Past events

On the peculiar absence of race from zemiology

Thursday 11 April 2024

In this race and justice seminar we are joined by Dr Ed Wright to discuss their paper on race in the study of social harm, or zemiology.

'Bringing Order to Border’: liberal and illiberal racism, technocracy, and postcolonial borders in the English Channel

Wednesday 27 March 2024

In this seminar, we will discuss the interaction of two sets of fantasies that are advanced by politicians and mainstream political parties in the UK to 'stop the boats'.

Status Enforcing Criminal Laws

Friday 15 March 2024

For the next seminar in our Race and justice series, we'll be joined by Professor Jamelia Morgan, an award-winning and acclaimed scholar.

Student expressions of troubles in supervision interaction: How do students co-construct the interaction?

Thursday 29 February 2024

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) is delighted to present a talk by Dr Zhiying Jian

Race and Justice seminar - with Dr Esmorie Miller

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Dr Esmorie Millar present this seminar, focusing on the topic "What’s it all About, Jose? Inventing the Black, Racialized Youth as Intractably Deviant Outsiders, in Interwar Britain."

(Dis)approval-relevant events and methods for their management: Dealing with moments of actual or potential socio-normative trouble in ordinary social interaction

Thursday 30 November 2023

Uwe-A Küttner and Jörg Zinken will be presenting our next Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication's talk which considers the study of everyday normativity and its enforcement in ordinary, informal social interaction.

To go to jail together: I have a dream

Tuesday 14 November 2023

Join us for the latest seminar in the Race Matters Network series. This week, we are joined by Dr Agozino who will consider Martin Luther King Jr's march on Washington speech.

To go to jail together: I have a dream

Tuesday 14 November 2023

Whether the history of decolonization poses challenges to Criminologists, Sociologists, Political Sociologists and the general public

Synthetic biology and the social sciences: making room for collaboration

Thursday 7 September 2023

In this lecture, Professor Jane Calvert will discuss her current research into how we can engineer living things using synthetic biology.

Learning from Covid 19: Demystifying Gypsy and Traveller Experiences

Thursday 20 July 2023

Join us to learn more about how Covid-19 and the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 affected Gypsies and Travellers in York.

Beyond the Screen: Exploring the Digital Society

Thursday 20 July 2023

Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion of the social implications of digital technologies.

Perspectives in Historical Sociology

Monday 26 June 2023

Two days of Perspectives in Historical Sociology talks.

Archiving the Inner City: How is Brixton remembered?

Wednesday 14 June 2023

How is Brixton remembered? What is preserved and what is lost? A symposium hosted by the Brixton Project

Intervening in Gender-Based Violence

Thursday 8 June 2023

Professor Ann Wetherall presents this talk discussing her research into intervening in gender-based violence.

How stories shape futures: Faith, Science and Possibility

Wednesday 7 June 2023

Join us at the Science Museum in London as we explore possible futures and the way they impact current understanding and choices.

Panel: Gendered-Racist Regimes of Detention and Deportation

Thursday 25 May 2023

The aim of this international seminar series is to create a critical forum for academic researchers, students, artists, campaigners and activists, and members of the public.

From movement to rhythm in dance tuition: The teaching and achievement of interactional synchrony

Thursday 11 May 2023

Darren Reed presents this talk based on his paper which looks at the study of rhythm tuition in dance classes from an EMCA perspective.

Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Ellen Annandale (University of York), Peter Morrall (University of Leeds) and Jerome Wright (University of York) discuss the book Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives.

Discover a world of cultures: Diversity work as gendered racial governance in British immigration detention

Thursday 27 April 2023

Part of the Race and Justice seminar series

CANCELLED - Hidden transcripts of the powerful

Wednesday 1 March 2023

Marcus Morgan and Narzanin Massoumi join us for this seminar.

From Birth Parents to Backlash: Doing Sociology of Health Amidst Culture Wars - CANCELLED

Wednesday 15 February 2023

This seminar has unfortunately been cancelled.

Quest/ions of Protection: Religious Schools, Equality Entitlements and Statecraft Strategies in Britain

Wednesday 8 February 2023

Ben Kasstan joins us from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for this seminar.

What can Set Theory tell a Sociologist?

Wednesday 25 January 2023

Eliran Bar-El presents this seminar.

Household self-tracking

Wednesday 18 January 2023

Mariann Hardey discusses household self-tracking.

Early Modern Witchcraft Prosecutions: A Historical Sociology Perspective

Wednesday 11 January 2023

Lucy Brown of Charles University joins us for this talk.

YorkTalks: Patient choice in practice

Wednesday 11 January 2023

Dr Merran Toerien will be giving one of the YorkTalks about her applied conversation analysis work on patient choice in neurology.

Unpolished papers

Friday 2 December 2022

Join us for the Autumn term "unpolished papers" session.

The DASS-21 (Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale) and Motives to Psychometric Assessment

Wednesday 23 November 2022

Andrew Whelan from the University of Wollongong joined us for this talk.

Experiencing Time in the Digital Anthropocene

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Audrey Verma, from Newcastle University joined us for this talk

Sociology seminar series: what colour is this place?

Wednesday 2 November 2022

Manchester Metropolitan University's Tim Edensor led this intriguing seminar

Sociology seminar series: Parents’ dual use of childcare benefits in Austria and their potentials in changing gendered attitudes and empirical research

Wednesday 19 October 2022

Gerlinde Mauerer joined us from the University of Vienna for this talk

Sociology seminar series: AI, what's that sound? Approaches to the sonic framing of AI in documentary

Wednesday 12 October 2022

Our very own Jenn Chubb delivered this enlightening seminar

Sociology seminar series: W. E. B. Du Bois and his Strange Synthesis of Spirituality and Sociology

Wednesday 5 October 2022

Matthew Hughey joined us all the way from the University of Connecticut for this engaging event

Myth, Rumour and Misinformation: A day of interdisciplinary discussion from folklore to fake news

Tuesday 26 July 2022

Myth, rumour and misinformation have been features of human society since the dawn of civilisation. From the earliest folk tales to high-tech online propaganda campaigns, people have used myth, rumour and misinformation to persuade, deceive, and even to make sense of their lived experience of the world around them.

