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Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Wednesday May 13 th 2009 10.30 -16.00
London School of Economics
Room LG01, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
The BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSPS are taking the opportunity of the publication of ‘Sleepwalking to Segregation’? Challenging myths about race and immigration by Nissa Finney [...]
‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’ – Univ. of Oxford
Oxford Institute of Ageing Spring School
‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’
University of Oxford
19-23 April 2009
Deadline for registrations: 2 April 2009
Download the updated brochure here:
http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/system/files/SpringSchoolBrochure2009.pdf
This four day school will address concepts and tools in demography, bio-demography, bio-medical research and practice, economics, sociology, health and policy. Special emphasis will be placed on developing methodological skills, both from [...]
ESRS Congress – Re-inventing the rural
RE-INVENTING THE RURAL: BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND THE NATURAL
XXIII European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) congress
Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009
Rural areas and people in Europe stand at a crossroads, caught between global and local flows and processes. The ESRS Congress will address this critical moment through the following five key themes:
1. Mobilities and Stabilities in [...]