The latest @thesccjr.bsky.social workshop on 'Social Analysis of Penalities Across Boundaries' will take place on Wed 27 May, 4pm UK time. Dr Xiaoye Zhang, De Montfort Uni, will be presenting: 'The Rule of Wonder: Prison Theatre and the Governance of Participation in China'. Sign up below.

If you're near Birmingham on the 3rd June, here's a chance to reflect on the importance of music to Stuart Hall's work. Organised by the Stuart Hall Archive project, with Mykaell Riley and our own Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social

Please join our own Adnan Hossain and others for the launch of the 'Transgender People in Politics in the Global South' report, on the 18th June (details below). The launch will be preceded by a short conference touching on similar themes, taking place that morning, from 9:30-12:30.

Friday 22nd May, 7-9 pm is the launch of 'Lens on Gaza: The Sun and Moon Still Rise' by Fadi A. Thabet organised by the Bethlehem Cultural Festival. It'll be taking place at the Alchemy Experiment on Byres Road, Glasgow. The exhibition will be running until 5th June.

Looking for something new to listen to? Check out 'English Stitch', a wonderful series from @resonancefm.bsky.social in which Stuart Hall guides us through the diverse and contested territory of British cultural history. Featuring contributions from many others including @academicdiary.bsky.social.

Amongst other treasures in the most recent @thesociologicalreview.org magazine, do take a look at the brilliant interview between Laurie Taylor and our own Les Back (@academicdiary.bsky.social).

Sharing word of this event, organised by www.disabilityfutures.uk, and taking place at Glasgow Women's Library on Wednesday 20th May at 4–5.30pm.

The May 2026 issue of The Sociological Review magazine is out now! Les Back and Laurie Taylor take us back to 1960s gangland London, plus we examine how Sicilians remember those killed by the mafia, sociology’s role in Ukraine, and the barriers to adulthood in India. Read it here: buff.ly/rdTFWsq

NEW ARTICLE❗ The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice by Nicholas Beuret (@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social), Matilda Fitzmaurice (@matildaf.bsky.social) and David Harvie (@davidharvie.bsky.social). 🗣 Gholam Khiabany 📕 Read here: irr.org.uk/article/the-...

We're meeting next week for a session on #media and #representation! You can find the bios, abstracs and Teams link in our programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #Ethnicity #Race #OscarsSoWhite #BFTA #BritishAwards #BritishTV #Cinema #Representation #Sociology #CulturalStudies

A reminder about this lecture, taking place tomorrow from 16.00.

Thinking about setting up a podcast as part of your research? Here's an online workshop, organised by @thesociologicalreview.org and featuring our own @crmnlgy.bsky.social, which might get you started.

Here's another new publication to share: an essay on C.L.R. James' critical account of capitalist imperialism, from Andrew Smith, in the new @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective, edited by Allison Holland and Christopher J. Lee.

Newly published with @ersjournal.com, from our own @shalininair.bsky.social, this reflection on how we might best think about intersectionality.

Register below for this online discussion, taking place 27th May, 18.30, (UK time), with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler and our own @academicdiary.bsky.social, organised by the @thesociologicalreview.org.

Struggling with the "Publish or Perish" grind? Join Prof. Karen O’Reilly for a deep dive into communicating sociology. From ethnographic methods to engaging the BBC, learn how to make your research matter beyond the journal. 🗓️ June 17, 2026 | 09:30 BST Register here: buff.ly/XcE1kX8 #Sociology

Tips and strategies for helping students move beyond the fear of making a mistake – and feel more willing to try: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/being-beginner-hard-lets-make-it-easier-our-students #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Catherine Happer on the BBC in The Herald @uofgsociology.bsky.social @catherinehapper.bsky.social

Would you like to lead the development and intellectual agenda of Work, Employment and Society, a highly respected journal with an international profile? We seeks a team of Editors in Chief by 12 May: tinyurl.com/tjres27k #sociology

'A compelling read for those who want to go beyond a simple call for renationalisation, to understand how we have reached the current appalling state of water management, and to consider how we should proceed.' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dayl... 'Murky water' is out now! #booksky

3/3 In ‘Urban ethnography and walking Nan Shepherd’s mountain’, Natanya Mark @nmdlb.bsky.social takes up a lesson from Nan Shepherd about how we might properly attend to the places we inhabit. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

2/2 In ‘On the double binds of telling stories in research, firepits, and the trees we grew under (or didn’t)’, @erdemavsar.bsky.social reflects on the value of gatherings and restorative storytelling in academia. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

1/3 We are very pleased to announce the publication of not one but two new Sociological & Cultural Studies blogs this month.

