Laurie Hanquinet and Cultural Capital

Laurie Hanquinet recently sat on a panel discussing new forms of cultural capital.

Follow the link to watch her.

Mike Savage and Social Class

Professor Mike Savage from London School of Economics and a former Sociology Department member of staff will give a talk about his new research on class on Monday 30 November 1.30-3.30pm in W/222.

Mikes talk entitled 'Social Class and the new cultural distinctions today' will draw on his latest book Social Class in the 21st Century and is being run by the European Centre for Cultural Exploration (ECCE) . 

Book Launch - Handbook of Sociology of Arts and Culture

On Wednesday 7th October Laurie Hanquinet's new Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Arts and Culture whcih she co-edited with Mike Savage is having a book launch


The launch will take place from 6.30 to 8pm at the London School of Economice in CLM 6.02

Laurie Hanquinet and Mike Savage will introduce the Handbook, and there will be a response by Tony Bennett (University of Western Sydney). Several of the contributors to the book will also be present and will contribute to the discussion."

Report on the annual conference of the Association for Ethnicity and Nationalism

Gonul Bozoglu, a PhD student in the sociology department recently participated in the annual conference of the Association for Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) on ‘Nationalism and Belonging’ at the London School of Economics on 1-3 April. This was a great opportunity to get to grips with the ways in which political theorists, economists and others think about nationalism and to become familiar with some of the latest ideas about belonging as a London School of Economics, LSE new way of thinking about identity. She particularly enjoyed sessions about the politics of national days (in Scandinavia) and theories of belonging.

A number of the sessions related to new ideas about the complexities of belonging and provided really interesting ways of thinking. There were also many sessions focusing on particular areas of the world, such as a session on the Middle East and Gonul’s own session on Turkey, where she co-presented ideas from a forthcoming publication about historical nostalgias and contemporary politics in relation to museum representations in Istanbul and Ankara.