Risk, uncertainty and global health crises

Friday 15 July 2022

A Zoom webinar discussing the factors surrounding global health crises in the 21st century

The 3rd Annual CASLC End-of-Academic-Year Celebratory Talk

Thursday 30 June 2022

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by Professor Jenny Mandelbaum, co-authored with Professor Gene Lerner: On the Communicative Affordances of Instrumental Action: Offering Meal Service to Others, Whilst Serving Oneself.

The Beatles Now Past 50: Abbey Road lyric secrets

Saturday 18 June 2022

In the fifth and final talk of his popular Festival series The Beatles at 50, Colin Campbell of the University of York examines the lyrics to the songs on the Abbey Road album.

Architecture, the Urban and the Politics of Public Space

Thursday 26 May 2022

This two day symposium (26 May-27 May) gathers a range of speakers from different backgrounds to consider the intersections between architecture, the urban and the politics of exclusion played out in the design of public space.

'Pick up your shit!’: waste, civic activism, and the moral bordering of public space.

Wednesday 24 November 2021

In her analysis of discourteous uses of public spaces in Paris, Dr Carrie Benjamin considers the discourse surrounding incivility and local associations' role in trying to establish a spatial and moral community that protects against these perceived security issues.

Virtual workshop Session on the WRDTP Studentships for all interested students

Thursday 18 November 2021

Virtual workshop, ran by the White Rose Social Sciences DTP, for all students interested in completing a PHD in the Social Sciences.

Making Melancholia: Remembering the Empire and Unsettling the Nation during the First World War Centenary

Wednesday 17 November 2021

This talk explores the £50 million memory-making project ran by the British state about the First World War. Dr Meghan Tinsley considers how this project re-centred metropolitan Britain and rewrote empire as multiculturalism.

Virtual workshop Session on the WRDTP Studentships for Black British Students

Tuesday 16 November 2021

Virtual workshop, ran in collaboration with the Stuart Hall Foundation and the White Rose Social Sciences DTP, for black British students interested in completing a PHD in the Social Sciences.

After Grenfell: Accumulation, debris and urban change in London

Wednesday 10 November 2021

This event, ran by Dr Constance Smith from the University of Manchester, explores the ambiguous afterlife of Grenfell Tower; considering what kind of future may occur at the site and how this impacts politics of presence and absence.

Navigating Religious and Gender Normativities and Identities in Mexico City

Wednesday 3 November 2021

Dr Isaac Ali Siles explores the production and experience of masculinities among Mormon men in the contemporary context of Mexico City.

Brexit and Personal Relationships

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Dr Katherine Davies provides a sociological framing to the lived experiences of families navigating their experience of Brexit and the divisions it causes.

Department of Sociology seminar series: "I tried to find the answer at the bottom of a bottle": understanding drinking practices and transitions during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Emily Nicholls considers the ways in which the COVID-19 lockdown altered our relationship with alcohol.

Department of Sociology seminar series: the status and relevance of genre in contemporary music cultures and for music sociology

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Join Dr Raphaël Nowak as he makes the cases for musical genres as a cultural category.

CURB Summer term webinars 2: The limits to Urban Revolution: The Transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party

Wednesday 2 June 2021

Dr Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Dr Seth Schindler and Dr Mehmet Penpecioğlu discuss how contemporary capitalism reshapes urban geographies, focusing on Turkey and the city of Ankara.

CURB Summer term webinars 1: Controlling the capital city: Understanding strategies for the pursuit of urban dominance

Wednesday 12 May 2021

Tom Goodfellow and David Jackman discuss the crucial role capital cities play in the production of dominance and the politics of maintaining it, as well as being sites of popular resistance.

Spelunking 2020: Games, Cultures, Societies

Wednesday 22 July 2020

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

The coughing body: etiquettes, techniques, sonographies and spaces

Wednesday 15 July 2020

Nik Brown and Sarah Nettleton discuss the coughing body, building on an in-depth qualitative study of three UK lung infection clinics treating people with cystic fibrosis.

Tobacco use in the context of ART adherence: insights from qualitative research in Uganda

Wednesday 1 July 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) bears the highest burden of HIV infection globally. Smoking cessation is important for people living with HIV (PLWH) because tobacco use increases the risk of opportunistic infections. Chief amongst these is TB: high HIV prevalence in SSA has opened the door to TB, which is now the most frequent cause of death among PLWH. Smoking rates are higher amongst PLWH than in general populations and standard smoking cessation interventions are not effective.

Ozhope Collective, racial capitalocene and the oil debate in Malawi

Wednesday 24 June 2020

Emmanuel Ngwira's talk will focus on an art project titled “Row” by a Malawian art group called Ozhope Collective.

From Coal to Brexit: on cultural-economic loss and the heating of identity politics in precarious Doncaster

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Catherine Thorleifsson will explore the local set of conditions central to the rise of UKIP and Brexit vote in the white-majority, working-class town of Doncaster.

From Blue Skies to Black Swans: Emergency R&D for Ebola, Zika and Coronavirus Diagnostics

Wednesday 3 June 2020

A new paradigm of emergency R&D is transforming global health.

The pure and the polluted: language politics in post-Apartheid South Africa

Wednesday 27 May 2020

Dr Gardner outlines how the structure of racial domination in South Africa’s language politics have continued into the twenty-first century.

Society to the rescue? Rethinking responses to crime and violence in Mexico

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Dr Slack draws on the findings of the large team project, made up of anthropologists and sociologists, that he completed in 2019 on responses to crime-related violence in Mexico.

CANCELLED More-than-human, less-than-human

Thursday 12 March 2020

How in the contemporary moment are notions of human exceptionalism and the natural being challenged and reinforced?

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.

Historical denial and right-wing politics in contemporary Japan

Wednesday 19 February 2020

This talk, based on a work-in-progress, explores the social, political, and cultural contexts for the successful re-emergence of the nationalist right in Japan over the past quarter-century.

The political repression of Muslim civil society on UK university campuses

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Drawing on findings from a multi-site ethnography, this paper demonstrates how the introduction of the Prevent duty has undermined Muslim civil society participation in UK universities.

