Applications are now open for an ESRC-funded collaborative PhD between the Department of Sociology, the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, and The Drum Arts Centre in Birmingham.

The Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Warwick, one of 21 such centres in the UK, embodies the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of leaders in social science research. Internationally renowned for its research excellence, Warwick is now inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner The Drum Arts Centre, Birmingham, to commence in October 2015.

Visit the webpage for more information.

Speaker: Smadar Lavie (University of California, Berkeley)

Come along to this public lecture, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

Everyone is welcome, and a wine reception will follow.

This centenary symposium brings together scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1915).

Date: 11th and 12th March 2015

Confirmed speakers:

• John Fletcher (University of Warwick)
• John Forrester (University of Cambridge)
• Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck College)
• Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt University)
• Margarita Palacios (Birkbeck College)
• Haya Oakley (The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Organiser:

• Julie Walsh, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (Julie.Walsh@warwick.ac.uk)

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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.

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

Elena Omelchenko, Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg

Gillian Rose Room, 3rd floor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry

5:00–6:30pm, followed by a drinks reception in the foyer of the Ramphal Building

For more information, visit the Sociology Seminars webpage.

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.

Jacqui Gabb, Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University

The Enduring Love? study (ESRC RES-062-23-3056, 2011-2013) is exploring what it means and feels like to be a couple in contemporary Britain. Shifting the emphasis away from media hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims about what everyone is doing, and policy–professional practice emphasis on the ‘stressors’ which may contribute to relationship breakdown, we are focusing on the things that help people sustain their ‘enduring’ relationships. Drawing on survey (n=5494) and qualitative (n=50) data this paper will explore which factors count in shaping relationship experience, and, in particular, the in/significance of sex and sexuality. Survey findings indicate that gender, parenthood and sexuality are significant factors in shaping couple relationship experience. For example, non-heterosexual participants are the most positive about their relationship; in heterosexual relationships, parenthood appears to have an adverse impact on sexual desire. However, differences in sexual frequency and desire do not per se affect perceptions of relationship quality. To tease apart these survey patterns, I draw on rich multiple methods data to explore how couples variously work to fit themselves into the ideal or extend ‘the story’ to fit their lives. These data provoke us to rethink the couple (dyadic) relationship and its slippage into and conflation with cultural understandings of the heteronormative ‘couple norm’. For more information please see our project website: www.enduringlove.co.uk