The LSE Sociology Forum serves as the focal point of the research community here in the Department of Sociology, and also aims to encourage a broader audience for sociological thought throughout the School.
The Forum holds events including roundtable discussions, well-known external speakers, debates, and papers from academics and graduate students. Calls for papers and for suggested speakers are usually issued towards the start of each term, but suggestions are welcome at any time.
Sociology Forum events are open to all undergraduate students, masters students, PhD students, visiting scholars and staff in the Sociology Department.
Forthcoming Events
Sociology Forum and LSE Cities Event:
City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary
12 June 2012, 6.30-8pm, Alumni Theatre (NAB LG1.09)
Book launch: Dr Suzanne Hall discusses her new book City, Street and Citizen with Professor Caroline Knowles, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths. This event is open to the public, seating allocated on a first come first served basis. For more details see event page|.
End of year event:
PhD review
18 June 2012, 6:00-7:30pm, Graham Wallace Room (AGWR), Old Building
A panel of four former LSE Sociology PhD students who gained their PhDs in the last year - Richard Bramwell, Marianne Colbran, Amy Hinterberger and Sandy Ross - will talk about their research, what they are doing now and future directions. This event is open to faculty and postgraduates in the Department of Sociology.
Previous Events (2011-12)
The Return of the Subject
Monday 30 April 2012, 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
This public event held in conjunction with LSE Cities launched two new books on the society of strangers discussing issues of hyper-subjectivity and desubjectification as the causes of contemporary escalations of violence. Ash Amin’s Land of Strangers offers a diagnosis of attitudes towards the stranger in the West after 9/11, while Michel Wieviorka’s Evil develops a sociological analysis of evil phenomena presenting us with a fresh approach to the understanding of the darker regions of human behaviour. The authors were joined by Claire Alexander, Craig Calhoun (Chair) and Richard Sennett.
Return of the Subject podcast|
Author-meets-critic: Steve Fuller, Humanity 2.0
Wednesday 22nd February 2012, 6-7.30pm, NAB 2.14
Steve Fuller discussd his provocative new book, Humanity 2.0 (Palgrave, 2011), which argues that recent developments in the bio- and nano-sciences have forced social scientists to confront, head-on, the question of what it means to be ‘human’ in this century. Respondent: Carrie Friese.
Capitalism in Crisis: Sociological Accounts
Wednesday 25 January 2012, 6-7:30pm, Graham Wallace room (OLD550)
Panelists: Aditya Chakrabortty, (economics leader writer for The Guardian), Nigel Dodd, Robin Archer, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Chair: Sandy Ross
One in Three: Young Migrants in a Global City
Wednesday 7th December 2011, 6-7.30pm, NAB.1.15
Speakers: Professor Les Back and Dr Shamser Sinha, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Chair: Sanjiv Lingayah
The UK Riots: What Sociology Can Tell Us
Wednesday 19 October 2011, 6:00-7:30 pm, CLM4.02
A panel disussion , followed by a reception, was held to launch the Sociology Forum for 2011-12. Panel speakers included Professor Paul Gilroy, Dr Fran Tonkiss, Malcolm James and Ajmal Hussain and the event was chaired by Dr Claire Alexander.