Seminars and events 2016

CA Sequence Organisation (3 days)

Tuesday 13 December 2016

This course is one of two – on sequence organisation and on turn-taking - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA).

Prophets of Progress? Predicting the Future of Science and Technology from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov

Wednesday 30 November 2016

The first half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of science fiction as a recognized genre, but popular science writers also sought to imagine what the next developments would be, especially in areas with immediate practical applications.

CA Turn-taking (3 days)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

This course is one of two – on turn-taking and on sequence organisation - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA).

Migration and the Arts of Social Change: The Work of Counterpoints Arts

Friday 25 November 2016

Dr Áine O'brien and Almir Koldzic will be joining the UoY as Impact Acceleration Fellows and working with the Migration Network and the departments of Sociology and Politics around the themes of migration, the arts and culture.

CURB Seminar: Only Connect: From Green Spaces to Green Infrastructure

Wednesday 16 November 2016

In recent decades public policy on urban green spaces has mutated from typologies of distinct and inviolable spaces to the more ecological principle of connected networks: hence ‘green infrastructure’

Miners Shot Down Film Screening

Monday 14 November 2016

Sociology has been awarded funding from the University of York's Jim Matthews fund to bring over an award-winning filmmaker from South Africa - Rehad Desai. Rehad will be offering a free screening of his documentary, Miners Shot Down, followed by a Q&A There will be a drinks reception from 6pm - All welcome

"Architecture Cures Cancer", But can it Cure Crime? The Architecture of Incarceration and the Architecture of Hope

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Many countries are modernizing their prison estates, replacing older facilities that are no longer fit-for-purpose with new, larger and more ‘efficient’ establishments.

Couple Relationship, Family Management and the Workplace

Wednesday 26 October 2016

European data still show a huge gender employment gap at the expense of women caused by parenthood.

CURB Seminar: Urban Inequalities: Social Distance and Spatial Division

Wednesday 19 October 2016

What are the social and spatial implications of deepening economic inequality in cities?

Universities, Democracy and Public Sociology; The Challenge of the Neo-Liberal Knowledge Regime

Wednesday 12 October 2016

This talk will set out the key elements of the neo-liberal knowledge regime that is being brought to completion by the Government’s recent Higher Education and Research Bill

Critical Emotional Reflexivity in Social Activism

Wednesday 5 October 2016

Examining how (rather than why) everyday people become social activists provides insights into the emotionality of not only the personal process, but of bringing about social change.

A Symposium on Sex Work, Decriminalization & Social Justice

Wednesday 14 September 2016

Including A screening of Nic Mai's latest film

Death and Culture Conference

Thursday 1 September 2016

How can we, as academics, understand cultural responses to mortality? Is every response to death – over time and over place - uniquely personal or essentially the same?

The Democratic Interface

Monday 18 July 2016

FREE Public Lecture hosted by Centre for Political Youth Culture & Communication (CPAC)

The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life

Thursday 16 June 2016

A two-day conference, co-organised by the Department of Sociology and the CURB (Centre for Urban Research) at University of York,

Racism, Rights & Resistance: An Evening of Poetry and Spoken Word

Friday 13 May 2016

An evening of poetry and spoken word organised by the Deport Deprive Extradite research project at the Department of Sociology. Four poets will engage with issues around racism, rights and resistance.

The Good, the Bad and the Difficult: Clinical training and the entrenching of inequality

Wednesday 11 May 2016

This paper develops sociological understanding into the reproduction of inequality in medicine. The material is drawn from a longitudinal study into student experiences of clinical learning.

Discourse(s) in the Social Sciences

Tuesday 10 May 2016

We are pleased to announce our Postgraduate Conference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in the role of discourse(s) in the social sciences. We invite abstracts that deal with discourse in any thematic or methodological way.

Anthropomorphising the Anthropocene: The pragmatics, politics and poetics of animal agency

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Abstract: When the king of beasts was shot in his Zimbabwean home by a dentist from Minnesota, the world (although not Zimbabwe) was outraged. Cecil the lion was, it transpired, a well-known character in the Hwange National Park and a subject in a long-term study of animal behaviour run by Oxford University. Tourists and scientists alike took to both traditional and social media to condemn sport hunting in general and the hapless dentist in specific. Nothing changed however: eventually the outrage died down, and the animals of Africa continued to be targeted by foreign guns. So what does this episode tell us about the nature of animal agency in the Anthropocene? How have certain animals become characters? Why do their activities matter? What makes their lives (and deaths) front-page news in an era when human actions at the local and global level are resulting in the extinction of entire species? This paper will explore these questions in relation to the history of the field study of wild animals, a history that is thoroughly imbrangled with contested ownership of space and place at home and abroad, with contending definitions of ‘the wild’ and ‘nature’ in understanding animal behaviour and with the contentious question of the appropriate relationship between scientific and economic interests in the (public) pursuit of research projects.