*Deadline – Wednesday 5 November 2025 * Conference to be held 28-29 May 2026 in Larnaka, Cyprus The European Conference on Social Media (ECSM) is a well-established academic conference, held annually for over a decade, with a focus on advancing research and dialogue around social media. The primary aim of ECSM is to provide a platform…
Deadline for submission – Saturday 18 October 2025 Conference to be held 7-8 May 2026 in Gdańsk, Poland The International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR) brings together scholars, practitioners, and researchers from around the world to explore diverse issues related to gender. This conference provides a multidisciplinary platform where participants are encouraged to engage…
Deadline for submission – Saturday 28 February 2026 Dear Colleagues, The spontaneous arrival of asylum seekers at host states’ borders has long embodied the refugee experience. Yet, this is precisely the lived experience that the EU (and its Member States) and the UK are increasingly rejecting and negating. Their migration laws and policies no…
Monday 6 – Friday 31 October 2025, London, UK The award-winning Black Atlantic exhibition is coming to LSE in October. The exhibition, which was first shown at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, reveals the stories that have been silenced from history, not just stories of exploitation, but those of resilience and liberation, too. It shows how…
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm BST, London, UK Join us for a free public event to celebrate the publication of The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade by Jake Subryan Richards. Based on a decade’s research on four continents, The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of…
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm BST, online and London, UK Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this special lecture. Fear of the queer, says McCloskey, undermines our liberty every time, from the persecution of heretics and witches down to the demonization of…
Friday 17 October 2025, 10:00 am – 11:00 am BST, online (UK) Guest Speaker: Paula María Núñez Guerra; Eurodefense Joven España & Universidad Complutense de Madrid Title: Terrorism and violent extremism as key players in the removal of illegal content from the internet Abstract: The Internet has meant that many crimes that are committed physically are now…
Monday 20 October 2025, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK) The British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network facilitates online writing groups for academics, PhD students, early career researchers and anyone with writing goals! The writing groups will be held on Microsoft Teams and be an opportunity for informal, relaxed feedback on…
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00pm BST, online (UK) This hate crime research group webinar will focus on ‘Black Men, Invisibility and Crime: Towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance’ with Dr Martin Glynn, Visiting Professor in Creative Pedagogy, Birmingham City University If you have any questions, please contact the chair of this webinar,…
Thursday 30 October 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm BST, London, UK At a time when academic freedom is under unprecedented political pressure from without and confusion and uncertainty about what it means within, it’s important to distinguish academic freedom from freedom of speech, to differentiate between teaching and indoctrination in the classroom and…