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2006-10-09 20:00: Why intelligent design is for stupid people (Professor Steve Jones, Department of Genetics, UCL)

2006-10-16 20:30: Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture (Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-18 13:00: Not all computations are effective methods (Mark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-01 13:00: Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work (Joab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-13 13:00: More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith (Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia))

2006-11-15 13:00: Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement (Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-16 15:15: Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge))

2008-01-16 16:00: Iterated dynamical maps on a quantum computer (Professor Gerard J Milburn, The University of Queensland)

2008-01-23 16:00: DECISION MAKING IN QUANTUM THEORY (Stephen M. Barnett (University of Strathclyde))

2008-02-20 16:00: A reversible theory of entanglement and its relation to the second law (Fernando Guadalupe Brandao)

2008-04-23 16:15: Measurement-based classical computation: Classifying the computational power of entangled states (Dan Browne - UCL)

2008-05-28 16:00: Stochastic Resonance effects in composite systems (Dr. Susana Huelga - University of Hertfordshire)

2009-09-09 09:00: Social Stratification Research Seminar, 2009 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-20 12:30: What do we know about the relative generosity of welfare states? (Michael Smith, Professor of Sociology at the McGill University, Canada)

2009-10-23 16:30: Special Sociology Lecture: Greed talk, religion and the credit crunch in the USA: towards a cultural sociology of the economy (Bryan Turner, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, US)

2009-11-03 12:30: To take power or not? Observations on the new political cultures of opposition in the Americas (John Foran, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara)

2009-11-17 12:30: Zeitgeists, nightmares and research; what makes social theory better than common sense? (Ralph Fevre, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cardiff)

2009-12-01 12:30: The Michelin-starred restaurant sector as a culture industry: a cross-national comparison of restaurants in Britain and Germany (Christel Lane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge)

2010-01-26 12:30: The sociology of elite distinctions (Jean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS/Oxford))

2010-02-09 12:30: Engineers of Jihad (Diego Gambetta (Oxford))

2010-02-23 12:30: The Politics of Exile in Latin America (Prof Mario Sznajder, Leon Blum Chair  at Jerusalem Hebrew University)

2010-02-26 15:00: Special Sociology Lecture: The Increasing Significance if Guanxi (Prof Yanje Bian, University of Minnesota)

2010-03-09 12:30: The source of intellectuals’ public standing: the lessons from a Nobel Trinity (Barbara Misztal (Leicester))

2010-04-27 17:00: The Simultaneous Resurgence of Russia and Russophobia (Professor Ray Taras, Eurpean Institute, Florence, and Tulane University)

2010-04-28 16:00: On Critique in a Time of Crisis (Luc Boltanski, Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and Professor Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York)

2010-05-04 17:00: Can American Imperialism Survive for Long in the 21st Century? (Professor Michael Mann, UCLA)

2010-05-05 17:00: The Rise and Recessions of Neoliberalism, 1970-2010 - Public Lecture (Prof Michael Mann, UCLA)

2010-05-13 14:00: Digital Natives and Globalisation: the case of Japanese Youth's Engagement with Digital Media (Prof Toshie Takahashi)

2010-05-19 17:00: Where is the Worl Going? Understanding World Dynamics - Public Lecture (Professor Goran Therborn, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-19 14:00: Public Lecture: Bourdieu Race and the Penal System (Professor  LoïcWacquant, University of California at Berkeley)

2010-10-22 14:00: Public Lecture: The Multidimentional Crisis of Informational Capitalism (Professor Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

2010-10-22 17:00: Seminar: Alternative Economic Cultures in a Context of Crisis (Prof Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

2010-11-02 12:30: Seminar: Sacred Frontiers: the reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem's Old City (Dr Wendy Pullan, Cambridge Departmetn fo Architecture)

2010-11-16 12:30: Seminar: Autonomy and Dependence: the paradox of the believer as subject (Professor Daniele Hervieu, Former President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

2010-11-30 12:30: Seminar: Shock Tactics: health inside out (Dr Simon Cohn, Cambridge General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit)

2010-12-09 10:00: Seminar: Greater gender equality, (un)happier families? (Professor Karen Henwood, Cardiff University Professor;  Janet Walker, University of Newcastle;   Lynn Prince Cooke, University of Kent;   Emilia Del Bono, Institute for Social & Economic Research;  Vanessa Gash, University of Manchester;  Denise Hawke)

