Feminist Classics Revisited symposium: Ann Oakley's Sex, Gender and Society

Prof Sarah Franklin (Sociology, Cambridge) - Chair.

Arts School Room C, New Museums Site.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:00-18:00

Europe entrapped. Can the EU resolve its current crisis?

PROF CLAUS OFFE (Hertie School of Governance).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:00-15:30

The contribution of economists to the second Great Depression

PROF ROBERT WADE (London School of Economics).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-14:00

The Economic Crisis in Europe

Professor Manuel Castells.

Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Monday 11 March 2013, 17:00-19:00

Sacred D-Mark, Profane Euro: The Cultural Logic of Central Bank Independence

DR CARLO TOGNATO (University of Adelaide).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 12:30-14:00

The Last Campaign

Prof Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Obama in Power

Prof Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Science, Law and Kinship: alternative or complementary framings in atrocity victim identification?

PROF ERICA HAIMES (Newcastle University).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 12:30-14:00

The Importance of Being Civil

PROF JOHN HALL (Mc Gill University, Quebec).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 12:30-14:00

Traffic Unobserved: The Importance of Raising Awareness of Other, Emerging Forms of Trafficking in Persons

DR SARAH STEELE (Cambridge University, Law Faculty).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 12:30-14:00

A Case Study of `New' and `Far Right' Attempts to Engage with Underground Music Scenes.

DR PETER WEBB (Cambridge University, Sociology).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 12:30-14:00

The Return of Class.

PROF GORAN THERBORN (Cambridge University, Sociology).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 12:30-14:00

The Politics of Preventing Poor Pharmaceutical Patents: Brazil, India, and Beyond

DR KEN SHADLEN (London School of Economics).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 12:30-14:00

Explaining work-life conflict of men and women: disentanling the impact of national contexts

Dr Heejung Chung, University of Kent.

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

Conceptualising the Quality of Employment

Dr B Burchell (Cambridge Sociology Division)m Dr K Sehnbruch (University of Chile).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

The Future of Capitalism

Professor Michael Mann (UCLA).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Social Mobility over three Generations in Britain

Dr Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford) and Dr Vikki Boliver (Durham University).

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

Authorship and responsibility: literary trials and the ethics of writing (France, 19th-21th Century)

Gisele Sapiro, Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris.

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

Sex Ratio Imbalances and China's Care for Girls Programme

Dr Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford.

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

Mechanisms of Control and their Effects on Solidarity: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Palestinian Enclaves across the Green Line

Dr Silvia Pasquetti, Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 12:30-14:00

Mafias on the Move: how organised crime conquers new territories

Dr Federico Varese, Oxford University.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Retooling Reproductive Sustance: IVF as a stem technology

Prof Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Can Welfare State Models immunise Employees against the Effects of Job Insecurity? Flexicurity's claims examined

Dr Brendan Burchell, Cambridge University, Sociology.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Contemporary revolution in religious life

Dr David Lehmann, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The rise of Sartre and French existentialism

Dr Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

Faculty of English.

Saturday 22 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Left in Crisis: what is next?

Prof Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) and Prof Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics).

Faculty of Law.

Saturday 22 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Creative Campus

Dr David Fowler, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Why do people works so hard?

Dr Brendan Bruchell, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

The Open Society and its Immigrants: avoidance, conflict and accommodation

Dr Paul Scheffer, Amsterdam University.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 12:30-14:00

From SPS [PPSIS] to The House of Commons: Social Science, Evidence and Policy

Stella Creasy graduated from Social and Political Sciences Tripos (now PPS) and Magdalene College in 1999, and was elected as a Labour MP in 2010. Between these two she worked as a councillor in local government, obtained a PhD in social psychology from

Stella Creasy, MP, PhD.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:30

PUBLIC LECTURE: Cooperation

Prof Richard Sennett, Distinguised Visiting Professor at Cambridge Sociology Department.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

From multi-racial subjects to multi-cultural citizens: social stratification and ethnoracial classification among children of immigrants in the UK

Dr Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Univrsity of Toronto.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Emergent logics of expulsion: beyond social exclusion

Prof Saskia Sassen, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Sociology Department.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Monday 09 May 2011, 17:15-18:15

SEMINAR: Is one of the sources of social power ultimately decisive in determining the development of societies?

