Sociology Seminar Series 2009/10

SEMESTER 2  

20 January 2010

Professor Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin

'American Individualism and its Consequences for the World (Including the Credit Crunch)'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower  

Joint with Social Transformations

3 February 2010

Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths

'Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower

Joint with Postcolonial Research Group 

10 February 2010

Dr. David Lehmann, University of Cambridge

'From Multiculturalism to Interculturalidad'
Bedson Teaching Centre, Room G.37, From 5.00 to 7.00 pm
There will be coffee and tea from 4.45 pm, Joint with the Americas Research Group

  

17 February 2010

Professor Gayle Letherby, University of Plymouth

'Hierarchies and Continumms of Non/Motherhood: some reflections'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower

3 March 2010

Dr Gregory Elliott, Newcastle University

'Enigmatic Variations: Eric Hobsbawm Yesterday and Today'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room,5th Floor Claremont Tower

Joint with History and the Social Transformation Cluster

11th of March 2010

Prof. Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London,  Dr. Rebecca Coleman, Lancaster University, Dr. Carolyn Pedwell, Newcastle Univesity

'Feminist Theories of Embodiment, Relationality and Affect'
Joint with Media and Cultural Studies and the Gender Research Group
Percy Building G11.
From 4.00 to 6.00 pm

17 March 2010

Dr Andrew Whitehouse, University of Aberdeen

'On Knowing and Learning Bird Sounds'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower

21 April 2010

Professor Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

'Varieties of Democracy in Latin America'

Room G21+22, Devonshire Building, 3.30pm - 5.00pm followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower

Joint with Politics, Americas Research Group and the Social Transformations Cluster

Wednesday 28th of April 2010

Prof. Nina Wakeford, INCITE, Goldsmiths, University of London
Joe Malia, Visiting Fellow, Newcastle University

Collaborative Interventions: Dialogues between Design, Ethnography and Sociology
Devonshire Building, Room G21+22, from 3.00 to 5.00 followed by refreshments in the GPS Coffee Room, 5th Floor Claremont Tower

SEMESTER 1 2009/10 

alternatively we have some of the seminars available as podcasts to listen to, please click on the link below:

Semester 1 2009/10 Sociology Seminars Online
Sociology Seminar Series 2008/09

Published: 11th September 2009