Event overview
'The chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a statistical table: some thoughts on surrealism and sociology'
Professor Derek Sayer, Department of History, Lancaster University
In the spirit of Paul Feyerabend's Against Method, and against the background of the apparatus of disciplinary regulation that was REF 2014 (Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF, 2014), I ask: What might an undisciplined sociology look like?
A lifetime's engagement with social theory (Marx's Method, 1978; The Violence of Abstraction, 1986; Capitalism and Modernity, 1990) and historical exploration (The Great Arch, 1985; The Coasts of Bohemia, 1998; Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century, 2013) suggests to an aging sociologist who is increasingly disrespectful of the orders of the academy that an important part of the answer lies in surrealism.
There will be a drinks reception held after Prof Sayer's talk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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