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?

Infrastructures of Plutocratic London

Wednesday 22 January 2020

Caroline Knowles PhD walks through the infrastructure that makes London a plutocratic city

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

Nazi Concentration Camp Architecture and Topography: Challenges to the 'Totem' of Auschwitz - Unpolished Papers

Wednesday 21 November 2018

This terms Unpolished Papers series

BSA Postgraduate Forum Event: The Promise and Perils of Researching Sensitive Issues

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Research concerning sensitive and emotionally demanding issues is vital but challenging work in which the onus of care tends to be placed directly on the researcher. These issues may be internal or external, ethical or emotional, or concern the researcher or participant.

Interview Data Session: Women Farmers' Negotiating Their Sense of Self - Unpolished Papers

Wednesday 7 November 2018

This terms Unpolished Papers series

Rhythm and noise: the city, memory and the archive

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Following our successful Andreas Huyssen lecture earlier this month we have two Archiving the City reading group meetings planned for this term

A Biopolitics of Architecture: Sphereologies of Bodies, Bugs and Buildings - Unpolished Papers

Wednesday 31 October 2018

This terms Unpolished Papers series

Locked out of Social Platforms: An iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation

Saturday 27 October 2018

After years of exalting rhetoric praising the democratisation of public discourse with the diffusion of the internet, informed observers have sounded a note of alarm about the scope for the distortion of electoral processes in democratic countries.

Stigma Machines

Thursday 25 October 2018

It is the thesis of Imogen's current research that “stigma power” is a productive intersectional lens through which to understand these prevailing social conditions of ‘division and dehumanization’.

Austerity and After: The Domestic Subnational Agenda

Wednesday 17 October 2018

The Northern Powerhouse concept and its uncomfortable fit with public sector austerity have characterised the Coalition and Conservative governments for most of the past decade

Tracing Urban Imaginaries: Literature, Photography, Art

Thursday 4 October 2018

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003).

Museums for Profusion

Friday 21 September 2018

The final knowledge exchange event for the Profusion theme of the Heritage Futures project is taking place at the National Railway Museum in York on the 21st of September 2018.

'Buildings in the Making’: A Sociological Exploration of Architectural Design for Care

Tuesday 18 September 2018

While the focus of research has often been on individual buildings in use, the conference shifts the emphasis to the processes and practices of architectural design and construction, and how they shape the production of buildings for care.

Death & Culture II Conference

Thursday 6 September 2018

This biennial conference focuses on the impact of mortality on culture, and the ways in which the very fact of death has shaped human behaviour, evidenced through thought, action, production and expression

Regimes of Reproduction: The Mexican System of Assisted Reproduction

Monday 23 July 2018

A few weeks ago there was news of a crisis in the USA: The temperature of couple of tanks holding embryos had drastically dropped. The embryos that were there were in danger, as were the dreams and hopes of those who had kept them there

Representing Popular Street Parade in the Museum - Symposium by European Centre for Cultural Exploration

Tuesday 10 July 2018

This symposium explores historical and contemporary popular street parade including the kazoo 'jazz' marching bands of the coalfields areas

Ways of Telling: The Sea is the Limit

Tuesday 26 June 2018

The Sea is the Limit at YAG, the work of Journalist Ismail Einashe and the experiences and expertise of Shpresa an organisation working with young migrants from Albania

Empowered Bodies - PhD Conference 2018

Tuesday 26 June 2018

We are pleased to announce our Postgraduate Conference for students and researchers interested in the role of the body in social sciences and the concept of embodiment as a source of critical reflection in diverse disciplines.

Just Genomes?

Monday 25 June 2018

At the end of the last millennium, the proposal of the Human Genome Diversity Project and the publication of The Bell Curve sparked new worries that studies of human genetic variation would reignite scientific racism

CA Skills Training Courses: Word

Tuesday 19 June 2018

This course is one of two – on repair and on word selection – designed to provide further core training in conversation analysis (CA)

Decomposing Place: Taphonomic temporalities and material relations in a body farm

Wednesday 13 June 2018

The first taphonomic facility in Europe began operating in the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) academic hospital in May 2018. Such places for the study and analysis of human decomposition processes – informally known as body farms – exist in the U.S. and Australia for some time.

Book launch - Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy

Monday 11 June 2018

To mark the publication of her new book, author Rachel O’Neill will be in conversation with Rosalind Gill and Victoria Robinson, discussing her research on the seduction industry in relation to the wider debates about masculinity, intimacy, and sexual politics

CURB Seminar: Public Faith and the Everyday Ethics of Urban Life

Wednesday 6 June 2018

In recent years, a number of conservative Christian groups have become increasingly prominent in arguing that Christianity is being marginalised in British society and arguing for the public articulation of faith

Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism

Thursday 31 May 2018

In this seminar, Nisha Kapoor will discuss her new book (published by Verso, 2018), which draws on the stories of these men as starting points to explore what they illuminate about the disciplinary features of state power and its securitising conditions.

CURB Seminar - Only Disconnect: Central Heating and the Strange Afterlife of Social Democracy

Wednesday 23 May 2018

This talk will explore some of the different ways in which the relationship between housing, energy and heat were imagined by governments and urban planners in postwar Britain.

CA Skills Training Courses: Repair Selection

Tuesday 22 May 2018

This course is one of two – on word selection and repair – designed to provide further core training in conversation analysis (CA)

Sociology’s Legacy as Social Physics

Wednesday 16 May 2018

What are the consequences of increasing disciplinary specialization? How to think the relation between science and religion?

CURB Seminar - Light, Darkness and Belonging in a Modernist Housing Scheme

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Belonging to place is a popular topic of study among social scientists, and it is well known that sensory experiences play a central role in people’s sense of belonging to place.

Training on Using Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods for Social Research

Tuesday 1 May 2018

The PASAR (Participation Arts and Social Action in Research) project addresses the UK social science community's need to gain a better understanding of how participatory action research approaches engage marginalised groups in research as co-producers of knowledge.

