identities and practices.…

  • Discover Society #5

    DISCOVER SOCIETY Measured-Factual-Critical http://discoversociety.org ISSUE FIVE: February 2014   Focus:   Andrew McGettigan Managerialism, Democracy and the New Political Economy of English Higher Education   Articles:                                Mary Stuart Reconnecting and Re–Purposing the Civic Purpose of Universities Diane Reay From Academic Freedom to Academic Capitalism Nick Stevenson Wars Over English The Culture Schools Timothy Clarke,…

  • Tangentially Queer: A Workshop on the Field Formation of Queer Theory‏‎

    Tangentially Queer http://tangentiallyqueer.com: A Workshop on the Field Formation of Queer Theory 16th May, 2014: London School of Economics Call for papers: Tangentially Queer seeks to explore the contemporary terrains of queer theorising, and its trajectories, histories, and field imaginaries. Throughout its academic history, “queer” has often been left undefined, a theoretical concept without fixed referent.…

  • Past, present and future: 25 years of CAQDAS

    Past, present and future: 25 years of CAQDAS 1st – 3rd May 2014, Horsley Park, Surrey, England  Call for Papers – Deadline Extended to 29th February 2014 http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/study/daycourses/events/2013-2014/140501-CAQDAS2014.htm The use of computers to facilitate qualitative analysis is not new, with the first packages becoming commercially available from the mid- 1980s. 1989 saw the first ever conference on…

  • Government coding tsar can’t code, explain what coding is or convey why it’s important

    <bangs head repeatedly on desk> Starts around 6 minutes. I thought the R4 interview on Today was actually worse than this.

  • Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2015: CONTEMPORARY YOUTH, CONTEMPORARY RISKS

    SAVE THE DATE: Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2015: CONTEMPORARY YOUTH, CONTEMPORARY RISKS in Copenhagen, March 30th to April 1st 2015. Following the successful Journal of Youth Studies conference in Glasgow in April 2013, the journal hosts a 2015 conference entitled ‘Contemporary Youth, Contemporary Risks’. The conference aims at facilitating discussions that address the diverse challenges and risks that…

  • Final CFP: Queer, Semiotics and Space: Understanding Queer Identities through Language and Space

    CFP: Queer, Semiotics and Space: Understanding Queer Identities through Language and Space Annual International Conference, London, 26–29 August, 2014 Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities & Queer Research Group (SSQRG) Convenors: Martin Zebracki & Tommaso M. Milani University of Leeds, United Kingdom & University of the Witwatersrand,…

  • CFP Tangentially Queer: A Workshop on the Field Formation of Queer Theory

    Tangentially Queer<http://tangentiallyqueer.com>: A Workshop on the Field Formation of Queer Theory 16th May, 2014: London School of Economics Call for papers: Tangentially Queer seeks to explore the contemporary terrains of queer theorising, and its trajectories, histories, and field imaginaries. Throughout its academic history, “queer” has often been left undefined, a theoretical concept without fixed referent.…

  • Paper Session Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide

    Paper Session Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide 39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Toronto, Ontario, CA, November 6-9, 2014 Greetings! We are putting together a Paper Session for the States and society Network at SSHA next  November in Toronto, Canada titled “Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on…

  • 22 Messages From Creationists To People Who Believe In Evolution

    The full list is here on Buzzfeed. I found them interesting. Is it unfair to blame postmodernism for creating an intellectual climate in which these forms of argument thrive? Though the argument from thermodynamics was new to me. The New Scientist’s response to it made me laugh.

  • New to Fox news: “Ask a Communist!”

    What makes this so weird is the relative sophistication of the debate in spite of it seemingly being intended as (basically) a comedy segment:

  • Elizabeth Warren is pretty fantastic (as politicians go)

  • The Queen Of Lower Chelsea

    Did you grow up lonesome and one of a kind? Were your records all you had to pass the time? Or maybe you were taken by the mysteries of New Orleans Or the uptight rowdy girls in Lower Chelsea And we hustle in London but we live in the city And we keep it down…

  • When corporate myth busting goes wrong: “it’s brown mush NOT pink slime”

    So that’s ok then.

