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CGI

Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag morgen von Gundula Ludwig aufmerksam zu machen!

Das Forschungszentrum Social Theory @uniinnsbruck möchte den Wandel in Bildungsverständnissen kritisch beleuchten, und die aktuelle Lage des Wissens zwischen Auto­no­mie und Abhängigkeit interdisziplinär diskutieren.

Weitere Infos zur Veranstaltung morgen und zur Veranstaltungsreihe insgesamt findet ihr hier:
uibk.ac.at/de/socialtheory/030

Einladung zum Vortrag morgen: Was sind kritische pOlitikwissenschaften: Welche Perspektive dominiert in den Diszip­linen, und was sollte eine kritische, verantwortungsbewusste Wissenschaft tun? Vortrag von Gundula Ludwig
#wissenschaft#science#vortrag
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Kettu

Join us on Zoom for a
Research Symposium on Theorising Care: Political Economy, Vulnerability, Rights, and Responsibilities

Wednesday 2nd April 2025, from 2:00pm until 5:00pm. (Dublin Time)

At University of Galway and on Zoom:
universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/

Talks by Professors Diane Elson, Kathleen Lynch and Martha Fineman & time for discussion
All are welcome, just turn up!
DM me for more information

@academicchatter
#fediScience #care #PoliticalEconomy #Politics #politicalTheory #SocialTheory

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Judith Beyer

I am re-upping my recent book on Myanmar. It is completely free to download from University of Hawai’i Press (2024). In it you will find - 1st ethnography on Muslims & Hindus in Myanmar - an alternative theory on community manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/ret... #OA #socialtheory #anthropology

Rethinking Community in Myanma...

University of Hawai‘i Press - ManifoldRethinking Community in Myanmar | University of Hawai‘i Press - ManifoldIn this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of wider groups. “We-formation” complements her rich political, legal, and historical analysis of “community,” a term used by Beyer’s interlocutors themselves, even as it reinforces ethno-religious stereotypes and their own minority status. The book also offers an interpretation of the dynamics of resistance to the attempted military coup of 2021.
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I'm not trained in #Marxist theory, but I feel like there could be some interesting Marxist analysis of the surplus value / surplus labor implications of widespread federal layoffs in the U.S.

Do any #Marxists have thoughts on how this plays out and/or can anyone point me to existing analyses?

Discussions that explicitly connect the dots between the #socialtheory and implications for community organizers be especially interesting, if such things exist.

(boosts welcome)
#Marxism #uspol
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#uspol
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Mark Carrigan

Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

Call for Short Papers (750 – 1,000 words by 28th February 2025, 5pm GMT)

The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory (One-Day Symposium)

A BSA Theory Study Group & BSA Early Career Forum Event

To be held on Friday, 23rd May 2025 at the University of Cambridge

We are delighted to invite short paper submissions for a One-Day BSA Theory / ECF Symposium titled ‘The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory’ and scheduled to be held on the 23rd of May 2025 at the University of Cambridge. This Symposium will provide a platform for Early Career scholars to discuss papers as part of themed workshops, receive feedback from distinguished discussants and peers, engage in constructive dialogue, and meet other social theorists from across a wide range of social theoretical disciplinary fields.

Rationale for the event: 

The process of producing social theory is often assumed to be self-explanatory within academic institutions. With the current ‘crisis’ of higher education and intensification of academic precarity disproportionately affecting theoretical scholarship, centres, departments, and institutes, the co-organisers of this Symposium wish to create a space for Early Career scholars interested in social theory to receive feedback on their ongoing research/papers and discuss the day-to-day experiences, challenges, and opportunities of continuing to undertake theoretical scholarship.

The Symposium will include two elements: 

  • Papers will be grouped into thematic workshops (based on overlapping areas of interest) where each paper will be allocated a 25-minute slot for collective discussions. Each paper will be allocated a discussant from among four distinguished scholars (introduced below) and all other workshop attendees will be encouraged to read the papers in advance in order to contribute to a wider discussion and offer constructive feedback. These insights will, we hope, contribute to informing and refining your work for future publication.
  • A roundtable event where the four guest discussants will share reflections from their own theoretical work (the processes by which they undertake social theoretical scholarship, highlighting the methods they employ to generate original concepts and insightful interventions), followed by a wider discussion where we will consider further aspects of the conditions of producing social theoretical work.

We are honoured to announce that our guest discussants are Sarah Bufkin (Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham), Birgan Gokmenoglu (Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University), Teodor Mladenov (Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Dundee), and Kristin Surak (Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics).

