The Sociology Research Seminar is the main venue for scholars at the department to present work in progress and strives to feature innovative sociological research from a variety of perspectives.
Wednesday 20 November 2024 Speakers: Dr Kristin Surakand Johnathan Inkley Topic: Ghosts in the Neighborhood: How the Owners of Expensive Property Use Offshore Structures to Disassemble Themselves
Winter Term 2025
Wednesday 22 January 2025 Speaker: Marta Pagnini Topic: The Royal Touch Network: Aristocratic Consecration and Social Reproduction in the Field of Traditional Professions (1870 – 1949)
Wednesday 5 February 2025 Speaker: Dr Ida Birkvad Topic: Global Romanticism
Wednesday 12 March 2025 Speakers: Dr Don Slaterand Dr Elettra Bordonaro Topic:Ageing, Urban Spaces and ‘Quality of Life’: Dialogues between Lighting, Social Research and Design Thinking
Wednesday 19 March 2025 Speaker: Benjamin Brundu-Gonzalez Topic: Who Gets to Be Smart? Gender, Class, and the Making of Intellectual Reputations at an Elite University
Spring Term 2025
Wednesday 14 May 2025 Speaker: Dr Marco Perolini Topic:"We are All Refugees": Migrant Justice Movements and Human Rights from Below
Wednesday 28 May 2025 Speaker: Professor Paul Watt Topic: "It's just over £1million on the market - I haven't even got a million pence": Social inequality and social mixing at a mixed-tenure neighbourhood in London
Topic: Nadie es profeta en su tierra. National and Transnational Tensions in Ecuadorian Women’s Organisations around the 1975 World Conference on Women in Mexico City
Wednesday 18 June 2025 Speakers: Dr David Kampmann and Dr Nils Peters
Topic: Subordinating ‘Alt-Finance’: How British Venture Capital became dependent on the US
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 LSE 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
Wednesday 11 March Joanna Tsiganou (National Centre for Social Research) Topic:
Wednesday 4 March Javier Auyero (University of Texas-Austin) Topic:
Wednesday 19 February Michael Sauder (University of Iowa) Topic:
Wednesday 5 February Lucy Mayblin (University of Sheffield) Topic:
Wednesday 22 January Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading) Topic:
Michaelmas Term 2019
Wednesday 20 November Yossi Harpaz(University of Tel Aviv) Topic: Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset
Wednesday 30 October Liene Ozolina(LSE), Discussant: Lisa Baraitser(Birkbeck) Topic: Politics of Waiting: Workfare, post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom
Wednesday 16 October Ruben Andersson(University of Oxford) Topic: Fighting and Fearing the Other: Notes for a Global Ethnography of Nefarious Systems
Wednesday 2 October Daniel Beunza (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 Gabriel Abend (NYU) Topic: Choices and Conceptual Choices
Wednesday 30 January Yasemin Soysal (University of Essex) Topic: University Rankings, Transnationalized Imaginaries, and International Student Mobility
Michaelmas Term 2018
Wednesday 5 December Clive Nwonka (LSE) Topic: A Sociology of Film: the black neoliberal aesthetic
Wednesday 21 November Sara Salem (LSE) Topic: Reading Fanon in Egypt: racialized sovereignty, anticolonial nationalism, and global capital
Wednesday 17 October Cheris SC Chan (Hong Kong University) Topic: A Market of Distrust: toward a cultural sociology of unofficial exchanges between patients and doctors in China
Wednesday 21 March 2018 Bart Bonikowski (Harvard) Topic: Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe Abstract and bio
Wednesday 7 February 2018 Tod van Gunten (Edinburgh) Topic: Overconfident hedgehogs? Subjective certainty and political ideology in the economics profession Abstract and bio
Wednesday 17 January 2018 Michaela Benson (Goldsmiths)Topic: Brexit and the politics of belonging among Britons resident in the EU27: recasting formations of migration, privilege and identity Abstract and bio
Michaelmas Term
Wednesday 6 December 2017 Dingeman Wiertz (Oxford) Topic: Durable civic disparities across the United States: Civic deserts, hotspots, and their destinies
Wednesday 22 November 2017 Neil Gross (Colby College)Topic: On the Role of Idées Fixes in Economic Life: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Wednesday 18 October 2017 Chana Teeger (LSE) Topic: "Apartheid is Boring": The Politics of Disinterest in South African History Classrooms
