Very generous review by Sivamohan Valluvan (Warwick Sociology) of Fighting Identity for Identities Journal

'Fighting identity and enchanting culture: reflections on working-class conviviality'

tandfonline.com/eprint/GG4YYND…

Last chance to register for:

Class, cultural knowledge & barriers to mobility
Visiting The Leverhulme Trust Prof, Annette Lareau (UPenn)

📆2.30pm, 29 April 2024, Manchester (in person only)

Followed at 4pm by drinks reception for our 60th anniversary 🎉
…au-barriers-mobility.eventbrite.co.uk

VACANCIES: 2 X lecturer and 1 X Senior Lecturer University of Manchester Sociology department. Last few days to send us an application (deadline 29 April).

📢CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Global social challenges: New research for navigating chaos and finding hope in the 21st C

📆10-5pm, Weds 12 June, Manchester
➡ Send an abstract (by 7 May) forms.gle/WwFqejRR4vyr9F…

UoM School of Social Sciences UoM SoSS PhD NWSSDTP MethodsNW

Every Cook Can Plan: Utopian Ideas for Economic Democracy

Dr Troy Vettese (European University Institute)
Drew Pendergrass (Harvard University)

Tues 30 April, 1.30-3pm
Chemistry Building G.54

Part of Utopia and the Return of History Conf. All welcome, no need to register 4/5

Caretakers, Compradors and Captive Maternals as 'Vanguard'

Professor Joy James (Williams College)
Mon 29 April, 6-7.30pm
University Place, Theatre A

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register. 3/5

Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Socialist Revolution
Ken McLeod, award-winning science fiction author

Mon 29 April, 1.30-3pm
Simon Building, Theatre B, University of Manchester

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register.
2/5

PUBLIC LECTURES X 3:

Utopia and the Return of History conference,
📆29-30 April 2024, Manchester

All welcome, no need to register

1/5

How can we teach sociology in order to best bring alive the discipline? Find out by registering for our free online event, ‘Teaching Sociology in Higher Education: Pedagogical Practices & Possibilities’, on 8 May tinyurl.com/2ekbt59y #sociology

Researchers from MUARG have spent the last 18 months examining how faith spaces in Greater Manchester Combined Authority support diverse groups of older people within their communities

'They found that faith spaces provide spiritual wellbeing, belonging + a sense of community'

manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

🌘Booking now open for this workshop on 16 May 2024, exploring urban atmospheres in cities after dark, with optional noctural walk!

🎫see post below for (free) tickets

LECTURE:
🗣Prof Annette Lareau (UPenn)

📆2.30pm Mon 29 April 2024 (followed by drinks reception)

Prof Lareau will be exploring how social mobility is shaped by invisible barriers eg class, race, family background. All welcome!
UoM School of Social Sciences LSE Sociology

Join us for the inaugural lecture of Keir Monteith KC ‘Art Not Evidence’ and hear how rap music is unfairly used as evidence in criminal trials🎉

🗓️Wednesday 1 May, 5-6:30pm. The event is free, hybrid and open to the public.

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-not-evid…

📢Don't miss out on Professor Orkun Akseli's fascinating and engaging inaugural lecture 'Secured Transactions in Global Lawmaking'

📅Tomorrow, 4-6pm

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…

All are welcome, the event is hybrid and followed by a drink's reception!

TOMORROW: we've moved this event to a bigger room and so there are still some tickets up for grabs to hear Keith Boykin in discussion with Gary Younge on the lies & myths around racism 👇🏾
Creative Manchester School of Arts, Languages and Culture UoM School of Social Sciences Identities Journal blackbritainbeyond Decolonise UoM Social Responsibility

Join us at the 'Materials in Civic Futures' research café to discuss interdisciplinary perspectives on the lives of materials and material thinking

Connect with others working on issues of production + consumption over an informal lunch

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-caf…

📢Why does everything have to be about race?

Keith Boykin debunks the lies, myths, & misinformation around race with history, knowledge, & truth. In discussion with Gary Younge

📆5pm, 23 April 2024, Manchester - see link for updated room

🎫eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-does-eve…

We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate our 60th birthday! Please join us to hear Prof Lareau on the invisible barriers to social mobility. All welcome.

TOMORROW: #TeenageKicks zine and collage workshop, 4.30pm at Glasgow Glasgow Women's Library. All welcome!

Publishing today!
Dr Kurt Sengul Elsa Bengtsson Meuller (she/they) David Farrell-Banks Jean Beaman Kayla Preston~King Luc DoctorOfLeisure Cousineau, PhD
Yutaka Yoshida Katherine Williams C_Hörst (she/ her) John Drury
Richard McNeil-Willson Dr. Michael C. Zeller Anna Meier Dr Isis Giraldo Gary Younge Katy Brown

📕tinyurl.com/4xk7k33w