CfP: Queer Senses: A One-Day Symposium at Royal Holloway, University of London (11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RF) Tuesday 26th March, 2013, 10.00-17.00 Organizers: Dr Emily Jeremiah and Prof James Williams (SMLLC, RHUL) And ‘Queer, The Space’ (www.queerthespace.org) We invite proposals for 20-minute papers to be given at this event, which will ask: what makes…

THE SOCIOLOGY TEACHER The Journal of the BSA Teaching Group The BSA Teaching Group is a network of people keen to further the interests of sociology teaching from secondary to tertiary education. The aim of the Group is to encourage and promote the teaching of the Social Sciences in Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education. The…

BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial Study Group in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research   Interrogating “the Social Unconscious” Friday 25 January 2013  2pm – 5pm  Room 101, 30 Russell Square   What is meant by the concept of “the social unconscious”? What is it trying to capture, and is it a…

Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology Date            7 December 2012 Time            9.30am – 4.30pm Location        The British Library, London Digital methods have been utilised by a variety of disciplines. In an era in which social life is increasingly played out online, such methods…

The organising committee for the 12th Symposium is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers is now open! NYRIS 12 focuses on cultural and social changes in the digital age. In the conference programme there are 30 sessions in 16 streams, covering youth-related topics from different perspectives: Youth participation and political activities Online youth activism Youth and digital…

Fri 26th Oct, 10-7pm, Goldsmiths, University of London  A Jubilee of a Different Kind: Celebrating Diane Abbott’s 25 years as an MP Celebrating, honouring, reflecting on 25 years of the UK’s first black female MP, Diane Abbott To celebrate Diane’s achievements, Dr Deirdre Osborne from Goldsmiths’ Department of Theatre and Performance has organised a series…

Why the interest in asexuality? Were people around not surprised about your interest and research into asexuality? Is it ok for us to ask about your sexual orientation? I became interested in asexuality because I met a couple of asexual people socially and, I now realise in common with pretty much all non-asexual people, I…

Race, Migration, Citizenship: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives 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…

BSA Regional Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event: ‘Ways to Enhance Your CV’ Wednesday 12th December 2012, 11am-3pm Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET Hosted by Dr Pam Lowe, Head of Sociology & Senior Lecturer: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff-directory/lowep/ & assisted by senior colleagues from the Sociology & Social Policy Dept, Aston University, & BSA Postgraduate Co-convenor/represenatives…

BSA Theory Study Group: Early Career Theorists’ Symposium 2nd April, 2013, Kings College, London Call for Abstracts The Early Career Theorists’ Symposium is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming theorists, organized by the Theory Study Group of the British Sociological Association. This symposium aims to bring together sociologists at a relatively early stage in their careers…

Choosing the right software for your qualitative and mixed-methods analysis Choosing the appropriate analysis software package is an important part of planning any qualitative or mixed method research project. There are a range of options available, but it is not always easy to visualise exactly what a package offers when exploring it for the first…

Coventry Feminists and Coventry University presents Nefarious: Merchant of Souls On Wednesday 7th November Coventry University & Coventry Feminist will host a screening of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, a hard-hitting documentary that exposes the disturbing trends in modern sex slavery. From the very first scene, Nefarious ushers you into the nightmare of sex slavery that…

The Lady Doth Protest: Mapping Feminist Movement, Moments, and Mobilisations Biennial FWSA Conference 21-23 June 2013, University of Nottingham Keynote Speakers: Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS, University of London) Professor Diane Elson (University of Essex) Dr Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths University) The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) is pleased to announce details of its 2013 conference, ‘The Lady Doth Protest: Mapping…

“You ask for what one should be keyed up? My god, for long weekends in the country, and snow and the feel of an idea and New York streets early in the morning and late at night and the camera eye always working whether you want or not and yes by god how the earth feels when it’s…

9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

BSA Presidential Event, together with FESSUD and the British Library ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’ British Library Conference Centre, London Monday 8 October 2012; 10am – 4.10pm The BSA President, Professor John Holmwood, announces a one-day seminar  on the financial crisis, organised in collaboration with Dr Andrew Brown of FESSUD (an EU…

Disclosing the trauma of child sexual abuse: a gender analysis Wednesday 24th October 2012 2pm-5pm Free to attend however places are limited St Trinneans Room, St Leonards Hall, Pollock Halls of Residence, Edinburgh http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/gbvseminar.html Child sexual abuse occurs with both girls and boys, although much more research has been done with girls. In her qualitative…

9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

Furthering Equality in International Higher Education: UK and transnational programmes Date: 29 Jan 2013 Time: 10:30am – 3:30pm Location/venue: University of Surrey This event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Workshop and Seminar Series 2012/2013 Extant research on processes of internationalisation within higher education has highlighted important inequalities. Students from more…

In the last decade discourses such as celebrity culture, reality TV, social networking and transnational media have shifted the emphasis of online pornography away from a private and clandestine domain towards a self-authenticating and transformative embodiment of self-expression. This special edition of Networking Knowledge aims to address how and why the rhetoric’s and representations of…

