School Seminar Series


All seminars take place on Thursday afternoons between 4.30-6.00pm (unless otherwise stated). We meet in room CNEO8 in the SSPSSR building unless stated otherwise.

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song A.M.Song@kent.ac.uk tel: 01227 827042.

Autumn Term

Date Speaker
October 8 Professor Lisa Adkins (Goldsmiths)
‘Postindustrial economies and time’
[Chair: Miri Song]
October 15 Dr Kate O'Brien
'Gendering the Security

Gaze: Female Bouncers, Disorderly Women and British Nightlife'
[Chair: Miri Song]
October 22 Dr. Muzammil Quraishi (University of Salford)
‘Researching Muslims in prison: challenges from the field’  
[Chair: Fahid Qurashi]
October 29 No seminar this week
November 5 David Toke (University of Birmingham)
'The Limits of Deliberation: the cases of onshore and especially offshore wind power'
[Chair: Chris Rootes]
November 12 Professor Glynis Murphy (Kent), with Jenny Talbot (Prison Reform Trust)
‘No One Knows: The Experiences of People with Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System’
[Chair: Peter McGill]
November 19 Professor Dick Houtman (Erasmus University)
'New age religion and the sacred pragmatism'
[Chair: Frank Furedi]
November 26 Professor Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex)
‘Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere’
[Chair: Larry Ray]
December 3 Professor Richard Berthoud (University of Essex)
‘Employment disadvantage: trends over thirty years’
[Chair: Miri Song]
December 10 Professor Pat Carlen (Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent)
'Against Evangelism in Academic Criminology: For Criminology as a Scientific Art'
[Chair: Chris Hale]