The Bauman Institute

An international centre for the promotion of teaching and research in social and critical theory.

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We host a range of funded and exploratory projects developing theory on ALTERNATE FUTURES for Economy, Arts, Populations, Mobilities, Environment & Democracy

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The Bauman Institute organises conferences, workshops, book launches, and an online lecture/discussion series on major theorists for students and the general public.

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New Books by Bauman Institute Members

Critical works on crowdfunding, resilience, integration and mobilities

Four BI members are publishing new books this winter. Mark Davis, Crowdfunding and the Democratization of Finance (co-author Bruce Davis) -- book launch online 18 Jan 2022; Katy Wright, Community Resilience -- book launch 11 Mar 2022 ; Adrian Favell, The Integration Nation; and Rodanthi Tzanelli, Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene.

Zygmunt Bauman: Culture and Art

On 30 June 2021, with a specially produced live video on YouTube, the BI launched a new series of books with Polity featuring unpublished writings by Zygmunt Bauman from the Bauman Archive. The first volume, trans. by Katarzyna Bartoszynskam, and edited by BI members, Dariusz Brzezinski, Tom Campbell, Mark Davis and Jack Palmer, is out now with more coming next year.

BOOK LAUNCH

Critical Mobilities Theory

John Urry's Living Legacy

Rodanthi Tzanelli presents an online seminar series on MOBILITIES in 2021-22, beginning with a symposium on the social theorist John Urry. For upcoming seminars in the series see EVENTS. The video of the symposium, co-organised with CEMORE at the Univ of Lancaster, features talks from Michael Haldrup, Mimi Sheller and Jennie Germann Molz. Photo of John Urry by Chia-Ling Lai.

Symposium

New Journal Launch

David Graeber tribute in Emancipations

International advisory network member, Albena Azmanova, is the co-editor of a new journal Emancipations, launched in Sept 2021. The very first edition features a BI special tribute to David Graeber from our Bauman Underground "Militant Epistemologies" seminar in December 2020, with contributions by Adrian Favell, Myka Tucker-Abramson, Mark Davis and Andrew Wallace.

TRIBUTE

The Postcolonial Bauman Lecture Series

Julian Go - Lecture 1

Introduced by Adrian Favell

Video available here

Manuela Boatcă - Lecture 2

Introduced by Mark Davis and Jason Allen-Paisant

VIDEO AVAILABLE HERE

Shalini Randeria - Lecture 3

Introduced by Graham Huggan

Video available here

Griselda Pollock - Lecture 4

Introduced by Max Silverman

Video available here

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MOBILITIES: Seminar on Interrogating criticality in tourism analysis (3)

4-5.30pm. 'Unlonely Planet: Entangling for Good in Tourism Nature Cultures'. Presented by Kellee Caton, Thompson Rivers University, with Ana Maria Munar, Graham Huggan, Dominic Lapointe, Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas & Ilia Alvarado-Sizzo.

ECONOMY: Disabled People, Economic Models & Policy Responses

3-4.30pm. Conversation Series Event to interrogate the exclusionary conditions of current economic models and consider disabled people’s marginalisation across social policy areas.

ARTS: Art and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

4-5.30pm. Art and Extractivism seminar. Organised by Maria Rovisco with Paula Serafini and Veronica Sekules, of GroundWork gallery which participated in the project EXTRACTION: ART ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS. Postponed from March. Click here for more info.

ARTS: Arts, Activism and Sustainability

ARTS: Event. 3-5pm. Organised by Maria Rovisco in collaboration with Layla Bloom, curator at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. With invited artists, activists and scholars. Stage 1 @ PCI.