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...

🔉 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...

This Friday ! Come along! 👇

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Kerry Marshall: Slow Dancing (1992)

★★★ 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 👇

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...

Advance notice of these sessions, aimed at early career researchers and organised by @thesociologicalreview.org. They take place here in Glasgow in November.

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

@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...

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.

The pioneering US health reformer and breakfast cereal inventor introduced plant-based meat substitutes to the public.

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

Next week @freedomtorunfilm.bsky.social is being screened at @stir.ac.uk Tickets still available! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2503801...

“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...

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.

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....

Absolutely Timely!

An amazing piece of work, thought-provoking, and inspiring!!!

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised

Today’s new purchases.

Intercultural Futures - new podcast with Crisina Ros I Sole and myself www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili... www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili...

Weekend listening! Lucy Weir talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating 'Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury' newbooksnetwork.com/performance-...

What is talent? #ballet #contemporarydance #habitus #culturalcapital Open access.. see below!