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🎉We're delighted to announce
@SamFriedmanSoc
's promotion to Professor! Sam has also been awarded an Excellence in Education Prize, recognising his exceptional contributions to education 🎉
Congratulations Sam! 🥳🥳
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📢The call for papers for the Sociology Department Conference, Doing Sociology Now, is now open!
We welcome abstracts discussing methods, contemporary social theory, and topics that speak of or to the current conjuncture.
Find the Call for Papers here:
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📢 We are hiring a new Professor in Sociology!
We're looking for an exceptional quantitative sociologist to lead in the study of social inequalities.
Apply by September 24.
Find out more here:
#Hiring
#AcademicJobs
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‘Racism exists at every level of society; it permeates our schools, our colleges and our universities. It is alive in all elements of society’
@KalwantBhopal
challenges the concept of a post-racial society
#LSEMacpherson20
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"Why everyone should study Sociology." A great fragment from 1921 by the brilliant omnivorous intellectual Lewis Mumford
What is the purpose of Sociology? A draft by Lewis Mumford in 1921
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Interested in Stuart Hall, feminist cultural theory and Bourdieu? This
@LSEInequalities
event will look at the challenge of inequality and the prospects of cultural studies, chaired by
@MikeSav47032563
#LSEculture
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Great news! Today we're relaunching the LSE Sociology blog 'Researching Sociology'. To kick start this new chapter, we're publishing blogs written by our students each day this week. ✍️ Our Head of Department
@nigelbdodd
has this to say on the relaunch:
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Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.
Tomorrow
@rcbregman
joins
@paidipaty
to discuss his new book which shows that thinking the worst of others brings out the worst in politics and economics too
#LSEHumankind
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Registration is now open for "The Return of Inequality" where
@MikeSav47032563
will discuss his new book with
@GKBhambra
, Madeleine Bunting, Patrick Le Galès and
@alpashah001
! 🎟️⬇️
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Did you miss our event last week with
@rcbregman
discussing his latest book "Humankind: a Hopeful History"?
📺 Watch the recording here:
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Job Vacancy: We are looking for an LSE Fellow in Gender to join the Department and convene an undergraduate course on Gender and Society starting this September! Applications close 10 June at 23.59 UK time
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🎧📽️‘Racial Inequality in Britain: the Macpherson Report 20 years on’ 📽️🎧
Missed our recent event with
@DavidLammy
,
@KalwantBhopal
,
@faizashaheen
and
@CJNwonka
? You can watch the recording or download the podcast for free here:
#LSEMacpherson20
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"This piece is an attempt to think through some of the ways in which feminists in the Global South, during the period of decolonisation, thought about difference and hierarchy, and how they imagined solidarity". Read
@saramsalem
's recent
@TheSocReview
blog
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What does the intellectual and political project of anti-racism and decolonisation look like in the context of Palestine? What does this require of academics and their universities?
Join us tomorrow for "Decolonising and the Question of Palestine"👇🎟️
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This Friday join leading Pakistani journalists and human rights activists
@AsadAToor
,
@MatiullahJan919
,
@sanaejaz2
,
@Rabail26
and
@mahvishahmad
to reflect and discuss state repression in
#Pakistan
Register your place 🎟️👇
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Coming in April! Ian Patel's new book with
@VersoBooks
"We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" explores the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain.
ℹ️:
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Next week join
@saramsalem
for her talk "Traces of a (faded) past: materiality, memory and anticolonial Egypt" at
@CamSociology
!
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In his new book, The Return of Inequality,
@MikeSav47032563
explains inequality’s profound deleterious effects on the shape of societies
#LSECOVID19
Join the book launch on 7 June 📖
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Join us to mark the launch of Dr Gabriella Paolucci's edited book Bourdieu and Marx, chaired by
@MikeSav47032563
🗓️Thursday May 18th, 2023,6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, in-person at LSE and online.
#LSEBourdieuAndMarx
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Congratulations to
@SamFriedmanSoc
for winning the Russell Prize 2019 for his recent publication 'The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged' co-written with
@Daniel_Laurison
🎉🎉
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👋We are hiring a new Professor in Sociology!