Negotiating Digital Rights: Public Attitudes on Online Privacy and Targeting, at Home and at Work

Wednesday 25 April 2018

There is a burgeoning discussion theorising our rights to privacy in an age when we use social media every day, but are increasingly subject to data collection...

Imagining the History of the Future: Unsettling Scientific Stories (3 Days)

Tuesday 27 March 2018

The future just isn’t what it used to be… not least because people keep changing it. Recent years have seen a significant growth of academic and public interest in the role of the sciences in creating and sustaining both imagined and enacted futures.

CANCELLED - Accelerating Academia - Several Post-Publication Reflections

Wednesday 7 March 2018

In many diverse ways, academic environment emulates general trends of late modernity observable in other social terrains and arenas - one of the being the seemingly ubiquitous perceived speeding-up of time

Intimate Entanglements

Monday 19 February 2018

Two-day workshop brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation and The University of York's Sociology Department/Science & Technology Studies (SATSU) 19-20 February 2018 Location: York Medical Society, York

Too Tired to Think: On (Not) Producing Knowledge in the Hyper-Productive University

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Over the past decades we have witnessed significant transformations of the models of organisation and evaluation of academic work in the UK and elsewhere

The Elites, The Establishment and The ‘People’ – Analyzing the “Micro-Politics” of Rightwing Populism

Wednesday 7 February 2018

In my lecture, I explore the ‘new face of politics’ of right-wing populist parties and discuss adequate qualitative and quantitative methodologies...

Confronting the Plunder of the Commons

Wednesday 31 January 2018

An aspect of the ongoing Global Transformation has been the systematic plunder of the commons, facilitated by globalisation and the neo-liberal economic paradigm guiding governments and international agencies

CURB Seminar - Migrant City

Wednesday 17 January 2018

Migrant City is the story of contemporary London from the perspective of 30 adult migrants who come from a wide variety of social backgrounds and includes their take on Brexit and the so-called 'migrant crisis'.

CA Skills Training Courses: Sequence Organisation

Tuesday 12 December 2017

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

Ageing, Stigma & Biopolitics in the 21st Century

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Growing old ‘badly’ is stigmatizing, a truism that is enrolled into contemporary agendas for the biomedicalization of ageing

CA Skills Training Courses: Turn-Taking

Tuesday 28 November 2017

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

Housekeeping Against Accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, De-Growth and the Present Post-Ecological Condition

Wednesday 22 November 2017

The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in cultural initiatives that implicitly reject key principles of capitalist productivity

CURB Seminar: Thinking Sociologically About Kindness: Puncturing the Blasé in the Ordinary City

Wednesday 15 November 2017

We recently made the case for a sociological engagement with kindness (Brownlie and Anderson, 2016).

Dilemmas of patient choice: findings from a conversation analytic study of neurology outpatient consultations

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Recent, widely-publicized Royal College of Surgeons’ (RCS, 2016) guidelines on consent specify that “the aim of the discussion about consent is to give the patient the information they need to make a decision about what treatment or procedure (if any) they want

SATSU Talk - João Nunes

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Global health and the everyday political economy of vulnerability: The case of community health workers in Brazil

Autumn Unpolished Papers

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Is There a Cancer Habitus?

Autumn Unpolished Papers

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Challenges and Superpowers

Thresholds - A pop up symposium

Friday 22 September 2017

Thresholds is intended to bring together diverse disciplines including sociology, politics, history, anthropology, women’s studies, critical management, human geography, social policy. The format will be a short papers (10mins) followed discussion.

International Conference on 'Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy'

Thursday 21 September 2017

International symposium on Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy. It will be held on 21-22 September 2017 in Vienna

Sergeant Pepper: Playing with Words

Thursday 15 June 2017

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is arguably the most important and influential rock album of all time.

Border Zones: Documenting Life and Work Carried Out under Precarious Conditions

Wednesday 14 June 2017

Contemporary feminist methods reflect broader global trends in the production of knowledge through pictures.

Remembering the Future

Wednesday 31 May 2017

In 'Remembering the Future', Darran Anderson will re-assess utopian ideas in an age of pessimism

Ways of Telling: Methods, Narratives and Solidarities in Migration Studies

Friday 26 May 2017

The conference will feature key findings from the recently completed research project “Precarious Trajectories: Understanding the Human Cost of the Migrant Crisis in the Central Mediterranean” led by Dr Simon Parker

Traversing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Social Research

Thursday 25 May 2017

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2017 We are pleased to announce our conference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in Interdisciplinary Social Research

Antinomies of data-driven public services: the case of regionalisation of adoption in England

Wednesday 24 May 2017

The adoption of children from care is a form of state-led family making – what Derek Kirton (2013) has called ‘Kinship by design.’

Vigilante Science: Examples, Trends and Causes

Wednesday 24 May 2017

I employ the term “Vigilante Science” – in analogy with the vigilante heroes in comic books

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 4: Word Selection

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 (Turn-Taking) and 2 (Sequence Organisation)

CFP: Healthy Spaces: Space, Place and Design for Well-Being

Wednesday 17 May 2017

The theme of the next Yorkshire Medical Sociology group is space, place and design in relation to health and well-being. This may include the built environment, landscapes, architectural design, and interiors

Healthy Spaces: Space, Place and Design for Well-Being

Wednesday 17 May 2017

The theme of the next Yorkshire Medical Sociology group is space, place and design in relation to health and well-being. This may include the built environment, landscapes, architectural design, and interiors.

After Prison: Can we leave Imprisonment Behind?

Thursday 11 May 2017

The UK prison system is under unparalleled strain, and for many, is simply not working

Inside the Asylum: Material Life in Lunatic Asylums in Victorian and Edwardian England

Wednesday 10 May 2017

This talk will explore the material worlds of ‘lunatic asylums’ (as they were known to contemporaries) in Victorian and Edwardian England

Curiosity and the City: Mosque Open Days in Sydney and London

Wednesday 3 May 2017

Human curiosity - about and with others - has the potential to draw people together, to produce connections within diverse societies

Colonial Genealogies of the Deserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit

Wednesday 26 April 2017

This talk aims to provide a historical context to contemporary debates over the “white working class”

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 3: Repair

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 (Turn-taking) and 2 (Sequence Organisation)

CURB Seminar: Enhancing the City Beautiful

Wednesday 15 March 2017

York is one of the UK's great heritage cities, and the quality of its centre is one of its chief selling points - it attracts visitors (about 7 million a year), students and entrepreneurs

European Populisms: Demand-Side, Supply-Side and Contextual Explanations

Wednesday 8 March 2017

Populist movements and parties have thrived in Southern Europe in recent years. Their success is often related to the influence of the financial crisis...

