21 April 14:30 BST Online
Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory
A roundtable with:
Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social
Billy Holzberg (KCL)
Nicola Smith (Birmingham)
Lois McNay (Oxford)
Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6
Starting in a few minutes!
BSA Theory's next three events are free and open for registration:
26 March 5pm GMT
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe
21 April 2:30pm BST
Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist & Queer Theory
12 May 4pmBST
Theorizing from Lived Experience: Activist Scholarship
#Sociology #Theory
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Online
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory
Just over 2 weeks left until our event!
Missed our co-organised event on 'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care'? The video recording of the event is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF...
#PirateCare #SocialMovements #Resistance @plutopress.bsky.social
Ahead of our 26th March event, read the recently published SAQ issue here:
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Many thanks to everyone who attended the Pirate Care event today! The video recording will be shared soon.
Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
This event will be taking place tomorrow from 7pm GMT!
It will continue conversations started in this recently published book review symposium: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More details & registration link here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#Theory #Sociology #PirateCare
Excellent Thinking Allowed episode with @bsaecf.bsky.social President Les Back & BSA Vice-President Imogen Taylor, talking about the impotance of social theory for analysing phenomena in the contemporary world. The episode can be accessed here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#Sociology #SocialTheory
Join us today at 3:30pm GMT for the first roundtable of our roundtable series, Theorising from Lived Experience. Our speakers - Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, and Sebastian Raza - will talk about Phenomenological Approaches.
This is happening today from 3:30pm - see you there!
#Sociology #SocialTheory
Poster for free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’.
Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social
3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Image text refers to: Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
Book now for 'Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
tinyurl.com/4fkrea9z
#sociology
If you've tried to register but the link did not work/indicated that the event is fully booked, we're pleased to announce that the portal should be working once again!
Please visit this page to register for our Theorising from Lived Experience event: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
This event will take place on Friday next week - grab your tickets!
Image text relates to event, Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
Explore the methodological advantages and limits of working from lived experience – book now for ‘Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches’, a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 27 February 2026
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Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of Pluto Press
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March '26, 7pm GMT
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @plutopress.bsky.social
The Theory Prize is given to recognize outstanding work in theory. In even-numbered years, it is given to a book, and in odd-numbered years, to a paper; in both cases, eligible items are those published in the preceding four calendar years. The deadline for submissions is March 2, 2026. Self-nominations are welcome. The book should be sent to all five members of the committee either in electronic or paper format. No paper can win more than one section award
Call for submissions!
🔔 2026 The Theory Prize!
⏱️ Submit by March 2, 2026
🔗 Full call and other awards: asatheory.com/theory-award...
Image text relates to a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social 3 March https://tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’.
Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social
3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
Forthcoming Events 27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches Online 3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT) Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care Online 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable Online
The BSA Theory Study Group has 3 exciting events scheduled for the coming weeks!
27 February (3.30pm GMT)
Theorizing from Lived Experience
3 March (7pm GMT)
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care
26 March (5pm GMT)
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe
#Sociology #Theory #BSATheory
Attendance is free but registration is required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#BSATheory #Sociology #Theory
Confirmed speakers include Sita Balani (QMUL), Piro Rexhepi (LSE) and Kristina Millona (Independent Researcher), Barbora Černušáková (Manchester), Amani Hassani (Brunel), and Sabrina Axster (Johns Hopkins). The issue editors, Sarah Bufkin (Birmingham) and Ida Danewid (Sussex), will chair the event.
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Online
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory
Wonderful to see @academicdiary.bsky.social taking up his new role as President of @britsoci.bsky.social for the coming year!
Image text relates to Sociology’s latest special issue, Sociology under Attack The full issue can be found below. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOC/59/6
Have you read Sociology’s latest special issue?
Sociology under Attack looks at the ideological battle about the role of universities and of social sciences. Find articles on authoritarianism, neoliberalism and sociology's role in current political climates.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOC/59/6
We are delighted to welcome Professor Les Back as BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Les is Head of Sociology in the School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsociology.bsky.social. Thanks to Rachel Brooks as she completes her term as President es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...
In September last year (2024, you read that right) I gave the @bsatheory.bsky.social lecture on Academic freedom and the politics of free speech, with reflections on performativity, ontology of social institutions, and - of course - Palestine. It's finally up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH5S...
Image text relates to Sociology under Attack, the new Sociology journal special issue, which is now live
'Sociology under Attack', the new Sociology journal special issue, is now live!
Articles in this special issue demonstrate that the value of Sociology is not restricted to what it does, but how it does it.
Read now below.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...