We encourage the submission of short papers embedded within social theory and a wide range of sub-fields such as (but not limited to): political sociology, elites, nationalism, and international migration; disability, independent living, international social policy, (post)socialism and social justice; political ethnography, social and political change, time and the future; Black Atlantic political thought, cultural studies, and feminist and Marxist theory.

Timeline and requirements:

  • Submit a short paper with a  theoretical contribution (between 750 – 1,000 words, excluding references) by Wednesday, 28th February 2025, 5pm GMT. 
  • If your short paper is selected for the Symposium, you will be invited (in early March) to submit a full draft (between 6,000 – 9,000 words, excluding references) by Monday, 28th April 2025, 5pm BST.

How to submit:

  • Please send your short paper to bsatheory@gmail.com in a Word Document or PDF file. 
  • Include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), four keywords related to your paper, three keywords related to your wider scholarly interests, and a very brief statement confirming your Early Career status.

Attendance:

  • Attendance will be free. We encourage early career scholars who are also BSA members to access the BSA Support Fund for transport/accommodation costs of up to £1,000. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for attendees at the symposium. 

To all recipients of this email: we would be grateful if you could forward this email to your networks and Early Career colleagues and friends.

The organisers of this symposium are Ioana Cerasella Chis, Joe Davidson, and Sebastian Raza Mejia (co-convenors of the BSA Theory Study Group). For further inquiries, please contact us at bsatheory@gmail.com. We look forward to your submissions and to a lively symposium!

#socialTheory#theorising#theory
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Mark Carrigan

Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

The research group AI in HE that is part of the Research Centre Policy, Pedagogy and Practice (PPP) is holding an event on Friday 24th of January at in Mainhouse G-17 at Bath Spa university. We have a day long in-person and hybrid seminar to discuss different views and approaches to AI in education. The day begins at 10 in the morning and will run until 16:00 including Q &A.  

The day will start with two invited speakers, Mark Carrigan from Manchester University who blogs here, and Helen Beetham also from Manchester and who writes very critically about AI in Substack.  

We have three PhD candidates who will share their work in progress:  

Eva Shakel is a Learning Developer at Bath Spa University with over a decade of experience supporting students in Higher Education. Prior to this, she worked in leadership development and as a lecturer in sociology. Her current doctoral research explores how students engage with generative AI tools, focusing on the relationship between their concerns, agency, and reflexivity in shaping patterns of use. Eva has developed institution-wide guidance and training on GenAI for students, contributing to informed and ethical AI use. 

PhD title: The uses and abuses of ChatGPT: Students’ concerns, agency, and reflection in action with Generative AI 

Ashley Ogborn is Course Leader, PGCE Secondary Computing & PGCE Secondary Business Studies, School of Education 

PhD title: A pedagogical framework for using Generative Artificial Intelligence   

Gibson Dzimbiri is a computer science instructor at Malawi University of Science and Technology, with experience in programming and software development background. 

PhD title: Exploring the use of AI in overcrowded classrooms in primary schools in Africa. A case study of Malawi. 

My understanding is it’s open in person. If you’d like to join online, get in touch here and I’ll send you the link before hand:

get in touch
Research Explorer The University of ManchesterMark Carrigan
#AI#archer#realism
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Joshua McNeill

Strange to not have any #Labov quotes to share that I find poignant despite being the giant of #sociolinguistics and despite how much of his work I've read. He always struck me as a workhorse with a lot of interesting method ideas but not someone terribly concerned with #socialtheory where one's writing might become more touching. His legacy and influence will undoubtedly persist for a very long time still.

#linguistics#languagevariation#languagechange
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Torgeir Fjeld

But we ask you:
Even if it’s not very strange, find it estranging
Even if it is usual, find it hard to explain
What here is common should astonish you
What here’s the rule, recognize as an abuse
And where you have recognized an abuse
Provide a remedy!

Bertolt Brecht, The Exception and the Rule (1930)
Translated by Ralph Manheim

#poetry#socialism#socialchange
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Jonathan Emmesedi

This lucidly written and elegantly argued book should be read by everybody on the left, especially those of us apt to turn to concepts such as "false consciousness", "hegemony", or "dominant ideology" when explaining the current impasse of socialist and social democratic parties.

‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James Newlove – Marx & Philosophy Society

marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie

marxandphilosophy.org.uk‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James NewloveThe Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn. Chibber situates the cultural turn as arising from debates within Marxism (specifically the British New Left) on how to understand the seeming stability of capitalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Key moments in the cultural turn include the role of the New Left Review and the appointment of Stuart Hall as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in…
#TheClassMatrix#VivekChibber#Class
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