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to promote quantitative research on inequality.
Apply by this Sunday 24 September.
Find out more here:
📢 We are hiring a new Professor in Sociology!
We're looking for an exceptional quantitative sociologist to lead in the study of social inequalities.
Apply by September 24.
Find out more here:
#Hiring
#AcademicJobs
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🎧 PODCAST 🎧
@saramsalem
joined Linda Tuhiwai Smith and
@Michaelacbenson
to discuss what has changed since the publication of 'Decolonising Methodologies' in 1999 and the challenges ahead given the continuing urgency of decolonising social science
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‘Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing’ - 13 October. Engaging with LSE's core motto, "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" (to know the causes of things), the event will address a key question about the purpose and future of the social sciences
#LSESociology
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Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Frances Heidensohn who has been awarded the British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award. A great achievement! Congratulations Frances. 🎊
@BritSocCrim
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Join us next week for our annual
#HumanRightsDay
lecture! this year
@4noura
and
@ayca_cu
will discuss "Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist struggle".
🎟️ Registration your place!
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Join us for the launch of
@saramsalem
’s new book ‘Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony’, with
@adamec87
, Adam Hanieh (
@SOAS
),
@LalehKhalili
, Dina Makram-Ebeid (
@AUC
), and John Chalcraft (
@LSEGovernment
)
#LSEEgypt
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📢Save the date for the launch of the
@BJSociology
special issue on Capital and Ideology!
📅 Monday 26 April, 12:30 to 2pm
🗣️
@PikettyLeMonde
,
@GKBhambra
,
@JensLerche
,
@sanjaygreddy
,
@dsanco
,
@nora_wait
&
@paidipaty
🎟️ Registration opens on 12 April
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"A movement defending working-class interests isn’t just about what happens at work, but also about the places where we live"
Read Visiting Fellow
@robbins_glyn
's recent
@jacobinmag
article 👇👇
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Congratulations to
@SamFriedmanSoc
and
@saramsalem
who have both been awarded an LSE Excellence in Education Award! They will be celebrated at tonight's Excellence in Education Awards ceremony! 🏆🥳🎉 Find out more here:
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The Sociology of Doom: How studying sociology traumatises Black students.
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@LSEHumanRights
and
@SAsiaSolidarity
invite you to the launch of Dr Hafsa Kanjwal’s Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation (SUP 2023).
🗓️ Monday 9 October, 5.00pm - 6.30pm, CLM.2.02 Clement House, LSE
More information here:
🧵🔽
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At last! The podcast for Professor Emerita Arlie Hochschild's talk 'Strangers in Their Own Land: bridging a growing divide' is now available, here:
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Tomorrow! Join us for the launch of
@saramsalem
’s new book "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony", with
@adamec87
, Adam Hanieh (
@SOAS
),
@LalehKhalili
, Dina Makram-Ebeid (
@AUC
), and John Chalcraft (
@LSEGovernment
)
#LSEEgypt
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📽️New video: 'The Class Ceiling: why it pays to be privileged'?📽️
Did you miss the launch of
@SamFriedmanSoc
and
@Daniel_Laurison
's latest book? You can now watch a video recording of the lecture here:
#LSEClassCeiling
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How should sociologists balance their social or political passion with the need to produce meaningful data AND contribute positively to the social world? Tough question - some of our academics had a go at answering it:
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Check out
@SamFriedmanSoc
's piece in
@guardian
which discusses how our fetishisation of meritocracy makes privileged people frame their lives as an uphill struggle.
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Listen to
@saramsalem
’s recent talk on ‘Travelling With Gramsci: Capital and the Afterlives of Empire in Egypt and the Middle East’ hosted by
@LSEMiddleEast
#LSEEgypt
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa.
We hope to explore how Gramsci’s work can help us make sense of a moment marked by a significant expansion in resistance and uprising.