  • Call for Papers: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment

    Authority & Political Technologies 2014                                                   Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment                            ‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism that is about to overpower it’ (Walter Benjamin)  June 2-3, 2014. University of Warwick  Confirmed…

  • 14/02 MDX Education Meets Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Precarity

    Education Meets Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Precarity BISA International Political Economy Group & BISA Learning and Teaching Working Group Co-Sponsored Workshop and Film Screening After a series of presentations and workshops we will screen the film ‘The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott‘ . University of Middlesex…

  • First Critical Sexology in the Midlands event – 14 February 2014 – “Rethinking Foucault”

    http://www.criticalsexology.org.uk We are pleased to announce the first “Critical Sexology in the Midlands” event, to be held at the University of Birmingham, on Friday 14th February 2014. RETHINKING FOUCAULT FOR 21ST-CENTURY SEXUALITY STUDIES Organized by Lisa Downing 2-6pm Lecture Theatre 7, Strathcona Building University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT Directions and campus maps here:…

  • CfP: AGender: Female and Transgender Masculinities

    AGender: A Conference about Female and Transgender Masculinities 16 and 17 June 2014 – Leeds Art Gallery This conference is inspired by the artwork (and lives) of the artists Marlow Moss and Claude Cahun which will be shown in exhibitions at Leeds Art Gallery during the summer of 2014. It will explore female and transgender…

  • CfP: Sensing War, deadline 14 Feb 2014

    Reminder: Call for Papers deadline 14th Feb 2014 Sensing War International Interdisciplinary Conference. 12 – 13th June 2014. London, UK. Website:  http://sensingwar.org/ War is a crucible of sensory experience and its lived affects radically transform ways of being in the world.  It is prosecuted, lived and reproduced through a panoply of sensory apprehensions, practices and ‘sensate regimes…

  • Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

    How do you find time to write? I’ve become fascinated by this question in recent months. Implicit within it is an understanding of ‘writing’ which I’m coming to see as deeply problematic. It treats the creative activity of writing as a matter of temporal budgeting. But how much time does writing take? It obviously depends…

  • Lowkey Is Given 5 Random Words To Freestyle

  • The Eagleman Stag

    THE EAGLEMAN STAG from Mikey Please on Vimeo.

  • My first crush

  • CfP: Royal Geographical Society Conference – Researching Sexed Spaces

    Session Title: “Researching Sexed Spaces: (Re)Imagining the Researcher and (Re)Discovering the ‘Other’ in Understanding Lived Experiences of Exclusion” (Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities & Queer Research Group) Organisers: Emily Cooper (Lancaster University) and Gemma Ahearne (Leeds Metropolitan University) Recent decades have produced a rapid emergence of research in geography surrounding the complex relationship between sexuality,…

  • Stability and Change in Early Emerging Adulthood, Or, why my PhD would be much easier to explain if I was a psychologist

    Alas! My PhD which is so hard to explain in terms of the intellectual context of sociology would actually be rather easy if I were in a psychology department. I’ve spent the last 6 years conducting a case study of emerging adulthood in order to develop a critical realist approach to studying character formation over…

  • Lots of videos on ’emerging adulthood’

  • The Internal Conversations of Cats and Dogs

  • Warwick’s strike-breaking history students

    A group of history undergraduates at Warwick are causing controversy by organising their own student-led lectures while their tutors go on strike The group arranged for older students to deliver a lecture on the subject they would have been taught if not for the strike disruptions – to the consternation of many of their peers…

  • Did iOS 7 ruin anyone else’s iPad or just mine?

    Since installing it on my first generation iPad mini a month ago: My iPad now crashes on a daily basis. I can make this happen slightly less frequently by judiciously closing background applications but, even so, it now tends to crash at least once each day (I use my iPad a lot) whereas previously it not…

  • Deadline TODAY —> CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th

    The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to contribute then please send a short abstract and bio to mark@markcarrigan.net by February 1st. We use ‘quantified…

  • Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity – places available for participants

    Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity – places available for participants We have a small number of places available for participants at this all-day workshop.  This will be held at Keele University, on Wednesday 12th February.  Email Emma Head (e.l.head@keele.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you could like a place. The programme…

  • Invitation: Queer Perspective on Law, SOAS, Feb 7 4-6 pm, Law, Ethics and Politics of Disclosure

    The SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and the SOAS Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law invite you to join us for: QUEER PERSPECTIVES ON LAW II Law, Ethics and Politics of Disclosure room 4426, SOAS Friday 7th February 4pm – 6pm This workshop follows on the success of the Queer Perspectives…

  • CFP: London Conference in Critical Thought 2014; London, UK; 27-28 June 2014

    27-28 June 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London. CFP deadline: 10 March 2014. londoncritical.org The third annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with critical traditions and concerns. It aims to provide opportunities for those who frequently find themselves at the margins of…

  • CFP: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gef, the ‘talking mongoose’

    CFP: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gef, the ‘talking mongoose’: “If you knew what I know, you’d know a hell of a lot!” Senate House Library, University of London, Thursday 10th April 2014 (p.m.) In the autumn of 1931, one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of British paranormal history commenced. An Isle of Man farmer, his…

  • CRFR Seminar – Transforming Childhoods?

