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  • 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…

  • The Progressive War on the 1%

    How widespread are these views? I’m fascinated by how someone can become so detached from reality as to make this comparison. Presuming it’s not a calculated media intervention (why would it be? it makes him look like absurd) then how someone can come to hold such a belief demands explanation. The capacity to draw a…

  • Chris Smith on Religion & Human Personhood

  • What would a viable left-wing populist agenda for the UK look like?

    Quite a lot like this I’d imagine. I’ll never understand the contempt with which some on the left regard Owen Jones. I think this is great:  1) A statutory living wage, with immediate effect, for large businesses and the  public sector, and phased  in for small and medium  businesses over a five-year Parliament. This would save…

  • The Asexual Story Project

      (HT Ace-Muslim)  

  • Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Zizek

  • People were wondering what goes on inside a cat’s head. This guy nails it.

    (HT @megbarkerpsych)

  • I feel sick tonight

    Nothing is more entertaining, Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangement, Every syllable can rhyme, If you will afford the time, But now I’ll leave it there alright, And simply declare, I feel sick tonight. I feel sick tonight. I’m seeing them tomorrow night and my excitement has been diminished somewhat by discovering that the…

  • CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

    Are you a PhD student or Early Career Researcher doing work in digital sociology? The BSA Digital Sociology Group has organised a PhD/ECR Workshop where a limited number of participants can get feedback on their work from peers and established academics in a supportive environment. The event will take place between 11am to 4pm on February 19th at…

  • 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…

  • Capitalism Is The Crisis

  • it’s just so easy, it’s hard….

  • Noam Chomsky on “What is Anarchism?”

    Four thoughts: I love “what is X” questions. “Widening the bars of the cage” is the most succinct way I can articulate my orientation to political questions. Claiming Dewey as a proto-anarchist would be a wonderful intellectual move It would also be a terrific rejoinder to the self-indulgent liberalism of Richard Rorty

  • This is what my PhD is about — “What should I do with my 20s?”

    (ht Study Hacks)

  • We’re all in it together within #HigherEd

    In an email, seen by the Guardian, one university said that going on strike was a breach of staff’s employment contracts. Although the strike is only set to last for two hours at lunch time, university bosses told academics that they should leave for a whole day, if they wanted to strike. The email said:…

  • 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…

  • CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

    Are you a PhD student or Early Career Researcher doing work in digital sociology? The BSA Digital Sociology Group has organised a PhD/ECR Workshop where a limited number of participants can get feedback on their work from peers and established academics in a supportive environment. The event will take place between 11am to 4pm on February 19th at…

  • Call for papers – social movements and memories

    Please find below the call for papers for the panel “Social Movements and Memories”, proposed to the ECPR general conference 2014. Please feel free to distribute this call to interested colleagues. Please send paper abstracts (max. 250 words) by 26 January 2014 to:p.daphi@hu-berlin.de orlorenzo.zamponi@eui.eu Social Movements and Memorie Chair: Priska Daphi (Humboldt University Berlin) p.daphi@hu-berlin.de Discussant: Lorenzo Zamponi (European University…

  • No more google adverts for @soc_imagination

    There have been a few instances of really problematic adverts since I registered the site for Google Ads a year and a half ago. But Wonga is a step too far. I’ve been as picky as the system will allow me to be in setting which categories of advert are acceptable for the site but…

  • 1+ Hour Of Zelda Dubstep

  • Utterly beautiful flash mob (how strange to find myself typing that)

  • Against ‘norm circles’

    Dave Elder-Vass (2010: 122) argues that normativity should be understood as a result of ‘norm circles’ which “have emergent causal powers to influence their members, by virtue of the ways in which those members interact in them”. These powers are founded on the commitment which members of the circle have to endorse and enforce practices…

  • Working Paper: Realism, Biography and (a)Sexuality

    In this paper I explore the role of sexual categories in the lived experience of contemporary young people through a case study of the asexual community. While still representing a relatively small area of research within contemporary sexuality studies, asexuality (commonly defined as people who do not experience sexual attraction) has become the focus of…