CrimNet in conjunction with Sociology: Deaths in the Criminal Justice System: A North East and Yorkshire Conference

Thursday 23 February 2017

The 2016 national suicide rate in prison was the highest recorded and the number of deaths in other supervision settings and in the community after release continue to cause concern.

CURB Seminar: Grasping the Everyday Rhythms and Atmospheres of a Fish Market

Wednesday 22 February 2017

This presentation takes two fish markets as sites to explore urban social life.

Screening of Hidden Figures with introduction and Q&A

Sunday 19 February 2017

Science, gender, race, and the race for space!

We Believe - But Who Are 'We'

Wednesday 15 February 2017

In everyday life, we, as individuals, often speak in the plural referring to a ‘We’. People say: we had lunch together, we went on holiday together...

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

Wednesday 1 February 2017

What does it mean to be above or below in today’s rapidly urbanising world?

CURB Seminar: Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The cases of Istanbul, London and Rome

Wednesday 25 January 2017

The process of gentrification has produced one of the largest literatures in urban studies, yet there have been few academic studies of resistance to gentrification...

The Broadening Political Scope of Anti-Politics in Britain

Wednesday 18 January 2017

This talk reports findings from the ESRC-funded project ‘Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain, 1937-2015’.

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?

CA skills-training course on Word Selection (3 days)

Tuesday 18 October 2016

This course is one of two – on word selection and repair – designed to provide further core training in conversation analysis (CA).

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

CA skills-training course on Repair (3 days)

Tuesday 11 October 2016

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 and 2 (Turn-taking and Sequence Organisation)

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)

Centre for Political Youth Culture and Communication (CPAC) Conference

Monday 18 July 2016

Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication A two-day Symposium University of York, UK 18-19 July 2016

Action Sequencing Workshop (2 day)

Thursday 16 June 2016

Intensive ‘hands on’ workshop with leading conversation analysts: Professor Gene Lerner, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Professor Ray Wilkinson, Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK 12 places only – likely to be over-subscribed, so register your interest early to avoid disappointment!

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.

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 2: Sequence Organisation

Tuesday 3 May 2016

This 3 day course is one of two – on sequence organisation and on turn-taking - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA). It will provide a systematic grounding in the CA domain of sequence organisation.

Everyone a Winner?

Friday 29 April 2016

Taking a fresh look at social mobility from a variety of methodological perspectives, the conference will seek to develop and expand contemporary paradigms of mobility analysis

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1: Turn-taking

Tuesday 26 April 2016

This 3 day course is one of two – on turn-taking and on sequence organisation - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA). It will provide a systematic grounding in the CA domain of turn-taking. The course will be taught via mini-lectures, practical activities and exercises, with an emphasis on hands-on work with data.

Fiction and the social imaginary

Monday 14 March 2016

A one-day symposium exploring and unpicking fiction’s potential – as an integral component of everyday life – to reveal, illuminate and tell about the social world.

Dress, Embodiment and the Cultural Turn in Age Studies

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Prof Julia Twigg from University of Kent will give a talk about Dress, Embodiment and the Cultural Turn in Age Studies.

The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief and the Fragmentation of Reason

Wednesday 27 January 2016

Dr Monika Krause from Goldsmiths will talk about humanitarian relief and the fragmentation of reason.

The Migration Equation in a 'Neo-Liberal' Europe

Wednesday 20 January 2016

Prof Adrian Favell from the University of Leeds will give a talk on the migration equation in a 'neo-liberal' Europe.

Conversation Analysis: An Introduction

Wednesday 20 January 2016

1 day course designed as a ‘taster’ for those who would like to find out more about conversation analysis (CA) and the kinds of issues it can be used to address. It will introduce the methods and some of the key findings of CA in an non-specialist way.

Marginal Death Research: Doing Edgework

Wednesday 2 December 2015

Conference co-organised by Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Jack Denham & Anaïs Duong-Pedica considering death research in the social sciences

Social class and the new cultural distinctions today

Monday 30 November 2015

This paper by Prof Mike Savage looks at social class in the 21st century.

Social class and the new cultural distinctions today

Monday 30 November 2015

Prof Mike Savage will talk about his new collective book 'Social class in the 21st century'.

Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities Research Cluster, CWS and Asian Research Network Seminar

Tuesday 17 November 2015

In this seminar Prof Chan Kyung-Sup will explore another gender perspective on South Korean's industrial miracle.

Postcoloniality, race, and inequality in the academy: Decolonizing the social sciences

Wednesday 4 November 2015

In this paper Dr Kay Sian will discuss some of the key challenges and barriers around decolonizing the social sciences

”I don´t really like that question”. Interviewing middle class and upper class women about class

Wednesday 28 October 2015

In this paper Lena Sohl looks at interviewing middle and upper class women about class.

Poverty Porn' to 'Property Porn'?: Housing austerity and the logic of value in land and people

Wednesday 21 October 2015

This paper by Dr Kirsteen Paton draws from research in Glasgow looking at commodification of land/housing.

Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Objects, Artefacts, and Architecture

Wednesday 16 September 2015

'Materialities of Care’ is a two day event organised by the Universities of York and Leeds, exploring the role of material culture within health and social care

Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies: Meanings, Modalities and Implications

Wednesday 24 June 2015

Conference co-organised by Laura Iannelli, University of Sassari, Dan Mercea, City University London and Brian Loader, University of York under the auspices of the international journal Information, Communication and Society.