    Transforming Childhoods? This research initiative at the University of Dundee, brings together researchers across disciplines and issues, to consider ‘Transforming Childhood’.  After the presentations there will be an opportunity to join in a discussion on new directions in childhood research, looking at the next big questions and future research agendas. Research ‘spotlight’ presentations: Lorraine van…

  • Biographical research seminar @warwickuni (CC @sociowarwick)

    Speakers:  Professor Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University  and Dr Barbara Merrill, University of Warwick Title: Using Biographical and Auto Biographical Narratives in Social Science and Educational Research Venue: Wednesday, 19th February, WTO.05, 2-4pm, Westwood Teaching Centre, Westwood Campus I’m very frustrated I can’t make this!

  • LGBT history month at the university of leeds

    Please find below two film events organised by CIGS students for LGBT history month, at the University of Leeds. Wednesday 5th Film: ‘Venus Boyz’ Documentary. ‘A film journey through a universe of female masculinity’. Organised by students from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Followed by discussion. Film: 6-8pm, discussion: 8-9pm Baines Wing Miall Lecture Theatre (2.34) Free,…

  • LGBT history month at university of east anglia

    LGBT History Month at the University of East Anglia   All talks are free and they take place in Arts 2.02 at 7 pm. Contact B.J. Epstein at b.epstein@uea.ac.uk for more information.   3 February Music in Queer Fiction Dr Clare Connors When music is described in novels it serves all sorts of purposes. It can connote passion…

  • The start of a broader backlash against academic use of social media?

    Proposal from the Executive Committee to the Governing Council on Changes to ISA’s code of conduct policy Background The Preface to the ISA Code of Conduct states: “The purpose of this document is to provide an authoritative statement regarding the expectations for professional conduct for all who participate in ISA meetings and conventions, and it…

  • Deadline TOMORROW —> CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th

    The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to contribute then please send a short abstract and bio to mark@markcarrigan.net by February 1st. We use ‘quantified…

  • Individual biography and the spatial distribution of variety (or, what the sociological imagination looks like to a critical realist)

    Throughout my thesis I use the term ‘exploration’ as a short hand to designate a rather precise process. I’m trying to conceptualise a particular sort of biographical process, which in spite of its empirical variability shares an underlying structure in which the relation between concerns and context lead a person to look beyond that context in order to find…

  • Baffling theoretical diagrams that would benefit immensely from being made interactive

    From Christian Smith’s What is a person?

  • Let em Come – Scroobius Pip, Sage Francis & P.O.S

    (I don’t get the video…)

  • Leo Panitch on Syriza’s success

    (HT Organized Rage)

  • Lancashire LGBT History Month

    LGBT History Month – the nationwide celebration of the heritage of LGBT communities past and present, which takes part throughout the whole of February – reaches its eighth year in 2014. Once again a number of Lancashire based organisations have worked in partnership to provide three high profile events for the region including Lancashire County…

  • Deadline in 2 days –> CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th

    The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to contribute then please send a short abstract and bio to mark@markcarrigan.net by February 1st. We use ‘quantified…

  • 2nd CFP: Geographies of Public-Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics?

    Annual International Conference, London, 26–29 August, 2014 Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG) CFP: Geographies of Public-Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics? Sponsored session by the Space, Sexualities & Queer Research Group (SSQRG) Update: seeing the current SSQRG sponsorship of this session, we actively seek…

  • Appearance Matters 6 Conference – Symposium on Qualitative/feminist/LGBTQ perspectives on appearance and embodiment

    Appearance Matters 6 Hosted by The Centre for Appearance Research, UWE  A two day international conference highlighting current research and good practice around psychology and appearance, including body image, visible difference, plastic and reconstructive surgery, the role of the media, interventions, innovative research methods, provision of care, weight and shape, identity and education.  ‘Appearance Matters’ provides an…

  • More tickets available! Social Science and the Politics of Public Engagement (TOMORROW!)

    Social Science and the Politics of Public Engagement  Tuesday, January 28, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM  Open University Camden Centre, 1 – 11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London In recent years new technology has begun to facilitate ever more novel forms of research practice across the social sciences. New opportunities for collaboration exist…