The University of Manchester Sociology Department

Future Lives & Austerity- a digital exhibition 📆10-5pm Wed 6 Nov 2024 📌Central Library, Manchester Come and listen to young people from Greater Manchester, Barcelona and Sardinia tell how austerity policies have shaped their everyday lives and hopes for the future. This new exhibition shares research from the Austerity and Altered Life Courses project and we will be taking it to Manchester's Central Library as part of the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science. This is a drop in event, open to all. Please do feel free to come along and spend a few minutes or up to around half an hour to hear all the stories. #McrESRCFest #ESRCFestival The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences https://lnkd.in/enp4S3K9

Register for the next CoDE seminar this Thursday: Manuela Latchoumaya on identity, experiences and belonging for French citizens of Indian descent. Seminar is online or in person 👇🏾

🎧 Claire Alexander helps Devina Gupta trace the history and culture of 'Indian' curry houses in Britain. Mostly, in fact, founded by Sylheti Bangladeshis migrating to Britain in the 1970s, these iconic restaurants have since won a place in British hearts and high streets, but now face an uncertain future. #BanglaTown #BrickLane https://lnkd.in/e9qmSA7e The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences Bridget Byrne BA Social Sciences BASS

GUEST LECTURE by Susanne YP Choi: 🗣Intersected: Class, Gender & Queer Lives in Post-Reform China 📅3.30-6pm Tues 22 Oct 2024 (Manchester) Please join us for this guest lecture 3.30-5pm, followed by drinks reception 5-6pm. See Eventbrite for more details and to register for a free place. Please share widely - all welcome. ABOUT THE LECTURE Despite advances in LGBTQ rights globally, sexual minorities in China have continued to struggle for parental acceptance and full sexual citizenship due to state censorship, social stigmatization, discrimination, and family pressure. While an emergent body of research has documented different aspects of gayand lesbian lives in China, most of it focuses on gay men or lesbians of similar social class backgrounds, thus foregrounding sexuality without paying sufficient attention to the existence of a multiplicity of identities and intersecting structural locations of differences. This presentation develops an intersectionality-through-focused life story (ITFLS) analytical framework to examine the multiple inequalities faced by sexual minorities and illuminate how these inequalities change both over time and during their intimate life cycles. SPEAKER Susanne YP Choi is Visiting The Leverhulme Trust Professor at Oxford School of Global & Area Studies and Professor of Sociology/Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality. Her book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China received the Best Book Award of the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Section (RC31). Vanessa May The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences The University of Manchester China Centre Chinese Students and Scholars Association, UoM University of Manchester Chinese Student Society BA Social Sciences BASS School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester British Sociological Association https://lnkd.in/euKwxS7E

Congratulations to Dr Wai Lau, newly elected as a Fellow of the ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY! 😍

Very much looking forward to hosting this Methods@Manchester community event as part of the @BeingHumanFest with Joy Ethic Sophie Woodward and Dr Benjamin Wild Details below 👇👇 Please help spread the word!

Please do join us for the next Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) seminar below: ‘French citizens of Indian descent: resisting invisibility and creating “new” French identities’ - Manuela Latchoumaya (University of Manchester)   📅1-2.30pm, Thurs 17 October 2024 👩🏾🏫Room 2.217, University Place OR 🌐online (register for zoom details) The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences Bridget Byrne Meghan Tinsley  https://lnkd.in/ecfh4QQi

EVENT POSTPONED: Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to illness. Sorry for any inconvenience and we will share a new date as soon as we have one.

🎉 Congratulations to Christopher R. Fardan, PhD, who has won the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Doctoral Thesis Prize. Christopher's winning thesis explores extreme nationalism in contemporary Norway. He will be presenting his research at an online lecture for JMCE. 🗣Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher R Fardan 📆 3-4pm BST, Weds 16 October 2024 🌐 Zoom Meeting ID : 927 8880 2209 Christopher's research starts from his concern about how the far right paralyses democratic engagement, targets minorities and inspire politically motivated violence and terrorism – even in a country like Norway where a generous welfare system based on a strong economy and relatively low levels of unemployment, crime and socioeconomic inequalities would be expected to limit the resonance of far-right rhetoric. He set out to investigate what led people to engage in far right activities in Norway, using in-depth ethnographic interviews, finding no single “pathway” into such movements nor any single “profile” of activists that might predict who will join far-right groups. They are young and old, men and women. They live in gloomy basement flats and in extravagant villas, in the city and in the village. They have low and high educational attainments and they are driven by ideology, social and emotional communities, excitement and adrenaline. The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences BA Social Sciences BASS Political Studies Association (UK) University of Manchester Politics Society Hilary Pilkington

🗣Dharmi Kapadia is giving a keynote at “Behind the data: quantitative approaches to interdisciplinary racism research” organised by the WinRa Regional Network South: University of Bayreuth & University of Mannheim. 23-25 October 2024, Bayreuth https://lnkd.in/d9DSVcm2