Department of Sociology

Sociology

Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity

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Provisional Programme - please click here for a word version. AR

For further details about the arguments for the Age of Re-embodiments in the larger geopolitical postcolonial picture, its contribution to knowledge, the basic literature, and the proposed outcomes, see the booklet here

 

9:00-10:00

Welcome to the BSA-TSG Symposium 'Re-imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments?'

10:00-11:00

Keynote - Dr Ariel Salleh,

University of Sydney, Australia

(tbc)

'Ecology and Materially Embodied Knowledge'

Read an extract from previous work here

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:45

Re-embodiment & Social Theory

11:15-12:00

Dr Patrick Curry

University of Wales

'What is Enchantment?'

12:00-12:45

Prof Wendy Wheeler,

London Metropolitan University

'Understanding the Sacred: Reason, Knowledge, and Transcendence in the Age of Re-Embodiments'

12:45-13:15

Lunch & Discussion

13:15-16:30

Re-embodiment & Political Ecology

13:15-14:00

Dr. Larry Lohmann,

The Corner House

'Climate Justice & the Social Sciences' (tbc)

14:00-14:45

Vito de Lucia,

Eco Pax Mundi

'The Re-embodiment of Technology in the Climate Regime' (tbc)

14:45-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-15:45

Prof Mary Mellor,

Northumbria University

'Embodiment and Ecofeminist Political Economy'

15:45-16:30

Ruth Thomas-Pellicer,

University of Surrey

'What is Re-embodiment or the Victorious Assertion of Loci Standi over the Barbarism of Instrumenti Movendi'

16:30-17:00

Conclusions & Further Challenges

16:30-17:00

Dr Ariel Salleh

(tbc)

'Where do we go from here with re-embodiment theory?'

17:00-18:00

Coffee & informal discussion for those who wish to stay.

 

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