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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