Our History of Art Research Seminars are back! The first is on 18 Sep with Dr Kuang-Yi Ku, '2025 Spotlight Taiwan Project - Challenging Biomedical Paradigm through Art and Design' Events are free & open to all, with a variety of in person/online/hybrid events: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/history-o...
Lito Tsitsou (She, They)
@litots.bsky.social
Sociologist, Woman, Bourdieu and Dance devotee, permanent migrant, 'former' precariat. Sociological and Cultural Studies,UoG.
🔉 Listen in! Dr @lucygweir.bsky.social - What Moves Them - The Global History of Modern Dance - is episode 4 of series 2 of Artful Inquiry, the ECA research podcast. Discover how migration, protest, and chance encounters shaped the language of movement. open.spotify.com/episode/3ct8...
10. What Moves Them: The Global History of Modern Dance
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★★★ Review: Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep – Hip-hop theatremaker goes deep and dark with a mythic quest tale wrapped in gloom 👇
Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep at Sadler’s Wells East
Read our review of Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep at Sadler’s Wells East, London: hip-hop theatremaker goes deep and dark with a mythic quest tale wrapped in gloom
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Festival of Community: Pipe Dreams, a film by PhD Student @nmdlb.bsky.social is available to view online as part of the Visual Sociology IVSA Film Festival 2025 programme @visualsociology.bsky.social , running until 4 July. visualsociology.org/2025-visuali...
2025 Visualista Film Festival
The Visualista Film Festival is organised by the International Visual Sociology Association, and is usually held during our annual conference which moves to a different international venue each year. ...
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Advance notice of these sessions, aimed at early career researchers and organised by @thesociologicalreview.org. They take place here in Glasgow in November.
Talking (social science) shop: join us in Glasgow on 27 November for our annual Early Career Researchers Day, where professors Shahram Khosravi and Karen O’Reilly will lead sessions on migration studies and ethnographic practice. Apply by 8 September for this funded opportunity. buff.ly/RwAgtTj
Artist Meets Researcher 18/ 7 , Clarice Pears Community Hub ( rooms 163,165) A new event series hosted by the Media Subject Group at the University of Glasgow designed to showcases creative research practice and foster healthy collaborations. @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social
Artist Meets Researcher
Bringing together artists and researchers to showcase creative practice and build collaborations for communicating research through art.
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@uofgsps.bsky.social organized by colleagues across SSPS please share!
This month sees the 'Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025', organised by colleagues here in the School of Social and Political Sciences, including our own @litots.bsky.social...
This month sees the 'Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025', organised by colleagues here in the School of Social and Political Sciences, including our own @litots.bsky.social...
Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025
Second annual conference, showcasing class activities which demonstrate imaginative teaching.
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New Call for Abstracts! Cultural Sociology welcomes articles that draw on the work of Janet Wolff to discuss approaches to the sociology of art and the production of sociological knowledge concerning the arts. Submit by 16 September. Details are in the CFP: www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
The wider arts and culture sector contributed £19.1 billion of Gross Value Added (GVA) to the economy in 2023, with £1.35 billion stemming from publicly funded organisations, according to a new report.
New research highlights economic and ‘spillover’ impact of subsidised arts - Arts Professional
The wider arts and culture sector contributed £19.1 billion of Gross Value Added (GVA) to the economy in 2023, with £1.35 billion stemming from publicly funded organisations, according to a new report....
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The pioneering US health reformer and breakfast cereal inventor introduced plant-based meat substitutes to the public.
How controversial nutritionist John Harvey Kellogg pioneered the path to modern plant-based eating
The pioneering US health reformer and breakfast cereal inventor introduced plant-based meat substitutes to the public.
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Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'. This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
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Next week @freedomtorunfilm.bsky.social is being screened at @stir.ac.uk Tickets still available! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2503801...
Stirling to host screening of documentary about Scots and Palestinian runners
An exclusive screening of a film documenting a collaboration between runners from Palestine and Glasgow will be held in Stirling next week
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“In introducing our new format, we reflect on the example of the late Michael Burawoy. We hope the Magazine can carve out space for what he called a Living Sociology that engages multiple publics.“ Incoming editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce our March issue. buff.ly/XhoQHjT
A big thank you @rcsofficial.bsky.social @bethjwhiteside and Louisa Ross for having me work with your 3d year modern ballet students on Sociology of dance on Friday! What an amazing group! The future of dance is in good hands!!
Hi Bluesky! I wrote for @pillowtalkscot.bsky.social on the pain experienced during coil (IUD) fittings, removal and use, and the changes to reproductive healthcare contraceptive users in Scotland would like to see 1/2 pillowtalkscotland.substack.com/p/contracept...
‘It almost felt a bit barbaric’: Scottish contraceptive coil users speak out about pain
How much pain is ‘normal’ during a coil fitting? In Scotland, patients share their experiences of dismissed suffering and demand better from reproductive healthcare
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Arts organisations in Wales have tentatively welcomed the country’s draft budget for the next financial year as a positive first step for the sector after significant cuts in previous years.
Welsh arts budget rise won’t heal sector’s ‘gaping wound’ - Arts Professional
Arts organisations in Wales have tentatively welcomed the country's draft budget for the next financial year as a positive first step for the sector after significant cuts in previous years. However,...
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New for the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social 'Identities: 30 years on' by @nasarmeer.bsky.social and me Check out the rest of our collection, events and podcasts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Identities: 30 years on
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 6, 2024)
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An amazing piece of work, thought-provoking, and inspiring!!!
Finally! My new book, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age is out, order it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180223/ It offers a new perspective on digital media & social change, connecting the dots between media engagement, socio-economic conditions & lived experience.
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised
Netflix has successfully dramatised the epic Colombian saga that even Gabriel García Márquez did not believe could be adapted for the screen.
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Intercultural Futures - new podcast with Crisina Ros I Sole and myself www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili... www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili...
Multilingualism
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Weekend listening! Lucy Weir talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating 'Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury' newbooksnetwork.com/performance-...
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024) - New Books Network
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