Bangor School of Social Science Seminar Series 2010/2011

The School of Social Sciences at Bangor University, along with WISERD, is hosting a range of seminars during the 2010/2011 academic year. Please find details of forthcoming seminars below.

Rural poverty and resilience
Date: 6th October 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Jane Acton, J & M Sustainable Developers
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Social Work as a Promoter of Civic Engagement – Strategies, Opportunities and Problems
Date: 20th October 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Michael Hembrecht, University of Social Sciences in Nuremberg
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Migratory Drift: Why Temporary Migrants Stay
Date: 27th October 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Andrew Thompson, Head of Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

How should society decide what to do about the environment and will economic growth save us?
Date: 17th November 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Neil Hockley, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

The Criminalization of Sharing: File-sharing and the music industry
Date: 24th November 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Matthew David, Brunel University
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

What makes a terrorist? Some UK evidence
Date: 8th December 2010
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Professor John Thornton, Bangor Business School, Bangor University
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Legal Guardianship in Continental Europe – A Comparative Approach
Date: 12th January 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Walter Fuchs, Vienna Institute for Sociology of Law and Crime
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

The use of Welsh in the third sector in Wales
Date: 2nd February 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Cynog Prys, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Towards the Light: Why do non-Welsh-speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education for their children? The Case of Cwm Rhymni, Caerffili
Date: 23rd February 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Rhian Hodges, School of Social Sciences, Bangor
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Distraction of Proportional Representation
Date: 23rd March 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Professor Shanti Chakravarty, Bangor Business School, Bangor University
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

The Danish Welfare model in a Comparative Perspective
Date: 5th April 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker:Assistant Professor Dr. Jacob Magnussen School of Social Work, Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen
Venue:Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

‘Weakness’ as ‘Strength’? The Institutional  Grounding of Knowledge-based Commodity Chains in a Less-favoured Region
Date: 13th April 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Kean Birch, Dept of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Knowledge Work in ICT-Services – Health effects as Threat to Innovation Capacities’
Date: 4th May 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Guido Becke, Bremen University Research Centre for Sustainability Studies
Venue: Room LR5, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Environmental Health Officers and the Prevention of Food Crime
Date: 18th May 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: John Minkes, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swansea University
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

Terrorist (E)motives: The Existential Attractions of Terrorism
Date: 25th May 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Simon Cottee, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University & Professor Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

The Question Concerning Renewable Technology: Windfarms, Heidegger and the New Romantics
Date: 1st June 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Ian Gardner, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

Vulnerability and resilience in contemporary green thinking
Date: 15th June 2011
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr John Barry, Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Governance, Queens University, Belfast
Venue: Room G1, Main Arts Building, Bangor University