Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane


2012-02-14 12:30: 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)

2012-03-01 12:30: Sex Ratio Imbalances and China's Care for Girls Programme (Dr Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford)

2012-03-06 12:30: 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)

2012-03-13 12:30: Social Mobility over three Generations in Britain (Dr Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford) and Dr Vikki Boliver (Durham University))

2012-05-08 12:30: Conceptualising the Quality of Employment (Dr B Burchell (Cambridge Sociology Division)m Dr K Sehnbruch (University of Chile))

2012-05-15 12:30: Explaining work-life conflict of men and women: disentanling the impact of national contexts (Dr Heejung Chung, University of Kent)

2012-10-16 12:30: The Politics of Preventing Poor Pharmaceutical Patents:  Brazil, India, and Beyond (DR KEN SHADLEN (London School of Economics))

2012-10-30 12:30: The Return of Class. (PROF GORAN THERBORN (Cambridge University, Sociology))

2012-11-13 12:30:  A Case Study of `New' and `Far Right' Attempts to Engage with Underground Music Scenes. (DR PETER WEBB (Cambridge University, Sociology))

2012-11-27 12:30: Traffic Unobserved:  The Importance of Raising Awareness of Other, Emerging Forms of Trafficking in Persons (DR SARAH STEELE (Cambridge University, Law Faculty))

2013-01-29 12:30: The Importance of Being Civil (PROF JOHN HALL (Mc Gill University, Quebec))

2013-02-12 12:30: Science, Law and Kinship: alternative or complementary framings in atrocity victim identification?  (PROF ERICA HAIMES (Newcastle University))

2013-02-26 12:30: Sacred D-Mark, Profane Euro: The Cultural Logic of Central Bank Independence (DR CARLO TOGNATO (University of Adelaide))

2013-03-13 12:30: The contribution of economists to the second Great Depression (PROF ROBERT WADE (London School of Economics))

2013-04-30 14:00: Europe entrapped. Can the EU resolve its current crisis? (PROF CLAUS OFFE (Hertie School of Governance))

2013-10-22 12:30: Development as Myth: Market Subjectivities in Post 1991 Urban India (Dr Manali Desai, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-05 12:30: Infertility, IVF and the ART of Making Babies - a Turkish case study (Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-19 12:30: When the Welfare State Disappears: Social Resilience and Rapid Socioeconomic Change in Greece. (Mr Alex Kentikelenis, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-25 17:00: Film Screening: Border Crossing: the journey of Raymond Williams (Colin Thomas)

2013-11-26 15:45: Afghanistan Post-2014: what does the future hold? (HE M Daud Yaar, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UK)

2014-01-28 12:30: Resilient Liberalism (Prof Mark Thatcher (Department of Government, LSE))

2014-02-11 12:30: Why Still Marry? The Role of Feelings in Marriage Choices (Prof Francisco Billari, Nuffield College, Oxford)

2014-02-25 12:30: Independence for Catalonia? (Dr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-03-11 12:30: The slow rise and rapid fall of the Muslim Brotherhood (Dr Hazem Kandil, Cambridge Sociology Department)