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.

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

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

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Terence Edward "Terry" Hall. Born OTD in 1959, Coventry, Warwickshire. Died 18/12/2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SElg...

Looking forward to saying a few words at this celebration.

China is ordering its refineries to halt exports. Flows of crude exports from the Gulf to Chinese refineries, which are in turn generate refined products exports, are an essential part of the world economy. Adam Hanieh's history of global oil, Crude Capitalism, has a good chapter on this.

Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.

Out now on the Sociology Staffroom podcast, @academicdiary.bsky.social discusses his work and his role as this year's @britsoci.bsky.social president.

Great episode of Thinking Allowed with two great contributors @academicdiary.bsky.social and @imogentyler.bsky.social. Well worth a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Really enjoyed doing this interview for the Sociology staffroom sociology-staffroom.captivate.fm/episode/seas...

Love this!

Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

Something to listen to tomorrow, or at a future date: our own @academicdiary.bsky.social and Imogen Tyler on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tuesday 24th February, at 3.30pm, UK time.

Moral decadence and spiritual sickness, Cornel West so right! www.instagram.com/reel/DU9_wcz...

I don’t usually cross the steams of my academic and musical lives - but just so sickened by the sexual exploitation and misogyny of powerful and degenerate elites and their rotten tech bro empires - Funk the Patriarchy II 8th March, Glad Cafe www.instagram.com/reel/DU-_VWQ...

Here's a new article from our own @academicdiary.bsky.social, as well as @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and Maisie Tomlinson, which reflects on how we might teach research methods in ways that help foster a ‘demonstrably alive’ sociological craft.

This is a fabulous episode of Thinking Allowed with Kate Herrity and Kate Gooch www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just been down to BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow to record an episode of Thinking Allowed with Imogen Tyler on the value of theory with Laurie Taylor - Imogen is so great to listen to.

The new Sociological Review Magazine is out. Brilliant interview with Karl von Holdt by political crisis and sociological engagement by Carin Runciman thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/

Love this Jimmy Reed’s speech at UofG www.instagram.com/reel/DUs0yev...

Love listening Cornel preach sociology… ‘let the ears of the guilty ones tingle with truth’. www.instagram.com/reel/DUR7OnD...

Had a wonderful trip to speak at the Winter Seminar for the Norwegian Sociological Association… lots of serious thinking and ribald fun - Norwegian pop songs sung loudly in the bar late into the night. Freezing though in Storefjell -20 one night!

Remembering dear friend Caspar Melville today who died last year. Caspar and I would take Goldsmiths students on an annual pop music history walks around Soho, London. Sorely missed RIP. A beautiful spirit.

Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉 es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...