Prof Erik Olin Wright: “Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias” (2013 Frisby Memorial Lecture)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:42:00 BST

Video recording of Prof Erik Olin-Wright's 2013 Frisby Memorial Lecture entitled “Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias”.

Prof Nancy Fraser: “Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode: Toward an Expanded Conception of Capitalism” (2014 Frisby Memorial Lecture)

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:48:00 GMT

Video recording of and abstract for Prof Nancy Fraser's 2014 Frisby Lecture entitled “Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode: Toward an Expanded Conception of Capitalism”.

David Frisby Memorial Lecture 2015: Prof Sylvia Walby (Video)

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:19:11 BST

Prof Sylvia Walby's (UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster) Frisby Lecture entitled ‘Making Sense of the Crisis: Is the financial crisis cascading into a democratic crisis in Europe?’

2016 Frisby Lecture: Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:03:00 GMT

Abstract for Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ 2016 Frisby Memorial Lecture entitled “Towards an Anthropology of Evil”.

David Frisby Memorial Lecture 2017: Prof Wolfgang Streeck

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:44:26 BST

A video recording of Prof Streeck's lecture entitled 'Stories of Europe: European Integration and the Political Use of Cultural-Historical Narratives'.

‘The Stigma Doctrine’: The University of Glasgow hosts Dr Imogen Tyler

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:13:07 GMT

Dr Imogen Tyler presented her paper on ‘The Stigma Doctrine: Social and Political Economies of Inequality in Post-Welfare Britain’ in November 2014 at the University of Glasgow.

Interview: Dr Mary Holmes on ‘Emotional Reflexivity in Distance Relationships'

Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:27:00 GMT

Minna Liinpää interviews Dr Mary Holmes (University of Edinburgh) about her work on emotional reflexivity.

In Conversation with Dr Meredith Rossner about Emotions

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:18:00 BST

Prof Fergus McNeill interviews Dr Meredith Rossner (LSE) about her new book and research.

Interview: Prof Lawrence Wilde on ‘A Radical Humanist Ethic for Global Solidarity’

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:33:00 GMT

Justine Gangneux interviews Prof Lawrence Wilde (Nottingham Trent University) about his paper presented as part of the Sociology Seminar Series.

Scottish Independence, EU Membership, and the Crisis of the British State

Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:14:33 BST

Listen to Neil Davidson's talk about about the state of British and Scottish current state of affairs and the complexities of our political scene from April 2015.

The shared history of black and white Britons

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:30:09 GMT

Jagdish Patel from the Monitoring Group met with Prof Satnam Virdee to speak about his book 'Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider'.

The Possibility of Spirits - An Interview with Mattijs van de Port, Part I

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:15:00 GMT

Students of Religion and Ritual Leonie Colmar, Martha Gardiner, Alex Gibb and Diego Maria Malara developed an interview questionnaire for the Anthropologist film-maker Matijs van de Port about his 2016 film on spirits in Brazil. The answers to the questions by van de Port are published here in two parts.

The Possibility of Spirits - An Interview with Mattijs van de Port, Part II

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Students of Religion and Ritual Leonie Colmar, Martha Gardiner, Alex Gibb and Diego Maria Malara developed an interview questionnaire for the Anthropologist film-maker Matijs van de Port about his 2016 film on spirits in Brazil. The answers to the questions by van de Port are published here in two parts.

WaterSPOUTT: Testing Water Treatment Technologies in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Malawi

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:50:00 GMT

Dr Seumas Bates, Bangor University, invited by G.A.N writes about ‘WaterSPOUTT’. The Water Sustainable Point Of Use Treatment Technologies (or ‘WaterSPOUTT’) project was a large EUH2020 funded trans-disciplinary research project drawing on the expertise from 18 partners from academia and industry. It was a natural science dominated project (mainly engineering and microbiological) aimed to study new methods of providing treated drinking water to communities in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Malawi.