
The latest research and thought on contemporary sociology presented by leading sociologists. All staff and students, graduate and undergraduate, are welcome. This year’s series is convened by Professor Patrick Baert.
Time: 12.30 – 2pm Dates: alternate Tuesdays during term time
Venue: Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ
Access information: The seminar room is accessed via two short flights of steps and a lift. Please contact communications@sociology.cam.ac.uk ahead of seminars to arrange access.
Lent Term 2025 - upcoming events
28 January The Struggle for Meaning in Post-Assadist Syria
Speaker: Dr Zeina Al-Azmeh, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Chair: Professor Hazem Kandil, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
11 February The Love Jones Cohort: Examining the Lifestyles of those Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
Speaker: Dr Kris Marsh, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
25 February Born to Rule: the making and remaking of the British Elite
Speakers: Professor Sam Friedman and Professor Aaron Reeves, London School of Economics
11 March No such thing as society? Learning from AI in the street.
Speaker: Professor Noortje Marres, Professor in Science, Technology and Society in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
Michaelmas Term 2024 - past events with additional information and videos
The Problem of White Normativity. (15 October)
Speaker: Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of sociology at Duke University
Chair: Professor Patrick Baert, Professor of Social Theory, University of Cambridge
The Love of Books in the UK. (29 October)
Speaker: Dr María Angélica Thumala Olave, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Professor Patrick Baert, Professor of Social Theory, University of Cambridge
The Sociology of Religion without ‘Religion’? (12 November)
Speaker: Dr Lois Lee, Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
Chair: Dr Robert Dorschel, Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Cambridge
Non-White Meta-Categories in the US and UK. (26 November)
Speaker: Mari Sanchez, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Harvard University
Chair: Dr Ali Meghji, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, University of Cambridge