Events
Forthcoming Events
13 December 2024 (2:00-3:30pm GMT)
Theory and Society: Zygmunt Bauman - Book Launch (sponsored by BSA Theory Study Group & The Bauman Institute)
Online
Past Events
6 November 2024 (4-6pm GMT)
The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary: Exploring Contemporary Critical Social Theory and its Critique of Political Economy (sponsored by BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
25 September 2024 (4:30-6:00pm BST)
Academic Freedom and the Politics of Free Speech with Jana Bacevic
Online
3 August 2024
The Legacy of Margaret Archer
University of Warwick, UK
11 October 2023 (4-5:30pm BST)
BSA Presents: Discussion with Martin Hägglund
Online
4 October 2023 (4-5pm BST)
Social Theory and The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households with Kirstin Munro
Online
21 June 2023 (16:00-17:30)
Theorising With Art and Music (a joint event with the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group)
Online
4 April 2023 (16:00–17:30)
Karida L. Brown and Scott R. Stroud in Conversation: Pragmatism, Critical Social Theory, and The Alternative Trajectories of W.E.B Du Bois and B.R. Ambedkar
Online
20 October 2022 (3-4pm BST)
Moving Beyond Deference Politics: A conversation about Theory, Politics, and Solidarity with Nathan Rochelle DuFord and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
18 May 2022 (15:00-17:00 BST)
Readings of Niklas Luhmann’s System Theory: The Habermas Luhmann Debate with Gorm Harste and The Making of Meaning with Christian Morgner
Online via Zoom
10 November 2021 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory: A Conversation between Gurminder K Bhambra, John Holmwood, Ipek Demir, Steve Kemp & Christian Morgner (Sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
25 October 2021 (17:00-18:30 BST)
The Last Years of Karl Marx: A Conversation between Marcello Musto, Kevin B. Anderson, Himani Bannerji & David N. Smith (sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
30 June 2021
Online Book Launch - Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings Vol. 1
Join editors Dariusz Brzezinski, Tom Campbell, Mark Davis and Jack Palmer, along with special guests, in a celebration of a new volume of previously unpublished writings by Zygmunt Bauman on culture and art that have been discovered through the Bauman Institute Archives project. The volume, published by Polity Press, is now available and you can browse the table of contents here.
Organised by the Bauman Institute and the BSA Theory Study Group
25 March 2021 (15:00-16:00 GMT)
Social Theory for a Global Age: A Conversation about the Life and Work of W.E.B. Du Bois with Gurminder K Bhambra and Vanessa E. Thompson (sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
19 February 2021 (1pm-2pm GMT)
Adorno on Right-Wing Extremism in Late Capitalism
Online
13 January 2021 (13:00-14:00 GMT)
The ‘Non-linearity” of Civilising Processes: A Conversation about the Life and Work of Nobert Elias with Michael Dunning (sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
10 December 2020
The Life and Work of Erving Goffman: A Conversation with Peter Lunt (Sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group)
Online
2 December 2020
The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman: Izabela Wagner and Jack Palmer in conversation (Co-sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group and the Bauman Institute)
Online
6 September 2019
BSA Theory Conference: The Future of Social Theory
BSA Meeting Room, London, UK