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Zygmunt Bauman delivers the Ernest Jones Lecture 2012: Culture, Identity and Liquid Modernity
In his lecture Professor Zygmunt Bauman will reconsider man’s relationship with his world from the perspective of the stage for which he uses the term ‘liquid modernity’. Read More
Liquid Cities – Postgraduate Masterclass
Liquid Cities Wednesday 29th August, 1pm – 4pm Postgraduate Masterclass with Peter Beilharz Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Mark Davis Director of the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK Keith Tester Professor of Sociology, University of Hull, Read More
Big Society / Good Society Round Table
Date: June 21st, 2012 | Time: 14:30 — 18:00 Under the current Coalition Government and in the contemporary, post-financial crisis era, the ‘Big Society’ has become an organising concept that signals a different way of thinking about and organising public, Read More
Democratic finance… from liquidity crisis to liquid money
Abundance Generation, the product of three years hard work, including many weeks ‘deep hanging out’ with people across the UK, is finally ‘launched’. Abundance has tried to shift the focus of investment from the 1% (who frankly have enough) to Read More
Where are the fresh voices? They are out there in abundance.
A response by Mark Davis to Aditya Chakrabortty’s thought-provoking article in The Guardian – Economics has failed us: but where are the fresh voices? Read More
We get the budgets we deserve?
New post on Res Publica blog on how the budget reflects the last gasps of economics as politics in disguise and the need for new sources of knowledge and understanding about the meaning of money… step forward the sociology and Read More
Join the debate on markets, capital and morality in the Guardian today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/29/capitalism-lefties-clueless-emma-harrison
The crisis as an opportunity for a new economy
Leeds Taking Soundings Dialogues in Politics and Culture The crisis as an opportunity for a new economy Speaker: Tim Jenkins 6.00 pm, Wednesday 29 February Broadcasting Place, Room BP102 Woodhouse Lane,LeedsLS2 9EN Read More
Bauman Institute Audio Visual Archive
We now have video footage of Professor Bauman’s lecture tour throughout Europe from September 2010 to March 2011. The videos were produced by Bartek Dziadosz and Grzegorz Lepiarz – who are directing and producing the documentary film The Trouble With Read More
Histories of Violence
A new multi-media web site exploring issues around the problem of violence – Histories of Violence. A full length video talk by Zygmunt Bauman is featured on the site’s home page. It is an excellent introduction to the problem of violence. Read More