Sociology Summer Conference and intellectual party 2012
2-3 July 2012
Abstracts must be submitted by March 14th 2012
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Lancaster Sociology research students would like to invite other PhD students to our annual Intellectual Party in the summer of 2012.
The summer conference in 2-3 July is a great opportunity to present your work at Lancaster, collaborate with other research students, participate in practical workshops, and have a lot of fun.
The 2012 Intellectual Party offers you the chance to meet other Sociology research students; share your work in a friendly, encouraging environment; meet and engage with some of Lancaster’s well-known Sociology professors. For 2012 we are planning a special gallery of ideas about crises, and a spectacular finale. If you want to stay an extra day, you are welcome to join us on a ‘sociological expedition’ to the Lake District. Our Intellectual Party is more than just another conference; it combines academic challenge with a lot of fun!
This year we are inviting people to submit abstracts in relation to a series of themed ‘Salons’ and
more mysterious ‘Secret Gardens’.
Salons: If your research relates to one of the themes listed below, you can submit your abstract for
inclusion in a ‘Salon’ – a dedicated session, chaired and hosted by well known ‘Salonnieres’.
- Monika Buscher: Digital, mobile methodology, intra-active,
- Tim Dant: Stuff, materiality, bicycles, culture, wheels, bags, boxes, things, assemblages, human-thing interaction, guns
- Anne Marie Fortier: Multiculturalism, citizenship and migration
- Maureen McNeil and Celia Roberts: Gender, sexuality and reproduction
- David Tyfield: Crisis, finance, political economy
- Elizabeth Shove: Social practice, change and transition, ordinary consumption
- Lucy Suchman: STS, feminist technoscience, ICTs, design, innovation
- Bron Szerszynski: Climate change
- John Urry: Mobilities
- Sylvia Walby: Gender, violence and the economy
Secret Gardens: You might prefer to submit your abstract to a ‘secret garden’. Abstracts can be on any theme or topic, but in making your submission we’d like you to pick five key words from the list below that bear some relation to your research. Secret garden sessions will consist of papers that have key words in common.
Ambiguity, Body, Complexity, Difference, Energy, Fear, Globalitis (meaning references to globalisation, the global, etc.), Heritage, Income, Justice, Knitting or networks, Love, Myth, Nomadic, Organic, Power, Qualitative/quantitative, Risk, Structure, Time, Un- (as in unnatural, unpleasant, unlikely etc.), Virus, Work, Xperience (deliberately mis-spelt), Yellow, Zone.
If you are interested in joining us and presenting a paper in one of our Salons or Secret Gardens, please submit your abstract by March 14th 2012 <here> (This link will open in a new window).
The registration fee for non-Lancaster students is £65. This includes refreshments, dinner and lunches during the two day conference.
If you have any queries please contact Angela Loxham.
Looking forward to seeing you in Lancaster this July!
The Summer Conference Committee
Last years 2011 summer conference held on 4th and 5th July was a great success. To find out more follow these links.
Summer Conference Programme 2011 | 2011 Abstracts | Results of the lake district trip
Photos of the event on the left can also be viewed as a full album.
Useful information:
Visitor Travel Information - How to get to Lancaster University
Local Maps of Lancaster and University Campus
See more images and find out more about last year's event.
