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✅A bright future
✅The opportunity to make the most of her time at LSE

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How are racism, policing and state violence connected across Europe?

Join Vanessa Thompson and Sara Salem for our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture, exploring the contemporary carceral condition and the intensification of state violence.

📅 7 December

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Many neighbourhoods are facing multiple crises at once.

Are climate change defence strategies also an effective defence against authoritarian rule?

Join us on 12 November 👇

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How has racism been shaped by the expansion of carceral institutions?

Join Vanessa Thompson and Sara Salem for our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture: Policing the crisis, carceral racism, and abolitionist resistance in Europe.

📅 7 December | 6.30pm

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Is conservatism more embedded in sociology than we think? From hierarchy and authority to family and tradition, explore the conservative ideas that have shaped the discipline.

Attend our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture on 4 November 👇️

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Looking to study a PhD with us? We're hosting a virtual open day on Monday 16 November!

Join us to find out more about the research study opportunities offered by the department and ask your questions!

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Sharing new work on anti-imperialism and liberation in relation to the war on Iran at the @histmat London Conference soon. Saturday, Nov 7, 11:30 am. All welcome, looking forward to the discussion!

Can we understand sociology without examining its conservative roots?

Join Professor Shamus Khan for the BJS Annual Lecture, exploring the political traditions that continue to shape sociological thought today.

📅 4 November | 6.30pm
📍 LSE & online

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How can we sociologically analyse discourse about the physical appearance of public figures such as politicians?

Carolina Rabasa Rucki explores how the evaluation of appearance is tied to ideas of nationality, coloniality, and political legitimacy.

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📢 Join us tonight at LSE!

How are global elites reshaping politics and society?

Join leading scholars for the launch of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites and explore the changing nature of elite power today.

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Interested in how inclusive cultural practices and spaces are created and experienced, and how these inform societal and economic change?

Join the virtual open day for our CRICA MPhil/PhD programme on Tuesday 10 November 👇

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What can our fears of artificial intelligence reveal about power, knowledge and capital?

Join us tonight at 5.30pm as Professor Engin Isin and Dr Sara Salem explore these questions, drawing on The Birth of Sensory Power (2026).

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What can our fears of artificial intelligence reveal about power, knowledge and capital?

Join us tonight at 5.30pm as Professor Engin Isin and Dr Sara Salem explore these questions, drawing on The Birth of Sensory Power (2026).
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What does community defence look like in an age of climate crisis and authoritarianism?

Find out how communities can prepare for overlapping crises and build lasting collective capacity.

📅 12 November | 6.30pm
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Is conservatism more deeply embedded in sociology than we think?

From hierarchy and authority to family, community and tradition, explore the conservative ideas that have shaped the discipline.

Attend our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture 👉️ buff.ly/FXn3k8D

How do elites shape the cities we live in, the politics we engage with and the democracies we depend on?

Explore the changing nature of elite power in the 2020s next week at the launch of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites.

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Am very excited to chair this event @LSEsociology at 6:30pm on 12 Nov: Adam Greenfield speaking on "Against Fire and ICE: The lifehouse as community defence," with @Gargi_at_home and @dubravka as discussants! lse.ac.uk/sociology/even…

With all the activity around celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, I failed to "announce" my new role @LSEsociology who have produced this rather nice profile.

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It's good to be back.

How is artificial intelligence reshaping the relationship between power, knowledge and capital? 🤖

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Great to meet @NeilGray00 again @LSEsociology where he's been talking about his new book, "Take Over The City", about post-war urban struggles in Italy, but feels very relevant (if different from) today in Spain and France.