Events
Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation at Glasgow Women's Library, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digi..
'Mystery in Everyday Life' James Hodgson
This seminar organised by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSSP) at The University of Leeds is given by James Hodgson (The University of Manchester) on the topic of 'mystery work' and mystery as a social phenomenon. See the link to SSSP for more details. Abstract: Mystery is everywhere in social life. Whether the mundane mysteries..
Reimagining the 'English' Pub: Race, Class & Convivial Possibilities - Amit Singh
Please join CoDE as we host an in-person seminar with Dr Amit Singh (University of Manchester). The pub and the pint are often imagined as quintessential Englishness, romanticized as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under-threat and in need of saving, as is the white working-class pub-goer who is seen as i..
Mitchell Centre Seminar series
Sarah Day
Mitchell Centre Seminar series
Eric Quintane, ESMT Berlin
“Would They Defend Our Eastern Border?” State Allegiances as Potent Connections - Professor Sirpa Wrede
Morgan Centre and Department of Sociology seminar by Professor Sirpa Wrede Centre of Excellence for Research in Ageing and Care, University of Helsinki, Finland This paper considers the multifaceted nature of state allegiances amidst contemporary geopolitical tensions. It argues that conflicts and war revitalise the significance of state alle..
Mitchell Centre Seminar series
Tomáš Lintner, Masaryk University
Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as living arrangements, relationships, leisure and travel. Call for..
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