The Department is pleased to announce seventeen brand new postgraduate taught modules, eleven of which will run in 2014-15.

For the first time, our module pages are visible to everyone!. Feel free to browse the course outline, syllabus, recommended reading materials, and assessment methods of any that spark an interest.

The Department recently launched an exciting new undergraduate degree programme, BA Sociology and Quantitative Methods, for students interested in specialising in the statistical side of sociology.

The degree is funded by the Q-Step programme, which was developed as a strategic response to the shortage of quantitatively-skilled social science graduates.

For more information about Q-Step and their five-year strategy, visit the new website.

Alice's book, Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism, advances the concept of 'global legacies' - enduring forms, processes, or ideas of the 'global' that shape urban identity and politics. Global legacies provide a key lens on the difficult pasts and uncertain futures of cities. In particular, port cities, with their distinctive global dynamics, long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and roles within international trade networks, exhibit fascinating global legacies.

We have officially launched our own Department YouTube Channel, showcasing a wide range of staff and student videos.

Take a look at video footage from our recent Max Weber conference:

• Geoff Ingham (Cambridge) - ‘Money, Capitalism, and the West’
• Scott Lash (Goldsmiths) - 'Weber and Markets: From Neoclassicism to Neoliberalism’
• Linsey McGoey (Essex) - ‘Charismatic Authority and the Rise of the 21st-Century Philanthrocrat’
• Keith Tribe - ‘Market Order and Social Rationality’
• Sam Whimster (Global Policy Institute) - ‘The Economics of Power: Max Weber on Banking’
• David Woodruff (LSE) - ‘Weber and Money as an Economic Institution’
• Roundtable discussion

Warwick Sociology Department and the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies invite you to a workshop on

Race, Racism and Digital Communication

We are delighted to welcome contributions from:

• Alana Lentin, University of Western Sydney, on transformations of race through translation within digital communication networks
• Sanjay Sharma, Brunel University, on social media and ambient racism, exploring forms of racism denial on Twitter
• Kirsten Forkert, Birmingham City University, on social media, racism and migration, with reference to the effects of Home Office immigration campaigns
• Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick, will respond before we open up the discussion to the workshop as a whole.

Please join us to hear the panel speak about their developing work in this area, and to take part in a lively discussion. The workshop will be followed by lunch, with a chance for more informal discussion.

Register to attend

WORKSHOP: 10.30-13.00 [LUNCH AVAILABLE] SEMINAR: 13.00-16.00

Warwick Sociology Department and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow invite you to a seminar to launch:

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location

Featuring discussions based on the book from:


• Emma Jackson, University of Glasgow and Hannah Jones, University of Warwick, Creeping familiarities and cosmopolitan futures

• Kieran Connell, Birmingham University, Dread Culture: Music and Identity in a British Inner City
• Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, LSE, Agency, Ambivalence and Emotions in a Public Housing Anti-Demolition Struggle

And with a response from

• Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick

This is part of a series of events which will include talks from international researchers whose work is included in the book, with response and discussion, and a chance to mingle over refreshments and purchase the book at a discounted price. More details of the book

Register to attend

For more information, email Hannah Jones: h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk

The Authority & Political Technologies group at Warwick hosts 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 the conference will be 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’.

Plenary Speakers:

• Louise Amoore (Durham)
• Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen)
• Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
• Amade M'charek (Amsterdam)
• Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)

For more information, to register, and to view the programme for this event, visit the conference webpage

The 'Contested and Possible Sovereignties: The State of Kashmir' workshop supported by an IAS Public Engagement Award brought together scholars, media and creative practitioners and policy-makers in a dialogic format in order to understand the complex dimensions of the practices of sovereignty in relation to security, state violence, religious nationalism, human rights, and a distinctive Kashmiri cultural history and identity.

Talks by the speakers are now available.

Please click on the titles of the talks to access the video/audio clips