Research Seminars
Department of Social Sciences
SPRING 2012
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Wednesday, 8th February, 5.15, Roy Bruton Room
– South East Asia Museum
Peter Forster Memorial
Lecture
Prof. Pnina Werbner, Keele University
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Popular
Protest in Botswana: Labour, Class and Politics in
the Great Strike of 2011
Hosted by the Centre for the Study of
Social Justice in a Globalising World
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Annual Lectures
Wednesday, 15 February, 4.15, Roy Bruton
Room – South East Asia Museum
Professor Tony Jefferson, Keele
University
The Riots 2011: Another Moral Panic or
.... what?
Hosted by the Centre for Criminology
and Criminal Justice
Monday, 20th February, 4.15, Roy Bruton Room –
South East Asia Museum
Dr. Sarah Nettleton, University of
York
Techniques and transitions: a
sociological analysis of sleeping practices amongst recovering
heroin users
Wednesday, 29 Feb, 4.15, Meaux Room, Staff
House
Dr Kristin Aune, University of Derby
Reclaiming the ‘F’ Word
Hosted by the Centre for Gender
Studies 25th anniversary celebrations
Tuesday, 6th March, 5.30, Lindsey Suite, Staff
House
Keith Bottomley Lecture
Professor Nils Christie, University of
Oslo
When Atrocities Hit
Hosted by the Centre for Criminology
and Criminal Justice
Wednesday, 14 March, 4.15, Roy Bruton
Room – South East Asia Museum
Prof. Fred Craigie, Dartmouth Medical
School, ‘Letting go and moving on: supporting suffering people with
transcendence and valued directions’
And
Anne Cullen, University of Hull & Princess
Alice Hospice, ‘Spirituality in a Fragmented World’
Hosted by the Centre for Spirituality
Studies
Wednesday 21 March, 4.15, Roy Bruton Room – South East Asia
Museum
Dr Athina Karatzogianni, University of
Hull
WikiLeaks Affect: Ideology,
Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual
Wednesday, 18 April, 4.15, Roy
Bruton Room – South East Asia Museum
PhD student showcase
Karin Cooper, “It’s a difficult journey
to go on”:Children and young people’s narratives of kinship
care
And
Maria de Angelis, ‘Women's stories of agency
in human trafficking’
Wednesday, 25 April, Roy Bruton
Room – South East Asia Museum
Prof. David Voas, University of Essex
Life after death without God:
Unconventional religion or gothic romanticism?
Hosted by the Centre for
Spirituality Studies
Wednesday, 2 May, 4.15, Roy Bruton Room –
South East Asia Museum
Public Debate
Dr John Paley (University of Stirling)
and Prof John Swinton (University of Aberdeen)
Contemporary definitions of
spirituality embrace everything and mean nothing.
Hosted by the Centre for
Spirituality Studies
Wednesday, 9 May, 4.15, Roy Bruton Room –
South East Asia Museum
Dave Marsland & Dr Liz Price
(University of Hull)
Social Work and the Art of
Self-Esteem
Hosted by the Centre for Applied Research
and Evaluation
Wednesday, 16 May, 4.15, Roy Bruton Room –
South East Asia Museum
Dr Anna Souhami (University of Edinburgh)
Becoming a police ethnographer: the
ethics of authenticity
Hosted by the Centre for Criminology
and Criminal Justice
Past Research
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