Four lessons offered by Ann Oakley in her Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science. This is a wonderful, thought-provoking and deeply human series of essays on the unfolding of her life in relationship to her father Richard Titmuss, the… Read More ›
You are invited to join us for the launch of our new books: “Learning and Teaching British Values” by Dr Sadia Habib and “Children’s Literature about Refugees” by Dr Julia Hope. Two Goldsmiths alumni are holding a joint book… Read More ›
The 10th conference DIAGRAMS will take place in Edinburgh on 18-22 June 2018. It will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate symposium. It provides a united forum for all areas concerned… Read More ›
WHAT IS UNIVERSE? COMMUNICATION • COMPLEXITY • COHERENCE April 19-21, 2018 * University of Oregon in Portland, USA The _WHAT IS UNIVERSE?_ [1] (2018) conference-experience examines communication, complexity/simplicity, coherence/incoherence and, how they may or may not contribute to “a pluralistic… Read More ›
Undisciplining: Conversations at the Edges The BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; 19-21st June 2018 Call for Participation In 2018 The Sociological Review will be hosting our largest conference to date! This is a long-overdue celebration of our renewed commitment to fostering collaborations and dialogues… Read More ›
Thu 16 November 2017, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Professor Helen Margetts, director of the prestigious Oxford Internet Institute, presents her personal, positive vision – and then leads discussion – on how the UK’s social media can… Read More ›
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Sharing and Storing: Everyday relationships with digital material Special Issue of New Media & Society Edited by Heather A. Horst The University of Sydney, Australia Jolynna Sinanan RMIT University, Australia Larissa Hjorth RMIT University, Australia Abstract Submission… Read More ›
Date: 21-22 May 2018 Location: Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Host: Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Submission deadline: 27 November! The collection and processing of massive amounts of data has become an increasingly contentious issue. Our financial transactions, communications,… Read More ›
Thursday 8th March 2018, The Wellcome Collection, London, NW1 2BE After several successful events, we’re pleased to say that the NSMNSS network (http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/) and Social Research Association (www.the-sra.org.uk) are again teaming up to deliver a one-day conference on ‘Answering social science… Read More ›
We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors. Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: Guidance for contributors: The target audience is the informed, interested general reader,… Read More ›
By Ola Dirisu Tate Britain Millbank, London: Exhibition Title: “Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s & Goldsmiths, University of London: Exhibition Title: “Vron Ware: 13 Dead and Nothing Said” Unsure of what to expect or how I would… Read More ›
By Nikki Achilleous I have never sincerely felt a victim of racism; I have never fully been personally exposed to hatred. Whilst looking around the Black Diaspora in London exhibition in Tate Britain, I absorbed the trajectories of the intersecting generations… Read More ›
By Holly Wayman As the end of my undergraduate degree in sociology draws closer I am beginning to realise that although the teaching and endless hours in the library will stop, the outlook that all this has provided me certainly will… Read More ›
By Lambros Fatsis Earlier this year, I taught a module on the sociology of “race” and “ethnicity” with my beloved colleagues Bindi Shah, Pathik Pathak, and Luiz Valério P. Trindade; which was partly assessed by a reflective narrative that my… Read More ›
*Call for Submissions* *Politicians and Social Media in the Global South* A seminar/workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Date: April 14, North Quad 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 In the last decade, politicians… Read More ›
CALL FOR PAPERS 11th INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE OF ROME May 10-12, 2018 John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago The John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago is hosting the 11th international conference on Critical Theory of… Read More ›
Call for papers: Intimacies online, online intimacies We are delighted to announce this international conference about intimacy online, digitally mediated intimacies and how intimacies influence (new) mediascapes. Online media are increasingly intersecting and intertwined with our daily lives, bodily and… Read More ›
Call for Proposals for an INC Theory on Demand edited book *Editors: Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology), Kate Devitt (Queensland University of Technology) & Monique Mann (Queensland University of Technology).* In recent years, there has been an exponential increase… Read More ›
Convenors Corinna Howland (University of Cambridge) Patrick O’Hare (University of Cambridge) Summary The cooperative has proved to be a remarkably enduring and adaptive organizational form. With roots in the Industrial Revolution and with its current iterations persisting in/in spite of the… Read More ›
Call for Participation The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice A Database and eBook Project Virginia Kuhn, Kathie Gossett (eds.) Abstract submission: 12 January 2018 Humanities scholars recognize the growing importance of digital media in knowledge production and distribution. However, recognition… Read More ›
The 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network will take place at The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. The symposium will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network and provide… Read More ›
CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2018 PRECONFERENCE Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communications May 24, 2018 Venue: Main Conference Hotel Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2017 Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of… Read More ›
The social life of time: power, discrimination and transformation The 1st Temporal Belongings International Conference Supported by the Wellcome Trust 5th – 7th June 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland Since 2011 the Temporal Belongings network has brought together scholars from across the arts, humanities… Read More ›
CALL FOR PAPERS February 24, 2018 Venue: University of Nottingham Abstract Deadline: December 8, 2017 How do the pressures of austerity, migration and populism impact on identity and belonging in the 21st century? What is the emotional cost of maintaining… Read More ›