Thanks to @lucyhbmort for flagging up this fascinating finding. I’d often wondered about this and use the train station in question very frequently. Here’s the source – this might seem like an interesting bit of ephemera but I think it… Read More ›
Archive for June 2015
CfP: The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare
######### QSPH’15, Washington D.C., USA, November, 2015 ########### Second International Workshop on The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare (QSPH’15) Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2015 in Washington D.C., USA http://qsph-workshop.dai-labor.de ####################################################### The aims of the workshop… Read More ›
The Relational Subject
Many social theorists now call themselves ‘relational sociologists’, but mean entirely different things by it. The majority endorse a ‘flat ontology’, dealing exclusively with dyadic relations. Consequently, they cannot explain the context in which relationships occur or their consequences, except… Read More ›
Congrats, you did not cite any feminist work!
HT Sara Ahmed for this interesting Tumblr blog. It only has one entry at present but it seems likely to grow: Congrats, you did not cite any feminist work
Podcasts and videocasts from the Social Theory Centre @SocioWarwick
Great to see this being done: Exploring Stigma & Shame: An Interdisciplinary Workshop (14th May 2015) STC Annual Lecture with Imogen Tyler: Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times (13th May) Theories & Methodologies Cluster, APT Symposium Occupational Hazards:… Read More ›
Is social media ‘the new black’? Thoughts on digital scholarship as fashion and fad
These are some notes in preparation for my participation in this panel next week. I like the title of the event because it neatly raises something which I’ve been preoccupied by recently and is a key theme in the final… Read More ›
CfP: Bio-power(ful) Cloud-Bodies
Bio-power(ful) Cloud-Bodies Host: Foucault Madness Collective Date: Saturday, September 26th, 2015. Location: The Historic Thibodo House (1150 Lupine Hills Drive, Vista, CA) Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jack Halberstam The Foucault Madness Conference is back for a second year! This year’s theme… Read More ›
The Future of Social Critique
Videos of the talks from this seminar at Loughborough:
Do professional associations compete to make their conference the most inaccessible to ECRs?
If so then it seems the British Sociological Association win. This interesting and provocative post about the British International Studies Association (BISA) conference bemoans its exclusionary price: If you were to ask a handful of early career scholars for their… Read More ›
1st Conference of the European Labour History Network – Worker’s Writing in Europe
14 – 16 December 2015, Torino/Turin (Italy) Workshop : Worker’s Writing in Europe (19th-20th centuries) A contribution to the cultural history of the worlds of work Within the framework of constructing a cultural history of the worlds of work “seen… Read More ›
Toilet Talks: A Speaker Event on Bodies, Identities & Design
Toilet Talks: A Speaker Event on Bodies, Identities & Design Monday 29th June, 1:00 – 5:30pm Lecture Theatre 1, Brooks Building, Birley Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University Speakers include: Barbara Penner (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) ‘Redesigning for the User: Alexander… Read More ›
Vacancy for a Post-doctoral researcher in Sociology / longitudinal ethnographic research
Part of the reason I’m reposting this is because I value longitudinal qualitative research. But I’m also intrigued that part of the job description is to “raise additional funds” – how much of academic life is coming to be dominated… Read More ›
Margaret Archer on her relationship with Pierre Bourdieu and his work
From this interview in in disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: DC: How might you characterize the connection, if any, between your theoretical work and that of Pierre Bourdieu? MA: Sadly, because he was a good friend. He was very… Read More ›
Social theory is something you can’t get away from
From an interview with Margaret Archer in disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Well, social theory is something you can’t get away from. It’s indispensible. People in the street are social theorists. They don’t know it, they wouldn’t appropriate the… Read More ›
Decolonizing Knowledge: Invitation to participate in workshop
Decolonizing Knowledge Invitation to participate in workshop November 2-3, 2015 For at least two centuries, the only knowledge which has been accorded the status “respectable”, whether the site of its production is in the “West” (understood as a region, or… Read More ›
Call for Abstracts: Unlocking the Black Box
Call for Abstracts: Unlocking the Black Box Date: Saturday, August 15, 2015 – 12:00pm Location: Yale Law School See map 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06520 Unlocking the Black Box The Promise and Limits of Algorithmic Accountability in the… Read More ›
The Groomers and the Question of Race
by Shamim Miah The last decade has witnessed a number of prominent police‐led operations relating to child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England. Whilst much of the public discourse related to Operation Yewtree, Operation Fernbridge, and others has focused on the… Read More ›
#CharlestonSyllabus: Readings and Resources
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Charleston, there were politicians attempting to deny the racist nature of the terror that struck the Black people of Charleston, while educators were working hard to challenge the spurious notions of a post-racial USA… Read More ›
New website: Global Social Theory
From Gurminder K Bhambra: This is just a quick email to let you know about a new website that has been set up on Global Social Theory. I have set this up together with Lucy Mayblin and Lisa Tilley and… Read More ›
2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) Call for Submissions
Call For Papers 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) Call for Submissions Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Twitter to organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This is exemplified by the diversity of uses ranging from Twitter and Facebook… Read More ›
methods@manchester Summer School
Interesting in gathering and analysing twitter data? The Manchester Methods summer school is fast approaching and runs from 6th-10th July 2015 at The University of Manchester. Booking is essential to secure a place on the summer school courses. The school… Read More ›
Where is the university? #CSOPhD
A very interesting extract from Gilbert Ryle shared by Adam Wood (MMU) at the Centre for Social Ontology PhD Conference: A foreigner visiting Oxford or Cambridge for the first time is shown a number of colleges, libraries, playing fields, museums,… Read More ›
25 Years of the Cambridge Realist Workshop
A reunion conference, generously sponsored by the Cambridge Journal of Economics, is to be held in Newnham College, Cambridge, 7-9 September 2015, marking 25 Years of the Cambridge Realist Workshop. Conference Themes The Conference Theme is ‘Social Ontology and Modern Economics’. There… Read More ›
Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations
ther Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations MLA International Symposia: Translating the Humanities Düsseldorf, Germany, 23?25 June 2016 The Modern Language Association of America, the world?s largest professional organization for scholars of literature and language, announces its first conference outside the United… Read More ›
Radical Transfeminism at the London Conference in Critical Thought
Conference stream on Radical Transfeminism, London Conference in Critical Thought Friday 26th/Saturday 27th June University College London anthropology department, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. Against a backdrop of social gains made by mainstream LGBT movements, the reality of trans*… Read More ›
The Ace Scholarship #Asexuality
This is an interesting initiative I hadn’t encountered previously: http://aceadmiral.tumblr.com/post//fall-2015-ace-scholarship-call-for-applications