Experimental Sociology
Thursday 24 June and Friday 25 June
Keynote: Delia Baldassarri (New York University)
Journalism in Pakistan: state repression and the politics of solidarity
Friday 11 June
Speakers: Asad Ali Toor (Independent Journalist), Sanna Ejaz (former TV Anchor, Pakistan Television), Matiullah Jan (Independent Journalist), Rabia Mahmood (Independent Journalist and Researcher)
Chair: Dr Mahvish Ahmad
The Return of Inequality
Co-hosted with the International Inequalities Institute
Speakers: Professor Mike Savage (LSE), Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex), Professor Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics)
Chair: Dr Alpa Shah (LSE)
Reading Group: The Utopia of Rules
Friday 28 May
The discussion was led by Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE).
Decolonising and the Question of Palestine
Friday 21 May
Speakers: Dr Rana Barakat (Birzeit), Dr Muna Dajani (LSE), Dr Mezna Qato (Cambridge), Dr Omar Jabary Salamanca (Ghent)
Chair: Professor Fran Tonkiss (LSE)
Who Counts? The Politics of Human Classification - Challenging Methods for Critical Social Science Research
Friday 21 May
Speakers: Professor Rosie Cox (Birkbeck), Dr George Kunnath (LSE), Marion Lieutaud, Dr Poornima Paidipaty (LSE), Professor Mike Savage (LSE)
The 'Human' in Human Rights Part II - Transformations
Tuesday 11 May
Speaker: Professor Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University and LSE)
Chair: Dr Monika Krause (LSE)
Liberalism, Race and Empire: in conversation with Pankaj Mishra
Speaker: Pankaj Mishra (Author)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
The (Applied) Epistemology of Resilience and Adaptation
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series
Tuesday 4 May
Speaker: Dr Jesse M. Keenan, Tulane University School of Architecture
Defending Academic Autonomy in Turkey
Wednesday 28 April
Speaker: Dr Elif Babul (Mt. Holyoke College), Yigit Torun (Bogazici University), Professor Mine Eder (Bogazici University), Dr Nazan Ustundag, Hayri Ince (Mardin Artuklu University)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
Debating Capital and Ideology
Monday 26 April
Speakers: Professor Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex), Dr Jens Lerche (SOAS), Dr Sanjay G. Reddy (The New School for Social Research), Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (University of Oxford), Dr Nora Waitkus (LSE and Tilburg University)
Respondent: Professor Thomas Piketty (EHESS and the Paris School of Economics)
Chair: Dr Poornima Paidipaty (LSE)
Cosmopolitanisms: past, present, future?
Wednesday 21 April
Speaker: Professor Etienne Balibar (University of Paris-Nanterre, Kingston University, and Columbia University)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
Reading Group: Decolonising Sociology
Tuesday 30 March
Reading Group: Bullshit Jobs
Friday 26 March
Led by Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
On Jihad, Empire and Solidarity
Friday 26 March
Speakers: Dr Catherine Baker (University of Hull), Professor Tarak Barkawi (LSE) and Dr Darryl Li (University of Chicago)
Chair: Dr Mahvish Ahmad (LSE)
Inflections of Anti-Racism in Latin America
Part of our Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 24 March
Speakers: Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge) and Professor Peter Wade (University of Manchester)
Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series
Tuesday 23 March
Speaker: Dr Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University)
Decolonising Sociology Reading Group
Tuesday 2 March
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
Thursday 25 February
Speaker: Prof Eric Klinenberg (New York University); Prof Paula Jarzabkowski (Cass Business School); Dr Daniel Aldana Cohen (University of Pennsylvania); Dr Rebecca Elliott (LSE)
Chair: Dr Austin Zeiderman (LSE)
A Polity Divided: empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state
Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture
Wednesday 24 February
Speaker: Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)
Chair: Professor Nigel Dodd (LSE)
At the Island’s Edge: Living and Learning Within Intersectional Ecologies
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series
Tuesday 16 February
Speaker: Dr Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island)
Reading Group: Decolonising Sociology
Tuesday 9 February
Reading Group: The Democracy Project
Friday 5 February
Encountering Climate in Models and Materials
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series
Tuesday 26 January
Speaker: Dr Hannah Knox (UCL)
Have We Reached The End Of The 1951 Refugee Convention?
Annual Human Rights Day Lecture
Monday 7 December
Speaker: Professor Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
Decolonising Sociology: The Black Radical Tradition, past and present
Wednesday 2 December
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Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Current Environmental Crisis
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change seminar series
Tuesday 1 December
Speaker: Professor Veronica Strang (Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University)
Reading Group: Direct Action: An Ethnography
Friday 27 November
Decolonising Sociology: The Black Radical Tradition, past and present
Wednesday 11 November
Damages Done: The Long-Term Impacts of Rising Disaster Costs on Wealth Inequality
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change seminar series
Tuesday 10 November
Speaker: Professor James R. Elliott (Department of Sociology, Rice University)
Decolonising Sociology: The Black Radical Tradition, past and present
Wednesday 21 October
Reading Group: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Tuesday 20 October
The Human in Human Rights
Co-hosted with LSE Human Rights
Monday 19 October
Speaker: Professor Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University and LSE)
Chair: Dr Monika Krause (LSE)
The New U.S. Climate Battleground: Actors and Coalitions in the States
Part of the Social Life of Climate Change seminar series
Tuesday 13 October
Speaker: Professor J. Timmons Roberts (Department of Sociology and Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, Brown University)
Book Launch: Anticolonial Afterlives
Monday 12 October
Speakers: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper is (University of Greenwich), Dr Dina Makram-Ebeid (American University in Cairo), Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS), Professor Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Sara Salem (LSE)
Chair: Professor John Chalcraft (LSE)
American Resistance
Thursday 8 October
Speakers: Professor Dana Fisher (University of Maryland)
Chair: Dr David Madden (LSE)