Sociology Seminar Series 24-25

Sociology Lunchtime Seminar: Non-White Meta-Categories in the US and UK: Unpacking the Language of Diversity and Racial Justice.

Mari Sanchez, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Harvard University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 12:30-14:00

Sociology Seminar Series 24-25

Sociology Lunchtime Seminar: The Sociology of Religion without ‘Religion’? Prospects for the New Sociologies of Existentiality, Worldview and Sacrality

Dr Lois Lee, Senior Lecturer, University of Kent.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 12:30-14:00

Sociology Seminar Series 24-25

Sociology Lunchtime Seminar: The Love of Books in the UK. Remediation and attachment in the digital age.

Dr María Angélica Thumala Olave, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 12:30-14:00

Sociology Seminar Series 24-25

Sociology Lunchtime Seminar: The Problem of White Normativity: How Systemic Racism Works and the Curious Case of Historically White Colleges and Universities

Speaker: Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of sociology at Duke University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Reproduction

Reproductive justice in the climate crisis - Seminar Three

Heather McMullen - Queen Mary University of London.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Reproduction

Reproductive justice in the climate crisis - Seminar Two

Reetika Revathy Subramanian / Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 12 February 2024, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Reproduction

Reproductive justice in the climate crisis - Seminar One

S J Beard / Romola Davenport / Lisa Tilley.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 29 January 2024, 16:00-18:00

Sociology Seminar Series 23-24

Bringing the Masses Back In: Explaining Spontaneous Uprisings from the French Revolution to Black Lives Matter

Dr Benjamin Abrams, Lecturer in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University College London.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 12:30-14:00

ReproSoc

Science as Affective, Embodied and Material Relations

Mianna Meskus, University of Helsinki.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Hybrid capture? A comparative perspective on the political economy of biomedical innovation in the age of neoliberal science

Dr Stuart Hogarth, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Drums of War, Drums of Peace: Erdogan’s Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Dr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How do you feel? ‘Well- being’ and un-voiceability in UK universities

Professor Shirley Tate, Leeds Beckett University .

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain

Dr Onoso Imoagene, University of Pennsylvania.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Hegemony or Polarization? The Consequences of the Recent Power Shift in the Turkish News Media

Dr Ozan Asik (Cambridge Sociology Alumnus).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Despotic and Infrastructural Power: The State in the 21st Century

PROF MICHAEL MANN (University of California, Los Angeles).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

ReproSoc

The Maternal Body as Environment

Martine Lappé, Columbia University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 29 March 2017, 12:30-14:00

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Mosul and Beyond: The Middle East After ISIS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 17:30-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories

PROF SARA AHMED (Independent Writer).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 12:30-14:00

ReproSoc

Fertility Marketing and "Consumer Self-Spectacularisation"

Jennifer Takhar - Paris Chamber of Commerce.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Iran’s Rhetoric Aggression: the Hard Words of Soft War

DR ROXANNE FARMANFARMAIAN (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Words That Kill: Rhetoric and Reality in the Discourse of the Front National

PROF RICHARD WOLIN (City University of New York) .

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Social Media and Academic Labour

Mark Carrigan.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

What works to prevent gendered violence. Keynote Address: Gendered Violence and the City

PROF RACHEL JEWKES, Medical Research Council in Pretoria.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Changing Context of Contraceptive Choice across the Reproductive Life Course in the USA and Britain

PROF MEGAN SWEENEY (University of California, Los Angeles).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Complexities of classification regarding infant "fear without solution": A case study in the sociology of psychological knowledge

Dr Robbie Duschinsky & Dr Sophie Reijman (University of Cambridge).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Out of Africa: The Organisation of Migrant Smuggling across the Mediterranean

Dr Paolo Campana (University of Cambridge) .

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Soy Afro: Me Reconozco y Cuento": Race, Racism and Representation of Blackness in Mexico

Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

‘You’re welcome? British Attitudes to Immigrants’ Nationality’

Speaker to be confirmed.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Saturday 18 June 2016, 12:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Immigrant Access in the Affordable Care Act: Legacies of the Confederacy

Prof Donald W. Light, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Political Sociology of Human Rights

PROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Fathers' involvement in family life: changing cross-national difference in housework and child care

PROF ORIEL SULLIVAN (University of Oxford).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism

Prof John Hall, James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Better Medical Research Without Patents? The Good-Pharma model.

