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The Lens of Race: Conceptualizing Difference in Italy and the United States
SOCIOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE
The Lens of Race: Conceptualizing Difference in Italy and the United States
19 May, 2016 in S0.11 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm
All welcome
Department of Sociology
Co-hosted by the Inequalities and Social Change & Economy, Technology, Expertise Research Groups
Ann Morning, Department of Sociology, New York University
Marcello Maneri , Department of Sociology, University of Milan – Bicocca
How to Get Published
As part of the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series, you are warmly invited to attend a special talk given by Dr Blu Tirohl, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Gender Studies, on ‘How to Get Published’ taking place from 3pm to 5pm on THIS THURSDAY (18th February). Please note the room change to R3.25 in Ramphal.
In this seminar, which will be particularly valuable to PhD students and early career researchers who are planning to publish research on gender, Dr Tirohl will discuss the journal’s aims and objectives, how papers are refereed and managed by the journal, factors that commonly lead to rejection, and tips for getting published. All are welcome and no registration is required.
DATE: Thursday 18th February 2016
TIME: 3pm to 5pm
VENUE: R3.25, Ramphal Building
Dr Tirohl’s seminar will be directly followed by another CSWG event, which is being organised jointly with CREW (Connecting Research on Employment and Work):
· Assoc. Prof. JaneMaree Maher, Monash University, Australia – ‘Sex work, work and women as workers: beyond definition debates’ from 5pm to 7pm in R1.13, Ramphal Building.
· For more information on Prof. Maher’s seminar please visit the CSWG website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/calendar/?calendarItem=094d434552b0d2e20152b634b5c8725b
With best wishes,
The 2015/16 organising committee
(Elizabeth Ablett, Emine Erdogan, Heather Griffiths, Iro Konstantinou, Kate Mahoney, Isabel Nuñez-Salazar and Carli Rowell
Pollution, Health and Global Governance - Roundtable Discussion
Thursday 19 May:
A roundtable discussion with visiting scholars and the Toxic Expertise team on 'Pollution, Health, and Global Governance' this will be co-hosted by the Global Research Priority 'Global Governance' here at Warwick. Following this there will be a screening of the film 'Warriors of Quigang'.
New Article by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
New article by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra looks at the dominant intellectual genealogy of the concept of citizenship and examines its deeper racialized structures. The article, ‘Citizens and Others: The Constitution of Citizenship through Exclusion’ is published in the journal, Alternatives. You can read it here. http://gkbhambra.net/articles/
Toxic Expertise Annual Conference
Friday 20 May: Environment and Expertise Workshop, University of Warwick
This one-day workshop will provide a platform to discuss key issues surrounding the competing claims of expertise, agency and environmental knowledge. This workshop aims to facilitate interdisciplinary and exploratory conversations and collaborative knowledge exchange. We are seeking participants interested in the theme of environment and expertise from a wide range of disciplines.
New Article by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
This new article by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra examines the implications of the financial crash and the recent crisis of migration on the stability of the European Union project. The article, 'Whither Europe? Postcolonial versus Neocolonial Cosmopolitanism?' has been recently published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. You can read the article here.
BSA Regional event 11th March 2016 - A Call for Abstracts
A BSA regional event on Educational (In)equalities: Towards an elite but not elitist society will take place on 11th March 2016. Keynote speakers will include Professor Fiona Devine (University of Manchester) and Dr Clare Maxwell (IOE UCL).
We welcome abstracts of 250 words on the topic of unequal distribution of privilege in educational practices. Themes can include but are not limited to:
- Class and social divisions
- Structural social inequalities
- Ideas of privilege and social stratification
- Social class in contemporary urban contexts
Please send all correspondence to I.Konstantinou@warwick.ac.uk by 31st January 2016.
New Article by Professor Deborah Steinberg - Bowie, Diana, and Why We Mourn in Public
The Department is pleased to announce Professor Deborah Steinberg's new artice in The Converation on Public Mourning. You can read the article here
New Article by Dr Thom Davies on Informal Refugee Camps in Calais
A new article by Dr Thom Davies (Warwick) and Dr Arshad Isakjee (Birmingham) reflects upon some preliminary research in the informal refugee camp in Calais, northern France. The short piece, titled ‘Geography, Migration and Abandonment in the Calais Refugee Camp’ is published in Political Geography, Vol. 49. You can read the article here.
New Article From Dr Stella Chatzitheochari on the Time Allocation of Young People
Dr Stella Chatzitheochari is co-author of a short article on measuring time allocation of young people in the Millennium Cohort Study Age 14 survey, with colleagues from the University of Oxford, University College London, and Ipsos MORI. The article appears in Volume 12 of the electronic International Journal of Time Use Research (eIJTUR) and can be accessed here: eijtur.org/content.php