La La Peace Song by Al Wilson www.shazam.com/track/295772... At @academicdiary.bsky.social gaff for daughters graduation and this is playing in the coffee shop

If you are interested in doing research differently please come and be part of this conversation. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the foundation and funding sociology.

📢 Early bird tickets available! Join Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring #LiveMethods and creative approaches to sociological research. 📅 4 & 18 August 🎟️ Early bird tickets until 24 June buff.ly/0iwnvNw #Sociology #ResearchMethods

Here's some excellent mid-week listening, with @profkepickett.bsky.social, Gurminder Bhambra, and @academicdiary.bsky.social.

Ten years ago I was on sabbatical, trying to finish writing Outskirts. It was largely a book about grief, and so all those deaths (Bowie, Prince, Victoria Wood, Brexit) lingered between the lines

Just out: this reflection on the current field of sociological research, part of a special issue marking 30 years of @socresonline.bsky.social. From our own Les Back (a.k.a. @academicdiary.bsky.social).

Never prouder thank today to be a citizen of Glasgow. The fascists returned to Buchanan Street again in their hundreds and were opposed by people in their thousands. Nae pasaran!

Useful workshop on writing and publishing for anyone who could use some help, run by the wonderful Karen O’Reilly. All the proceeds from the workshop go back into supporting the Foundation’s work. www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...

Again and again and again researchers, activists and people who work to enable communities to live well and peacefully together had warned and offered clear, practical steps. *Last year* I spoke at length of this with @neilmackay.bsky.social It will get worse without action

Episode Six - Stuart Hall discusses The Crisis of the British State: www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/en... Guests are the wonderful Bill Schwarz, co-author of Stuart’s memoirs Familiar Stranger, and Chair of @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social Angela McRobbie

“the far right is less neoliberalism’s antithesis—a horde of enemies coming in from the countryside with torches and pitchforks—than neoliberalism’s children, nurtured from decades of conversations” www.bostonreview.net/articles/fre...

Excited to receive copies of our beautiful new textboook!

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Thanks to everyone who came to the event on The Calypso Kings, Stuart Hall and Music with Mykaell Riley for the Stuart Hall Archive today. Wonderful to see so many old friend and comrades from anti-racist politics in Brum in a packed BRIG Cafe.

Great to be back in Birmingham spent wonderful years here in the 90s and gave myself to this great coy. Always shocks me to confront The Midland Hotel where Enoch Powell gave his infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in the 1968. More sobering in our time where Powellism is alive and kicking.

Looking forward to going back to Birmingham tomorrow with Mykaell Riley for this wonderful session at the BRIG Cafe for the Stuart Hall Archive Project on Stuart Hall’s Calypso Kings and Music in His Thought. Will be playing records and talking about ideas www.tickettailor.com/events/stuar...

July 24th with @alexkelbert.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social myself with a closing panel on racism & nationalism in a changing world Event generously supported by @thesociologicalreview.org including free lunch for attendees on both days

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

24th June sees the launch of the latest Glasgow Media Group (@gu-mg.bsky.social) investigation, edited by @catherinehapper.bsky.social, @pauljreilly.bsky.social and Alison Eldridge. Organised with @redpeppermag.bsky.social, and with @lauraewebster.bsky.social as special guest. Sign up now!

“I love the plurality of the world. Things placed side by side that are incompatible, that celebration of difference and diversity, of strangeness and oddness.” Thinking Allowed host Laurie Taylor talks to sociologist Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social in our May magazine issue. buff.ly/6cri9pb

Episode Four - Stuart Hall on Race, Monarchy and Empire: www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/en... With @academicdiary.bsky.social & Helen Charman On @resonancefm.bsky.social

Don't miss the W.E.B. Du Bois documentary tonight on PBS! #Sociology

A short video on the Sociology of Talcott Parsons. Focus is mainly on the AGIL model but it provides an overview of the main themes from Parsons work. I hope you and your students enjoy! youtu.be/cj16mv5M0Bc

Please share word of this brilliant new podcast series - raising awareness of disabled people in the migration system - from the Working Together Collective, a collaboration between community members, various community organisations, as well as academics including our own @nickyburns.bsky.social.

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.

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

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.

Lots of simple but insightful ideas here on how to teach better and with hope www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/power...

Nuanced reporting on the challenge for left-leaning Jews in the UK as the right moves in on antisemitism www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

This Stuart Hall’s second Naples lecture - such a beautiful achievement by @bizk.bsky.social and so needed amid the rise of Reform. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/en...

Here is the first lecture by Stuart Hall from his Naples course broadcast on Resonance FM www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/en...

A short film on C. Wright Mills 'Sociological Imagination'. Should be useful for those who teach intro to sociology and as an invitation to newcomers. ##publicsociology #socsky #sociology youtu.be/gsgZOjCS8Ao

What's your favourite Sociology joke?

A video introducing Howard Beckers (1963) Outsiders. It covers his definition of deviance as "behaviour that people so label", and his study of cannabis users and jazz musicians. #sociology #publicsociology #socsky youtu.be/B4wlQn1bCqI

After Stuart Hall lays the foundations, you can hear Les Back & Helen Charman talking with me about the making of English Conservatism @resonancefm.bsky.social : www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/en...

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).

Episode Three of the Stuart Hall show The English Stitch is broadcast today on Resonance FM, lovely to listen to Stuart teach. Very happy to have been part of it. English Conservatism is broadcast today on Resonance at 11am-12pm BST www.resonancefm.com (104.4 FM, on digital, online).

So chuffed to write this appreciation of Laurie Taylor. He’s really done so much to provide a platform for sociology in the public sphere. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may...

This is a really beautiful film about the Jazz collection within the Getty Archives from Everything Jazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeG...

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

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.

All 🌟 line-up @jasnijjar.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @alexkelbert.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social + many more who aren't on here. Please share! Full programme TBA soon!

Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑‍🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

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.

Happy Earth Day, NYC!   An affordable city is a sustainable city. I'm proud to support NYCHA’s ambitious new Sustainability Agenda, which includes heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations, induction stoves, and other energy-efficiency upgrades for NYCHA residents over the next five years.

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