Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

Insecure Times, Emergency Measures - Workshop, 22 July 2010

The Experimental Society - International Conference, 7 - 9 July 2010

The 'Civilized' and the 'Barbarians': Imperial Narratives and Global Exploitation in the Imaginaries of Patagonia, 2 June 2010

The City Experiment at FutureEverything, 13 - 14 May 2010

Experimentality in Nature, 25 March 2010

The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism: The Politics of Memory in Europe and Beyond, 11 March 2010

Dynamics of Memories Research Seminar, 3 March 2010

CPERC Seminar on 'Making "Cultural Turns" in Political Economy, 25 February 2010

Imaginaries of Modernity Workshop, 24 February 2010

Experimental Objects, 18-19 February 2010

The Changing Worlds of Labour - Marx and Beyond, 20 January 2010

Experimental Subjects, 14-15 January 2010

Prof. W. Brian Arthur - How Technology Evolves, 10 December 2009

Dynamics of Memories Research Seminar, 9 December 2009

No Marx without Engels! IAS Workshop, 26 November 2009

Experiment as Event in the Arts and Sciences, 19-20 November 2009

Call for Photographic Entries - Public Exhibition, 12 November 2009

The Experimental Condition, 15 -16 October 2009

Understanding the Current Crisis - IAS Lecture Series Closing Seminar, 3 July 2009

Heidegger's 'Movement of Nihilism' as Political and Metaphysical Critique, 1 July 2009

Michael Krätke - "The Longer View: The Great Crises Compared", 25 June 2009

Franz Schultheis - Labour in Crisis, 24 June 2009

Stathis Kouvelakis - "Social Movements and Social Protests in a Period of Crisis", 18 June 2009

Andrew Sayer - "Crisis of What?: Moral Economy in the 21st Century", 17 June 2009

Lancaster Professions Network Conference, 16 June 2009

'Theorizing the professions: technology, education and regulation', 16 June 2009

Teaching, Researching and Supporting Mental Health at Lancaster University: A networking event, 29 May 2009

'Remembering War in the 21st Century: the BBC 'People's War Website' - History Departmental Seminar, 27 May 2009

Jan Toporowski - "Causes and Consequences of the Financial Crisis", 20 May 2009

Memory and Justice, 15 May 2009

Michael Krätke - "The Meaning of Crisis: How to make sense of a world in turmoil", 14 May 2009

Heidegger Research Group, 13 May 2009

History and LIPS Seminar, 29 April 2009

Touching War: Bodies of War, 2 April 2009

'Heidegger's Movement of Nihilism' research group., 23 March 2009

Touching War: Women: Armed and Dangerous?, 20 March 2009

Touching War: Women: Armed and Dangerous?, 19 March 2009

CGWS: Feminists Rethink Neo-Liberalism - Workshop TWO, 18 March 2009

Lancaster Interdisciplinary Research Seminar / Dynamics of Memories Research Seminar, 11 March 2009

Touching War: Wars on Terror, 26 February 2009

Touching War: Wars on "Terror", 25 February 2009

Heidegger's 'Movement of Nihilism' workshop, 25 February 2009

Feminists Rethink Neo-Liberalism, 18 March 2009

Words, Wounds and Memories, 29 January 2009

CGWS Seminar Series 2008/09: Emotional Labour, 29 January 2009

Words, Wounds and Memories, 28 January 2009

Lancaster Interdisciplinary Postcolonial Seminar (LIPS), 28 January 2009

Changing Cultures of Competitiveness in Education, 23 January 2009

Words, Wounds and Memories, 23 January 2009

Living and Remembering War, 23 January 2009

Dynamics of Memories Research Seminar, 21 January 2009

Gendered Fields: Feminists Re-Think Neo-Liberalism: work/space and making a difference, 14 January 2009

Hope, 8 - 9 January 2009

Inaugural Lancaster Professions Network Conference, 19 December 2008

Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS), 11 December-12 December 2008

War Touching Justice Workshop on Ethics, Justice, and War, 8 December 2008

IAS International Lecture: Erik Olin Wright, 8 December 2008

Learning and Skills Research Network Conference, 4 December 2008

Dynamics of Memories, 28 - 29 November

Low Carbon China: The Role of International Collaboration, 28 November 2008

Lancaster Interdisciplinary Postcolonial Seminar, 19 November 2008

Publishing on War: What are the Trends for the Future?, 14 November 2008

Mediterranean Waters Workshop, 14 November 2008

Attractions and Costs of Today's Wars, 10 November 2008

Warfare and Healthcare: Action at a distance and bodies in contact, 6 November 2008

Lancaster Interdisciplinary Postcolonial Seminar, 22 October 2008

War and Touch from Diverse Disciplinary Perspectives, 16 October 2008

War and Touch, 15 October 2008

Catherine Mills Talk - Bordering on Politics: Agamben and the Limits of Philosophy, 29 September 2008