2011-01-13 00:00: Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism (Convenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge))

2011-01-14 00:00: Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism (Convenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge))

2011-01-25 12:30: The Sociology of Resentment: the American Tea Party Movement (Prof Bryan Turner, University of Western Sidney)

2011-02-01 12:30: The Nature of Empathy (Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2011-02-08 12:30: Migration and the rise of the radical right in Europe (Prof Montserrat Guibernau, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London)

2011-02-15 12:30: The Rise of Existentialism: a case study in the sociology of intellectual life (Dr Patrick Baert, Sociology Department, Cambridge)

2011-03-01 12:30: Erotic Capital: Extending Bourdieu (Dr Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics)

2011-03-15 12:30: The Dreyfus Affair: the Orthodoxy revisited (Dr Ruth Harris, New College, Oxford)

2011-04-27 17:00: PUBLIC LECTURE: The Political Sociology of Climate Change: causes and solutions (Prof Michael Mann, UCLA)

2011-04-28 12:30: SEMINAR: Is one of the sources of social power ultimately decisive in determining the development of societies? (Prof Michael Mann, UCLA)

2011-05-09 17:15: Emergent logics of expulsion: beyond social exclusion (Prof Saskia Sassen, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Sociology Department)

2011-05-10 12:30: From multi-racial subjects to multi-cultural citizens: social stratification and ethnoracial classification among children of immigrants in the UK (Dr Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Univrsity of Toronto)

2011-05-24 17:00: PUBLIC LECTURE: Cooperation (Prof Richard Sennett, Distinguised Visiting Professor at Cambridge Sociology Department)

2011-06-02 16:00: From SPS [PPSIS] to The House of Commons: Social Science, Evidence and Policy (Stella Creasy, MP, PhD)

2011-10-18 12:30: The Open Society and its Immigrants: avoidance, conflict and accommodation (Dr Paul Scheffer, Amsterdam University)

2011-10-19 17:30: Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Why do people works so hard? (Dr Brendan Bruchell, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences)

2011-10-20 17:30: Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Creative Campus (Dr David Fowler, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences)

2011-10-22 11:00: Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Left in Crisis: what is next? (Prof Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) and Prof Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics))

2011-10-22 15:00: Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The rise of Sartre and French existentialism (Dr Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences)

2011-10-25 17:30: Cambridge  Festival of Ideas event: Contemporary revolution in religious life (Dr David Lehmann, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences)

2011-11-01 12:30: Can Welfare State Models immunise Employees against the Effects of Job Insecurity?  Flexicurity's claims examined (Dr Brendan Burchell, Cambridge University, Sociology)

2011-11-15 12:30: Retooling Reproductive Sustance: IVF as a stem technology (Prof Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2011-11-29 12:30: Mafias on the Move: how organised crime conquers new territories (Dr Federico Varese, Oxford University)

2012-02-14 12:30: Mechanisms of Control and their Effects on Solidarity: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Palestinian Enclaves across the Green Line (Dr Silvia Pasquetti, Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge)

2012-03-01 12:30: Sex Ratio Imbalances and China's Care for Girls Programme (Dr Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford)

2012-03-06 12:30: Authorship and responsibility: literary trials and the ethics of writing (France, 19th-21th Century) (Gisele Sapiro, Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris)

2012-03-13 12:30: Social Mobility over three Generations in Britain (Dr Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford) and Dr Vikki Boliver (Durham University))

2012-05-02 17:00: The Future of Capitalism (Professor Michael Mann (UCLA))

2012-05-08 12:30: Conceptualising the Quality of Employment (Dr B Burchell (Cambridge Sociology Division)m Dr K Sehnbruch (University of Chile))

2012-05-15 12:30: Explaining work-life conflict of men and women: disentanling the impact of national contexts (Dr Heejung Chung, University of Kent)

2012-10-16 12:30: The Politics of Preventing Poor Pharmaceutical Patents:  Brazil, India, and Beyond (DR KEN SHADLEN (London School of Economics))

2012-10-30 12:30: The Return of Class. (PROF GORAN THERBORN (Cambridge University, Sociology))