Deadline: 13 September
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Event: Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing
We are bringing together four outstanding social scientists with a range of research interests and a range of traditions to discuss whether social science is explanation or it is nothing.
#LSESociology
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Our thoughts with Ulrich Beck's family at this difficult time: an inspirational sociologist, very generous & great friend of LSE sociology.
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Registration is open for the launch of the
@BJSociology
special issue on Capital and Ideology!
📅Monday 26 April, 12:30 to 2pm
🗣️
@PikettyLeMonde
,
@GKBhambra
,
@JensLerche
,
@sanjaygreddy
,
@dsanco
,
@nora_wait
&
@paidipaty
#LSECOVID19
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Upcoming event: ‘Racial Inequality in Britain: the Macpherson Report 20 years on’, hear from
@KalwantBhopal
,
@DavidLammy
,
@CJNwonka
and
@faizashaheen
on how legislative issues have been addressed to remedy racial inequality in Britain
#LSEMacpherson20
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How much does class matter in Britain’s elite professions? Is working hard enough, or are your chances determined by where you come from? Tune in to
@BBCTwo
on Monday to see
@SamFriedmanSoc
in the new documentary ‘How To Break Into the Elite’:
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Some photos from last night's
#LSEMacpherson20
event, a big thank you to our speakers for a thought provoking discussion on racial inequality in Britain. If you didn't make it, a recording will be available within the coming days. Photos courtesy of
@LSEpublicevents
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Delighted to announce the President of
@SSRC_org
:
@alondra
will deliver the
@BJSociology
Annual Lecture 2017
#LSEBJS
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New research from
@SamFriedmanSoc
shows that elites are keen to stress their “ordinariness” by embracing more common pursuits such as football, as they become afraid of being labelled “snobbish, self-interested and out of touch” as inequality rises.
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📣Deadline for papers!
The Bourdieu, Work and Inequality Conference
@BourdieuI
is looking for papers, get your application in by the end of the day.
#BWI2022
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We are very pleased to announce Professor Fran Tonkiss as our new Head of Department!
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Missed our event 'The Class Ceiling: why it pays to be privileged'? Then listen to
@SamFriedmanSoc
discussing the findings of his and
@Daniel_Laurison
's latest research in this
@BBCRadio4
recording
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa.
We hope to explore, especially through empirically-grounded research, how Gramsci’s work can help us make sense of a moment marked by a significant expansion in resistance and uprising.
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📣We're looking for three full time LSE Fellows to join us in September.
You need to have completed or near-completed a PhD in Sociology or a closely related field.
To find out more about these opportunities see here ➡️
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Registration for our annual
@BJSociology
lecture is open! 🎟️🎟️
Join
@GKBhambra
and
@nigelbdodd
for “A Polity Divided: Empire, Nation, and the Construction of the British Welfare State”
#LSEBJS
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How have narratives of gendered anti-Muslim racism become more deeply entrenched in the UK in light of right wing populism? Join
@naazrashid
and
@Fatima_Ahdash
to discuss this at our upcoming event
#LSEVeiledThreats
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Sociology developed at the high point of colonialism and came to be a central discipline for producing and reproducing colonial difference.
Register for our event "Time to fire the canon? Sociology and the coloniality of knowledge".
ℹ️:
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We're delighted to have been ranked third in the world for Sociology in the 2020 QS World University Rankings! Thank you to all of our wonderful students and staff, we couldn't do it without you 🎉
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See the draft programme for
#Gramsci
in the Middle East and North Africa Conference.
Organised by
@LSEMiddleEast
,
@ugent
&
@LSEGovernment
.
Draft programme:
🎟️
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa.
We hope to explore, especially through empirically-grounded research, how Gramsci’s work can help us make sense of a moment marked by a significant expansion in resistance and uprising.
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How useful is Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony in making sense of 20th century Egyptian politics?
Check out
@saramsalem
's recent article for
@africasacountry
⬇️
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa.
We hope to explore, especially through empirically-grounded research, how Gramsci’s work can help us make sense of a moment marked by a significant expansion in resistance and uprising.
