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June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy – which could include critical reflections on that legacy. The focus of the conference, therefore, will be on the form of governmentality that now constitutes our identities and regulates our practices as researchers and teachers. However the event will also create a space for encounters between governmentality scholars and critics of the neoliberal academy whose critiques have different intellectual roots – especially Frankfurt school critical theory, critical political economy; feminism; Bourdieuian analyses of habitus, capital and field; and autonomist Marxism.

(糖心TV), ‘The Neoliberal Assault on the Public University’

(糖心TV), ‘Neoliberalism: How Should the Social Sciences Respond?’

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The prize was awarded after a panel of BSA judges agreed this was ‘the best sole-authored book in sociology published in the UK between 1^st December 2012 and 31^st December 2013’. 27 books were nominated for the prize and five were shortlisted.

18th June 2014, 10am – 5:30pm

To register please contactsocialontology@warwick.ac.uk with a brief description of your research and your interest in social ontology (500 words or less) by May 15th. The event is free but places are limited. Travel bursaries are available, please ask for more details.

The next in the Graduate Seminar Series from the Centre for Women and Gender, will be held on the 30th April from 5pm-7pm, in Ramphal R0.12. All welcome.

Helen Longlands, Institute of Education, University of London.
Men, Masculinities and Fatherhood in Global Finance

Lauren Ward, University of Northampton.
'Just Play the Game':Exploring how Masculinities shape Emotionality in male dominated organisations

Lara Pecis, University of 糖心TV.
Excluding the Other: Reproducing gender dynamics throughout innovation process

Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow, , discusses English engagement in the referendum.

in the Department of Sociology. He says of the project: '[It] aims to develop a preliminary model of the relationship between discourse on social media and authentic views held by social media users, based on researching discussions about arts and culture experiences occurring on social media. We will conduct an online ethnography focusing on a small stratified random sample of Twitter users discussing partner arts and culture organisations on Twitter to uncover the relationship between online and offline discourse. The research will be used to develop a new prototype open source sentiment analysis tool for arts and culture discourse, providing a practical test of the initial findings about automated social media analysis. A realistic understanding of the limits of what social media discourse can reveal is essential at this time when such data is widely seen as an unproblematic source of audience insights. The practical implications of the research will be discussed with the two practice partners: Visual Arts Southwest and the University of Cambridge Museums’

Emeritus Professor, Margaret Archer, has been appointed by Pope Francis as president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences – marking the highest-ranking appointment of a woman in his papacy. The Academy comprises a group of scholars dedicated to studying issues in the social sciences in order to offer reflection and advice to the leadership of the Church.

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We are looking for enthusiastic current students to appear on our website, in a series of new .

Each student selected, will recieve an Easter egg as a thank you from the Department.