What's On? - Events & Exhibitions at ICOSS
ICOSS is the home of Social Science in Sheffield and as such we play host to a wide range of events from across the faculty and aim to run Social Science themed exhibitions every month. Here are details of upcoming events and exhibitions at ICOSS which may be of interest, and open to, a wider audience...
JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2012 - CONANX exhibition
The Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety (CONANX) group will be holding an exhibition of their work throughout January and February in ICOSS. More details to be announced soon.
1st MARCH 2012 - ICOSS Annual Lecture 2012
This year's annual lecture will be given by Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Warwick and titled 'The Insubstantial Pageant: Producing an Untoward Land'.
The lecture will consider how we might think about the capitalist economy that now seems to be emerging, one based on spontaneous synthesis. Following an extended introduction, the first part of the lecture examines the main changes that have been taking place in the economy grouped around the notion and value of innovation. It will argue that these changes might be thought of as adding up to a second Industrial Revolution. The second part of the lecture will consider how these changes are producing a different kind of production - one which is both industrial and cultural at once - which is constructing naturalism. The industrial revolution is often characterized as the first break in human history with the natural economy. But what if the natural economy was now being recovered - but by other means - as a redefinition of what counts as land? The final part of the lecture will then turn to modern cities and the imprint that these changes are making upon them as this new land is founded and endowed and rented out to grow new kinds of crop upon.
The lecture begins at 5.15pm, 1 March 2012 in the Conference Room at ICOSS. This event is open to all but by ticket only - available from j.e.parkin@sheffield.ac.uk
MARCH 2012 - "Writing in the Street" exhbition
The "Writing in the Street" project will be holding an exhibition of its work throughout March. More details to be announced soon.
APRIL 2012 - CEES exhibition
The new ICOSS research centre CEES (Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability) will be holding an exhibition of its work throughout April. More details soon.