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"The crisis of social reproduction and the politics of care are inextricably linked to housing."
Read
@davidjmadden
's recent article for
@e_flux
.
ℹ️:
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What a story to start a Tuesday with! LSE Sociology Alumnus
@RabiaNasimi
on her experience as a refugee to the UK, now studying her PhD at
@CamSociology
:
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Next Wednesday @ 12:30pm we host our first Decolonise! seminar of the year! Join us to reflect on questions of decolonising the university in all its complexity and particularly what this means for sociology
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📢We're hiring two new LSE Fellows📢
LSE Fellow in Inequalities and Social Science 👉
LSE Fellow in Gender and Culture 👉
Both vacancies close on Friday 9th July, 23:59pm UK time.
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.
@SamFriedmanSoc
explains the drivers of the class pay gap, including ‘the bank of Mum and Dad’
#LSEClassCeiling
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It's 10 years since the launch of the BBC's Class Calculator, a revolutionary data tool that ignited conversations about social class developed by
@MikeSav47032563
.
See the blog post by
@appliedworks
on how and why it was made here:
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Proud to announce that LSE Sociology continues to be ranked fourth in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2018 - thank you to all our students, staff and alumni. Exciting news!
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Save the date: Tuesday 14 March, 11.00am - 11.30am
@saramsalem
&
@Mai_Taha_
will be discussing their current project Working with Anticolonial, Activist and Community Archives, which explores creative archiving practices.
🔗 More information below!
In their
#LSEResearchShowcase
on 14 March 11am
@saramsalem
@Mai_Taha_
discuss their project developing teaching tools to support the use of anticolonial, activist & community archives
Join us to learn something new over a ☕️
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Check out
@saramsalem
's recent article which revisits the Nasserist project through the lens of haunting and explores the afterlives of Nasserism, in particular in relation to Egypt’s move toward a free market economy from the 1970s onwards
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Protests have erupted after Trump's assassination of Soleimani in Iran, and Modi's Citizen Amendment Act.
Our upcoming seminar will explore social justice movements in both countries, and ask: What is sociology's role, if any? What solidarity is possible from the UK–and LSE?
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Have human rights lost their power as an ethical discourse? Join us for our annual
#HumanRightsDay
lecture on 4 December!
🗣️ Professor Kimberly Hutchings and
@ayca_cu
#LSEHumanRights
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Tonight join
@KalwantBhopal
,
@DavidLammy
,
@CJNwonka
and
@faizashaheen
for a discussion on racial inequality in Britain and what’s changed since the Macpherson Report 20 years ago, the event is free to attend and open to all
#LSEMacpherson20
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Interested in Stuart Hall, feminist cultural theory and Bourdieu? This
@LSEInequalities
event will look at the challenge of inequality and the prospects of cultural studies, chaired by
@MikeSav47032563
#LSEculture
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This Wednesday
@LSE_WPS
hosts a virtual discussion on the urgent need for a gender-responsive approach to mitigating COVID-19. Register for your place here:
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Tonight
@SamFriedmanSoc
will chair 'Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem', join him and
@LSEInequalities
for an examination of the British private school system and the lifetime of inequalities it entrenches
#LSEPrivilege
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Check out
@SamFriedmanSoc
's new article, which maps 120 years of elite culture and shows how today’s ‘ordinary’ elites embrace everyday activities to ward off suspicions of snobbery in an era of rising inequality
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Interested in the barriers to upward mobility? Our upcoming event 'The Class Ceiling: why it pays to be privileged' will discuss this and more, it's free to attend and available to all
#LSEClassCeiling
David Cameron, David Beckham, and the UK’s social mobility problem
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If you read one thing today, make it
@KateHaddow1
's guest blog for Res-Sisters - 'Living in No woman’s Land: A Working Class Lass in Academia'. For academics and students alike..