2012-11-13 12:30:  A Case Study of `New' and `Far Right' Attempts to Engage with Underground Music Scenes. (DR PETER WEBB (Cambridge University, Sociology))

2012-11-27 12:30: Traffic Unobserved:  The Importance of Raising Awareness of Other, Emerging Forms of Trafficking in Persons (DR SARAH STEELE (Cambridge University, Law Faculty))

2013-01-29 12:30: The Importance of Being Civil (PROF JOHN HALL (Mc Gill University, Quebec))

2013-02-12 12:30: Science, Law and Kinship: alternative or complementary framings in atrocity victim identification?  (PROF ERICA HAIMES (Newcastle University))

2013-02-12 17:00: Obama in Power (Prof Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13)

2013-02-19 17:00: The Last Campaign (Prof Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13)

2013-02-26 12:30: Sacred D-Mark, Profane Euro: The Cultural Logic of Central Bank Independence (DR CARLO TOGNATO (University of Adelaide))

2013-03-11 17:00: The Economic Crisis in Europe (Professor Manuel Castells)

2013-03-13 12:30: The contribution of economists to the second Great Depression (PROF ROBERT WADE (London School of Economics))

2013-04-30 14:00: Europe entrapped. Can the EU resolve its current crisis? (PROF CLAUS OFFE (Hertie School of Governance))

2013-05-17 13:00: Feminist Classics Revisited symposium: Ann Oakley's Sex, Gender and Society (Prof Sarah Franklin (Sociology,  Cambridge) - Chair)

2013-10-22 12:30: Development as Myth: Market Subjectivities in Post 1991 Urban India (Dr Manali Desai, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-10-25 14:00: Power in the Global Age: symposium with Michael Mann (Prof Michael Mann, Prof Anthony Giddens, Prof Goran Therborn, Prof Sylvia Walby, Prof Christopher Bayly)

2013-10-30 17:00: Prof Franklin's Inaugural Lecture: After IVF: the Reproductive Turn in Social Thought (Prof Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-05 12:30: Infertility, IVF and the ART of Making Babies - a Turkish case study (Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-19 12:30: When the Welfare State Disappears: Social Resilience and Rapid Socioeconomic Change in Greece. (Mr Alex Kentikelenis, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2013-11-25 17:00: Film Screening: Border Crossing: the journey of Raymond Williams (Colin Thomas)

2013-11-26 15:45: Afghanistan Post-2014: what does the future hold? (HE M Daud Yaar, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UK)

2014-01-23 18:00: Is Austerity good for our Health? (Prof Larry King, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-01-28 09:30: Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Edward Said (1993) Representations of the Intellectual (Introduced by Dr Hazem Kandil, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-01-28 12:30: Resilient Liberalism (Prof Mark Thatcher (Department of Government, LSE))

2014-02-11 09:30: Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Sartre on Public Intellectualism (Introduced by Prof Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-02-11 12:30: Why Still Marry? The Role of Feelings in Marriage Choices (Prof Francisco Billari, Nuffield College, Oxford)

2014-02-18 14:30: The 20 Years Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: round-table and screening (Prof Rosalva Aida Hernandez (Simon Bolivar Chair, Cambridge), Prof John Gledhill (University of Manchester), Dr Sarah Washbrook (University of Oxford), Geoff Goodwin (UCL, Cambridge), Dr Jeff Miley (Sociology, Cambridge))

2014-02-25 09:30: Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Norbert Elias and his German Contempories (Introduced by the author, Dr Martha Bucholc)

2014-02-25 12:30: Independence for Catalonia? (Dr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-03-10 17:00: Public Lecture: Internet and Society: the Culture of Autonomy (Prof Manuel Castells, University of Southern California )

2014-03-11 09:30: Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Collini (2006) Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (Introduced by the author, Prof Stefan Collini)

2014-03-11 12:30: The slow rise and rapid fall of the Muslim Brotherhood (Dr Hazem Kandil, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2014-03-13 17:00: Seminar: Social Networks and Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2014 (Prof Manuel Castells, University of Southern California)

2014-04-29 17:00: Have Societies Evolved? (Prof Michael Mann)

2014-05-01 13:00: Feminist Classics revisited 2 (Prof Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department (Chair); Speakers: Michelle Stanworth, Patricia Spallone, Deborah Lynn Steinberg)