PROF DONALD W LIGHT (Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Research on the Shifting U.S. Political Terrain

Professor Theda Skocpol (Harvard).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Friday 06 May 2016, 10:00-11:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Thinking through racial capitalism in our time

PROF GARGI BHATTACHARYYA (University of East London).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Causes of War

Prof Michael Mann, University of California. Los Angeles.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Social Relations and Popular Protest from 1789 to 2011

Mr Benjamin Abrams, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Challenging the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Gabriel Siles-Brugge (University of Manchester).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 29 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Purging the nation: Race, place and geographies of encounter in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women

Prof Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

When the grass is greener: fertility intentions in a transnational context

Prof Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to Overcome Inequality

Robert Wade (London School of Economics).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in Thailand

Prof Andrea Whittaker (Monash University).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Why the Left should support leaving the European Union.

John Boyd, CAEF Campaign Secretary.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Performing the Political: the drama of violence and nonviolence in political struggle

PROF CHARLES TRIPP (SOAS, University of London).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Jeremy Corbyn: Miracle or Mirage?

Andrew Gamble, POLIS, Cambridge.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: innovation, Politics and Promissory Science

Prof John Abraham, King's College London.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Creating the New Islamic Middle Class: The Sociology of State-Building in Sudan

PROF HARRY VERHOEVEN (Georgetown University, Qatar).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

A Precariat Charter: Towards a New Progressive Politics.

Guy Standing, SOAS, University of London.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Are family sizes of parents and children still related? Revisiting the cross-generational relationship over last century in France

DR ANNE SOLAZ (INED, France).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Why do some ethnic minority groups in the UK and Europe have high fertility?

PROF HILL KULU (University of Liverpool).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

A talk on Hungarian contributions to social theory: 'Ex Oriente Lux: the legacy of Lukács, Mannheim and Hauser'

Dr Tamas Demeter (University of Edinburgh).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Friday 05 June 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Scapegoating "Strangers" in Europe: Deep Structures and Shallow Stereotypes of Fear

Prof Ray Taras, Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Migration Studies, University of Sussex.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

TACTICS AND STRATEGY FOR THE SYRIZA GOVERNMENT IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AUSTERITY

Dr. Stathis Kouvelakis and Dr. Eva Nanopoulos.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 25 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

From Nation-States to Member States: European Integration and State Transformation

Dr Chris Bickerton, POLIS, Cambridge University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

THE ROLE OF OLIGARCHS AND TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL IN UKRAINE'S CIVIL WAR.

Yuliya Yurchenko (Greenwich University).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 18 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Can Tocqueville Karaoke or Sing Rule Britannia?

Prof. Terry N. Clark (Sociology, U. of Chicago) .

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 18 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Anarchy in the UK: Economic Deprivation, Social Disorganization, and Political Grievances in the London Riot of 2011

Dr Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, Oxford University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

From ‘Protectors of Public Health’ to ‘Facilitators of Biomedical Innovation’: Drivers and Impacts of Trends in Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and European Union since 1992

Dr Courtney Davis, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine , Kings College, London.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Graduate Seminar: Networked Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2015

Prof Manuel Castells (University of Southern California).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Prof Judy Wajcman, LSE.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Imagining “Society” in Immigrant Integration Expertise

Prof Willem Schinkel, Erasmus University.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping: Mail art, exchange and futurity

DR REBECCA COLEMAN (Goldsmiths).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Why do Women do more Housework than Men? Experimental evidence from the UK

Dr Maria Iacovou (Cambridge Sociology Department).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Urban Afterlives of Global Adjustment: Divergent Redevelopment and ‘Neoliberal' Trajectories in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr Ryan Centner (LSE).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy

DR CAROLYN PEDWELL (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology and auto/biography: notes on a journey

Prof Ann Oakley, Institute of Education.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sex Cells: the medical market for eggs and sperm

Dr Rene Almeling (Sociology, Yale University).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Exploring the Secret Garden of Inequality Effects

Prof Guillermina Jasso (Sociology, New York University).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Food Prices, Maternal and Child Health, and Resilience in India: A Quasi-Natural Experiment

Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann, Department of Sociology, Oxford.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Feminist Classics revisited 2

Prof Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department (Chair); Speakers: Michelle Stanworth, Patricia Spallone, Deborah Lynn Steinberg.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-16:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The 20 Years Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: round-table and screening

Event organised by the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge, and the Radical Americas Network

Prof Rosalva Aida Hernandez (Simon Bolivar Chair, Cambridge), Prof John Gledhill (University of Manchester), Dr Sarah Washbrook (University of Oxford), Geoff Goodwin (UCL, Cambridge), Dr Jeff Miley (Sociology, Cambridge).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 14:30-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Sartre on Public Intellectualism

Introduced by Prof Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 09:30-11:00