Events

24 January 2025
Working with Bourdieu’s Concepts
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

3-5 September 2025
BSA Bourdieu Study Group's Mid Term International Conference 2025: Rising Complexities in Education - Opportunities and Inequalities
Vienna, Austria
The conference is co-organised by the British Sociological Association's Bourdieu Study Group together with the unit research unit Education and Inequality at the University of Vienna, the Institute of Education at the University of Tübingen, the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck and the Viennese Chamber for Workers and Employees.  Submission deadline:  Friday, 31 January 2025

Forthcoming Events

22-23 October 2024
Bourdieu, Education and Inequalities Seminar (organised by the BSA Bourdieu Study Group, together with Social Studies in Urban Education Research Unit (SURE, Univeristy of Eastern Finland))
Koneen Kamari, Tehtaankatu 21, Helsinki, Finland

University of Bristol, UK

Past Events

5-7 July 2023
BSA Bourdieu Study Group’s Mid Term International Conference 2023 - Education and Social Inequalities: Between Reproduction and Change
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Barcelona

6 October 2022
Bourdieu and Educational Inequalities
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

10-12 July 2018
Bourdieu Study Group 2nd Biennial International Conference 2018: Reproduction and Resistance
Lancaster University, UK

5 December 2017
Robbins on Bourdieu, 1970-2017, A case-study of 'socio-genetic understanding' (A BSA Bourdieu Study Group workshop supported by the Institute of Inequalities (LSE)) - PROGRAMME
London School of Economics, UK

28 November 2016
Bourdieu, Aesthetics and the Body
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

12 October 2016
Beyond Bordieu: Book Launch and Workshop
University of Bristol Social Science Complex, UK

4-6 July 2016
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Annual Conference 2016 - Programme & Abstracts Book
University of Bristol, UK

30 June 2015
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event - Capital: In All Its Forms
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

2 December 2014
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

8 July 2014
Cardiff University, UK

25 February 2014
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Bourdieu in Migration and ‘Race’/Ethnicity Studies
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK  

15 November 2013
Measuring Social Class: Bourdieusian Approaches - BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event in Conjunction with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP)
University of Bath, UK

17 June 2013
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Bourdieu and Passeron
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

13 December 2012
BSA Bourdieu Study Group event: Gender and Bourdieu, “Is doing gender unavoidable?”
University of East London, UK

8 June 2012
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Conference: Bourdieu as a Public Sociologist
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

Although a new group, the convenors have organised previous events from which the BSA study group developed.

  • 2011 Bourdieu Key Concepts Workshop at the University of Bristol (funded by Queen’s University Belfast and University of East London
  • 2010 Bourdieu and Education Workshop at Queen’s University Belfast (funded by BSA and QUB)

Future Activities

We would like to arrange meetings/activities twice a year and are interested in ideas from members on what they would like to gain from this group.