📙 My book has been longlisted for the BSHS (British Society for the History of Science) Pickstone Prize! I'd also like to thank Dr Harriet Palfreyman and Dr Beth Parkes for their kind book reviews in both: 📘 Technology and Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journa...

A reminder about this event, taking place today.

Our own Diego Maria Malara is one of the co-organisers of a forthcoming lecture with Prof. Joel Robbins (Cambridge). 'The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change' will be taking place in the James McCune Smith Bldg, Rm 639 on Wed 6th May. Do spread the word.

How can we move beyond precarity in academia? Join us on 4 June at Newcastle University Business School for a regional event bringing early career researchers together to share ideas and imagine more sustainable academic futures. Register here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world? Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW

📆There's still time to register for next week's Justice Futures seminar with Anastasia Chamberlen & Henrique Carvalho who will present the main themes of their co-authored book, Questioning Punishment. 28 April, 12-1pm, Online. 📍https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986199379812?aff=oddtdtcreator

Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

What are the connections between war and society in Eastern Europe and East Asia? War frames, edited by Paul Jobin, Horng-Iuen Wang & Olga Kutsenko, is the latest Sociological Review Monograph, and offers insight on war, sovereignty and insecurity. ➡️ buff.ly/OFIuCaD @journals.sagepub.com

What does it mean to speak of #sovereignty from outside the Global North? Join us for our next event: 'Ceding Sovereignty to the More-Than-Human: A #Maori Perspective' with Prof Carl Mika In person, 23 Apr, 2-3.30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

New from @thesccjr.bsky.social, this podcast series is aimed at PhD students, and invites any questions that you might have about doctoral research and all that it involves.

📚 We're looking for book reviews! Send us your take on one of these new titles (750-1000 words) and you'll receive a free print or e-copy. Get in touch with Nayera nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info. Full book list and details in following posts 👇

This is going to be brilliant! We're SO lucky to have Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift coming to visit Stirling. I'm stoked to respond to their inspiring book Trans Femme Futures as part of it. Thanks to @memoryplace.bsky.social and Safet HadžiMuhamedović for organising!

Book now for ‘Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Activist Scholarship’, a free online joint event from @bsatheory.bsky.social and @bsa-asmr.bsky.social Study Groups, 12 May tinyurl.com/mpmx3e44

On 5 May, Prof Javier Auyero of UT Austin will be in Glasgow to present findings from his latest book, Dark Governance: Illegal Organisations and State Power. Please join us for this joint event of GLARN and IPED. 16:00 - 5 May 2026 Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens Followed by a drinks reception

Brilliant to see this new piece from @erdemavsar.bsky.social out now.

Pleased to announce that our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog has just been published. In 'What is wrong with climate change journalism?' @dominicmhinde.bsky.social asks why contemporary journalism has been so poor at facing up to the planetary consequences of climate change. Pls share!

A reminder of this seminar, taking place tomorrow: please do come along if you can, and share the word with others who might be interested.

The Glasgow Lab for Intersex , Non-binary & Trans Studies quilt square for the @transunityquilt.bsky.social is done!!!

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 Håvard Helland, Sam Friedman, Vegard Jarness and Jørn Ljunggren investigate the assumption that occupational status hierarchy is tacitly accepted, or misrecognised, by people across the class hierarchy. Read their article below. doi.org/10.1177/0038...

🎬There's still time to register for next week's screening of Prison in Twelve Landscapes. 📍Tues 7 April, 2-5pm, Edinburgh. Get your tickets now! 🎫 www.eventbrite.com/e/prison-in-...

Our next S&CS seminar, organised with the Lived Religion Network and Glasgow Latin America Research Network, is on April 8th in 42 Bute Gardens (916), 15.30-17.00. Visual anthropologist Myrian Lamrani will be talking about her research on Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca.

Taking place today (Monday 30th March) in the Gilbert Scott Building, Committee Room 251, @rahulraothariel.bsky.social: 'The Phallic Lives of Statues'. Rahul's book is out with @plutopress.bsky.social. The seminar is part of the Centre for Gender History series, and starts at 1.00 pm.

📢 Fully Funded Collaborative PhD Opportunity with @uofgsocsci.bsky.social and @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social, based in @uofgsociology.bsky.social and @thesccjr.bsky.social ‘Our Safety, Our Work, Our Views: Sex workers’ experiences of violence, regulation and resistance in Scotland’ 🔗 lnkd.in/e797Wsvf

Advance notice of this forthcoming seminar, organised by @identitiesjournal.bsky.social, and taking place here in Glasgow next month.