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Forthcoming Sociological Events
Our aim is to provide details of sociological events taking place worldwide, if you would like your event to appear in this listing please contact Donna Willis with details. The events are chronologically ordered for your convenience. Why not visit our Call for Papers page.
2008 Events
January-December 2008
Live Sociology: Practising Social Research with New Media
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Contact the organisers.
29 February-1 March 2008
What Kinds of Capitalism after Transition?
University of Paisley, Scotland
29 February-2 March 2008
Singing Europe: Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest
Athens, Greece
March 2008 (date tbc)
Women & Ambition Conference
Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
5 March 2008
Day Course in Social Research: Introduction to Focus Groups
University of Surrey, UK
5 March 2008
PowerPoint in Public: Digital Technologies and the New Morphology of Demonstrations
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
6 March 2008
General Household Survey User Meeting
Royal Statistical Society, London, UK
7-8 March 2008
Theoretical, Methodological and Political Implications of doing Research Among Refugees
London, UK
7-9 March 2008
2nd Global Conference: Evil, Law & the State - Issues in State Power & Violence
Salzburg, Austria
10 March 2008
9th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Salzburg, Austria
14-16 March 2008
1st Global Conference - Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries
Salzburg, Austria
17-18 March 2008
Workshop on Community Change and Evaluation
National Museum of Scotland, Scotland
17-19 March 2008
International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
17-20 March 2008
2nd Global Conference - Persons, Intimacy and Love: Probing the Boundaries
Salzburg, Austria
18 March 2008
Recording Leisure Lives: histories, archives & memories of leisure in 20th century Britain
University of Bolton with Bolton Museum and Archive Service, UK
18-19 March 2008
Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing Training Course
Oxford University, UK
18-19 March 2008
Case Based Methods: Classifying and Comparing
Van Mildert College, Durham University, UK
18-20 March 2008
DPR7: Cultures in Resistance
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
19 March 2008
Sports Coaching and the Sociological Imagination Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University
26-28 March 2008
Migration Studies in Ireland - An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
26-29 March 2008
17th Conference of the International Association for Research in Juvenile Criminology - Promoting Positive Practices: Transforming Youth Justice Policy and Practice
Swansea University, Wales, UK
27-28 March 2008
Withstanding Influence: Academic Independence and its Discontents
University of Rouen, France
27-29 March 2008
Women and Ambition Conference
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
28-29 March 2008
Sports, Medicine and Immortality: From Ancient China to the World Wide Web
The British Museum (Friday 28) and Queen Mary University East London (Saturday 29)
28-30 March 2008
BSA Annual Conference 2008: Social Worlds, Natural Worlds
University of Warwick, UK
2-3 April 2008
Invisibilities: The Politics, Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life
The Centre For Criminological Research, University Of Sheffield, UK
2-4 April 2008
Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3 April 2008
Day Course in Social Research: Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing
University of Surrey, UK
3-4 April 2008
An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and the Future
Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, UK
3-4 April 2008
Youth Justice 2008: An International Conference
University College Cork, Ireland
8-10 April 2007
BSA Religion and Youth Annual Conference
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Selly Oak, Birmingham, UK
9-11 April 2008
Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belonging(s)
University College Cork, Ireland
11 April 2008
Queering Central and Eastern Europe Conference
UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, London, UK
12 April 2008
Narrative & Memory Research Group 8th Annual Conference: ‘Testicle tales, sporting heroes, and narrative maps of illness’
University of Huddersfield, UK
15 April 2008
Researching Ageing Bodies: Methods Workshop
University of Reading, UK
Interested in this event? Why not visit the Ageing, Body & Society Study Group webpage?
16 April 2008
Advancing the use of Visual Methods in Research on Children’s Cultures
Cardiff University, UK
16-17 April 2008
The Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum: A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governnentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium
University of Massachusetts, USA
18 April 2008
Creative Work with Offenders and Other Socially Excluded People
University of Wales, Newport, UK
18-19 April 2008
Rethinking Labour: Labour, Effect and Material Culture
University College Dublin, Ireland
21 April 2008
Synthesising Qualitative Research Evidence on Patients’ Views and Experiences: Methodological Issues and Utility
Queen Mary University of London, UK
25 April 2008
Family Resources Survey User Meeting
The Royal Statistical Society, London, UK
28-29 April 2008
A Call to Action: Successful Tobacco Control for the Future
Cardiff International Arena, Wales, UK
30 April 2008
Introduction to Government Microdata: Focus on Consumption
Methods and Data Institute, Nottingham University, UK
2-3 May 2008
2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference - The Human Condition Series: TERROR
Laurentian University, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 January 2008.
5-7 May 2008
7th Global Conference: Violence and the Context of Hostility
Budapest, Hungary
5-7 May 2008
5th Global Conference: War, Virtual War and Human Security
Budapest, Hungary
5-8 May 2008
2nd International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure
Chang Mai, Thailand
8-10 May 2008
1st Global Conference - Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas
Budapest, Hungary
8-10 May 2008
5th Global Conference - The Idea of Education: At the Interfaces of Higher Education
Budapest, Hungary
8-10 May 2008
Sociology and Interdisciplinarity: Central and South East European Perspectives
University of Zadar, Croatia
9 May 2008
Treating Fatness Seminar Series: Treating Extremes and Extreme Treatments
University of Warwick, UK
10 May 2008
If you would like to take part, please contact Sue Scott. Further details can be found on our Latest News page.
