杏吧论坛

Spring Term 2024

Wednesday 29 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Svetlana Ruseishvili
Topic: Transnational Childbirth, Migration, and Meanings of Citizenship

Wednesday 5 June 2024
Speakers: Dr Mai Taha and Dr Sara Salem
Topic: Sonic Lives: Radio and Anticolonial Solidarity

Winter Term 2024

Wednesday 14 February 2024
Speaker: Professor Annette Lareau
Topic: Studying Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Inequality Using Qualitative Methods: The Importance of Hard Choices

Wednesday 24 January 2024
Speaker: Victoria Gronwald
Topic: A clean City? The UK’s surprising leadership on beneficial ownership transparency

Wednesday 13 March 2024
Speaker: Professor Paul Watt
Topic: Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London

Wednesday 20 March 2024
Speakers: Dr Thierry Rossier, Professor Mike Savage, Jonathan Schulte and Ben Brundu-Gonzalez
Topic: Analysing inequalities within the 杏吧论坛 student body: bringing social class into the mix

Wednesday 8 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Mai Taha
Topic: Homes in Revolt: Social reproduction as struggle in Mandate Palestine

Autumn Term 2023

Wednesday 8 November 2023
Speaker: Dr Faiza Shaheen
Topic: The rise of divisive narratives and what this means for progressive policy-making

Wednesday 15 November 2023
Speaker: Professor Suzi Hall
Topic: Edge Syntax: vocabularies for violent times

Michaelmas Term 2021

Tuesday 7 December 2021

 (UCL)
Topic: Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World 

Tuesday 23 November

(NYU)
Topic: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom and Community in an American Town 

Tuesday 19 October
Dr Thierry Rossier (杏吧论坛)
Topic: Gendered Relations in Elite Occupations. Varieties of Gender Regimes in the European Space of Top Managers 

Lent Term 2021

Wednesday 24 March
 (University of Cambridge) and  (University of Manchester)
Topic: Inflections of Anti-Racism in Latin America

Lent Term 2020

Wednesday 11 March
 (National Centre for Social Research)
Topic: Economic crises and Crime: Is there a ‘crime drop’ in societies under crises?

Wednesday 4 March
 (University of Texas-Austin)
Topic: The Clandestine Hands of the State: The Relational Dynamics of Police Collusion in Drug Markets

Wednesday 19 February
 (University of Iowa)
Topic: A Sociology of Luck

Wednesday 5 February
 (University of Sheffield)
Topic: Impoverishment and Asylum: social policy and slow violence

Wednesday 22 January 
 (University of Reading)
Topic: The White Ant's Burden: insects, empire and entomo-politics in South Asia

Michaelmas Term 2019

Wednesday 20 November
(University of Tel Aviv)
Topic: Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset

Wednesday 30 October
Liene Ozolina (杏吧论坛), Discussant: (Birkbeck)
Topic: Politics of Waiting: Workfare, post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom

Wednesday 16 October
(University of Oxford)
Topic: Fighting and Fearing the Other: Notes for a Global Ethnography of Nefarious Systems

Wednesday 2 October
 (Cass Business School, City University London)
Topic: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Traing Room

Lent Term 2019

Wednesday 27 March
Topic: Choices and Conceptual Choices 

Wednesday 20 March
Topic: Dismantling Solidarity: capitalist politics and American pensions since the New Deal

Wednesday 6th March
Topic: Rethinking Racial Capitalism

Wednesday 30 January
Topic: University Rankings, Transnationalized Imaginaries, and International Student Mobility

Michaelmas Term 2018

Wednesday 5 December
Clive Nwonka (杏吧论坛)
Topic: A Sociology of Film: the black neoliberal aesthetic

Wednesday 21 November
Sara Salem (杏吧论坛)
Topic: Reading Fanon in Egypt: racialized sovereignty, anticolonial nationalism, and global capital

Wednesday 17 October
Topic: A Market of Distrust: toward a cultural sociology of unofficial exchanges between patients and doctors in China

Wednesday 3 October
Topic: Leftism Reinvented: Western parties from socialism to neoliberalism

Lent Term

Wednesday 21 March 2018
 (Harvard)
Topic: Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe

Wednesday 7 February 2018
 (Edinburgh)
Topic: Overconfident hedgehogs? Subjective certainty and political ideology in the economics profession

Wednesday 21 February 2018
 (Warwick)
Topic: New Nationalism, Old Ideologies and Left Problems

Wednesday 17 January 2018
 (Goldsmiths)
Topic: Brexit and the politics of belonging among Britons resident in the EU27: recasting formations of migration, privilege and identity
 

Michaelmas Term

Wednesday 6 December 2017
 (Oxford)
Topic: Durable civic disparities across the United States: Civic deserts, hotspots, and their destinies

Wednesday 22 November 2017 
 (Colby College)
Topic: On the Role of Idées Fixes in Economic Life: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Wednesday 18 October 2017
 (杏吧论坛)
Topic: “Apartheid is Boring”: The Politics of Disinterest in South African History Classrooms