Events

Sociology research seminar series

Time: Thursday, 16:00-18:00
Venue: Room D427 (Social Sciences Building)

Spring term 2012

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
26 January 2012	D427	Dr Gurminder Bhambra	The Possibilities of and for a Global Sociology
2 February 2012	D427	Dr Liza Schuster (City University London)	Convergence or Divergence: Forced Return in the EU and Member States
9 February 2012	D427	Dr Jean K. Chalaby (City University London)	Value Chains and Globalisation: The Case of the Broadcasting Industry
1 March 2012	D427	Dr Marina Prentoulis (University of East Anglia)	Rioting in Greece: Responding to the Economic Crisis
22 March 2012	D427	Professor David Inglis (University of Aberdeen)	Durkheim and Global Moral Icons
29 March 2012	D427	Dr Milena Chimienti (City University London)	The Mobilisation of Vulnerable Groups. A Comparison of Social Movements by Irregular Migrants, Sex Workers, and Drug Users in Europe
5 April 2012	D427	Professor John Solomos (City University London)	Sociology of Race, Racism, and Ethnicity: Trends, Debates and Research Agendas
10 May 2012	D427	Professor Anthony Elliott (Flinders University, Australia)	Networks of Reinvention

Sociology research seminar series - autumn term 2011
Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
13 October 2011	D427	Dr Sarah Scuzzarello (City University London)	Migrants' Integration and Political Opportunities in a Cross-City and Cross-Group Comparative Perspective
27 October 2011	D427	Professor Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University)	Feminism and the Future of Capitalism
1 December 2011	D427	Professor Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex)	Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology
8 December 2011	D427	Professor Robert Reiner (London School of Economics)	The Return of the Repressed? For Social Democratic Criminology

All seminars will be held in Room D104 (Social Sciences Building) on Mondays from 12:00-13:00.

Seminars are primarily for Masters and research students at City University London, though they are open to the general public.

Date	Speaker	Topic
10 October 2011	Nicholas Jones	Unravelling spin - how a British Prime Minister came to depend on an ex-editor of the News of the World!
17 October 2011	Robert Picard	Copyrights and Copy-wrongs: Should there be New Rights for News?
24 October 2011	Winston Fletcher	How Society benefits from advertising
31 October 2011	David Mahoney	Content regulation in a digital world
24 November 2011*	Professor Zizi Papacharissi	The rhythms of news storytelling on Twitter: coverage of the January 25th Egyptian uprising on Twitter

* Prof. Papacharissi's seminar on 24 November 2011 will be held in Room DLG08 (Social Sciences Building) from 1-2pm.