The Spotlight on Genderqueer event takes place on Monday, April 29th. The event is free and is hosted at Warwick University, Wolfson Research Exchange (In the library) between 9am to 5pm. It is being presented by Ruth Pearce and lyndsey Moon from the Sociology Dept. Zowie Davy is the the keynote speaker and there are a range of fantastic papers alongside.…

Call for Participation SUMMER CLINIC ON SOCIOLOGICAL AGENCY 9 JULY – 8 AUGUST 2013 LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY In 2012-2013 we participated in an interdisciplinary reading group on the concept of agency at the University of Manchester. Out of this we felt the need to conduct a fuller survey of core positions on agency in…

Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? Calculation, computation and crisis A one-day conference organised by Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick 13th June 2013 10am-6.30pm Room S0.21 Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets, especially financial markets. Markets, from this perspective, are powerful information-processors, which are uniquely capable…

FINAL REMINDER – only 3 days left to submit! Abstract submission closes at midnight on Friday 19 April Work, employment and society Conference 2013 States of Work: Visions and the interpretations of work, employment, society and the state Dates: Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 September 2013 (Postgraduate Workshop: 2 September 2013) Venue: University of Warwick…

Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice 20th & 21st June: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice marks the end of the research project ‘Recognising Diversity?: Equalities In Principle and Practice’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)…

INVITATION TO CSISP SEMINAR (FYI): Please join us for presentations by Ana Gross (University of Warwick) and Lonneke van der Velden (University of Amsterdam; CSISP Visiting Fellow) about their on-going research on online devices for the collection of personal data, the enactment of persons by digital means, and their politics. Date:  April 24, 2013, 16:00 Location:  Goldsmiths, Warmington Tower…

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Risk and Rapture: Apocalyptic Imagination in Late Modernity Centre for Faiths and Public Policy, University of Chester Wednesday 11th September 2013 Keynote Speaker: Professor Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Apocalypse captivates the human imagination. Once synonymous with ‘end of the world’ scenarios and confined largelyto the religious, the term…

Room AG22 College Building, St John Street EC1V 4PB http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2013/may/valuing-the-bbc-a-half-day-seminar-at-city-university-london City University London presents a half day seminar exploring the public value of the BBC. The seminar offers a range of perspectives on the BBC’s role in public life, discussing the BBC Trust, science reporting, research with the BBC and public service broadcasting in an…

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This is very rough. Much more so than I’d like it to be. But then how could it be otherwise when I’m finishing it 12 hours before the event? Nonetheless this is my first sketch at doing something which I want to look at in depth post-PhD – using digital strategy as a lens through which to…

You should come to this: Queer geographies and the politics of anti-normativity (2)  Convenor(s): Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Leeds): Chair(s): Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Leeds) Sponsored by: Space Sexualities and Queer Research Group ·         The Moral Geography of Sexuality and Deviance Sharon Hayes (Queensland University of Technology) ·         “Oh! There are other people just like me? I’m not so weird…

Ethnographic Methods: ethics, practice and theory 12.00-17.00, Thursday, 23 May 2013 The University of Warwick At its best, ethnography – often glossed as ‘participant observation’ – has provided sociology and other social researchers with a valuable tool for apprehending a world in flux. Across the humanities and social sciences (e.g. cultural studies, social anthropology, sociology),…

The next meeting in the WMS Education Research Seminar series will be at 2pm on Thursday 21st March in GLT4 in the Medical School building. The seminar will be led by David Seedhouse, creator of the Values Exchange. The Values Exchange is an innovative web-based community that fosters personal reflection and informed debate on case studies on any…

Subjectivity and Subculture ~ One Day Symposium ~ Monday 10th June 2013: 9:00am-6:30pm Institute of Advanced Study, Milburn House, University of Warwick We are delighted to announce that Dr Rupa Huq, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, and Dr Shane Blackman, Professor in Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, will give keynote papers at…

Living Apart Together: A Multi-Method Analysis What Have We Learnt?  A seminar to discuss the findings of an ESRC funded research project  Friday 26 April 2013 2.00-4.30 pm  Keynes Library 43 Gordon Square Birkbeck, University of London London WC1H 0PD About 10% of adults in Britain today are in a relationship but not living with their…

I had three initial aims with my asexuality research: mapping out community in a ideographically adequate way, understanding the role the internet played in the formation of the community and exploring what the reception of asexuality reveals about sexual culture. There’s still more I want to write in relation to the first two points but…

How did Thinking Culture come about?  Has the way you’ve used the blog changed over time?  How does your blog connect with the rest of your work? Do you ever have trouble finding time to blog?  So is curation a central part of you use social media?  Does blogging provide a space for things which…

I interviewed David Beers about digital data and its implications for sociology. Why should sociologists care about the ‘digital’? What is ‘digital by-product data’? Why is it sociologically interesting?  How can sociologists cope with digital data? How will digital data shape sociological practice? 

Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Friday, 5 July 2013 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT Summary This conference brings together social scientists, gender scholars, sexologists, psychiatrists, historians of science, as well as mental health practitioners and sexual rights activists to critically explore the sexual classifications produced by the 5th edition…

Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis Special Issue Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2013 Editorial Team: Ana C. Dinerstein (University of Bath), Gregory Schwartz (University of Bath) and Graham Taylor (University of the West of England) We hear it, see it, and read about it everywhere; yet, to what extent are we…

After listening to a description of ‘voice hearing’ on Radio 4 last Saturday, I find myself fascinated by the relationship such pathological/pathologised forms of inner speech have to the everyday forms of inner speech which are so central to my own work. The phenomenology described by the radio guest was fascinating: the inner ‘other’ was…

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 DEADLINE for applications: 15th March 2013 The current moment seems to be one of ‘crisis’ or at least of dramatic change for the authority of academic expertise. Policy debates over climate…

Tuesday March 5th: Asexuality 101 – Lunchtime talk – Foster Court 130 (UCL) ‘An informal lunchtime introductory talk on asexuality as part of Asexual Awareness Week, organised by UCL’s LGBT+ Curious to learn more about this lesser known orientation? Come along to find out more. Free lunch provided! Open to everyone, and room is fully…

Normality in an uncertain world 6th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference, 10th and 11th September 2013 Call for Abstracts This conference aims to bring together post-graduates and researchers, with an interest in normality, to explore the development, current application and possible future of such research. We are pleased to confirm our keynote speakers: Derek McGhee, Professor of…

How do you make decisions about ethical questions when designing online research? Where are the gray or sticky areas? What resources have helped– what do you need? The New Social Media, New Social Science project would like your input so we can assess what resources are needed. Please share your insights, frustrations and questions in…

I first encountered the idea of academic podcasting when working for a University of Warwick based project a few years ago. It gave a small stipend to PhD students in exchange for producing a short podcast profiling the research of someone within the university, which was then edited and posted online by myself and the…

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Do you value your ideas? If you’re reading this website then chances are you answered ‘yes’ to that question. Yet unless you record all your ideas I’d argue that you don’t value them. At least not as much as you could. It’s a difficult habit to acquire and it can be time-consuming. But technology is making it so much…

EDUCATION AND LEARNING: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Wednesday, 25th September 2013, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote speaker: Heather Mendick, Brunel University This one-day conference, supported by the British Sociological Association’s Education Study Group, will showcase the diverse and innovative range of research that is currently being conducted within the Sociology of Education. We welcome theoretical,…

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 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?contentid=27 If you are interested in being a part…

“The Last Outing: Exploring end of life experiences and care needs in the lives of older LGBT people”. The study has been funded by Marie Cure Cancer Care Research Programme, and is led by Dr Kathryn Almack at the University of Nottingham. We are now at the stage of launching our survey and we are…

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 for the authority of academic expertise. Policy debates over climate change, embryology and the like…

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 to independent economic evaluation and critique. The epistemological crisis of neoliberalism consists of the collapse…

Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London, 28th-30th August 2013 Capitalism and Erotics Organiser: Jason Lim (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the RGS-IBG This session seeks to examine the multitude of ways of thinking about the relationship between capitalism and erotics. Much recent…

In this presentation I draw on critical realist theories of the person to offer an account of how persons change, or fail to change, over time. I argue that many of the substantive concerns of biographical and lifecourse research can be fruitfully recast as questions relating to personal morphostatis (staying the same) or personal morphogenesis…

