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We have officially launched our own Department YouTube Channel, showcasing a wide range of staff and student videos.

Monday 30 June, 2014 12:30 – 14:00 (Lunch provided) in Wolfson Exchange

Praktiksha Baxi will present her work in her recently published book on rape in the criminal courts in India Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: New Delhi 2014).

Pratiksha Baxi is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India since 2006.

Her book Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India is a courtroom ethnography that brings together her interest in sociology of law, feminist theory and violence.

Her research interests include critical perspectives on medical jurisprudence, ethnographies of courts, sociology of violence, gender studies, politics of judicial reform, judicial iconography, courtroom architecture and feminist legal theory.

Take a look at video footage from our recent Max Weber conference:

• Geoff Ingham (Cambridge) - ‘Money, Capitalism, and the West’
• Scott Lash (Goldsmiths) - 'Weber and Markets: From Neoclassicism to Neoliberalism’
• Linsey McGoey (Essex) - ‘Charismatic Authority and the Rise of the 21st-Century Philanthrocrat’
• Keith Tribe - ‘Market Order and Social Rationality’
• Sam Whimster (Global Policy Institute) - ‘The Economics of Power: Max Weber on Banking’
• David Woodruff (LSE) - ‘Weber and Money as an Economic Institution’
• Roundtable discussion

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 University has announced a new Scholarship Scheme for Home and EU students, studying taught Masters programmes in 2014-15.

The scholarships will cover the full cost of your tuition fees for the 2014-15 academic year (or pro-rata equivalent for part-time study). In addition, students will receive a non-repayable bursary of £4,000 (or pro rata equivalent for part-time, Certificate or Diploma study) to help with course costs which will be paid to you in 4 equal instalments.

You are elligible to apply if you are a first time postgraduate student, planning on self-financing your studies (not in receipt of any other external funding or sponsorship), and you meet one of the criteria outlined below:

a. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student in receipt of a means tested bursary from your undergraduate University in the UK and/or Maintenance (or Special Support) Grant support from the UK Government.

b. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student prior to 2006 at a UK institution and you have been in receipt of a Higher Education Grant and a tuition fee grant from the UK Government.

c. You are currently in receipt of at least one specified UK government means tested benefit or tax credit from the list given below. Please note that only these benefits listed can be considered.

- Income Support

- Income based Job Seekers’ Allowance

- Income related Employment and Support Allowance

- Housing Benefit

- Council Tax Benefit

- Universal Credit

- Working Tax Credit

- Pension Credit

d. You entered University at undergraduate level from a Care background or as a Foyer resident.

e. You received DSA (Disabled Students’ Allowances) as an undergraduate student and/or you currently receive DLA (Disability Living Allowance), Attendance Allowance or PIP (Personal Independence Payment).

You must also have already been offered a place to study, and meet the entry requirements for your course.

The dealine for applications is the 16th June 2014.

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.

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.