Conditional Intimacies: Contract Marriage in Chinese Cyberspace

Thursday 11 June 2015

Gender, Sexuality & Inequality Research Cluster Event: The Critical Race and Ethnicities Network (CREN)

What Differences Matter?: Research Relations, Reflexivity and Fieldwork in the Global South

Monday 8 June 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Myth(s) in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Wednesday 13 May 2015

This postgraduate conference aims to explore the variety and richness of the notion of myth.

Has 11 September, 2001 changed the world for women?

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Research/Ing In Asia: Concepts, Values And Practice A One-Day Workshop

Thursday 30 April 2015

White Rose DTC Event

Women's participation in peace and security:From theory to practice

Monday 27 April 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Mixed-sex cheerleading: The potential and pitfalls for inclusive gender

Monday 20 April 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Co/immunities and the politics of resistance

Friday 6 March 2015

Friday Unpolished Papers Seminar Series

Electoral (dis)engagement and feelings of political dissatisfaction over time (1983-2010)

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Department of Sociology

Deconstructing the Subject(s) of Prostitution and Law?

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Performing for the young networked citizen? Celebrity politics, social networking and the political engagement of young people

Friday 20 February 2015

Friday Unpolished Paper Seminar Series

Do Girls Face a Nutritional Disadvantage? Breastfeeding and Food Consumption in India

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Department of Sociology Seminar

Digital Media: Uses and Abuses

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Poly Economics – Bringing Political Economy (Back) into the Study of Polyamory

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Department of Sociology Seminar

Women with class: notions of gender, class and Swedishness

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Gender, Sexuality & Inequality Research Cluster

It’s time for Black Schools: Lessons from the Black supplementary school movement

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Department of Sociology Seminar

My Magical Career: From Academic to Civil Servant

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Architecture in an arts organisation: political intentions, everyday practice and cold contradictions

Friday 30 January 2015

Unpolished Paper Series

What's the problem? Negotiating therapeutic cultures and contemporary damage

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

BSA Yorkshire MedSoc Group Event

Friday 16 January 2015

The meeting is open to researchers, academics and postgraduate students. But we also welcome anyone who has an interest in the sociology of health and illness.

UNSCR 1325 and Women, Peace and Security:UK Policy and Advocacy Mechanisms and Key Issues

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

A resonant architecture:Liam McCormick and the sonorities of place

Friday 28 November 2014

Unpolished Papers Seminar

Post-Racial Subjects

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Department of Sociology Public Lecture

Post-Racial Subjects

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Department of Sociology Special Public Lecture

Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China

Monday 24 November 2014

A lecture run jointly between Department of Sociology, the Centre for Women’s Studies and the Asia Network.

Getting understood in the workplace: adults with speech impairments’ use of repetition and spelling.

Friday 21 November 2014

Unpolished Papers Seminar

A somatechnics of (dis)integration: the body as bordertechnology

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Museums in China: ethnographic glimpses of local people visiting experiences

Friday 14 November 2014

Unpolished Papers Seminar

Trojan Horse, Muslims and the ‘Prevent’ing of Education

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Reflecting on the Knowing/Doing Relationship (Confessions of a Feminist Methodologist)

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks

Friday 7 November 2014

This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating conflicts today.

Discretion and the data border

Wednesday 29 October 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Model behaviour – negotiations of the self in popular representations of ’reality’ & disabled womanhood

Wednesday 29 October 2014

Centre for Woemen's Studies Seminar

Emotions and Social Relations

Thursday 23 October 2014

SPS Seminar Series

The State of Pakistan and the State of War

Wednesday 22 October 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

A ‘culture cluster’ discussion

Friday 10 October 2014

Unpolished Paper Seminar

Public Lecture: Nick Hardwick, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons

Wednesday 8 October 2014

A Department of Sociology Public Lecture

Modernity/Modernities and Personal Life:Reflections on Some Theoretical Lacunae

Wednesday 8 October 2014

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Excavating Deep History:Establishing and Circulating Knowledge of Human Origins

Tuesday 16 September 2014

A workshop examining the development of methodologies in archaeology and palaeoanthropology

Landmarks & Future Adventures:Celebrating 50 years of Conversation Analysis

Tuesday 29 July 2014

An event celebrating 40 Years of CA at York

Tastes in Practice

Tuesday 15 July 2014

The Research Centre ECCE and the Sociology Department at the University of York are pleased to announce a one-day seminar on tastes at York. The seminar is jointly organised by the Stratification and Culture Research Network

International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York)

Monday 14 July 2014

The analysis of online social behaviours is a vital aspect of contemporary social science, and it is important that large-scale data analysis is complemented by the detailed, qualitative analysis of interaction processes.

Law, Religion and Homosexuality: book launch and talk

Wednesday 18 June 2014

The authors, and Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society, invite you to an evening of short speeches followed by time for questions and lively discussion about religion, sexual orientation and the law.

Gendered History afternoon

Monday 16 June 2014

Centre Women's Studies Seminar

The Ecology of Translation Games: A Theoretical Perspective on a Case Study of Distributed Collaboration to Enable Public Internet Access

Monday 16 June 2014

Department of Sociology and SPS Seminar

Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium: Masculinities, Modernity and Heteronormativity in the UK and South China

Tuesday 10 June 2014

Department of Sociology Symposium

Are feminists less religious? British feminists’ approaches to spirituality and religion

Monday 9 June 2014

Centre Women's Studies Seminar

Digital media technologies in academia

Monday 2 June 2014

Centre Women's Studies Seminar

Understanding Audiences

Wednesday 28 May 2014

This day-symposium brings together leading practitioners in different methods of understanding audiences.

‘‘Learning what it takes to inhabit again what was devastated":keeping knowledge alive despite the marketisation of everything

Monday 19 May 2014

Centre Women's Studies Seminar

Sexual Orientation and the European Convention on Human Rights: Voices and Perspectives

Friday 16 May 2014

The Department of Sociology at the University of York is pleased to host a one-day seminar organized to explore sexual orientation and human rights in contemporary Europe.

A Tale of Two Cultures: Exploring the Occupational Experiences of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Police Officers Post-Macpherson

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Festival of Death and Dying

Monday 12 May 2014

The Sociology Department has been successful in our bid for one of the University's External Engagement Awards. We will be organising a Festival of Death and Dying to take place in York in national Dying Awareness Week.

Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment from Patients in a Vegetative or Minimally Conscious State

Friday 9 May 2014

There will be talks from a range of experts covering the ethical, clinical, philosophical, economic, and sociological perspectives of withdrawing treatment from vegetative and minimally conscious patients.

Media, Marginality and Disability - Towards an Academic Synthesis

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Marxism with Soul Marxist Humanism after Marshall Berman

Friday 2 May 2014

This one-day symposium seeks not only to recognise the huge contributions made by Marshall Berman to studies of Marx, modernity, cities and the development of an authentic self, but also to consider Berman’s legacy in terms of thinking through Marxist humanism’s continued potential to inspire interventions within the social sciences, arts and humanities but also the realms of everyday life and political opposition

Post Graduate Conference: Access and Opportunity in the Social Sciences

Monday 28 April 2014

2014 International Social Sciences Post-Graduate Conference

Celebrate the commencement of marriage

Friday 28 March 2014

The Sociologists of the University of York request the pleasure of your company to celebrate the commencement of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 12013.

The Great Meeting Place: A study of Bradford's City Park

Friday 14 March 2014

Unpolished papers seminar series

To be Confirmed

Tuesday 11 March 2014

SATSU Brown Bags Seminar Series

You’re Looking for Different Parts in a Jigsaw: Exploring the Views of Health Professionals on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Pregnancy

Tuesday 11 March 2014

Brown Bag Seminar

"I dream of wires": co-operation, collaboration and modular synthesis

Friday 7 March 2014

Unpolished papers seminar series

The Construction of Gender Dysphoria: Debating DSM-5

Wednesday 5 March 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Virtual Knowledge (a review and response to the recent book by Sally Wyatt)

Tuesday 4 March 2014

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Virtual Knowledge (a review and response to the recent book by Sally Wyatt)

Tuesday 4 March 2014

Brown Bag Seminar

Performing and Interacting on Soudcloud; the micro-analysis of remix cultures

Friday 28 February 2014

Unpolished Papers Seminar Series

This seminar has been cancelled until next term

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED: Reflecting on the Knowing/Doing Relationship (Confessions of a Feminist Methodologist)

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Natural, Unnatural, and the Human Exemplar: Findings from a study of cultured red blood cells for transfusion

Tuesday 18 February 2014

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Natural, Unnatural, and the Human Exemplar: Findings from a Study of Cultured Red Blood Cells for Transfusion

Tuesday 18 February 2014

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar

The Boardroom and the Strip Club: the Class and Feminist Politics of Lap Dancing Campaigns

Wednesday 12 February 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Male Migrant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces in China

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

White Ribbon Campaign

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Confusing the racial gaze: (Re- and De-)Constructing the Muslim folk-devil from Boston to Woolwich.

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Department of Sociology Seminar

Man up!!’: Gender, Marathon Swimming and the Challenges of Immersion

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Exploring Morbid Spaces: A Symposium

Wednesday 8 January 2014

The aim of the symposium is to build a network of like-minded researchers in the area of dark space and morbidity. A special issue in a journal relating to the symposium themes is planned

Cords of Collaboration: Exploring Stakeholder Interests within the Emerging British Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Bio-economy

Wednesday 11 December 2013

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

The Sociology of Irreligion Past and Present

Thursday 5 December 2013

The NSRN Annual Lecture 2013

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED: A shifting Margin of Error: the impact of geography and ‘force type’ on the occupational experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual police officers

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Essex noir: sub/urban history against the grain

Friday 29 November 2013

Department of Sociology Unpolished papers

Shifting Religious Practices in London’s East End: Changing Cultural Practices of Attachment and Belonging

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Student Politics: Social networking and digital capital

Friday 22 November 2013

Department of Sociology Unp0olished Papers

Conflict and Controversy in the Stem Cell Debate

Thursday 21 November 2013

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Placeless knowledge? Location, situation and the methodology of place.

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Place and cultural capital: an exploration of the territorial and social anchoring of art museums

Friday 15 November 2013

Department of Sociology Unpolished Papers

Detours and Puzzles in the Land of the Living: Adventures in Ekphrastic Ethnography

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Football, Data, Metrics

Friday 8 November 2013

Department of Sociology Unpolished Papers

Caricature and Character: Performing Personhood on Reality TV

Thursday 7 November 2013

School of Social and Political Sciences Seminar Series

Halfway down the stairs’: Children’s spaces in amateur films from the 1930s-1960s

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Creating the Witness: Film and Human Rights Advocacy

Thursday 24 October 2013

School of Social and Political Sciences Seminar Series

Beyond The Spirit Level: The Breadth and Depth of New Research on Inequality

Monday 21 October 2013

School of Social and Political Sciences Seminar Series

Living apart together: Who? Why? How

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Changing Models of Conducting Research on Violence Against Women

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Regenerative Medicine: Engaging Science, Industry and Social Science Conference

Wednesday 2 October 2013

The meeting will include participants from across the European network, which has almost 80 members from 23 countries.

White Rose Urban Policy Forum 1: Urban Labs: Universities and their host cities

Friday 5 July 2013

Centre for Urban Studies Event

Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System

Tuesday 2 July 2013

The conference is organised by Dr Nick Gane, Department of Sociology and Dr Claire Westall, Department of English and Centre for Modern Studies.

It’s the Big Black Bags that you Put Them In: Re-thinking the ‘Dirtiness’ of Abortion Work

Thursday 27 June 2013

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Older People, New Technologies and Neighbourhood. A German case study

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Joint Seminar with CURB

The Political Communication of Young Citizens Through Social Media

Monday 17 June 2013

This one day pre-conference explores the influence of social media communications technologies upon the participatory culture of young citizens.

The Moral Economy of Digital Gifts

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

What are ‘Trading Zones’ and How Can They Help us Understand and Enhance Interactions Between Social Science and Public Policy?

Thursday 30 May 2013

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

What is worth defending in British sociology today?