Esrc Seminar: Conceptualising the professions in the 21st century, 06/01/2009

Indigenous peoples' rights in the aftermath of the Declaration: (Intellectual) Property and Self-Determination, 23 September 2008

History and Memory, 15 September 2008

Tourism Landscapes and Luxury Consumption Conference, 11 & 12 September 2008

New Sciences of Protection: Closing Conference, 10-12 July 2008

Summer School in Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Research, 30 June - 5 July 2008

Interdisciplinary Symposium on 'European Memories', 26 June - 1 July 2008

New Sciences of Protection: Futures, Time, Control and Insecurity, 8-9 May 2008

North West SfL Research Forum Seminar: Practitioner Research - can it support professional development?, 28 April 2008

Re-Placing Ceremony and Ritual, 25 April 2008

LRDG Seminar: Threads of Knowledge: the rabbi's wife, the Hebrew mourning-embroidery, and transmission of Jewish identity, 22 April 2008

Getting down with the objects: the social life of things, 19 March 2008

LRDG seminar: Revisiting the New Literacy Studies language of description: some questions about literacy events, practices and domains, 18 March 2008

New Sciences of Protection: Presentation, Documentation, Mediation, 13 March 2008

LRDG seminar: The literacy practices of developing a professional portfolio, 11 March 2008

LRDG seminar: Lending Ears to the Visual in Writing, 4 March 2008

LRDG seminar: 'I wouldn't do without her' - the role of literacy mediators in relation to patients' health literacy, 26 February 2008

LRDG seminar: The Romani approach to literacy, 19 February 2008

LRDG seminar: Mowo, an everyday story of country folk (and their literacies), 12 February 2008

Between Betty Friedan and Julia Child: feminism, consumption and domestic femininities, 7 February 2008

LRDG seminar: A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard, 5 February 2008

IAS Annual Research Programme - Protocols and Procedures Workshop, 4-5 February 2008

LRDG seminar: Literacy network analyses of a Chinese migrant child's multiliteracy practices in Britain, 29 January 2008

LRDG seminar: Simplification, 22 January 2008

Social Development Research and Policy in the United Nations System, 17 January 2008

LRDG seminar - Bookcrossing.com, 15 January 2008

LRDG seminar: Cultural Articulations of the North: Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on The Mile. Sondra Cuban and Corinne Fowler, Lancaster University, 11 December 2007

LRDG seminar: Two research studies from Spain, 4 December 2007

Distant Suffering, Proper Distance, 29 November 2007

LRDG seminar: What Happens to Diaries? Irving Finkel, British Museum, 27 November 2007

LRDG seminar: I am not a 'good' teacher; I don't do all their paperwork. Teachers' resistance to changing accountability demands. Karin Tusting, Lancaster University, 20 November 2007

LRDG seminar: 'You want to know about literacy? Then look, listen, and think about something else' : Alternative approaches, (in)appropriate methods and unexpected outcomes in ethnographic research. Anita Wilson, Lancaster University, 13 November 2007

LRDG seminar: David Barton - Writing on Web2, 6 November 2007

Karen Barad Public Lecture, 5 November 2007

LRDG Seminar - Orthography as social practice: spelling and the new literacy studies. Mark Sebba, Lancaster University, 30 October 2007

LRDG Seminar: Exploring Textually Mediated Institutional Space: Gate keeping, Docility, Ceremonies and Signs. Lee James Tipton, Lancaster University, 23 October 2007

LRDG seminar: The discourses of a virtual island: the Schome-NAGTY 'Teen Second Life' project. Julia Gillen, Lancaster University, 16 October 2007

Food Classes: Shame, Eating, Social Class, 11 October 2007

IAS Concluding Conference - Negotiating Religious Identities, 23-25th May 2007 TBC

China Centre - The Impact of Corporate Governance on Chinese Accounting Harmonisation, 23 March 2007

IAS Workshops - Negotiating Religious Identities - Querying religion/religious identities, 21 March 2007

Performance by Shamshad Khan, 20 March 2007

China Centre - Does China Rival its Neighbouring Economies for Inward FDI?, 9 March 2007

IAS Conference - BIRTH: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction, 6 March 2007 to 7 March 2007

IAS Seminar - Undertaking inter-disciplinary research, 31 January 2007

IAS Workshop - Negotiating Religious Identities - Religion, Sexuality & Politics, 24 January 2007

IAS Lecture - The Future of the Nation State, 24 January 2007

ARP 2006-2007. Colloquium 3 - Urban-Rural: Flows and Boundaries., 09-10 January 2007

China Centre - The determinants & performance effects of management accounting & control techniques, 8 December 2006

IAS Workshops - Negotiating Religious Identities - Multiculturalism or Religious Pluralism?, 6 December 2006