11-15 May 2008
Waste: The Social Context '08
Alberta, Canada
12-15 May 2008
2nd International Conference on Sociology
Athens Institute for Education & Research, Athens, Greece - Venue: TBC
15-16 May 2008
Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship
University College, London
15-17 May 2008
The International Conference on Analogous Space interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?
Ghent University, Belgium
For all enquires please contact: analogousspaces@architectuur.ugent.be
20-22 May 2008
"To remember is to resist:" 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008
University of Toronto, Canada
21 May 2008
Statistics for Public Health Surveillance
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
23-28 May 2008
Identities: Reflections on Global Gujarati Communities
2nd Biennial Conference, University of Toronto (New College), Canada
29-31 May 2008
Sociology and Law: The 150th Anniversary of Emil Durkheim (1858-1917)
South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Bulgaria
29 May 2008
Putting Pierre Bordieu to Work III: A Working Conference
University of Manchester, UK
May/June 2008 (date to be confirmed)
The Global 1989 Workshop
LSE, London, UK
3-4 June 2008
2 Day Course in Social Research: Structural Equation Modelling
University of Surrey, UK
5-6 June 2008
Britishness, Identity & Citizenship: The View from Abroad
The Centre for Constructions & Identity, University of Huddersfield, UK
5-6 June 2008
The European Sociological Association SSTNET (Sociology of Science and Technology Network) Workshop
Zagreb, Croatia
5-6 June 2006
Global Health and Human Rights: Theory, Process and Substance
University of Warwick, UK
6 June 2008
The Physique of the Public
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
For details of other events please click here.
11-12 June 2008
The 5th College of Arts & Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference
University of Aberdeen, UK
12-13 June 2008
Investigating the Theory and Practice of Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace
University of Surrey, UK
12-13 June 2008
European Sociological Association Midterm Conference 2008 - Modern Education, Structures, Functions and Outcomes: School Organisation and Educational Opportunities
University of Lower Silesia, Poland
12-14 June 2008
3rd European Congress on Family Science
University of Vienna
14-26 June 2008
COURSE: Black Europe: Exploring Dimensions of Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18-20 June 2008
4th International Conference on e-Social Science
Manchester Conference Centre, University of Manchester, UK
19-21 June 2008
War & Race
University of Aix-Marseille I, France
19-21 June 2008
10th Anniversary Conference of the European Journal of Social Theory - Europe Since 1989: Interpreting Social Change
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
20-21 June 2008
Death, Dying and Immortality
University of Birmingham, UK
23-25 June 2008
Zookeepers@40: Partisanship and Critical Social Science
Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Central Lancashire, UK
24-28 June 2008
12th EADI General Conference: Global Governance for Sustainable Development: The Need for Policy Coherence and New Partnerships
Geneva, Switzerland
25 June 2008
Relaunch of the Ageing, Body & Society Study Group: A One Day Conference
University of Reading, UK
26-28 June 2008
Inequality Beyond Globalization: Midterm Conference of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Economy and Society
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
26-28 June 2008
Transforming Elderly Care at Local, National and Transnational Levels
International conference at the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI), Copenhagen
26-30 June 2008
The 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology -Sociology Looks at the 21st Century: ‘From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism’
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
29 June-1 July 2008
Social Futures Institute Conference - Health, Wellbeing and Happiness: from Local Action to Global Change
University of Teesside, UK
30 June-3 July 2008
Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
30 June-1 July 2008
CRONEM conference 2008 - Nationalism, Ethnicity and Citizenship: Whose Citizens? Whose Rights?
University of Surrey, UK
1-3 July 2008
3rd Global Conference - Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
2 July 2008
Colonial Cultures: Doctoral Training in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
University of Warwick, UK
2-4 July 2008
Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics
Cape Town, South Africa
2-4 July 2008
Involve 08: Relate - Quality Relationships with Young People
Wellington, New Zealand
3-4 July 2008
1968: Impact and Implications
BSA Theory Study Group Conference, held in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London
3-4 July 2008
Culture, Interaction and Knowledge: Sociology at York – Past, Present and Future
University of York, UK
4 July 2008
Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age: A Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate
The Royal Society of Medicine, London
5-7 July 2008
Diaspora: Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
5-7 July 2008
4th Global Conference - Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
7-8 July 2008
Lancaster Sociology Summer Conference 2008
Lancaster University, UK
7-11 July 2008
Key concepts and Methods in Ethnography, Language & Communication
Oxford
7-13 July 2008
Diasporic Experiences, Past & Present
University of Liverpool, UK
8-10 July 2008
Community, Capital and Cultures: Leisure and Regeneration as Cultural Practice
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
8-10 July 2008
2nd International Conference: Re-presenting Childhood and Youth
The University of Sheffield, UK
9-11 July 2008
British Society of Criminology Conference 2008 - Criminological Futures: Controversies, Developments and Debates
University of Huddersfield, UK
9-11 July 2008
Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities
St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK
9-12 July 2008
The 13th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science
Estoril, Portugal
9-12 July 2008
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