Our #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar is coming back after a short break. You can look forward to eight presentations by SSEES #PhD students at various stages of their studies.

If you want to attend online, follow this space (or the SSEES Events page) for links. Links to the first two presentations are below.

Freya Proudman (22 April): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/apr/resort-court
Olga Doletskaya (29 April): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/apr/creative-family-displays-under-state-surveillance

This year’s #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar Series is kicking off next week (*coincidentally* with my presentation). Join us in the SSEES common room almost every Monday from 11 am (GMT).

(Some sessions will be hybrid – msg me if you're interested)

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/research-centres/arts-humanities-research-student-seminars

Next week at #eisapec23, I'll show how I borrow from Annemarie Mol's work to study how people make their lives secure without deciding a priori what #security is.

This helped me avoid the fixation on violence & threats and learn about things such as home, trust, autonomy etc.

If you're there and interested in bottom-up (vernacular, everyday, ...) studies of security, find me on Thursday at the "International Political Sociologies of the Everyday" panel along with other exciting papers!

I'm spending the summer in Tbilisi where this is normal now. When this arrives to central/northern Europe, rich peeps and middle class will simply spend less time outside their air-conditioned flats, cars, and workplaces and carry on.

There will be talk of "essential workers" again, but covid showed that they can't expect much more than 👏👏👏

Whatever happens in this world, socioecon privileged people will always buy their way out of it. So I guess it doesn't make sense to expect much from them

Can't wait to read this, I bet I'm hardly the only ethnographer for whom exits are literally anxiety-inducing.

#ethnography

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157652/leaving-the-field/

me to my UG students: we should cultivate intellectual humility

textbooks they're asked to read: