Catch up with our latest highlights from events in the Department of Sociology
Shadows without bodies: war, revolutionary nostalgia, and the challenges of internationalism
Shadows without bodies: war, revolutionary nostalgia, and the challenges of internationalism
In this lecture, Christina Heatherton reflected on the challenges of internationalism at present. Extending the analysis from her book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, Heatherton considered how war, nationalism, and revolutionary nostalgia have confounded the development of an internationalist consciousness. In revisiting the radical theories and visions developed in an earlier era of global solidarity, she considers how we might now imagine otherwise.
British Journal of Sociology Conference Highlights
The British Journal of Sociology held its inaugural major international conference on 15 and 16 April 2024 at LSE. The conference showcased the best of sociological work from around the world.
Rights, virtues and humanity: re-thinking the ethics of human rights
In this lecture, Kimberly Hutchings will explore the critical landscape of human rights thinking today and how we might re-think the concept of human rights in ways that will sustain its power as an ethical discourse into the future.
Except Palestine: law, humanity and politics
We explore how and why international law and ideas of humanity attend to, and exceptionalise, the case of Palestine and Palestinians. İt brings together scholars of international law, media, culture, human rights and politics.
See below for our archived events:
Smashing the Class Ceiling
LSE Festival 2023
Professor Sam Friedman, Professor Lee Elliot Major, Professor Stephen Machin
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The Changing Inequalities of Citizenship
LSE Festival 2023
Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey, Dr Kristin Surak, Dr Eleanor Knott, Dr Armine Ishkanian
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This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter
LSE Festival 2023
Tomiwa Owoladevis, Professor Mike Savage
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What Would a Fairer Society Look Like?
LSE Festival 2023
Daniel Chandler, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Swatee Deepak, Lord Willetts, Professor Neil Lee
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The Future of Social Democracy
Professor Adam Przeworski, Dr Robin Archer
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Spaces of Struggle: Rethinking Internationalism in an Age of War and Transition
Professor Sandro Mezzadra, Dr Ayça Çubukçu
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Putting Bourdieu and Marx in Dialogue
Dr Gabriella Paolucci, Dr Poornima Paidipaty, Professor Bridget Fowler, Professor Mike Savage
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Reflections on ‘The Quantified Scholar’
British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture
Dr Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Professor Sam Friedman, Professor Sarah de Rijcke, Professor John Holmwood, Professor Fran Tonkiss, Professor Gurminder K Bhambra, Dr Daniel Laurison
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Irregular Rights: Abortion, Domestic Violence, and the uses of Illegality
Professor Poulami Roychowdhury, Professor Monika Krause
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The Politics of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake: Responses and Aftermath
Dr Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Dr Hişyar Özsoy, Dr Rim Turkmani and Amberin Zaman, Dr Ayça Çubukçu
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Everyone and No One: Moral Solicitude and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui, Professor Shiera Malik
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Highly Discriminating: Why the City isn't Fair and Why Diversity Doesn't Work
Dr Louise Ashley, David Goodhart, Professor Mark Williams, Professor Sam Friedman
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Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing
Professor Julian Go, Professor Noorjte Marres, Professor Melinda Mills, Professor Mike Savage, Professor Monika Krause
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In Conversation with Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
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On Writing, Motherhood and Care
Iman Mersal, Lola Olufemi, Dr Mai Taha
Thinking Against Empire: anticolonial thought as Social Theory
Professor Julian Go
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Families and Money: exploring gender inequality in elite families
Professor Annette Lareau, Sibylle Gollac, Dr Aliya Rao
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Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist struggle
Dr Noura Erakat
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The Migrant’s Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain
Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor Suzi Hall, Dr Ajmal Hussain, Professor Engin Isin
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Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited
Dr Kareem Rabie, Dr Gökçe Günel, Lucy Garbett, Dr Deen Sharp, Dr Sara Salem
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Black Resistance to British Policing
Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper, Dr Nivi Manchanda, Dr SM Rodríguez, Dr Vanessa Eileen Thompson, Dr Sara Salem
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Dissident Histories of Pakistan
Shahzad Abbas, Dr Koni Benson Fahad Desmukh, Dr Chana Morgenstern, Sara Kazmi, Ahmad Salim, Dr Mahvish Ahmad
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Toward a sociology of climate risk
Emily Bugden, Dr Tanya Fiedler, Professor Nick Robins, Matthias Täger
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Defending Academic Autonomy in Turkey
Dr Elif Babul, Yigit Torun, Professor Mine Eder, Dr Nazan Ustundag, Hayri Ince, Dr Ayça Çubukçu
Debating Capital and Ideology
Professor Gurminder Bhambra, Dr Jens Lerche, Dr Sanjay G. Reddy, Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Dr Nora Waitkus, Professor Thomas Piketty, Dr Poornima Paidipaty
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Cosmopolitanisms: past, present, future?
Professor Etienne Balibar, Dr Ayça Çubukçu
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On Jihad, Empire and Solidarity
Dr Catherine Baker, Professor Tarak Barkawi, Dr Darryl Li, Dr Mahvish Ahmad
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Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
Professor Eric Klinenberg, Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, Dr Daniel Aldana Cohen, Dr Rebecca Elliott, Dr Austin Zeiderman
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A Polity Divided: empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state
British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
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Have We Reached The End Of The 1951 Refugee Convention?
Annual Human Rights Day Lecture
Professor Seyla Benhabib
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Book Launch: Anticolonial Afterlives
Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper, Dr Dina Makram-Ebeid, Dr Adam Hanieh, Professor Laleh Khalili, Dr Sara Salem, Professor John Chalcraft
American Resistance
Professor Dana Fisher
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the sixties
Professor Mike Davis, Professor Jon Wiener, Professor Robin D G Kelley, Dr Glyn Robbins
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The Fate of Internationalism: talking solidarity in a pandemic
Dr Anthony Alessanddrini, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Noura Erakat, Dr Christina Heatherton
Radiographies of the Human and the Inhuman: victims and perpetrators of Mexico's drugs wars
Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin
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Ordinal Citizenship
British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture
Professor Marion Fourcade
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Internationale Blues: revolutionary pessimism and the politics of solidarity
Professor Robin Kelley
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Raquel Rolnik: Urban Warfare - housing under the empire of finance
Professor Raquel Rolnik, Dr Glyn Robbins, Dr David Madden
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From "having" to "being": self worth and the current crisis of American society
British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture 2018
Professor Michèle Lamont
For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq
Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Professor David Graeber, Haifa Zangana, Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Dr Tor Krever, Dr Lori Allen
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Standing With (Polyamorists) and Speaking as Faith (in Indigenous Scientists): Making Good Relations Not Research
BSA Postgraduate Forum Event
Dr Kim TallBear
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White Lines: young people, conviviality and conflict in peripheral places
Professor Anoop Nayak
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Trouble at the Top: is Britain's leadership still fit for purpose?
Professor Aeron Davis, Polly Toynbee, Joe Earle
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Migration and the City
Co-hosted with LSE Cities
Professor Ash Amin, Dr Victoria Redclift
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The Future of Ageing
Hosted by the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0
Professor Michael Murphy, Dr Rebeca Aldunate, Nicci Gerrard, Jane Vass
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The Challenge of Richness? Rethinking the Giant of Poverty
Hosted by the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0
Dr Tania Burchardt, Amy Feneck, Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Luna Glucksberg
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Is God Really Dead? Why Belief Matters
Professor Eileen Barker, Professor Conor Gearty
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Cash: the future of money in the Bitcoin age
Hosted by LSE Law
Professor Nigel Dodd, Dr Tatiana Cutts, Dr Eva Micheler, Dr Philipp Paech
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Strangers in Their Own Land: bridging a growing divide
Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution: history versus myth
Professor Andrew Walder
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British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture – Sociology of WE Du Bois: why du Bois is the founder of American scientific sociology
Professor Aldon Morris
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British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture – Before Theory Comes Theorizing or How to Make Social Science More Interesting
Professor Richard Swedberg
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Race and Class: challenging inequalities
Liz Fekete, Kiri Kankhwende, Professor James Nazroo, Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard
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Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty
Professor David Soskice, Professor Wendy Carlin, Professor Bob Rowthorn, Professor Diane Perrons, Professor Stephanie Seguino, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Professor Naila Kabeer, Dr Laura Bear, Professor Gareth Jones, Professor Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Thomas Piketty
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"My Purse, My Person": money and identity
David Birch, Professor Nigel Dodd, Tom Hockenhull, Professor Nicky Marsh
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British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture – A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law, and medicine
Professor Troy Duster
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