With Vincent Bevins, Birgan Gokmenoglu, Kate Alexander, Simin Fadaee, chaired by Luke Yates Cordingly Lecture Theatre, HBS, Monday 17th June, 3.15-5pm Vincent Bevins, journalist and author of The Jakarta Method (an account of US government support for anti-communist...
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Public Roundtable and Livestream: Not Set in Stone: Remembering Empire and Contesting Statues
5-7pm, Weds, 9th June 2021, via Zoom and YoutubeOn 7th June 2020, young Bristolians toppled a statue of Edward Colston in the city centre and rolled it into Bristol Harbour. This action marked the culmination of years of contestation, during which Bristolians had...
AFPP Roundtable: The Futures of Social Movement Research
3.30-5.50pm, Tues 8th June 2021, online via ZoomWhat are the challenges facing protest and movement scholarship? How can we study mobilization and contentious politics in the Global South? How will the challenges facing movements today affect the activism that we will...
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, 2021
7-9th June, 2021. Free registration and fully online.AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments of sociology, politics,...
Livestream: Colin Barker – A celebration of his work.
4-6pm, Monday April 15th 2019 The Harwood Room, Barnes Wallis Building Livestream via YouTube Update: There is now a better quality video of the full session available via YouTube A key event in the programme for Alternative Futures and Popular Protest is a...
Protest Talks: Materialist theories and analyses of contemporary social movements.
3-4.30pm, Weds 14th November 2018. 3.213, University Place, Oxford Road. Speakers: Anne Engelhardt (Kassel) Madelaine Moore (Kassel) Pete Lampard (Univ. Manchester) This session - co-organised with the Global Political Economy Research Cluster - will explore the...
Reading Group Series, Semester 1 2018-19
For this semester we’re focusing our readings on the relationship between global sociology and social movements. All welcome; no need to sign up in advance. All sessions in 3.040, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester. 2-4 pm, Wed 17th Oct Burawoy, M....
Protest Talks: Gramsci’s Relevance for Our Times
Critical Pedagogy and Global Social Movements under Neoliberal Globalisation. A discussion with Peter Mayo and Nadim Mirshak.3.30-5 pm, Thursday, 13th September 2018.G.33, Humanities Bridgeford Street, UoMContinuing their exchange previously published in Open...
Understanding radicalised movements through social movement theory
Thursday 22nd March 4-6pm 2nd Floor Board Room, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester All welcome, no need to book in advance. Kevin McDonald: Rethinking radicalisation: networked affect, imagination and subjectivity This paper explores the potential for the...
Reading Group Series: Social movements, states and political parties
For this semester we’re focusing our readings on the relationships between movements, states and parties. All welcome; no need to sign up in advance. All sessions in 3.040, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester. sup { font-size: 0.8em; }10-12, Tues 6th...
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