IAS Workshop - Cultural Political Economy of the KBE, 30 November - 1 December 2005

ARP 2006-2007. Colloquium 2 - The Construction and Legitimation of Regional Identities, 30 November - 02 December 2006

China Centre - Patterns and implications of ERP adoption in China, 17 November 2006

CANCELLED - Negotiating Religious Identities - Claims & attributions of identity & belonging, 15 November 2006

China Centre - Negotiating with China - have UK businesses got it right?, 3 November 2006

ARP 2006-2007. Regions and Regionalism in and beyond Europe. Colloquium 1 - What is a Region?, 2-3 November 2006

China Centre - Beijing Symposium - The Challenge of Globalization to Management and Management Educa, 26 October 2006

China Centre - Alumni Reunion in Shanghai, 21 October 2006

China Centre - LUMS Alumni Reunion in Guangzhou, 21 October 2006

China Centre - Issues for China's economy in the 21st century, 20 October 2006

China Centre - LUMS Alumni Reunion in Hong Kong, 20 October 2006

Moving Manchester: Relocating Diaspora Research, 11 October 2006

IAS Religious Identities Series - Negotiating Religious Identities (An Introduction), 1 November 2006

IAS Workshop - Professions, Knowledge Workers and the KBE, 20-21 September 2006

IAS Conference - Models and Modes of Creative Practice: Art, Writing and Research, 19 September 2006

IAS International Conference - The Nature & Future of the Knowledge-Based Economy, 31 August - 2 September 2006

IAS International Conference - Debating the Knowledge-Based Economy, 31 August - 2 September 2006

IAS Workshop - Knowledge Work and the Organisation, 19-20 July 2006

IAS Lecture - Roy Bhaskar: Applied Critical Realism, 18 July 2006

IAS Event - 1 to 1 meetings with Roy Bhaskar, 17 July 2006

IAS Workshop - Work and the Knowledge Based Economy, 12-13 July 2006

IAS Lecture - Roy Bhaskar: Marx's Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic, 11 July 2006

IAS Workshop - Metatheorising the Knowledge Based Economy, 5-6 July 2006

IAS Conference - Science, Intellectual Property and Openness, 4 July 2006

IAS Workshop - Trade Unions in the Information Age, 28-29 June 2006

IAS Workshop - The Knowledge Based Economy and the Re-Invention of Regions, 1-2 June 2006

IAS Seminar - Art, Science and Critique, 10 May 2006

IAS Workshop - Changing literacies in the Knowledge-Based Economy, 04-05 May 2006

IAS Workshop - Mapping the bioeconomy: the KBE and the biosciences, 27-28 April 2006

IAS Workshop - Consumers in the Knowledge-Based Economy, 20-21 April 2006

IAS Workshop - Creation of Value in a KBE, 05-06 April 2006

IAS Seminar - History, 29 March 2006

Lancaster Complexity Network - Complexity of Post-Representational Politics, 22 March 2006

Researching Managerial Elites: Engaging in a Collaborative Agenda?, 16 March 2006

IAS Seminar - Representing and Intervening, 15 March 2006

IAS Seminar - Biodiversity and the Bioeconomy, 2 March 2006

IAS Seminar - Rethinking the Concept of System, 1 March 2006

IAS Event - Knowledgelab Weekend, 03-05 February 2006

IAS Workshop - Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy, 23-24 January 2006

IAS Workshop - Education in the KBE, 19-20 January 2006

IAS Workshop - Knowledge Laboratory on Globalisation from Above and Below, 4-6 November 2005

IAS Workshop - Radical Geography of the Knowledge-Based Economy, 21 October 2005

IAS Colloquium - The Knowledge Based Economy, 19-20 October 2005

IAS Workshop - Mobilising Hospitality, 26-27 September 2005

Lancaster Complexity Network - Complexity, Science and Society Conference, 11-14 September 2005

IAS Colloquium: Cultural Politics of the Global Knowledge Economy: Technology, Environment & Society, 11-12 July 2005

IAS Symposium - Social, Political & Cultural Dimensions of Reforming & Enlarging the European Union, 12-13 May 2005

IAS Workshop Programme - Open Futures, 15 February 2005

IAS Workshop - The Politics of Mobilities: Ecotourism in North-South Relations, 14 -15 January 2005

IAS/IEED Workshop - Social Capital and its Relevance to Entrepreneurship, 18-19 November 2004

IAS Workshop - Time, Space, Discourse: Ontologies of Modernity, 10 June 2004

IAS - The Northwest Dialogue, 09 March 2004

Centre for Mobilities Research - Mobile Communications Workshop, 09 January 2004

Lancaster Complexity Network - Complexity Analyses Workshop, 12 November 2003

IAS International Workshop - Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World, 19-20 July 2003

IAS - The North-South Dialogue, 01 April 2003