Thresholds - A pop-up symposium

22 September 2017
University of York

21 Exciting abstracts have been accepted !

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This event platforms scholars working across the humanities and social sciences around the theme of ‘thresholds’. It explores perspectives on the liminal edges of everyday, organisational and social life. What and who reside beyond or within different types of thresholds? Who has to cross thresholds? What prevents people or things crossing? How does power operate through different thresholds? How do thresholds articulate with limits, extremes, dangers and tipping points? These are just some of the questions explored in this one day symposium.

Thresholds is intended to bring together diverse disciplines including sociology, politics, history, anthropology, women’s studies, critical management, human geography, social policy. The format will be short papers (10 mins) followed by discussion.

Organisers: Joanna Latimer, David Beer, Nik Brown, Rolland Munro

SATSU – Sociology – University of York

Time and Place: 10:30 to 15:30; Berrick Saul Building, The Treehouse - University of York


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Supported by: the University of York ‘Culture and Communication’ Research Theme; The Department of Sociology; Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU)

Regulating Time Workshop

On Wednesday 20th January, the Department will host a workshop which aims to unpack the roles of time in the regulation of technoscience. 

Laura Billings. Licence here

Key questions to be explored include: 

·    In what ways do the temporalities of technoscience and regulation converge and diverge?

·    What are the implications of these processes for lived experiences of law and regulation?

·    What methodological challenges are involved in exploring the temporalities of regulation and technoscience?

Invited speakers:

Kevin Birth (anthropology, Queens College, CUNY, US)

Nik Brown (sociology, York)

John Harrington (law, Cardiff)

Iwan Morus (history and welsh history, Aberystwyth)

Sameena Mulla (social and cultural studies, Marquette University, US),

Gethin Rees (sociology, Newcastle).

The event is one in a series organised as  part of the AHRC 'Regulating Time' research network  (co-ordinated by Emily Grabham, Kent Law School and Sian Beynon-Jones, Sociology, University of York), which explores the temporal dimensions of law and regulation. 

For further details about the network please see the blog, follow the network on twitter (@regulatingtime) or join the JISC email list.