Past events - Sociology, The University of York

The course will be limited to no more than 15 participants who will work intensively with the two tutors to develop basic skills in transcription and in understanding the conversation analytic approach to talk as action.

Public Perceptions of the Social Sciences in a Contemporary Era of Unrest Postgraduate Day Conference

Monday 16 April 2012

This is a one day postgraduate conference which will focus on perceptions of social science disciplines in the light of current social and political upheaval and uncertainty

Damp Science: Journeying between wet labs and dry machines in the field of synthetic biology

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar

Fitna, the video battle. How young people use YouTube to perform their political and religious identities

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Departmental Seminar

After Girl Power: What’s Next? Girls’ Studies Conference

Friday 24 February 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Conference 24 February - 25 February 2012

Pet Grief: When is non-human life grievable?

Wednesday 22 February 2012

SATSU Brown bag Seminar

White Rose DTC Funding Opportunities

Friday 17 February 2012

Applications are invited for White Rose DTC funding starting October 2012. Please visit the Department of Sociology PG Funding pages for full information on what is available and how to apply

'Understanding the Boundaries and Mobilities of Regenerative Medicine: an STS analysis

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Departmental Seminar

The Law Becomes Us: Rediscovering Judgment

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

ESRC/White Rose PG Application Deadlines

Friday 3 February 2012

Applications are closed for ESRC funding starting October 2012.

Domestic violence in Iran: Women, Marriage and Islam

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Bio-Objectification of Abused Children in Evidence-Based Practice

Thursday 8 December 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

The Possibilities for and of a Global Sociology

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Please note that this seminar is cancelled Sociology Departmental Seminar

The Field of Power: Elites, Capital Structures, Networks and Social Mobility. The Case of Norway.

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Department of Sociology Seminar Please note that this is a change of date

Post Graduate Open Day

Wednesday 7 December 2011

We are organising an Open Day for prospective graduate students who would like to learn more about our Masters and PhD programmes.

Sex and the Single Woman: Managing Daughters’ Sexuality within UK and Hong Kong Families

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

PG Charity Coffee Morning

Tuesday 22 November 2011

Fund Raiser in aid of Cancer Research UK

Cord Blood - An Analysis of the Social Issues During the Extraction, Conservation and Practice

Thursday 17 November 2011

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Social Theory in an Age of Limits

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Department of Sociology Seminar

If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Gender and Identity

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Use, Exchange and the Dialectics of Value in Bioeconomy

Thursday 10 November 2011

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Thinking together cultural sociology and urban studies: the example of Brussels

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Department of Sociology Seminar

Social Change in York 1900-2011

Saturday 5 November 2011

THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED This seminar forms part of the ESRC Festival of Science

York work shop on the research project Elites in an Egalitarian Society: Legitimizing forms of elite recruitment, reproduction and circulation

Thursday 27 October 2011

The seminar will discuss aspects of how such varieties may be conceived, understood and explained, relating to project publications, ongoing research and publication projects and plans, with a particular focus on Norwegian elite figurations.

(Self)-Transformation through Transportation:Empathy, Neoliberalism and International Development

Wednesday 26 October 2011

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

An Introduction to Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Wednesday 21 September 2011

This course is designed for post graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, academic staff, and both public sector and commercial researchers who wish to become acquainted with the most commonly used forms of correspondence analysis.

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society Social Sciences

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Ten years is only a moment in the span of social research, but eons in Internet time. Has social research across the disciplines been up to the challenges? Attend the symposium to find out.

The Co-Production of Knowledge: Social Media, STS and ...

Monday 18 July 2011

This conference is intended to bring together leading scholars in the fields of STS, communication and social media analysis, and the history and philosophy of science to critically explore these issues.

3rd International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters

Tuesday 12 July 2011

The conference aims to bring together researchers and health care practitioners interested in Conversation Analysis and its application to interaction in clinical settings

York Deviancy Conference

Friday 1 July 2011

The conference is intended to provide critical criminologists working across diverse disciplinary affiliations with the opportunity to come together and exchange ideas about crime, deviance and the future of studies that seek to engage with some of the greatest challenges.

Writing the Criminal Act

Tuesday 28 June 2011

This talk is part of York Deviancy Conference (Critical perspectives on crime, deviance, disorder and social harm), hosted by the University of York's Department of Sociology.

Regenerative Medicine Translation: the UK Bionentrepreneur Experience

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

The Ethics of the Event: On Responding to Crisis in a New Mediated Environment

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Departmental Seminar

The promissory futures and possible pasts of regenerative medicine

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Age Play: Supporting What?

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Department of Sociology Seminar

Field analysis, boundary drawing and socio-cultural inequality

Tuesday 24 May 2011

This workshop will involve leading cultural sociologists from the UK, Denmark, France, Norway, Finland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States to explore the relationship between cultural boundaries and the organisation of fields.

Cultural boundaries and inequality in comparative perspective

Monday 23 May 2011

Chair: Prof Mike Savage, Department of Sociology, University of York

Multiple Sclerosis Society Coffee and Cake Fundraiser

Friday 20 May 2011

We hope to see you all there and bring a friend.

Personalisation in practice? Two approaches to conducting benefits interviews in Jobcentre Plus.

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Departmental Seminar

A Tale of Two Technologies: Protocols and Participatory Democracy in a 'North-South' Product Development Partnership

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Brown Bag Seminar

The Here and Now: Thinking the Contemporary Across Disciplines

Tuesday 26 April 2011

the Centre for Modern Studies will host an open, interdisciplinary afternoon to think about the nature and status of the contemporary across the humanities and social sciences.

White Rose PG Conference

Monday 11 April 2011

On 11th April 2011, the University of York will play host to a one day White Rose postgraduate conference which will focus on the future of the Social Sciences and Social Science research in an increasingly globalised, digitised and uncertain world.

Working with Walter Benjamin: Everyday life, Media and the City

Wednesday 30 March 2011

A symposium, part of the ‘working with key thinkers series’ hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Modern Studies

Critical Perspectives on Art Gallery and Museum Audiences

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Sociology and art history have traditionally approached Art Gallery and Museum audiences in different ways. This seminar aims to reflect upon the relationships between both sociological approaches and art historical research on audiences' experience by discussing possible crossdisciplinary theories and empirical studies.

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

All in the Same Boat? - Displacement, difference and urban homelessness

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Dr Emma Jackson, King's College London. Departmental Seminar

Governing Manchester's unruly poor in an era of austerity

Wednesday 9 February 2011