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New Book Series of Unpublished Writings by Zygmunt Bauman
Three Volume Series with Polity
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
The first volume, Culture & Art, was launched on 30 June 2021 with a specially produced video, which you can still view online via this link.
All three volumes were translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynskam, and edited by Institute members Mark Davis, Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzezinski, and Tom Campbell
The first volume, Culture & Art, was launched on 30 June 2021 with a specially produced video, which you can still view online via this link.
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.
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.
The Postcolonial Bauman Lecture Series
Julian Go - Lecture 1
Introduced by Adrian Favell
Manuela Boatcă - Lecture 2
Introduced by Mark Davis and Jason Allen-Paisant
Shalini Randeria - Lecture 3
Introduced by Graham Huggan
Griselda Pollock - Lecture 4
Introduced by Max Silverman
Janina Bauman Prize
An annual prize for the best MA Dissertation in one of our supported programmes. Those selected address an area of “significant ethical or moral relevance” which was a concern in Janina Bauman’s own writing.
International Partners
Special issue on the New Mobilities Paradigm
Professor Rodanthi Tzanelli edited a special section on the "new mobilities paradigm in sociology". Published in Transfers: The Interdisciplinary Journal Of Mobility Studies, under the title "John Urry's Living Legacies in Perspective—Futures on the Move", the special section emerged from an international symposium that she organised in 2021 under the auspices of the Mobilities Area in the Bauman Institute.
Events
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.