The Social Theory Centre hosts a number of activities, including reading groups, research symposia, and talks by internationally renowned academics. In 2011-12, we have organised the following:
- The Centre co-hosted an event, 'Public Symposium on the Recent Disturbances', on the social and economic contexts of the week of unrest and rioting that marked a number of English cities in August 2011
- The Centre hosted Dr Kwame Nimako for a seminar related to his recently published book, The Dutch Atlantic
- The Centre is also organised a one-day research conference on Global Feminism
For details of all these activities, click here.
Events Schedule:
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Date / Time
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Room |
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For details of the reading group, see here. |
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Wednesday 2nd May,
3-6pm |
Intimate Labour: Sociological and Historical Perspectives
3.00-4.15pm
Professor Raka Ray, UC Berkeley: Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, Class
Iordanis Psimmenos, Panteion, Greece: Domestic Immigrant Workers in Greece: Welfare Orientations and Social Prospects
4.15-4.45pm: Tea / Coffee
4.45-6.00pm
Professor Carolyn Steedman, Warwick: What I've Learnt from Eighteenth-Century English Servants
Dr Kate Smith, Warwick: Female Hands and the Politics of Touch in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Discussants: Professor Nickie Charles & Dr Carol Wolkowitz, Warwick
ALL WELCOME
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IAS seminar room, Millburn House
Download poster here
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2010-11 Selected Events:
- The Centre hosted Professor Walter Mignolo, Duke University, from 22-27 November 2010.
- The Reading Group has been running since spring 2010.
- The Centre co-hosted a research symposium with the British Sociological Association Theory Study Group and the Realism and Social Research Study Group in honour of Margaret Archer who is leaving Warwick to take up a new post in Lausanne. For further details, please see here.
- A research symposium with colleagues from Boston University on Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms in May 2011
