Seminars and events 2019

Spelunking 2020: Games, Cultures, Societies

Wednesday 22 July 2020

Conference on gaming, its impact on culture and society and the diverse narratives gaming creates.

Uncertainty Work as Ontological Negotiation: Adjudicating Access to Therapy in Clinical Psychology

Wednesday 26 February 2020

Across the UK, wide-ranging efforts have been made to enhance citizen access to psychological therapy.

Narratives of Hope: Science, Theology and Environmental Public Policy

Wednesday 5 February 2020

Interdisciplinary collaborations between scientists/technologists, social scientists and philosophers/theologians have revealed deeply submerged yet powerful narratives at work beneath public discourse on controversial technologies.

Why cities look the way they do

Wednesday 29 January 2020

Why do cities look the way they do? Is it design? Or is it the interaction of largely unconscious processes about which we can do very little? And if the latter, how should we think about our own interactions with cities?

Techno and the Teufelsberg: Excavating Berlin's Cold War

Wednesday 15 January 2020

Having lived there as a child, John has always been drawn to Berlin, more so recently with several research projects focusing on a variety of its sites, buildings and communities.

Women's Work: AI, Clones and Gendered Labour

Wednesday 20 November 2019

Chelsea Haith presents her work to explore representations of gendered labour in sex work, service industries, organ donation and real-world AL assistants.

State-led gentrification and contested reframings of citizenship in Turkey

Wednesday 6 November 2019

Gentrification has long been addressed as a class remaking of the city led by the state.

State-led gentrification and contested reframings of citizenship in Turkey

Wednesday 6 November 2019

Gentrification has long been addressed as a class remaking of the city led by the state.

Class, State, and NGOs in post-2003 Iraq

Wednesday 23 October 2019

This lecture examines the evolution of the Iraqi NGO Sector after 2003.

Polari: the Lost and Found Gay Language

Wednesday 16 October 2019

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has carried out research on Polari for 20 years and has written several books on LGBT language and history.

North Eastern Social Statistics network - NESSt(n)

Wednesday 10 July 2019

Informal research gathering, This is a network comprising social researchers involved in the analysis of large scale, representative, administrative and Big Data

Introduction to Stata

Tuesday 9 July 2019

This one day workshop provides an introduction to the statistical computing programme, Stata. Stata is a powerful programme widely used for data analysis in the social sciences.

Interspecies entanglement in clinical end of life care

Tuesday 25 June 2019

Invitation to a networking conference and sandpit event: 25-26 June 2019, The University of York.

PGR Annual Conference - Beyond Fluid Identities? New Sensitivities in the 21st Century

Thursday 20 June 2019

Our one day conference includes paper presentations from post graduate researchers, from UK and international universities, who are conducing fascinating and vital research on identity and its many manifestations in the social world

Second Annual Lecture

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Professor Heritage presents his research on social interaction.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work

Thursday 13 June 2019

DaCNet, based at the University of York will be holding a one-day symposium

Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Others

Wednesday 5 June 2019

The output of the algorithms reduces the intractable difficulties and duress of living, the undecidability of what could be happening in a scene, into a single human-readable and actionable meaning.

Sociology, molecular genetics and the perils and promises of sociogenomics CANCELLED

Wednesday 29 May 2019

Within the last several years, there have been remarkable advances in genetic discoveries related to behaviour. This includes core sociological topics such as education, fertility and wellbeing.

CURB: The Slow Violence of Displacement on London’s Gentrification Frontier

Wednesday 22 May 2019

This paper draws on an ongoing study conducted on six council estates in London which have been earmarked for, or are undergoing, redevelopment where we have interviewed residents waiting to be rehoused or removed

Materialising loss and facing the absence-presence of the dead

Wednesday 15 May 2019

This presentation is based on interviews carried out with bereaved individuals in Sweden and United Kingdom and examines how the loss of a significant other unravels through a process of materialisation

The York Dead Good Festival

Friday 10 May 2019

Lots of free public events will be running during the festival ranging from theatrical performances to will writing to thinking about death in science fiction and pet grief.

CURB: Making Ageing a Positive Experience

Wednesday 1 May 2019

Growth in the absolute and relative size of the older population will constitute one of the most significant social transformations of the twenty-first century. In 2017, there were an estimated 962 million people in the world aged 60 years or over...

Failing Workshop

Wednesday 1 May 2019

'Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.’ Michael Eisner - former CEO of Disney

Happy and Free: Bringing a Practice of Ease and Kindness into the Conceptual Framing of Sociological and Social Policy Analyses

Wednesday 24 April 2019

There are beginning to be calls for new frameworks which focus more on emotional intelligence and include value-based outcomes such as feeling loved, safe, and respected...

Walking amongst the dead: The York Death and Culture walk

Friday 8 March 2019

Wherever you walk in the ancient walled city of York you are never too far away from the deceased. By walking through spaces and places in York you can explore and reflect upon human mortality

The Weight of Expectation Comic Launch: Illustrating How Obesity Stigma gets Under the Skin

Thursday 28 February 2019

A new edition of a comic exploring how our culture stigmatises larger body sizes is launching in York on 28 February. The Weight of Expectation, or WoE, comic was created in 2018 and tells the story of how stigma associated with bodyweight and size gets under the skin and is felt in the flesh

Obesity, stigma and reflexive embodiment: feeling (and illustrating) the “weight” of expectations

Wednesday 27 February 2019

Existing research overwhelmingly demonstrates that obesity stigma is an ineffective means by which to reduce the incidence of obesity and that it promotes weight-gain

CURB: Spatial Justice and the Struggle for Housing Rights: The Vila Acaba Mundo Case

Wednesday 13 February 2019

The seminar will talk about one of the experiences of Polos, specifying a recent research and outreach work in the Acaba Mundo slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte

Going Probiotic: The Turn to Life in Human and Environmental Health

Wednesday 6 February 2019

To date the Anthropocene has been an antibiotic epoch, marked by systematic (if patchy) efforts to eradicate, control, and rationalise life...

CURB: Squatting London: A History of the Present

Wednesday 30 January 2019

Squatting - the semi-permanent occupation of property without permission from the legally-recognised owner - is a little acknowledged, yet fundamental, part of the history of housing provision and urban governance in the UK