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“Marxism with Soul”: Marxist Humanism after Marshall Berman
My excellent colleague Gareth Millington has put together this fantastic event on the work of Marshall Berman and beyond. It only costs £5 and the line up of speakers is terrific. Information and booking is available here. Below is the … Continue reading
Access and Opportunity in the Social Sciences
The PhD students in my department are putting together a big postgraduate event looking at Access and Opportunity. At the moment they have John Urry booked in as a key note with more to follow. There is more information and … Continue reading
Negotiating Morbid Spaces: a symposium
My colleague Ruth Penfold-Mounce has organised and event on Negotiating Morbid Spaces. The poster is above and further details are available on Ruth’s blog or via the York sociology blog.
Videos of the talks from the event on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’
There are now a series of videos available of the talks from the recent event on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’. The event was organised by my colleagues Nick Gane and Clair Westall. It was an excellent event with … Continue reading
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian…a two day conference
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian a two day conference. Here is the conference website and here are the details: The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: … Continue reading
The Challenge of Big Data: BSA Presidential Event
The British Sociological Association have just announced a presidential event in The Challenge of Big Data. There is a great line-up of speakers and it looks like it will be a lively event. Here is the event website and here … Continue reading
Some short essays on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event in ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’. I’ve previously posted some reflections on the event here. It was really vibrant and lively, with s fantastic range of speakers. As a follow … Continue reading
Reflections on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’
I managed to spend some time this week at an event on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System‘. It was organised by my colleagues Nick Gane and Claire Westall. The event was free and I think it attracted around 150 … Continue reading
Calculative Devices in the Digital Age: a call for papers
Louise Amoore has just sent me through this call for papers: Call for Papers: Calculative Devices in the Digital Age Department of Geography Durham University 21-22 November 2013 Keynote speakers (tbc): Prof. Pat O’Malley (Sydney) Prof. Marieke de Goede (Amsterdam) … Continue reading
An event on Post-Crash Cities: Urban Economies
CURB, the centre for urban research at York, have been running a series of events on the post-crash city. The next event is a three day conference on urban economies. It includes Jamie Peck as a plenary speaker. The details … Continue reading
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