Wednesday 29 May 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Engaging audiences: international perspectives on museum and heritage visiting

Friday 24 May 2013

Symposium organized by ECCE (European Centre for Cultural Exploration, Department of Sociology) and IPUP (Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, Department of History), University of York

Imagining the Future of Social Research: Digital By-Product Data and the Sociological Imagination

Tuesday 21 May 2013

A session for PhD students, to be led by David Beer.

Sociology and Neoliberalism: A History of the Present

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Where the Scenic and the Obscene Meet: Ethical Subject Formations in Yosemite National Park

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Joint seminar between the Department of Sociology and ECCE

The Making of the Bio-Object: Creating New Conceptual Models for the Analysis of the Biosciences

Thursday 2 May 2013

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Making Sociology Sociable: Dialogue, Ethics and Authorship

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

PhD Workshop: Sociology in Public

Wednesday 24 April 2013

with refreshments from 1.45pm

The Contemporary Other Postgraduate Conference

Monday 15 April 2013

A BSA-Sponsored Regional Postgraduate Event hosted by the University of York Sociology Department

Mapping Spaces of Participation: Young People and the Negotiation of Identity in the Context of Spatial Regulation

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Sexsomnia: An Example of Co-Production in Crisis

Tuesday 12 March 2013

SATSU Brown Bag

Precaution, punishment, performance - the ambivalent space of immigration detention

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Placing Health: Understanding the social contexts and embodied experiences of therapeutic spaces

Tuesday 26 February 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Domus on the Edge of Forever: On Stating Spatially Located Problems in Terms of Time

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Gilded Ghettos, Eyrie Space and Domestic Fortresses: The Relevance of the Rich to Urban Sociology

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

to be confirmed

Tuesday 12 February 2013

SATSU Brown Bag

Reconnecting with darkness: experiencing landscapes and sites of gloom

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Architectural atmospheres: affect and agency of mobile digital images in the material transformation of the urban landscape in Doha

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Shakespearean Colonial Territories

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Department of Sociology Seminar

Engineering a Demonstrator System for Operationalising Resilience

Tuesday 15 January 2013

SATSU Brown Bag

Open-Source Nanosatellites: Towards a Democratized Space Technology?

Thursday 6 December 2012

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

A cultural sociology of the Venice Biennale

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar

Beyond hegemonic masculinity: The role of family genetic history in men's account on health

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

'Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: the Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-1980'

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar

Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar

Post Graduate Open Day

Wednesday 21 November 2012

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

Lifestyle in migration: the case of the British in rural France.

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Molecular Monopolies" The Corporatisation and Commodification of Cervical Cancer Screening Innovation

Tuesday 20 November 2012

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Music and Meaning

Wednesday 7 November 2012

A Symposium

Analysing End-of-Life Discussions in Australia" Some Early Insights and Methodological Reflections

Thursday 25 October 2012

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Programme

Workplace reading groups, networking and gender

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Cultural Heritage: new insights

Friday 12 October 2012

Organised by YECCE (York European Centre for Cultural Exploration)

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

Wednesday 18 July 2012

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.

Inspiring Apes

Wednesday 27 June 2012

A White Rose Animals Workshop, York/Sheffield/Leeds/ 2010-2012

Islamic women-only online groups and their role in the emergence of women-oriented interpretations of Islamic texts.

Monday 11 June 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

The social organisation of food preferences

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conceptualising Contemporary Pharmacy Practice: Sociologically Exploring Primary, Secondary and Pharmaceutical Care

Thursday 31 May 2012

SATSU Brownbag Seminar

Symbolic power and urban inequality: taking Bourdieu to town

Thursday 31 May 2012

Seminar and Workshop, Hosts: the York European Centre for Cultural Exploration (YECCE) and the Centre for Urban Research (CURB)

Arab Women, Media and Sexuality Conference

Saturday 26 May 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Event

The (in)authenticity of simulated interaction: Comparing role-played and ‘real’ interaction

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Birth of our Social Essence: Cognitive Psychology and the Reconstruction of Autistic Sociality

Thursday 17 May 2012

Brown Bag Seminar

Politics out of time - temporal claims in Swedish governmental reports concerning gay rights and anti-discrimination policies

Monday 14 May 2012

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments.

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Illness Without Disease - A Challenge to the Paradigm of Modern Medicine?

Thursday 3 May 2012

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar

An Introduction to the Methods of Conversation Analysis

Thursday 3 May 2012

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

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.

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

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

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

Dr James Rees, University of Manchester. Departmental Seminar

Contesting Authority: Voice, Legitimacy and Justice in Contemporary Black Women's Autobiography

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Does mobility have a future? The end of the road?

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Prof John Urry, University of Lancaster. Department of Sociology Seminar

Department of Sociology

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Women in Hybrid Roles in IT Employment: A Case of "Nimble Fingers"?

Sunday 30 January 2011

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Implementing Pharmacogenetics into Pharmacy Practice: A (Re)professionalising Project?

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Brown Bag Seminar Series. This session will be followed by SATSU Christmas drinks and mince pies

Sociology and parapsychological experiences

Monday 13 December 2010

Inaugural Lecture - Prof Robin Wooffitt

Living and Aging – Two Sides of a Coin? An Introduction to Anocriticism, and thus to Gender, Age and Identity

Monday 13 December 2010

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Narratives of Maternal Loss in Contemporary Women's Writing

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Centre for Women's Studies Seminar

Time, Timing and Narrative at the Interface Between Science, Policy and Citizenship: A Xenotransplantation Case Study

Tuesday 30 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Scenes from Windows: Urban Rhythms, Improvisation and Memory

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Departmental Seminar

Responses to Violence against Women in India

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Centre Women's Studies Seminar

Making Things Secure: Data as Objects of Violence and Things of Beauty

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Departmental Seminar

Hard Eyes? Data Processing in Welfare Systems for High Cost High Risk Populations

Tuesday 16 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

A history of future's past: Recovering and using British sociology's lost biological roots

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Departmental Seminar

Regenerative Medicine in Europe: A Synopsis of Some Key Results

Tuesday 2 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Culture, Interaction and Knowledge: Sociology at York – Past, Present and Future

Thursday 3 July 2008

Celebrating 45 years of Sociology at York