Wednesday 18 November 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm GMT, online (UK) As part of UK Disability History Month, Dr Louise Hewitt based at the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich will present a paper on the ‘Disabled Witness Project’. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Irene Zempi (irene.zempi@ntu.ac.uk). Find…
Thursday 19 November 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK As governments, democratic and authoritarian alike, restrict children’s access to social media in the name of protection, this lecture asks a harder question: protection for whom, and from what? Bans are typically justified through an abstract, universal image of “the…
Tuesday 24 November 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK Immigration has become one of the defining political issues of twenty-first-century Europe. But what do Europeans actually think about immigration, why do they think it, and how are these attitudes changing politics? Drawing on decades of comparative evidence and original…
Friday 27 November 2026, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm GMT+1, online (Italy) The Universities of Strathclyde and Padua, together with Global Action for Trans Equality and Gruppo Trans, invite you to an online half-day conference on “Trans rights: the difficult path towards equality” on Friday 27th November, 8am-12:30pm. This is the annual conference of…
Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand He kai kei aku ringa: there is food in my hands is a Māori whakataukī that speaks to resilience and hope. This inaugural Conference for the Social Sciences, offers us a way of thinking about knowledge as sustenance. Our whakataukī asks us to think…
Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 December 2026, Cork, Ireland This in-person conference is a joint endeavour between University College Cork, the Norbert Elias Foundation, RC56 Historical Sociology of the International Sociological Association, and the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization Research Network. The conference will address the historical dynamics of social pathologies. It is concerned with disease in a…
Monday 7 December 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK Over the last decades, state violence has intensified across Europe. Police powers have expanded, repressive migration regimes have become increasingly entrenched, and recurring moral panics continue to focus on the perceived “criminality” of migrants and racialised youth. This talk examines…
Wednesday 9 December 2026, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT, online (UK) Guest Speaker: Dr Loren Parton Title: The knowledge and understanding of practitioners of technology-facilitated violence and abuse Abstract: Image- based sexual abuse (IBSA) is a specific form of technology-facilitated violence and abuse (TFVA). Whilst scholarship in this area is growing, and has value in drawing…
Wednesday 16 December 2026, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm GMT, 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…
Monday 18 January 2027, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT, 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…