Lito Tsitsou (She, They)

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Kerry Marshall: Slow Dancing (1992)

Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep at Sadler’s Wells East Read our review of Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep at Sadler’s Wells East, London: hip-hop theatremaker goes deep and dark with a mythic quest tale wrapped in gloom

★★★ Review: Botis Seva/Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep – Hip-hop theatremaker goes deep and dark with a mythic quest tale wrapped in gloom 👇

2025 Visualista Film Festival The Visualista Film Festival is organised by the International Visual Sociology Association, and is usually held during our annual conference which moves to a different international venue each year. ...

Festival of Community: Pipe Dreams, a film by PhD Student @nmdlb.bsky.social is available to view online as part of the Visual Sociology IVSA Film Festival 2025 programme @visualsociology.bsky.social , running until 4 July. visualsociology.org/2025-visuali...

Advance notice of these sessions, aimed at early career researchers and organised by @thesociologicalreview.org. They take place here in Glasgow in November.

@drfigtree.bsky.social

Artist Meets Researcher Bringing together artists and researchers to showcase creative practice and build collaborations for communicating research through art.

Artist Meets Researcher 18/ 7 , Clarice Pears Community Hub ( rooms 163,165)
A new event series hosted by the Media Subject Group at the University of Glasgow designed to showcases creative research practice and foster healthy collaborations. @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

@uofgsps.bsky.social organized by colleagues across SSPS please share!

Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025 Second annual conference, showcasing class activities which demonstrate imaginative teaching.

This month sees the 'Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025', organised by colleagues here in the School of Social and Political Sciences, including our own @litots.bsky.social...

New Call for Abstracts! Cultural Sociology welcomes articles that draw on the work of Janet Wolff to discuss approaches to the sociology of art and the production of sociological knowledge concerning the arts. Submit by 16 September. Details can be found in the CFP: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_cult

New Call for Abstracts! Cultural Sociology welcomes articles that draw on the work of Janet Wolff to discuss approaches to the sociology of art and the production of sociological knowledge concerning the arts.

Submit by 16 September. Details are in the CFP:
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

New research highlights economic and ‘spillover’ impact of subsidised arts - Arts Professional The wider arts and culture sector contributed £19.1 billion of Gross Value Added (GVA) to the economy in 2023, with £1.35 billion stemming from publicly funded organisations, according to a new report....

The wider arts and culture sector contributed £19.1 billion of Gross Value Added (GVA) to the economy in 2023, with £1.35 billion stemming from publicly funded organisations, according to a new report.

How controversial nutritionist John Harvey Kellogg pioneered the path to modern plant-based eating The pioneering US health reformer and breakfast cereal inventor introduced plant-based meat substitutes to the public.

The pioneering US health reformer and breakfast cereal inventor introduced plant-based meat substitutes to the public.

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.

This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London

Stirling to host screening of documentary about Scots and Palestinian runners An exclusive screening of a film documenting a collaboration between runners from Palestine and Glasgow will be held in Stirling next week

Next week @freedomtorunfilm.bsky.social is being screened at @stir.ac.uk Tickets still available! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2503801...

“In introducing our new format, we reflect on the example of the late Michael Burawoy. We hope the Magazine can carve out space for what he called a Living Sociology that engages multiple publics.“

Incoming editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce our March issue. buff.ly/XhoQHjT

Under-fire university announces MSP as new rector Dundee University announced MSP Maggie Chapman as its new rector days after she expressed "concern and frustration" at its financial…

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502751...

A big thank you @rcsofficial.bsky.social @bethjwhiteside and Louisa Ross for having me work with your 3d year modern ballet students on Sociology of dance on Friday! What an amazing group! The future of dance is in good hands!!

Enjoy and have a happy Christmas

‘It almost felt a bit barbaric’: Scottish contraceptive coil users speak out about pain How much pain is ‘normal’ during a coil fitting? In Scotland, patients share their experiences of dismissed suffering and demand better from reproductive healthcare

Hi Bluesky! I wrote for @pillowtalkscot.bsky.social on the pain experienced during coil (IUD) fittings, removal and use, and the changes to reproductive healthcare contraceptive users in Scotland would like to see 1/2 pillowtalkscotland.substack.com/p/contracept...

Welsh arts budget rise won’t heal sector’s ‘gaping wound’ - Arts Professional Arts organisations in Wales have tentatively welcomed the country's draft budget for the next financial year as a positive first step for the sector after significant cuts in previous years. However,...

Arts organisations in Wales have tentatively welcomed the country’s draft budget for the next financial year as a positive first step for the sector after significant cuts in previous years.

Identities: 30 years on Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 6, 2024)

New for the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

'Identities: 30 years on' by @nasarmeer.bsky.social and me

Check out the rest of our collection, events and podcasts
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Absolutely Timely!

An amazing piece of work, thought-provoking, and inspiring!!!

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised Netflix has successfully dramatised the epic Colombian saga that even Gabriel García Márquez did not believe could be adapted for the screen.

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised

Today’s new purchases.

Multilingualism

Intercultural Futures - new podcast with Crisina Ros I Sole and myself
www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili...
www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/multili...

Weekend listening! Lucy Weir talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating 'Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury' newbooksnetwork.com/performance-...

What is talent? #ballet #contemporarydance #habitus #culturalcapital

Open access.. see below!