Convenor Bios
Birgan Gokmenoglu is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. She is a political ethnographer and sociologist working on time and futurity, social movements, and experiments in participatory forms of democracy. Birgan is especially interested in activist/militant ethnography, experiments in horizontalist political organising, critical approaches to time as an instrument of power, and the role of future imaginations in enabling or hindering political action. She welcomes submissions that engage with popular mobilisations in authoritarian regimes, theoretical and empirical accounts of alternative societies, and temporal approaches to radical social transformation. Please contact Birgan with any questions relating to the ASMR Reading Group and our Seminar Series. Further information on Birgan’s work can be found on her institutional website and Bluesky account.
Camilo Tamayo Gomez is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom). His research sits at the intersection of violence, armed conflict, social justice and human rights, with a particular focus on transitional justice, victims’ movements, transformative justice and global criminology, especially in relation to Global South contexts. He is especially interested in work that critically examines transitional justice and social movements ‘from below’, including grassroots mobilisation, communicative citizenship practices, memory-making, and the role of emotions and recognition in post-conflict societies. He welcomes submissions that engage theoretically and empirically with participatory, creative and transmedial methodologies, as well as research that foregrounds the agency of victims, social movements and civil society actors in shaping security and human rights agendas. Please contact him if you have any questions regarding the ASMR Seminar Series and our Summer Schools.
Mathis Ebbinghaus is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College. One strand of Mathis’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of social movements, from past to present and across the political spectrum. He is particularly interested in submissions on conservative and far-right mobilization, as well as historical case studies. Please contact him if you are interested in contributing to the study group’s work-in-progress workshop.