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Book your place on the next CSWG workshop - "Orientating Feminism(s): Feminist 'Turns' and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production"
CSWG Spring Workshop: ORIENTATING FEMINISM(S): FEMINIST ‘TURNS’ AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Friday 28th February 28th, 2014, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Social Sciences Building, Room A0.23
Visit the website for more information, and to book your place
Call for papers - Authority & Political Technologies 2014: Power in a World of Becoming
The conference will be held on the 2nd and 3rd June 2014 at the University of Warwick. Registration will open in April.
Confirmed Speakers:
- William Connolly (Johns Hopkins)
- Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen)
- Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
- Amade M'charek (Amsterdam)
- Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
- AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)
The Authority & Political Technologies group at Warwick will host a series of annual events that bring together world leading, emerging and postgraduate scholars from across the social sciences whose work promises to renew post-structuralist critical thought through empirical scholarship. This year we invite papers on the theme 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’.
Suggested Themes:
- Biopolitics and Political Spirituality/Religion
- Materialism and the Political Meaning of Entanglement
- Authority, Sovereignty and Becoming in the (Post) Colony
- Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common
- Necropolitics and Human Rights
Deadline for abstract submissions: 10th March 2014
The first issue of the student led Warwick Sociology Journal is now available to download
Issue 1 - 'Feminism and the perception of women in contemporary society'
The student-founded and led journal showcases some of the best undergraduate and postgraduate work from within the Department.
Visit the webpage for more information, and to download the first issue
Come along to the second in the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series: "Women in Literature", on 5th February 2014
The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series continues with its second seminar, entitled Women in Literature, to be held this Wednesday, the 5th of February, 5pm-7pm in Ramphal Building, room R0.12
Presentations:
- Jessica Hindes, Royal Holloway, University of London - Censorship, Pornography and the Objectified Woman in G.W.M. Reynold's "Mysteries of London"
- Susan Garrard, University of St Andrews - Strange Places, Strange Self: The Autobiography of Mary Smith as Reconfiguration of Victorian Women’s Travelogue
- Ellie Dobson, University of Birmingham - Magical Bodies: The Supernatural Appeal of the Ancient Egyptian Female Body at the Fin-de-Siècle
For more information on the seminars running this term, please visit the graduate seminar webpage.
All welcome!
The Department is pleased to announce the launch of our new Facebook page
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Bodies of Value Workshop II on the 7th February - Measuring ‘domestic work’: Who does it? Who benefits? And who cares?
Friday 7 February, 2014
Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Room 1 and 2, Library Floor 3
The UN Rapporteur on extreme poverty has called unpaid domestic work a human rights violation (2013). Much feminist work has presented argued for the inclusion of domestic work in the national GDP as recognition of its importance to the global economy. And yet domestic work continues not
to be recognized and measured, leaving those who engage in it (largely women) in a socially and politically vulnerable position. This workshop will address the importance of measuring domestic work seriously and raise questions about the methodology and politics of doing this seriously.
Speakers:
Tracey Warren (University of Nottingham) and Ruth Pearson (University of Leeds)
For catering purposes, please email that you plan to attend, to Janet.Smith@warwick.ac.uk by 4 February.
Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender in Schools, has been shortlisted for an International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry’s Award
Maria do Mar Pereira's recently published book, Fazendo Género no Recreio: a Negociação do Género em Espaço Escolar (Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender in Schools) has been shortlisted for the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry’s Award for Best Qualitative Inquiry Book in Spanish or Portuguese (2012 – 2014).
Maria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology.
The recipient of the award will be announced in late Spring.
Book your tickets for the MYPLACE Film Series - What Does It Mean to Be Young in Modern Europe?
The film, What Does It Mean to Be Young in Modern Europe? was created by the team of research center "Region" (Ulyanovsk, Russia), and Center for Youth Studies (St. Petersburg, Russia) for international European project MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement).
The film will be shown in three parts -
- 20th February - Part 1: Anarchists
- 24th February - Part 2: Our former NASHI
- 27th February - Part 3: Precários Inflexíveis
Tickets are free and each film will be shown on campus, in Ramphal R0.12.
For more information, and to book your place, visit the website.
Goldie Osuri has been awarded an IAS Public Engagement Award for her research project, Contested and Possible Sovereignties: The 'State' of Kashmir
This is a collaborative project, between the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick; PAIS, University of Warwick; and Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, funded by the Institute for Advanced Study.
Two events will be hosted as part of the award, a workshop at Warwick and a Public Engagement event at the University of Westminster, London.
Call for papers - Moderation and its Discontents: Religion, rights and social justice
Organiser: Dr Alexander Smith
Monday, 23 June – Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Keynote speakers: Professor Bob Antonio (Sociology, University of Kansas), Professor Danielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Professor John Holmwood (Sociology, University of Nottingham), Dr Rowan Williams (ex-Archbishop of Canterbury)
This interdisciplinary workshop builds on the arguments of Alex Smith and John Holmwood in their edited volume Sociologies of Moderation: problems of democracy, expertise and the media (2013, Wiley Blackwell) to suggest that moderation is better understood as a disciplined engagement with divided publics rather than a doctrine devoid of intellectual commitment or moral courage. Papers are therefore invited from scholars working in any field of the arts, humanities and social sciences on issues relating to the conference theme. Working with an expanded definition of moderation, contributions on the following topics would be particularly welcome:
* Democracy, multiculturalism and interfaith dialogue
* Citizenship, human rights and social justice
* Education, expertise and the media
* Publics versus markets
* Pragmatism and social theory
* Religion, secularism and science
Please send abstracts to alexander.smith@warwick.ac.uk no later than 17.00 on Friday, 7 February 2014. Those selected to give papers will be informed by the end of February. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be attached as a Word document with your institutional affiliation and position.