2014-05-06 12:30: Food Prices, Maternal and Child Health, and Resilience in India: A Quasi-Natural Experiment (Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann, Department of Sociology, Oxford)

2014-05-20 12:30: Exploring the Secret Garden of Inequality Effects (Prof Guillermina Jasso (Sociology, New York University))

2014-05-22 17:00: Sex Cells: the medical market for eggs and sperm (Dr Rene Almeling (Sociology, Yale University))

2014-06-03 12:30: Sociology and auto/biography: notes on a journey (Prof Ann Oakley, Institute of Education)

2014-09-26 08:30: Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons  (Key note speakers: Prof Ted Benton (University of Essex); Prof Donatella Della Porta (Robert Schuman Centre); Prof Goran Therborn (Cambridge Sociology Department); Prof Greg Philo (University of Glasgow))

2014-09-27 08:30: Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons (Key note speakers: Prof Ted Benton (University of Essex); Prof Donatella Della Porta (Robert Schuman Centre); Prof Goran Therborn (Cambridge Sociology Department); Prof Greg Philo (University of Glasgow))

2014-10-21 12:30: Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (DR CAROLYN PEDWELL (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent))

2014-11-04 12:30: The Urban Afterlives of Global Adjustment: Divergent Redevelopment and ‘Neoliberal' Trajectories in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Dr Ryan Centner (LSE))

2014-11-18 12:30: Why do Women do more Housework than Men? Experimental evidence from the UK (Dr Maria Iacovou (Cambridge Sociology Department))

2014-12-02 12:30: Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping: Mail art, exchange and futurity (DR REBECCA COLEMAN (Goldsmiths))

2015-01-20 12:30: Imagining “Society” in Immigrant Integration Expertise (Prof Willem Schinkel, Erasmus University)

2015-01-26 17:00: Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria Succeed? Reflections based on a field visit (Dr Jeff Miely (Cambridge Sociology Department))

2015-02-09 17:00: Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflection on sense and nonsense (Chris Rogers (Warwick University))

2015-02-17 12:30: Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (Prof Judy Wajcman, LSE)

2015-02-23 17:00: A Post-Marxist Alternative to Neo-Liberal Economics  (Alexandr Buzgalin (Moscow University) )

2015-03-02 17:00: Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflection on sense and nonsense (Chris Rogers (Warwick University; author of ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’ (2014)))

2015-03-09 17:00: Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance in the Digital Society (Prof Manuel Castells (University of Southern California))

2015-03-12 17:00: Graduate Seminar: Networked Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2015 (Prof Manuel Castells (University of Southern California))

2015-04-21 12:30: From ‘Protectors of Public Health’ to ‘Facilitators of Biomedical Innovation’: Drivers and Impacts of Trends in Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and European Union since 1992  (Dr Courtney Davis, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine , Kings College, London)

2015-04-28 17:00: Have war and violence declined through human history? (Prof Michael Mann, UCLA)

2015-05-05 12:30: Anarchy in the UK: Economic Deprivation, Social Disorganization, and Political Grievances in the London Riot of 2011 (Dr Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, Oxford University)

2015-05-18 12:30: Can Tocqueville Karaoke or Sing Rule Britannia? (Prof. Terry N. Clark (Sociology, U. of Chicago) )

2015-05-18 17:00: THE ROLE OF OLIGARCHS AND TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL IN UKRAINE'S CIVIL WAR. (Yuliya Yurchenko (Greenwich University))

2015-05-19 12:30: From Nation-States to Member States: European Integration and State Transformation (Dr Chris Bickerton, POLIS, Cambridge University)

2015-05-25 17:00: TACTICS AND STRATEGY FOR THE SYRIZA GOVERNMENT IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AUSTERITY (Dr. Stathis Kouvelakis and Dr. Eva Nanopoulos)

2015-06-02 12:30: Scapegoating "Strangers" in Europe: Deep Structures and Shallow Stereotypes of Fear (Prof Ray Taras, Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Migration Studies, University of Sussex)

2015-06-05 17:00: A talk on Hungarian contributions to social theory:  'Ex Oriente Lux: the legacy of Lukács, Mannheim and Hauser' (Dr Tamas Demeter (University of Edinburgh))

