We were delighted to joint-host this seminar with The Centre for Research on Families, Life Course and Generations. We welcomed Dr Steven Threadgold (University Newcastle, Australia), Dr Julia Coffey (University of Newcastle, Australia), and Professor Roger Burrows (University of Bristol) who discussed their important, ongoing work on digital inequalities. The seminar discussed how digital practices such...
We were very excited to welcome Dr Nathan Kerrigan (Birmingham City University), Dr Damian Breen (Birmingham City University) and Dr Yusef Bakkali (De Montfort University) to discuss their recently-published Liquid Racism: Brexit, Education and Road Culture (Bristol University Press, 2025). This event was joint-hosted by the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies. Professor Ipek Demir, outgoing director of...
We were delighted to host the inaugural Bauman Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 14th May in Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre. The speaker was Professor Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Lamont discussed her book Seeing Others: How...
We were delighted to launch the important and very timely new book, Artists, Cosmopolitanism and the Civic Imagination (Routledge, 2025), by Bauman Institute core member Dr Maria Rovisco. Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role...
Please note that this event has been cancelled due to ongoing strike action at Newcastle University, which has proposed plans to cut 300 jobs, including the threat of compulsory redundancies. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Newcastle and encourage anybody who is able to contribute to the local hardship fund. Join us at...
The Bauman Institute teamed up with the British Sociological Assocation (BSA) Sociology of the Arts Study Group and the journal Cultural Sociology to host a symposium on Janet Wolff's ‘The Social Production of Art'. In edition to revisiting this seminal work by Janet Wolff, a longtime friend of the Bauman Institute, the symposium showcased contemporary work in...
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.
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.
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: 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.
