The BSA is committed to providing a range of services for its membership including the really important constituency of postgraduate students. Funding has been agreed for four Postgraduate Day School Events to take place this year in Cardiff, Edinburgh and two in London (one specifically on visual sociology).
29 June 2008
Street Photography & Social Research: Brick Lane Re-visited - A visual sociology day school for postgraduate students funded by the British Sociological Association.
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
This workshop will be convened and run by Professor Les Back, Professor Caroline Knowles, Paul Halliday and Charlotte Bates. The workshop is free to BSA members, application is by CV and covering letter emailed to Charlotte Bates.
There are 15 spaces available and previous experience with large-format cameras is not required. The deadline for applications is 1 May 2008.
The About the Streets project was conducted by Paul Halliday and photography students from Croydon College in 2001. A 4x5 large format camera was set up on Sunday mornings in the midst of the market in Brick Lane, East London, and people were invited to have their portrait taken while doing their shopping. Individuals took their turn before the lens and the ensuing photographs created a visual narrative of metropolitan life. During this day workshop we will re-visit Brick Lane and again invite people to present themselves before the Victorian camera. This practice-based experiment will form the basis for discussion about the use of photography as a means to open up a space for exchange, alter relationships between research subjects and observers and record social life.
12 September 2008
BSA One Day Postgraduate Conference: Space, Place and Deviance - Contemporary Issues in a Welsh Context
Cardiff University, UK - Book Now! - CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is organised by Brian McIntosh, Jasmin Tregidga, Nick Lord and Dennis Eady.
Space, place and deviance are pivotal concepts within the disciplines of both Sociology and Criminology. These concepts underpin wider changes that are taking place within contemporary society such as the blurring of boundaries between public and private space, how the use of such spaces are being reconfigured in terms of both their access and use, as well as the wider impact and consequences of regeneration, pluralized policing and surveillance. In addition, the concept of ‘place’ no longer simply refers to a fixed geographic locale. Mobility, migration and the increasing use of cyber communities exist alongside ‘communities of fate’. Such developments have consequences for behaviour labelled as deviant in that processes of deviance definition have become increasingly localised, individualised as well as contested. To what extent, if any, do such broader social changes have dimensions that are unique to Wales as a devolved polity?
The aim of this one day conference is provide a forum for welsh institution based postgraduates, from both Sociology and Criminology, to present and discuss their research which is relevant to any aspect of these wider contemporary developments that are taking place within Wales.
This one day conference will consist of two key plenary sessions as well as a number of postgraduate paper led workshops. The final content and themes of the workshops will be governed by the nature of abstracts that are submitted. A general invitation for postgraduate abstract proposals will be sought for papers that fit within any of the following themes:
- Welsh Identity and Culture
- Regulation and Surveillance of public space within Wales
- Governing in Post Devolution Wales
- Regeneration in Wales
- Consumption, poverty and prosperity in a welsh context
- Environmental Deviance
- Multi-Agency Working in Wales
- Migration
Time and Venue
The conference will take place on 12 September 2008 at Cardiff University. The venue for the conference will be the Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT.
Draft Outline Programme
10.00-10.30am Registration and Welcome
10.30-11.45am Plenary 1
11.45-12.00pm Refreshments
12.00-1.00pm Workshops
1.00-1.45pm Lunch
1.45-3.00pm Plenary 2
3.00- 3.15pm Refreshments
3.15-4.15pm Workshops
4.30-5.30pm Future Careers in Sociology and Criminology Session
5.30 onwards Wine reception and dinner
Date: TBC
Edinburgh Postgraduate Day School
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Date: TBC
London Postgraduate Day School
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