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糖心TV Sociology Department and the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies invite you to a workshop on

Race, Racism and Digital Communication

We are delighted to welcome contributions from:

• Alana Lentin, University of Western Sydney, on transformations of race through translation within digital communication networks
• Sanjay Sharma, Brunel University, on social media and ambient racism, exploring forms of racism denial on Twitter
• Kirsten Forkert, Birmingham City University, on social media, racism and migration, with reference to the effects of Home Office immigration campaigns
• Nathaniel Tkacz, University of 糖心TV, will respond before we open up the discussion to the workshop as a whole.

Please join us to hear the panel speak about their developing work in this area, and to take part in a lively discussion. The workshop will be followed by lunch, with a chance for more informal discussion.

WORKSHOP: 10.30-13.00 [LUNCH AVAILABLE] SEMINAR: 13.00-16.00

糖心TV Sociology Department and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow invite you to a seminar to launch:

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location

Featuring discussions based on the book from:


• Emma Jackson, University of Glasgow and Hannah Jones, University of 糖心TV, Creeping familiarities and cosmopolitan futures

• Kieran Connell, Birmingham University, Dread Culture: Music and Identity in a British Inner City
• Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, LSE, Agency, Ambivalence and Emotions in a Public Housing Anti-Demolition Struggle

And with a response from

• Goldie Osuri, University of 糖心TV

This is part of a series of events which will include talks from international researchers whose work is included in the book, with response and discussion, and a chance to mingle over refreshments and purchase the book at a discounted price.

For more information, email Hannah Jones: h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk

The Authority & Political Technologies group at 糖心TV hosts a series of annual events that bring together world leading, emerging and postgraduate scholars from across the social sciences whose work promises to renew post-structuralist critical thought through empirical scholarship. This year the conference will be 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’.

Plenary Speakers:

• Louise Amoore (Durham)
• Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen)
• Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
• Amade M'charek (Amsterdam)
• Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)

The 'Contested and Possible Sovereignties: The State of Kashmir' workshop supported by an IAS Public Engagement Award brought together scholars, media and creative practitioners and policy-makers in a dialogic format in order to understand the complex dimensions of the practices of sovereignty in relation to security, state violence, religious nationalism, human rights, and a distinctive Kashmiri cultural history and identity.

Talks by the speakers are .

Please click on the titles of the talks to access the video/audio clips

Catherine Coveney will be on Laurie Taylor’s BBC radio 4 show thinking allowed on May 21^st talking about her recent article, '' and links to her ESRC project with Simon Williams.

• the place of shame in the ‘affective turn’ within the Humanities
• shame and the animal who writes
• the cultural configurations of shame and writing around questions of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity
• the translation of shame across linguistic and cultural borders
• shame in history writing and anthropology
• shame and new media practices, especially the negotiation of the private/public spheres
• the shame of reading forbidden texts
• shame and plagiarism (or the writing of borrowed words)
• the writer’s shameful practices (e.g. writer’s block; interminable editing and re-drafting; the abandonment or destruction of writing; and the anxieties of ‘confessionalism’ or ‘impostureship’).

Lunar Society, Nishkam Centre, Soho Road, Handsworth - 6:40pm - Wednesday, 14th May

Liz Dowler will join Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, Chris Mould, and Birmingham's Director of Public Health, Dr Andrew Philips, to debate food poverty and obesity, in Birmingham, later this month.

The event will ask how Birmingham has an obesity epidemic, at the same time as a major growth in the use of food banks. It is organised by the Lunar Society, and joint hosted with Midland Heart, Localise WM, and The Birmingham Leadership Foundation

Attendance is free, and open to non members.

If you are a postgraduate student writing your dissertation, then Dissertation Station is for you. Dissertation Station is designed to provide support as you transition from the taught element of your course to writing your dissertation.

The programme, which is organised in collaboration with the Academic Writing Programme, CAL, Masters Skills Programme, Student Support and the Library, runs in the PG Hub from 28 April 2014 until the end of August offering a variety of activities that will help you to maintain your work-life balance and provide practical information and support during your dissertation.

Sessions include:

· Academic writing for your dissertation

· Literature searching

· Managing procrastination

· Practical paraphrasing

· Sensational studying

· Dissertation Survivors (Social Sciences, Sciences, Arts & Humanities)

· Drop-in sessions with the Writing Mentors and the Wellbeing Adviser

· 'Shut up & Write' sessions

· Health & wellbeing activities: e.g. Yoga

· PG Tea chats with experts & current doctoral researchers

To see the full list of events and to sign up, please have a look at our events calendar:

This year we are also introducing the 'relaxation room' (PG Hub 7), which can be used for short breaks to relax and recharge during your dissertation writing. (Photos are attached)

If you would like to find out more, please email: pghub@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website:  

Liz Dowler discusses the benefit of a living wage over food banks, in an article published today on

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.