Call for Papers: Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Posted on December 3, 2012 by citizenshipandbelonging2013 Call for Papers and Participants for a two-day BSA-Sponsored Regional Postgraduate Event Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Hosted by the University Nottingham On Monday the 25th and Tuesday the 26th of March 2013 Within Sociology, the study of…

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 down for more information on each seminar and speaker] Date Speaker Title 6 Feb. Ben…

Reminder: Call for Papers Qualitative and Ethnographic Research (QER): Sharing and shaping pedagogies – learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama, University of Exeter, UK. We invite your proposals for papers, presentations, and other forms of dissemination for the HEA funded workshop, QER: Sharing and shaping pedagogies on May 10th 2013. We are…

CFP: Queer geographies and the politics of anti-normativity RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 28-30th August 2013 Convened by Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Leeds) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group This session aims to critically question queer theory’s political commitment to anti-normativity. It seeks to challenge any rigid distinction between the normative and the…

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 Work, Inside and Outside the UK Film Industry LUCILLE NONZWAKAZI MAQUBELA, University of Venda – Work-Family…

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 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?contentid=27 If you are interested in being a part…

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 of social theory; whether based in Sociology or other social science of humanities disciplines –…

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University of Greenwich Business School Work and Employment Research Unit Seminar Series Wednesday 13 February 2013, 2 – 6p.m. EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL MOBILITY: WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AND WHAT CAN BE DONE? Ken Roberts (Liverpool) ‘The real trend in social mobility: from upwards to downwards’ Lefteris Kretsos (Greenwich) ‘The persistent pandemic of Work Precariousness…

5, 6, 7 September 2013 | FCSH, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal | http://egsc2013.pt.to Call for papers and sessions Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical…

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 blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

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 light across them in rare and valuable ways.  His most recent books The Moral Significance of Class(Cambridge, 2005) and Why…

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, MK7 6AA Outline: “The University is just one site where the idea of public good…

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 third year, is the cross-disciplinary event bringing together academics, professional researchers and consumer insights specialists…

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 registered charity organisations; £440 for all other participants. Further info and register: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=3820 This training is…

Prestige: reputation or influence arising from success, achievement,rank, or other favorable attributes. distinction or reputation attaching to a person or thing andthus possessing a cachet Journals seen as prestigious have a reputation for possessing favourable attributes: they are well managed, have high editorial standards, publish good papers. In fact all these factors are, in practice, related. They’re also seen to be related – perhaps, once might suggest, to an extent which outstrips the reality. Great faith has been placed in…

BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event Thursday 13th December 2012 Gender and Bourdieu, “Is doing gender unavoidable?” Bourdieu first entered the sociological discussion of gender relationships in the 1990s. In 1998 he published La Domination masculine . Bourdieu argues that the relations between men and women are tied to masculine domination and that this masculine domination…

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  earlier  in  the  year  that  employ different techniques for learners to work together at a…

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 groups. In the highly globalising and ICT-saturated world young people can also be seen as…

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.

Against the backdrop of decolonisation, a global economic boom was accompanied by tightened border controls, ever more punitive asylum regimes and limited access to citizenship. Immigration from former colonies to former metropoles has been limited in the postcolonial period as racialised discourses have set the West in opposition to an alien ‘rest’. Now, in this…

Thinking the present with Max Weber: The University, the Scholar and the Student Organised by the Max Weber Study Group of the BSA. Supported by the University of Salford & UCU Salford 7 December 2012, Clifford Whitworth Conference Room, University of Salford (Manchester)   A one-day seminar on the situation of the university, part of a seminar series…

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 Manchester Keynote Speakers are: Jackie Kay (Poet, novelist & Professor of Creative Writing, University of…

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 and its role in creating, housing, reflecting and facilitating queer life. It aims to bring…

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 – 8.00pm Places still available but numbers are limited so book soon! The last decade has…

Have you ever skydived before? Of course  most people haven’t and have no interest in it. I have, and for me, it was a thrill. But do those who have not had, and do not want to have, this experience have a disorder? So, if you don’t want this experience, should we diagnose you with, say, hypoactive skydiving disorder because you…

We are delighted to announce the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships 4th International Conference will take place in Edinburgh from Monday 10th – Wednesday 12th June 2013 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/crfrinternational/index.html Researching Families and Relationships: innovations in methods, theory and policy relevance 10th – 12th June 2013 John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh Full Registration…