Edinburgh Sociology: 50 years of engagement with the contemporary
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St.Cecilia's Hall
Niddry St Edinburgh EH1 United KingdomDescription
For its 50th birthday, Sociology at Edinburgh is inviting its ‘community’, critical and uncritical friends, sympathizers, fellow sociologists and social scientists, and anyone wondering about sociology in and at Edinburgh, to its anniversary conference, to celebrate but also to jointly reflect on and discuss (some) sociological traditions as well as new challenges.
In order to do so, we have invited scholars to help us take stock and highlight key turning points and debates in areas of the contemporary world that they and we have explored or are starting to explore – nationalism, intimate lives and their narratives, social demography, South and now East Asia, finance, energy and sustainability, the digital, and critical sociology.
Engaging with the contemporary has meant not only grappling with and seeking to shape contemporary issues but also of course teaching and learning sociology – both eagerly and critically. Our conference will also be a place for remembering and reflecting on 50 years of teacher/student exchange, specific courses, and those myriads of structured and haphazard interactions that constitute what is now called the ‘student experience’.
Speakers and panelists
Confirmed keynote speakers include: John Brewer, Brendan O’Leary and Saskia Sassen.
Confirmed external panellists and discussants include: Mike Anderson, Madeleine Arnot, Frank Bechhofer, Francesco Billari, Manuela Ciotti, John Downer, Caroline Dyer, Alex Faulkner, Harvie Ferguson, Jennifer Fleetwood, Bridget Fowler, John Holmwood, John Hutchinson, Michael Keating, Andrew Lyon, David McCrone, David Morgan, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Duncan Petrie, Gianfranco Poggi, Corinne Squire, Gita Sen, Norman Stockman and Judy Wajcman.
Questions?
For any questions concenring this event, please contact Dr Isabelle Darmon in the first instance.
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