School of Social and Political Science

Book Seminar: A Political History of Immigration in France

We are delighted to be hosting a hybrid event in September with Dr Angéline Escafré-Dublet from the University of Lyon on her new book, A Political History of Immigration in France: From Colonial to Global, and Back.

Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms

A CASM workshop on their tools, methods, and partnerships, working on these critical social and policy issues.

LGBTQIAP+ Experiences of Expulsion: Reflections on Family, Violence, and Temporalities in the Brazilian Context

In this presentation, Jesser Ramos explores the redefinition of family among LGBTQIAP+ individuals estranged from their original families. Drawing from research in three Brazilian shelters, this talk addresses how these individuals reconstruct the notion of family within spaces of support, amidst past traumas and new communal connections.

SKAPE Seminar: When do Citizens Help the Victims?

Does citizens' willingness to help during crises depend more on the type of crisis or on how it is framed? A nationwide survey experiment in Türkiye testing four crisis types—climate change, earthquake, economic crisis, and pandemic—against four narrative frames—control, religious, conspiratorial, and scientific—suggests that crisis context matters more than narrative framing for donation intentions: what is happening appears more consequential than how it is narrated.

Macho Vulnerability: A Global Sociology of Gendered Power and Anxiety

Men are obligated by heteropatriarchy to be macho gendered actors, but at the same time the everyday inequality of race, class, and caste hurt and limit them.

CAS Seminar Series - Overview of CAS staff research projects

Overview of CAS staff research projects followed by live online screening of special UoE lecture by Professor Tendayi Achiume.

Julie-Ann Macqueen Memorial Lecture

The Macqueen Annual Lecture is named in honour of Julie-Ann Macqueen who played a leading role in bringing the struggles of single-parent families to the attention of the public, policymakers, and lawmakers.

The title of this year's lecture is Border Fictions, presented by Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, Standford Law School.

The Mediscene. On Medicine and Extractivism

Space, mobility, and the politics of non-normative relationships

This event scrutinises the impact of space and mobility on non-traditional intimate relationships, such as communal living, queer family migration, and consensual non-monogamBy investigating how physical and societal landscapes influence and challenge relationships, this discussion will explore the complex effects of spaces and places on intimate life.

Daring to Envision: Social Worker Professional Discretion and Better Working Conditions during Entrenched Neoliberalism and Growing Authoritarian Policies

In this seminar, Dr Jessica Toft presents one US state’s findings of social worker conditions under neoliberalism and the challenges it poses to professional discretion.

CAS Seminar Series - Political Belonging in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

Information to follow.

Methods in Dialogue: A Workshop for PhD Students in the Humanities

Whether you're deep into fieldwork, archives, texts, or theory, if your research addresses questions of gender and sexuality, we want you at the table.