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Online event: ‘Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing’ 13 October. Engaging with LSE's core motto, "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" (to know the causes of things), the event will address a key question about the purpose and future of the social sciences
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ICYMI: The need for a home is universal. But today, housing is dominated by economic and political logics that conflict with the ideal of housing for all. Watch the video of our event with
@davidjmadden
@AnnaMinton
and
@Potentia_Space
here:
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Congratulations to Monika Krause, who has been awarded the 2019 Lewis A. Coser Memorial Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting 🎉 The award recognises sociologists who hold great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology! More info here:
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The study of race, racism and blackness continues to be a distinctive, but marginalised feature in UK universities, join
@CJNwonka
, Suki Ali and other speakers to discuss the increasing relevance and need for black and racial studies in HE
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Join
@saramsalem
this Wednesday for
@aces_for
's Decolonising Europe in International Politics series.
Sara will be speaking about her new book “Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony”.
You can register here:
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Job Opportunity! We're looking for an Assistant Professor who will teach on our MSc Human Rights and MSc Human Rights and Politics programmes, and make a distinctive contribution to our research profile in these fields.
ℹ️: . Applications close 11 January.
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We're delighted to have been ranked third in the world for Sociology in the 2021 QS World University Rankings!
A huge thanks to our wonderful community of students, staff and alumni 🎉🎉
"Retaining our position as the number one university for social sciences in Europe is a tremendous recognition of the hard work of everyone at LSE."
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NEW VIDEO: Are sociologists trying to change the world? How can sociologists balance their social or political passion with the need to produce meaningful data?
#sociology
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🎧📽️Did you miss our event on Monday 'Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance'? Catch up with the discussion and listen to the podcast 🎧📽️
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Economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts. It turns back the clock, reviving conditions we have struggled to escape, including empire, dynastic elitism, and ethnic division.
Join us for "The Return of Inequality"
#LSECOVID19
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FREE TO DOWNLOAD:
@BJSociology
Special Issue on post-Brexit and Trump politics - a fantastic collection of papers edited by
@nigelbdodd
,
@mlamont6
and
@MikeSav47032563
. How should we - as citizens and scholars - respond to these events? >>
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How can we use big data to understand culture? The Department's Fabien Accominotti talks about his work with the New York Philharmonic in this new podcast episode by
@fathominfo
@nyphil
@NYPhilArchive
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📢‘Social Polarisation at a Local Level’ is the outstanding paper in Sociology for 2021!
Congratulations to
@MikeSav47032563
whose co-authored article has won the SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence.
📑Have a read of the paper for yourself:
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We are relaunching our Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies research group! It’s a critical space to discuss race, ethnicity, and postcolonial studies – join us for the launch event ‘Black and Postcolonial Feminist Connections’
#LSEFeministConnections
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We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Sociology, commencing September 2020! The post holder will contribute to teaching on our Political Sociology programme which is currently at the centre of some vibrant and urgent debates! Interested? ℹ️:
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BLOG: "Privilege is passed down from generation to generation not with one large gesture but innumerable smaller ones." Catch up here:
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NEW! Podcast now available for the
@BJSociology
Annual Lecture with Professor Alondra Nelson on 'The Social Life of DNA'. Give it a listen and let us know your thoughts with
#LSEBJS
:
@alondra
@SSRC_org
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Read the new
@BJSociology
special issue on ‘Capital and Ideology’! The issue is free this month 👇
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This Thursday! "Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited"
📅Thursday 11 November
⏰ 5:00pm to 6:30pm
🗣️
@kmrabie
, Gökçe Günel,
@lucy_garbett
,
@deensharp
&
@saramsalem
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A new study by
@suttontrust
and
@SMCommission
has found that Britain’s most influential people are drawn disproportionately from fee-paying schools and Oxbridge. The report includes findings from
@SamFriedmanSoc
's recent research ⬇️⬇️
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Who cares? Why care? What is care? Where is care?
Check out this new publication from our MSc City Design and Social Science students! It challenges and reimagines conceptions of care and health in the urban terrain.
👉
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🥳 We're delighted that so many members of our Department were recognised at last week's
@lsesu
Teaching Awards!🤩
✨Congratulations to all of the nominees!✨
#partofLSE
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