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.

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