SOCSI Social Theory Forum
The SOCSI social theory forum is committed to:
- Symposia, debate, critique and dialogue.
- Exploration and investigation of established and emergent traditions of social theorising.
- The promotion of social theory across social sciences and beyond.
- Theoretically engaged empirical research.
SOCSI Social Theory Forum
Events
Social Theory Forum: Epistemology/Ontology: why does it matter and how would you know?
Steve Fuller (Warwick), John Holmwood (Nottingham), Celia Lury (Goldsmiths), Dimitris Papadopoulos (Leicester), John Scott (Plymouth), Gayle Letherby (Plymouth), Malcolm Williams (Cardiff).
Monday 26th September, 1-6pm, Council Chamber (Main Building)
Social Theory Forum: Imagining the Spatial: Reflections on the Spatial Turn
Speakers: Rolland Munro, Keele University, Kevin Hetherington, Open University, Eric Laurier, Edinburgh University.
Thursday 17th February 2011, 1-6pm (Glamorgan Building)
Culture, Imagination & Practice (CIP), and the Social Theory Forum: 'Theorising the Ethical' - Committee Room 1, Cardiff School of Social Sciences Glamorgan Building
23rd March 2010, 3-5.45pm
Theorising the Credit Crunch: Conceptualisation and Response, Council Chamber, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building
24th April 2009 (10.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m.)
Please e-mail William Housley (HousleyW@cardiff.ac.uk) for any further information/details.
SOCSI Social Theory Forum: Social Theory and the Environment, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building
10th December 2008
Please e-mail William Housley (HousleyW@cardiff.ac.uk) for any further information/details.
SOCSI Social Theory Forum: Symposium 2008
12th November 2008
Please e-mail William Housley (HousleyW@cardiff.ac.uk) for any further information/details.
SOCSI Social Theory Seminar: In/dividual, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building
18th June 2008
This Paper’s Not for Turning: Derrida, Institutions and the Ethics of Reversibility.
Rolland Munro, Director, Centre for Culture, Social Theory & Technology, Keele University.
Frida Khalo’s Self-Portraitsand Dividuality
Joanna Latimer, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences
“Everyone”. The Cosmopolitan Human Actor: Recognizing The Non-Indexical Individual.
Nigel Rapport, Director, Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St-Andrews
Papers
Paper 111: Everyone, the Human Actor: Recognisng the Non-Indexical Individual
Nigel Rapport
Paper 112: Unsettling Bodies: Frida Khalo's portraits and in/dividuality
Joanna Latimer
Paper 113: This Paper’s Not for Turning: Derrida, institutions and the ethics of reversibility
Rolland Munro
SOCSI Social Theory Annual Symposium, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building
15th May, 2008
Contemporary Directions in Social Theory
Actors' and Analysts' Categories and the Politics of Sociological Research
The Future of Morality
Subjectivity
Time for Social Theory
Reading Groups and Analysis Workshops
(Post)human Reading Group
2nd Monday of Each Month, 1-2pm
QUARC - Analysis workshop
Autumn 2008, further information to follow
For further details of forthcoming events or in order to relay any suggestions contact either William Housley (HousleyW@Cardiff.ac.uk) or Joanna Latimer (LatimerJE@Cardiff.ac.uk) at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences.