Filter Past Events | Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

2016 November 24 Thursday

Refugees as Surplus Population: capitalism and common marginalisations of migrants and subaltern populations

Prem Kumar Rajaram

Lecture

2016 November 14 Monday

"Take back control"? Brexit and the re-imagining of space, scale and sovereignty.

John Clarke

Lecture

2016 October 17 Monday

Essentialism, grief, and student protests at South African universities

Lecture

2016 September 26 Monday

A Tractable Future: Central Banks and Their Publics

Lecture

2016 May 09 Monday

“Have the 1930s returned? The resurgence of extreme nationalism in contemporary Europe.”

Seminar

2016 February 22 Monday

Gender and Migration in the 19th Century

Annemarie Steidl

Seminar

2016 February 08 Monday

The Spatial Politics of the Middle, from Brazil to South Africa to Turkey: Urban Middle Classes and Transformation in Middle-Income Countries

Lecture

2016 February 01 Monday

Caribbean Radicals, a New Italian Saint, and a Feminist Challenge

Marcel van der Linden

Lecture

2016 January 25 Monday

Labor and the Textile Industry in Global Perspective

Seminar

2016 January 22 Friday

The European Destitution, or, The Miseries of Reformism in One Country

Alberto Toscano

Seminar

2016 January 18 Monday

Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009

Fatma Muge Gocek

Seminar

2015 December 07 Monday

The Problem of the Exotic: The aporia of universalism and relativism in anthropology

Bruce Kapferer

Lecture

2015 October 05 Monday

Cities of Power : Nation-States and Their Capitals - public lecture by Göran Therborn

Professor

Lecture

2015 September 30 Wednesday

Making Skid Row Cool: Los Angeles Poverty Department’s (failed) Skid Row Walk of Fame - Opening lecture of Urban Imagineering and the Construction of Cool Cities by Marina Peterson

Marina Peterson

Lecture

2015 September 28 Monday

Girl Capital in the VIP: A Return to Ownership in the Forms of Capital

Ashley Mears

Lecture

2015 May 18 Monday

Multiple modes of transnationalism around Japan: Diversifying Migrant Populations and Policy Paradoxes, public lecture by Akihiro Koido (Hitotsubashi University)

Akihiro Koido

Lecture

2015 May 04 Monday

Industrial Hauntings: Smokestack Nostalgia or Working Class Obituary?, public lecture by Tim Strangleman (University of Kent)

Tim Strangleman

Lecture

2015 March 23 Monday

Sociologizing the Technological Frontier: The Next Generation of Growth in China and the World, public lecture by Salvatore Babones (University of Sydney)

Salvatore Babones

Lecture

2015 March 16 Monday

The Global Middle as 'Normal', public lecture by József Böröcz (Rutgers University)

József Böröcz

Lecture

2015 February 23 Monday

Roma Local Minority Self-Governance in Hungary, public lecture by Kai Schafft (Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU and Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University )

Kai Schafft

Lecture

2015 February 09 Monday

Imagining and practising citizenship in austere times, public lecture by John Clarke (Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU)

John Clarke

Lecture

2014 December 09 Tuesday

The Death of Jokes? The Shifting Landscape of Humor in Postsocialist Hungary, public lecture by Martha Lampland, University of California

Lecture

2014 December 01 Monday

Contesting the Value of Household Property, public lecture by Hadas Weiss, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

Lecture

2014 September 29 Monday

The 'Protest Events Dimension' of the Ukrainian Maidan: how significant were regional unevenness, far right participation, and violence?, public lecture by Volodymyr Ishchenko (Center for Society Research, Kiev)

Volodymyr Ishchenko

Lecture

2014 May 26 Monday

Re-envisioning Social Movements in the Global City: the Politics of Displacement in New York City: 1975-2014, public lecture by Ida Susser (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)

Ida Susser

Lecture