LSE Sociology Book Launch: A Conversation on Carrie Friese’s A Mouse in a Cage

Join us for the launch of Dr Carrie Friese's new book, A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals.

To celebrate the publication of Carrie Friese’s second research monograph, we have invited three speakers to respond to the book: Dr Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Dr Javier Lezaun and Prof Kate O’Riordan. Prof Monika Krause will chair this event that invites the audience to engage the sociological significance of laboratory animals.

Meet our speaker and chair

Carrie Friese is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology. Carrie Friese’s research is located at the intersections of medical sociology/sociology of health and illness with science and technology studies using largely qualitative research methods. She has been an innovator of Situational Analysis, which is a methodological extension of grounded theory, with Adele Clarke and Rachel Washburn. Friese has a general interest in relational and mixed-methods research and more-than-human sociologies.

Monika Krause is a Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology. Monika Krause studied sociology and political science at the University of Munich, Cambridge, and LSE. Her PhD in Sociology is from New York University. Her work has contributed to our understanding of transnational forms of governance and to the study of the social organisation of knowledge and expertise. She has also contributed to sociological theory and to the methodology of the social sciences.

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