2015-06-15 17:00: Reflections on the Recent Spanish Elections in a European Context: A Roundtable Discussion (Dr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology Department), Prof Gonzalo Velasco Arias (Camilo Jose Cela University), Vangelis Georgas (Cambridge Sociology Department)University)

2015-09-16 12:00: Book launch: Becoming Denmark: How societies build control of corruption (Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)

2015-09-25 09:00: 2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age ( Keynote speakers:  Dr Craig Calhoun, Professor Cristina Boswell, Professor Harry Collins)

2015-09-26 09:00: 2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age (Keynote speakers: Dr Craig Calhoun, Professor Cristina Boswell, Professor Harry Collins)

2015-10-20 12:30: Why do some ethnic minority groups in the UK and Europe have high fertility? (PROF HILL KULU (University of Liverpool))

2015-10-22 17:00: The Egg and the Sperm 2.0 (Professor Emily Martin ( Department of Social Anthropology, New York University))

2015-10-22 17:00: On the Political and Social Thought of Murray Bookchin and his Relevance in Rojava and Beyond (Janet Biehl)

2015-10-26 17:15: Salvador Allende Memorial Lecture - The Chilean road to capitalism: the role of agrarian reform and peasant revolt before the coup  (José Bengoa,  Rector and Professor of Anthropology Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano Santiago de Chile)

2015-11-03 12:30: Are family sizes of parents and children still related?  Revisiting the cross-generational relationship over last century in France (DR ANNE SOLAZ (INED, France))

2015-11-12 17:00: A Precariat Charter: Towards a New Progressive Politics. (Guy Standing, SOAS, University of London)

2015-11-17 12:30: Creating the New Islamic Middle Class: The Sociology of State-Building in Sudan (PROF  HARRY VERHOEVEN (Georgetown University, Qatar))

2015-11-24 12:30: Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: innovation, Politics and Promissory Science (Prof John Abraham, King's College London)

2015-11-30 17:00: Jeremy Corbyn: Miracle or Mirage? (Andrew Gamble, POLIS, Cambridge)

2015-12-01 12:30: Performing the Political: the drama of violence and nonviolence in political struggle (PROF CHARLES TRIPP (SOAS, University of London))

2015-12-09 10:00: Prof Robert D. Putnam in conversation (Robert D. Putnam Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University)

2016-01-18 17:00: Why the Left should support leaving the European Union.  (John Boyd, CAEF Campaign Secretary)

2016-01-26 12:30: The rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in Thailand  (Prof Andrea Whittaker (Monash University))

2016-02-01 17:00: How to Overcome Inequality (Robert Wade (London School of Economics))

2016-02-09 12:30: When the grass is greener: fertility intentions in a transnational context (Prof Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics))

2016-02-23 12:30: Purging the nation: Race, place and geographies of encounter in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women  (Prof Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University))

2016-02-29 17:00: Challenging the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Gabriel Siles-Brugge (University of Manchester))

2016-03-08 12:30: Social Relations and Popular Protest from 1789 to 2011 (Mr Benjamin Abrams, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2016-04-27 17:00: The Causes of War (Prof Michael Mann, University of California. Los Angeles)

2016-05-03 12:30: Thinking through racial capitalism in our time (PROF GARGI BHATTACHARYYA (University of East London))

2016-05-05 13:00: Symposium: Feminist Classics Revisited 4: Nature, Culture and Gender (1980) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-05-06 10:00: Research on the Shifting U.S.  Political Terrain (Professor Theda Skocpol (Harvard))

2016-05-10 17:00: Better Medical Research Without Patents? The Good-Pharma model. (PROF DONALD W LIGHT (Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine))

2016-05-12 12:30: Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism (Prof John Hall,  James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University)

2016-05-17 12:30: Fathers' involvement in family life: changing cross-national difference in housework and child care  (PROF ORIEL SULLIVAN (University of Oxford))

2016-05-23 17:00: Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures (Prof Alison Bashford (Jesus College, Cambridge))

2016-05-31 12:30: The Political Sociology of Human Rights (PROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2016-06-14 12:30: Immigrant Access in the Affordable Care Act: Legacies of the Confederacy   (Prof Donald W. Light, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine)

2016-06-18 12:00: ‘You’re welcome? British Attitudes to Immigrants’ Nationality’ (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-18 12:30: Soy Afro: Me Reconozco y Cuento": Race, Racism and Representation of Blackness in Mexico (Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-21 15:00: Salvador Allende Annual Lecture: Pigmentocracies: Race & Ethnicity from the Latin American experience (Professor Edward Telles, UCSB)

