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17 September 2015

BU social science seminars

Public engagement Rachel Bowen

A new series of lunchtime social science seminars will be getting underway at BU this autumn. Featuring academics from all areas of social sciences, the programme will tackle important and topical issues and showcase some of BU’s excellent research.

The seminars will take place at 1pm and will last for around 50 minutes – please feel free to bring your lunch.

All staff and students are welcome.

Date and Venue

Speaker & Title

30 September 2015

R301

Ann Brooks

‘Sex, Lies and Videotape’: Sex and the Politics of Organizational Identity in the US – The Case of David Petraeus

28 October 2015

R301

Dan Jackson

Journalism and Public Relations: shifting boundaries, shifting power relations

18 November 2015

R303

Stephanie Schwander-Sievers

Ethnographies of Memory – the cultural reproduction of militancy in post-war Kosovo

2 December 2015

R303

Anna Feigenbaum and Daniel Weissman

Vulnerable Warriors: Counter-terrorism and the rise of Militarised Policing

20 January 2016

R301

Kip Jones

Performative Social Science: What it is, What it isn’t, and Where it is now

17 February 2016

R301

Sarah Scarfe

How do you exercise with epilepsy? Insights into the psychosocial impact of exercising with epilepsy?

16 March 2016

S206

Hyun Joo Lim

Voices of the secret state: human rights activism among North Korean defectors in the UK

20 April 2016

R303

Edwin Van Teijlingen

Maternal health research in Nepal

18 May 2016

R301

Deborah Gabriel

Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia

15 June 2016

R301

Marcellus Mbah

An exploration into the dynamics of being an international student and the complexities surrounding their placement and employability prospects

6 July 2016

R301

Ann Luce

Journalistic Representations of Suicide and the Discourses Created