Overview

Overview

This conference aims to bring together Doctoral students from all disciplines who look into the existence and experience of those who feel that they are on the edge of society. This forum is pertinent and timely in a political and social climate wherein there is an expectation for us to believe we are ‘all in this together’.

‘The Other’ has long been an area of academic interest, whether it is criminal, cultural, religious, economic, or political identifications that set people apart from the mainstream. This event will create an arena in which postgraduate students can share their research and seek the input of those from different disciplines, and we hope to display the breadth of research investigating the structural and experiential dimensions of ‘otherness’.

This conference has been made possible by funding from the British Sociological Association and the University of York Graduate Students’ Association Community Fund.

Speakers/Programme

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra from University of Warwick Sociology, Director of Warwick's Social Theory Centre, Convenor of BSA Theory Study Group
• Professor Simon Winlow from Teeside University's School of Social Sciences & Law

Abstracts

• Political Other (PDF , 40kb)
• Representation of the Other (PDF , 41kb)
• Structure and the Other (PDF , 65kb)
• Health, Disability and the Other (PDF , 40kb)

Programme

09.00 – 10.00 Registration & Refreshments

10.00 – 10.30 Introductory words from Professor Sharon MacDonald

10.30 – 11.15 PG Panel – The Political Other (3x10 minutes + plus questions)

11.15 – 11.30 Refreshments

11.30 – 12.15 Key Note Professor Gurminder Bhambra

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch

13.15 – 14.00 Key Note Professor Simon Winlow

14.00 – 14.45 PG Panel – Structure and the Other

14.45 – 15.00 Refreshments

15.00 – 15.45 PG Panel – Disability and the Other

15.45 – 16.30 PG Panel – Representation and the Other

16.30 – 17.00 Closing words from Dr Rowland Atkinson

17.00 – 18.00 Wine reception

Call for Papers

Call for papers

We are looking for submissions from postgraduate students with a research interest in the multiplicity of topics that fall into these broadly conceived categories:

• Elite Other
• Criminal/deviant Other
• Representation of the Other
• Cultural Other

Postgraduate speakers should attend a University within the UK, and are invited to submit a 250- word abstract that forms the basis of a 20-minute oral presentation. Submissions and queries should be sent to matt.spokes@york.ac.uk by Monday 25th February 2013. Attendance to the conference and all refreshments are free to all speakers. In addition, reimbursement will be organized for reasonable travel costs incurred by speakers.

Deadline 25th February 2013

Registration

Registration

For more information, please contact Ros Williams at rgw511@york.ac.uk.