  • The return of absolute poverty in the UK

    Michael Meacher gave a great speech on Jan 13th which seems to have attracted little attention in the media: It is clear that something terrible is happening across the face of Britain. We are seeing the return of absolute poverty, which has not existed in this country since the Victorian age, more than a century…

  • Analysing mothers’ blogs about feeding families – free seminar

    ‘Analysing mothers’ blogs about feeding families: findings, methodological and ethical issues’ SRA free evening seminar, 29 Jan. Presenters – Heather Elliott, Rebecca O’Connell, Corinne Squire (Novella) , Myrrh Domingo, Gunther Kress (MODE). Mothers’ strategies for feeding their children in the context of rising food prices, socio-economic ‘austerity’ measures, and ‘time poverty’, have attracted increasing media attention,…

  • Queering the Creative City – Call for Papers

    CfP – please feel free to forward and address any queries to the organisers. Queering the Creative City – Call for Papers Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London, 27-29 August 2014. During the last decade, an increasing interest has been seen by urban and economic geographers around the creative economy, creative cities, and…

  • The ‘creative confusion’ of the near to completion PhD student

    I came across a lovely passage in an intellectual biography of Montaigne I read recently: A more private kind of writerly doubt sometimes afflicted him, all the same. He could not pick the book up without being thrown into creative confusion. “For my part, I do not judge the value of any other work less clearly…

  • MAXQDA user conference: CAQD – Berlin, March 6-7

    Dear all, The 16th Conference on Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data (CAQD) will be held in Berlin from March 6 to 7, 2014 consisting of two keynote addresses, workshops, and a poster session. KEYNOTES: – New Horizions for Mixed Methods Analysis, Prof. Dr. Udo Kuckartz, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany – Using QDA software in the context of field…

  • Queer London Research Forum LGBT History Month events

    MONDAY 17th February: The Ageing Queer populations of London (7pm, The Boardroom, 309 Regent Street) 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? In part, the event will also consider how soap operas offer a frame…

  • 2014 Call for Papers for NWSA Asexuality Studies Interest Group

    2014 Call for Papers about Asexuality Asexuality Studies Interest Group National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 13-16, 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico  The NWSA Asexuality Studies Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2014 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards the full NWSA 2014 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/files/NWSA%202014%20CFP_Final.pdf If you…

  • Putin: “some of my best friends are gay”

    When Marr got Putin one-on-one briefly, he again raised the gay issue. Putin insisted he had no personal problem with gay people: “If you want to know what I personally think about this, a person’s sexual orientation actually does not make any difference to me. I know a few of them, and I am on…

  • The increasingly fuzzy boundary between public and private security

    Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) perform a valuable function as part of local community efforts to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour which effects businesses, their staff, customers and the community. Their work is now recognised by police, community safety and community safety partnerships as providing a valuable source of information and demonstrating practical steps to…

  • Wolfgang Hofkirchner: Facing Complexity – General System Theory

  • Wolfgang Hofkirchner – ICTs and Society Research – What for?

  • Call for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference, ASA 2014

    Call for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference, ASA 2014 Venue: Mills College (Oakland, CA) Date: August 15, 2014 We invite submissions for a second preconference on media sociology to be held at Mills College (Oakland, CA) on Friday, August 15, 2014. (This is one day before the start of the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in…

  • Tony Lawson – Really Reorienting Modern Economics

  • Margaret Archer – We are what we love: love and identity

  • The Apostrophe Protection Society

    Does anyone else find this as interesting as I do? See here for examples of the linguistic degeneracy which the society seeks to ameliorate.

  • Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5

  • 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…

  • CfP: Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism

    Call for Papers on Young people, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism SASE/Chicago 2014 Mini-Conference, July 10-12, 2014 Deadline for extended abstracts 20th January 2014 We invite abstracts on the topic of ‘Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism’ for a mini-conference at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics, Northwestern University and the University…

  • CfP: Kate Millett Conference

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