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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.
8-9 May 2008
Futures: Time, Control and Insecurity
Lancaster University, UK
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
9 May 2008
A One Day Course: Analysing Socio-Economic Data at the Neighbourhood Level
University of Manchester, UK
9 May 2008
Day Conference on Defining Death
Durham University, UK
9 May 2008
Launch Journal of Cultural Economy & CRESC Public Lecture - Beneath the Horizon of Cultural Visibility
The British Academy, London, UK
9 May 2008
An Outstanding CPD Event: Preparing for the Future
London, UK
10 May 2008
Embodying Gendered Sociality: a colloquium in memory of Anne Witz
Keele University, UK
If you would like to take part, please contact Sue Scott. The Draft Programme is now available.
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
13 May 2008
The Rescaling of Space Workshop: Postgraduate Global Political Economy Research Group
Cardiff University, UK
13 May 2008
Discourses of Sexuality
Birkbeck College, UK
14 May 2008
Computer Skills for PhD Students
University of Surrey, UK
14 May 2008
Introduction to Focus Groups
Universityof Surrey, UK
15 May 2008
Bees, Bio-pirates and the Queer Art of Cross-Pollination - Inaugural Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Guest Lecture with Judith Halberstam
Birkbeck University of London, UK
15 May 2008
Why am I waiting?
London, UK
15-16 May 2008
Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship
University College, London
15-16 May 2008
"Activation" Policies on the Fringes of Society: A Challenge for European Welfare States
Federal Employment Agency, Germany
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
19 May 2008
Domestic Violence: Theorising and Developing Best PracticeDomestic Violence: Theorising and Developing Best Practice
University of Sunderland, UK
19 May 2008
Postgraduate One Day Seminar Event: Intersections of Gender, Class and Work
Newcastle University, UK - Timetable available - Register Now!
19 May 2008
University of Warwick's Annual Sociology Debate: There is no Scientific Basis to the Concept of Humanity
University of Warwick, UK
19-21 May 2008
Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School: Evaluation and Health Inequalities
The University of Edinburgh, UK
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
21 May 2008
C-SAP sponsored event - Changing Academic Practice: Implications for future Academics in Sociology, Anthropology & Politics
University of Oxford, UK
23-28 May 2008
Identities: Reflections on Global Gujarati Communities
2nd Biennial Conference, University of Toronto (New College), Canada
26-28 May 2008
Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School: Getting Real about Impact Evaluation
The University of Edinburgh, UK
27-28 May 2008
HuSS Postgraduate Conference: Changing Global Communities
University of Exeter, UK
29-30 May 2008
Working Conference: Putting Pierre Bourdieu to Work IV
University of Manchester, UK
29-30 May 2008
Other Borders - International Women’s Health Conference
The Everglades Hotel, Derry, Northern Ireland
29-31 May 2008
Sociology and Law: The 150th Anniversary of Emil Durkheim (1858-1917)
South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Bulgaria
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.
9-13 June 2008
ESF-LiU Conference - The Transfer of Resources Across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children's Wellbeing
Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
10-11 June 2008
Computer-Aided Qualitative Research 2008
Amsterdam
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
16-17 June 2008
Multiplicities: World Cinema, Globalised Media and Cosmopolitan Cultures
Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Rd Manchester
17 June 2008
SCARR Conference on Risk in Societal and Inter-Generational Perspective
The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK
17-18 June 2008
First ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference - Ways of Living: Inequalities, Risks and Choices
University of Nottingham, UK
18-20 June 2008
4th International Conference on e-Social Science
Manchester Conference Centre, University of Manchester, UK
19 June 2008
Social Research After the Cultural Turn: Will it Survive? Inaugural Symposium
Birkbeck University of London, UK
19-20 June 2008
After Ethnography? Anthropology, Education and the 'Knowledge Economy'
University of Oxford, 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
21 June 2008
Reproductions: Social Class in Theory and in Practice
University of Warwick, UK
21-22 June 2008
Transnational Ethnic Communities: The cases of Croatia, Israel, The Netherlands and Slovenia
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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
26-27 June 2008
1st Workshop on Imagining Business: Reflecting on the Visual Power of Management, Organising and Governing Practices
Oxford, UK
26-27 June 2008
Analysing Qualitative Interviews Course
University of Oxford, 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 2008
BSA Postgraduate Day School: Street Photography & Social Research: Brick Lane Re-visited
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
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
1-3 July 2008
Equal Opportunities International Conference
University of East Anglia, 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
2-9 July 2008
Summer School: Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
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 - Book Now!
Interested in this event? Then you may also find the BSA Theory Study Group webpage helpful.
3-4 July 2008
Culture, Interaction and Knowledge: Sociology at York – Past, Present and Future
University of York, UK
3-4 July 2008
International Conference on 'Policy Transfer in a Globalising World'
Bristol, UK
3-5 July 2008
Control or Care of the Self - Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century
University of Hamburg, Germany
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
7-8 July 2008
Intersections: Feminist and Queer Geographies
University of Leeds, 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
Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
9-12 July 2008
Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
10-11 July 2008
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)
University of Hertfordshire, UK
10-12 July 2008
The 21st Century Teenager: Media Representation, Theory & Policy
Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds
For further information, email Nickianne Moody.
10-12 July 2008
The 24th EGOS Colloquium: Upsetting Organizations
Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10-12 July 2008
New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa
Abuja, Nigeria
10-12 July 2008
BSA Auto/Biography Study Group – Annual Residential Conference: secrets, gaps and absences in auto/biography
University of Leicester, UK
Interested in this event, then visit the Auto/Biography Study Group webpage.
10-12 July 2008
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living
Lancaster University, UK
11-13 July 2008
International Association for Critical Realism Annual Conference - Grounds for Critique: Realism in the Natural and Human Sciences
Kings College, London, UK
14-15 July 2008
BSA Food Study Group Conference: Food, Society and Public Health
The British Library Conference Centre, London
Confirmed keynote speakers: Claude Fischler, EHSS and CNRS, Paris and Allison James, University of Sheffield.
Interested in this event? Why not visit the Food Study Group webpage too?
15-16 July 2008
After the Event: Culture and Sport - Access and Legacies
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK
17-18 July 2008
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