Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca CC: Bruno Cartosio, Carmen Leccardi Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] 1968: Impact and Implications Conference,
3-4 July 2008
> The British Sociological Association Theory Study Group is > organising a re-launch conference to be held at the Birkbeck
> Institute of Social Research 3-4, July 2008. The conference, '1968:
> Impact and Implications', is timed to coincide with the fortieth
> anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 and seeks to assess
> the impact of those events academically and globally. Our line-up
> of internationally renowned keynote speakers is complemented by a
> very strong field of submitted papers from the UK and globally and
> we are confident that the event will be very high profile and well
> attended.
>
>
> Our keynote speakers are high-profile academics in their own right
> and strongly associated - both in their academic work and their
> political projects - with the changes brought forth by the events
> of 1968. From the UK, we have
>
>
> Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor in Social Theory at the
> London School of Economics
> Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies,
> University of Cambridge
> William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, University of Newcastle
> Ken Plummer, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
> Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender
> Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
>
> And, from the United States, Distinguished University Professor,
> Patricia Hill Collins, from the Department of Sociology at the
> University of Maryland has agreed to present a keynote address at
> the conference. Professor Collins has also just been elected the
> 100th President of the American Sociological Association.
>
>
> Professor Sue Scott, the current President of the British
> Sociological Association will be introducing Professor Collins'
> talk and other senior academics within the sociological community -
> such as Professor John Scott, University of Essex and Professor
> John Holmwood, University of Birmingham - have also expressed their
> support and enthusiasm for this conference.
>
>
> Booking Form and further details are available to download from the
> Study Groups webpage, see:
> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/ > bhambra/gurminderkbhambra/research/bsatheorygroup/
> The earlybird booking deadline to save £20.00 is the 28th February
> 2008.
>
> If you require any further information please contact either Debbie
> Brown at the BSA office or Dr Gurminder K. Bhambra, convenor of the
> BSA Theory Study Group.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Debbie Brown
> BSA Membership Secretary
> debbie.brown@???
>
> Gurminder K. Bhambra
> Convenor of the BSA Theory Study Group
> Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
> University of Warwick
> g.k.bhambra@???
>
>
>
> Deborah Brown
> BSA, Membership Secretary
>
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