SPECIAL ISSUE of Gender and Language on  Gender, language, communication and the media Gender and Language invite papers on the topic of gender, language, communication and the media for a forthcoming special issue in 2014. We invite papers that deploy various methods (e.g., linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, content analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and sociolinguistics) to explore…

You can think of culturally decodable information as a potential form of experience, very much as you can think of a brick resting on a ledge as storing potential energy. When the brick is prodded to fall, the energy is revealed. That is only possible because it was lifted into place at some point in…

SOLIDARITY BUT NOT SIMILARITY? LGBT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Free one day conference, 9th November 2012, Sheffield This conference will disseminate findings from the recent UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project on understandings and experiences of ‘LGBT communities’, and their implications for ‘wellbeing’. It will also feature additional contributions from experts in the…

BSA Presidential Event, together with FESSUD and the British Library: ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’ The event will take place at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Monday 8h October 2012 between 10am – 4.10pm Speakers include: Andrew Brown (Leeds University Business School), Mathew Bond (London South Bank University), Julie Froud…

Gender Sex & Power: Interdisciplinary Dialogues University of Hull Postgraduate Conference Wednesday 21st November 2012 Call for Papers: This one-day interdisciplinary conference draws together postgraduate & early career scholars to explore the intersections of gender, sex and power through their research. Registration Details: There is a £5 registration fee to secure attendance which is inclusive of…

2.00-5.00 pm, 6 November 2012, NCVO conference suite, Camden, London This workshop will provide a forum for stakeholders, community activists, and service users to discuss current developments in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities field. It will include presentations by key community organisations and it will introduce the recently published book Sexuality, Equality and…

Psyche in the Habitus?  Thursday, 27 September 2012, 10am-4.15pm  Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck Main building, Room 414, Malet Street, London WC1 Travel details at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps £15.00 BSA members/£10.00 Post-grad BSA members £18.00 Non-BSA/£12.00 non-BSA post-grads  BOOK NOW at: the BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial Study Group webpage or follow the links from the BSA website (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ ).  Organizer: Elizabeth Silva The workshop aims…

The British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group invites social scientists to submit abstracts for their forthcoming special section that aims to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing the sociological study of happiness. We feel that happiness research has been neglected in mainstream sociology journals and this special section we hope will be the first…

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick will host a Graduate Seminar Series in the academic year 2012/2013. We would like to invite postgraduate students working in, but not limited to the following areas: Media, Culture and Gender Representations Work and Family (Trans)national Gender Intersections of Gender, ‘Race’,…

Archer’s (2004) dispute with Collier concerning the relation between practical and theoretical knowledge illustrates this well, as both draw upon the same example (learning to ride a bike as children) to make opposing theoretical points regarding the role of discursive knowledge in acquiring practical skills. The former arguing that this is a matter of ‘catching…

BSA TEACHING GROUP Inaugural Conference 28th – 30th September 2012 Menzies Strathallan Hotel, Birmingham  This year’s eagerly anticipated BSA Teaching Group Inaugural Conference, sponsored by The Higher Education Academy, will be held at the Menzies Strathallan Hotel, Birmingham and places are already starting to fill up! With current BSA President and former Chair of the Council of UK Heads and…

Our concept of human nature is certainly limited; it’s partially socially conditioned, constrained by our own character defects and the limitations of the intellectual culture in which we exist. Yet at the same time it is of critical importance that we know what impossible goals we’re trying to achieve, if we hope to achieve some…

Morphogenetic personalism aims to understand the four-dimensionality to human existence (conceptualised as each individual’s psychobiography) through ‘slicing’ into the temporal parts of psychobiography, identifying and unpacking processes of elaboration and reproduction in the organisation of that personhood and, through doing so, ‘tracing out’ the specific connections with wider changes in social life which, in whatever…

The changing circumstances faced in education and the labour market are often used to argue for a radical heterogeneity in the transitional pathways followed by young people (Biggart, Furlong and Cartmel 2008: 56). While an empirical evaluation of this claim is beyond the scope of the present project, it is worth considering the extent to which the…

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What effect will the introduction of RCUK compliance criteria have on the strategic priorities of particular journals and scholarly publishers as a whole? How will the block grant by RCUK to institutions be calculated? Will it vary across mission groups? Will any stipulations be laid down about the internal distribution and management of the block…

– I first got interested in asexuality after making friends with two asexual people: (a) the sheer absence of even a momentary consideration f the possibility in academic literature (b) my own initial confusion and, as I began to talk to other people about it, the fact they shared this confusion – initially I just…

Some initial thoughts for a talk I’m doing on Sunday I dislike the term ‘sexual revolution’ but nonetheless it can be a useful one in that it fallibly delineates observable epochal shifts in human intimate life which, nonetheless, are only aspects of wider and messier processes. In this sense I want to see the notion…

Do you suffer from information overload? Do you find it difficult to organise and process the things you find online so that you can apply them productively in your day-to-day working life? If so then curation tools could transform your experience of the digital world. Increasingly seen as the ‘next big thing’ of social media,…