The BSA Theory Study Group has 3 exciting events scheduled for the coming weeks!
27 February (3.30pm GMT)
Theorizing from Lived Experience
3 March (7pm GMT)
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care
26 March (5pm GMT)
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe
#Sociology
ALT Events
Forthcoming Events
27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
Online
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
Online
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
Online
Call for Papers
Theorising from Lived Experience: An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300-350 words and a short, 100-word bio by 10 June 2026.
Workshop: 24 Sept
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Activist Scholarship
12 May 2026 (4.00-5.30pm BST)
Online
Speakers:
Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield)
Panos Theodoropoulos (KCL)
AK Thompson (Movement-based scholar and organizer)
Register: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26/03/2026, 5pm GMT
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens in contemp. social theory
ALT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Online
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26/03/2026, 5pm GMT
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens in contemp. social theory
ALT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Online
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26/03/2026, 5pm GMT
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens in contemp. social theory
ALT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Online
Many thanks to everyone who attended the event today! The video recording will be shared soon.
Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th of March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other scholarly collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
ALT Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC 0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto press
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other scholarly collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
ALT Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC 0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto press
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other scholarly collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
ALT Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC 0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto press
Excellent Thinking Allowed episode with BSA President Les Back & BSA Vice-President Imogen Taylor, talking about the impotance of social theory for analysing phenomena in the contemporary world. The episode can be accessed for free via this link bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rql…#Sociology
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…#Sociology#AcademicChatter
ALT Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…#Sociology#AcademicChatter
ALT Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online
If you've tried to register but the link did not work/indicated that the event is fully booked, we're pleased to announce that the portal should be working once again!
Please visit this page to register for our Theorising from Lived Experience event: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…#Sociology#AcademicChatter
ALT Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT) Online
This event will launch a book review symposium published in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal, and continue conversations around care, resistance, and solidarity.
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
ALT Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
Supported by the BSA Theory Study Group
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Online
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…#Sociology#AcademicChatter
ALT Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT)
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other scholarly collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
ALT Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC 0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto press
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26/03/2026, 5pm GMT
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens in contemp. social theory
ALT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Online
Speakers include Sita Balani (QMUL), Piro Rexhepi (LSE) and Kristina Millona (Indep. Researcher), Barbora Černušáková (Manchester), Amani Hassani (Brunel), and Sabrina Axster (Johns Hopkins). The issue editors Sarah Bufkin (Birmingham) & Ida Danewid (Sussex) will chair the event