2016-11-01 12:30: Out of Africa: The Organisation of Migrant Smuggling across the Mediterranean (Dr Paolo Campana (University of Cambridge) )

2016-11-15 12:30: Complexities of classification regarding infant "fear without solution": A case study in the sociology of psychological knowledge (Dr Robbie Duschinsky & Dr Sophie Reijman (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-16 17:00: Race as symbolic violence and public dishonour (Professor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology)

2016-11-17 17:00: Racialized slavery and racial terrorism (Professor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology )

2016-11-18 17:00: The ghetto and the prison  (Professor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology )

2016-11-28 17:00: Peculiar Institutions: Four centuries of race-making in the United States (Professor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology )

2016-11-29 12:30: The Changing Context of Contraceptive Choice across the Reproductive Life Course in the USA and Britain (PROF MEGAN SWEENEY (University of California, Los Angeles))

2016-12-01 16:00: What works to prevent gendered violence. Keynote Address: Gendered Violence and the City (PROF RACHEL JEWKES, Medical Research Council in Pretoria)

2017-01-31 12:30: Social Media and Academic Labour (Mark Carrigan)

2017-02-21 12:30: Words That Kill: Rhetoric and Reality in the Discourse of the Front National (PROF RICHARD WOLIN (City University of New York) )

2017-02-27 12:30: Changing practices: lessons from a re-study of eating out in England (Professor Alan Warde, University of Manchester )

2017-02-28 12:30: Iran’s Rhetoric Aggression: the Hard Words of Soft War (DR ROXANNE FARMANFARMAIAN (POLIS, University of Cambridge))

2017-03-14 12:30: Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories (PROF SARA AHMED (Independent Writer))

2017-05-02 13:00: Despotic and Infrastructural Power: The State in the 21st Century (PROF MICHAEL MANN (University of  California, Los Angeles))

2017-05-09 12:30: Hegemony or Polarization? The Consequences of the Recent Power Shift in the Turkish News Media (Dr Ozan Asik (Cambridge Sociology Alumnus))

2017-10-04 12:30: Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain (Dr Onoso Imoagene, University of Pennsylvania)

2017-10-17 12:30: How do you feel? ‘Well- being’ and un-voiceability in UK universities (Professor Shirley Tate, Leeds Beckett University )

2017-10-20 17:00: Jo Cox Lecture Series: Save the Children (Kevin Watkins, CEO)

2017-10-27 09:45: Conference: Centenary of the Russian Revolution (Organisers: Dr David Lane (Cambridge Sociology) and Dr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology))

2017-11-01 17:00: Putting health and wellbeing evidence into policy (•	Sara MacLennan, Whatworks wellbeing centre)

2017-11-14 12:30: Drums of War, Drums of Peace: Erdogan’s Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, and the Kurdish Freedom Movement (Dr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2017-11-28 12:30: Hybrid capture? A comparative perspective on the political economy of biomedical innovation in the age of neoliberal science (Dr Stuart Hogarth, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2018-01-30 12:30: A Postcolonial Rethinking of the State and Nation: From Comparative to Connected Sociologies (Professor Gurminder Bhambra, University of Essex)

2018-02-13 12:30: Digital Fakery and its Consequences (Dr Ella McPherson, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2018-05-01 14:00: Fear and loathing in modern warfare (Prof Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA)

2018-10-30 12:00: How to do things with sensors (Prof Jennifer Gabrys, Cambridge Sociology Department)

2018-11-12 14:30: Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-11-12 14:45: Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future  (Prof Anthony Giddens, Prof Patrick Baert, Dr Ali Meghji, Prof Jackie Scott, Prof J Thompson)

2018-11-12 16:30: Critical conversations: intersectionality and sociology (Professor Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland)

2018-11-13 09:00: Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-29 12:30: What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about? (Prof Sarah Franklin, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-12 12:30: Is Europe Christian? (Prof Oliver Roy, European University Institute)

2019-02-26 12:30: The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged  (Dr Sam Friedman, London School of Economics)

2019-03-12 12:30: Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance (Prof Rosalind Gill, City University of London)