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Our events and Annual Lecture series ferment sociological discussion. Videos of our annual lectures are available from the menu links on the left.

6 June 2024 (6pm to 7.30pm)
How Can Sociology Engage with the Major Challenges of our Time?
As wars rage and the climate crisis looms, what can sociology offer?
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  • Watch our 2023 Annual Lecture, The Roots of All Capitals, or, the Human Condition and Social Division, Professor Will Atkinson (University of Bristol).   In this lecture, Professor Atkinson probed the relationship between fundamental features of the human condition and modes of social division and domination.  He set out several premises about what it means to be human and, from that, establish misrecognition as the key to understanding division and dominationFurther details about the lecture .