Prof Michael Mann, UCLA.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 12:30-14:00

PUBLIC LECTURE: The Political Sociology of Climate Change: causes and solutions

Prof Michael Mann, UCLA.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Wednesday 27 April 2011, 17:00-19:00

The Dreyfus Affair: the Orthodoxy revisited

Dr Ruth Harris, New College, Oxford.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 12:30-14:00

Erotic Capital: Extending Bourdieu

Dr Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 12:30-14:00

The Rise of Existentialism: a case study in the sociology of intellectual life

Dr Patrick Baert, Sociology Department, Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Migration and the rise of the radical right in Europe

Prof Montserrat Guibernau, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

The Nature of Empathy

Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

The Sociology of Resentment: the American Tea Party Movement

Prof Bryan Turner, University of Western Sidney.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 12:30-14:00

Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism

Convenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 14 January 2011, 00:00-00:00

Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism

Convenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

Thursday 13 January 2011, 00:00-00:00

Seminar: Greater gender equality, (un)happier families?

Professor Karen Henwood, Cardiff University Professor; Janet Walker, University of Newcastle; Lynn Prince Cooke, University of Kent; Emilia Del Bono, Institute for Social & Economic Research; Vanessa Gash, University of Manchester; Denise Hawke.

Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 09 December 2010, 10:00-16:30

Seminar: Shock Tactics: health inside out

Dr Simon Cohn, Cambridge General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Seminar: Autonomy and Dependence: the paradox of the believer as subject

Professor Daniele Hervieu, Former President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Seminar: Sacred Frontiers: the reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem's Old City

Dr Wendy Pullan, Cambridge Departmetn fo Architecture.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Seminar: Alternative Economic Cultures in a Context of Crisis

Prof Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Friday 22 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Public Lecture: The Multidimentional Crisis of Informational Capitalism

Professor Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Friday 22 October 2010, 14:00-16:00

Public Lecture: Bourdieu Race and the Penal System

Professor LoïcWacquant, University of California at Berkeley.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 14:00-16:00

Where is the Worl Going? Understanding World Dynamics - Public Lecture

Professor Goran Therborn, University of Cambridge.

Arts School Room A.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Digital Natives and Globalisation: the case of Japanese Youth's Engagement with Digital Media

Prof Toshie Takahashi.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-16:00

The Rise and Recessions of Neoliberalism, 1970-2010 - Public Lecture

Prof Michael Mann, UCLA.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Can American Imperialism Survive for Long in the 21st Century?

Professor Michael Mann, UCLA.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

On Critique in a Time of Crisis

Luc Boltanski, Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and Professor Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-18:00

The Simultaneous Resurgence of Russia and Russophobia

Professor Ray Taras, Eurpean Institute, Florence, and Tulane University.

Thrikill Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

The source of intellectuals’ public standing: the lessons from a Nobel Trinity

Barbara Misztal (Leicester).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 12:30-14:00

Special Sociology Lecture: The Increasing Significance if Guanxi

Prof Yanje Bian, University of Minnesota.

Arts School, room B.

Friday 26 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

The Politics of Exile in Latin America

Prof Mario Sznajder, Leon Blum Chair at Jerusalem Hebrew University.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 12:30-14:00

Engineers of Jihad

Diego Gambetta (Oxford).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 12:30-14:00

The sociology of elite distinctions

Jean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS/Oxford).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 12:30-14:00

The Michelin-starred restaurant sector as a culture industry: a cross-national comparison of restaurants in Britain and Germany

Christel Lane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Arts School, room C.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 12:30-14:00

Zeitgeists, nightmares and research; what makes social theory better than common sense?

Ralph Fevre, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cardiff.

Arts School, room C.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 12:30-14:00

To take power or not? Observations on the new political cultures of opposition in the Americas

John Foran, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Arts School, room C.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 12:30-14:00

Special Sociology Lecture: Greed talk, religion and the credit crunch in the USA: towards a cultural sociology of the economy

Bryan Turner, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, US.

Arts School, room B.

Friday 23 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

What do we know about the relative generosity of welfare states?

Michael Smith, Professor of Sociology at the McGill University, Canada.

Arts School, room C.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 12:30-14:00

Social Stratification Research Seminar, 2009

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 September 2009, 09:00-17:00