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World-leading social thinker and researcher Michèle Lamont joins us to launch the biennial Bauman Memorial Lecture on May 14th 2025.

Professor Lamont, of Harvard University, will discuss how young workers in the USA and UK are seeking recognition through politics; how indigenous people in Canada and Micronesia are seeking recognition through environmental justice; and the challenge of seeking recognition where it’s impossible to obtain.

Join us in Leeds or online

On 27 June 2024, Theory & Society - the third and final volume of a new series of books with Polity - was published featuring hitherto unknown or rarely available writings by Zygmunt Bauman from the Bauman Archive.

All three volumes were translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynskam, and edited by Institute members Mark Davis, Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzezinski, and Tom Campbell

In December 2024, Campbell, Brzezinski and Palmer discussed Theory & Society and the archive project on an episode of the New Books in Sociology podcast which you can listen to online via this link.