The British Journal of Sociology

Edited By: Nigel Dodd

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Online ISSN: 1468-4446

BJS Annual Public Lectures

The BJS Annual Public Lectures provide a platform for leading sociologists to set out their own vision of the most significant questions and debates in their own area of the discipline. The lecture is a unique opportunity, because alongside a text of the lecture itself we publish a set of responses to it – in our March issue – from other scholars within that field. The aim is to offer our readers a clear overview of the ‘state of the art’ in a particular field of sociology, as well as a well-rounded and balanced sense of what the most controversial issues might be. It is in this spirit that the lecture and responses to it our made available to download for free.

Past speakers include Ulrich Beck, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour , Todd Gitlin, John Hagan and Troy Duster.

		2015 BJS Annual Public Lecture Before Theory Comes Theorising or How to Make Social Science More Interesting Richard Swedberg Watch the Interview > Read the Article > Watch the full Lecture >
		2014 BJS Annual Public Lecture A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine Troy Duster Watch the Interview > Read the article > Watch the full Lecture >
		2012 BJS Annual Public Lecture Occupy Predicament: The Movement and the Prospects for Movement Todd Gitlin, Respondent: Craig Calhoun Watch the Interview Read the article > with responses from Craig Calhoun and Todd Gitlin Watch the full Lecture >
		2011 BJS Annual Public Lecture Citizenship and Immigration: Rights and Obligations of Individuality Yasemin Soysal Download Audio > Read the article > with Comments from Ruud Koopmans, Oliver Schmidtke, Lydia Morris and Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
		2010 BJS Annual Public Lecture The Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur: explaining the sources of a continuing state-led genocide John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser Watch the Interview > Read the article > with Comments from Tim Allen, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Michael Mann, Claire Moon and Martin Shaw
		2009 BJS Annual Public Lecture Bringing the Penal State Back In Professor Loic Wacquant Download Audio and Video >
		2008 BJS Annual Public Lecture Disparity, Diversity and Social (dis)order in the contemporary city Professor Rob Sampson Download Audio > Read the article > with Comments from Paul Gilroy, Diane E. Davis, Anthony Bottoms, Richard Sennett, Per-Olof H. Wilkström, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Paul Wiles and Robert J. Sampson Podcast > Part 1 A Brief History of Disorder of the podcast.Podcast > Part 2 Getting to Grips with Disorder of the podcast.
2007 BJS Annual Public Lecture Sexual Politics, torture and secular time Judith Butler Read the article >