Upcoming Lectures

[Partial and provisional list, please check for updates and verify information on the website of the inviting party]

2012           “Fusing Carnality and Theory Across Sites: A Response to my Spanish Critics.” Response to COPOLIS Seminar and the roundtable on Ignacio González Sánchez (ed.), Teoría social, marginalidad avanzada y Estado penal. Aproximaciones al trabajo de Loïc Wacquant (Dykinson Impresa, 2011), Departament de Sociologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 20 December.

2012           “Advanced Urban Marginality and the Return of the Penal State.” Public lecture in the series International Sociological Debates at the University of Barcelona (ISDUB), Grup Interuniversitari Copolis, Grup de Recerca Consolidat per la Generalitat de Catalunya, and Departament de Sociologia i Anàlisi de les Organitzacions, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 19 December.

2012           “Marginality, Sovereignty, and the Penal State across Five Centuries.” Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, 30 November.

2012           “Taking Bourdieu Down in the Hole: Social Theory Hits the Streets.” Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 30 November.

2012           “Desperately Seeking Neoliberalism: A Sociological Catch.” Keynote address to the Annual Meetings of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Brisbane, Australia, 28 November.

2012           “Le corps, le ghetto et l’État penal: jalons et leçons d’un itinéraire de recherche.” Colloque Corail, Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Jeudi 22 novembre.

2012           “Territorial Stigmatization: Its Rise, Logics and Effects.” Public lecture, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 November 2012.

2012           “Workfare, Prisonfare, and the Remaking of the State.” Executive panel on “The Refusal of Relation,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 16 November.

2012           “Bourdieu, the Field of Power, and the Penal State.” Panel on The Many Hands of the State, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, 3 November.

2012           “The Iron Fist of Neoliberalism.” Session on Steps to a Historical Sociology of Neoliberalism II (co-organized with Jamie Peck), Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, 2 November.

2012           Presider and discussant, Session on Steps to a Historical Sociology of Neoliberalism I (co-organized with Jamie Peck), Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, 2 November.

2012           “The Production and Penalization of the Precariat in the Neoliberal Age.” Public lecture, Liu Institute for Global Studies and Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1 November.

2012           “Territories of Poverty as Lynchpin Between  Marginality and Penality.” Conference on Territories of Poverty, Global Metropolitan Studies Program and School of Urban Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 15 September.

2012           “The State as Marginality Machine.” Conference on “The Truly Disadvantaged 25 Years Later,” Kennedy School of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, and Department of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, 13-14 September.

2012           “Sport as Carnal Theater.” Keynote address to the Annual meeting of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport (EASS), “Sport in Globalised Societies,” Berne, Switzerland, 23 June.

2012           “The State as Producer of Urban Marginality.” Keynote address to the Conference on “Urban Marginality and the State,” Network on Advanced Urban Marginality, Centre de sociologie urbaine (CNRS) and Collège de France, Paris, 20-21 June.

2012           “Le grand hiatus: tableau raisonné de la ségrégation ethnique en Europe” (with Jean-Louis Pan Ké Shon). Journée INED sur Ségrégation socio-ethnique: dynamiques et conséquences, Institut national d’études démographiques, Paris, 13 juin.

2012           Mini-course on “Urban Marginality, Ethnicity, and the Penal State in the Neoliberal Age.” Faculty of the social sciences, Wien Universität, Vienna, Austria, 6-8 June.

2012           “Three Steps to a Historical Sociology of Neoliberalism.” Public lecture, Faculty of the social sciences, Wien Universität, Vienna, Austria, 5 June.

2012           “The Ring, the Street and the Prison: Lessons from a Unforeseen Research Journey.” Doctoral workshop, Department of Sociology, Wien Universität, Vienna, Austria, 5 June.

2012           Presider and discussant (with Mike Savage), “Pierre Bourdieu Comes to Town: Pertinence, Principles and Applications.”  Conference on “Symbolic Power and Urban Inequality: Taking Bourdieu to Town,” York European Centre for Cultural Exploration and the Centre for Urban Research, University of York, York, England, 31 May-1^st June.

2012           “Pierre Bourdieu Comes to Town: Pertinence, Principles and Applications.”  Special lecture and Keynote address, conference on “Symbolic Power and Urban Inequality: Taking Bourdieu to Town,” York European Centre for Cultural Exploration and the Centre for Urban Research, University of York, York, England, 31 May-1^st June.

2012           “La pénalisation de la misère à l’européenne.” Public lecture, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (STATEC) and Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 9 May.

2012           “Putting Bourdieu to Work: Principles and Illustrations.” École doctorale, faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 9 May.

2012           “Social Insecurity and Urban Seclusion in Western Europe.” PSV Lecture, Faculteit Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, 29 March.

2012           “Protect or Punish: Managing Urban Marginality in the 21st Century.” Department  of Sociology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, 29 March.

2012           “Urban Marginality, State Restructuring and Social Justice.” Keynote address to the Politeia Conference, Centre for Economics and Ethics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Belgium, 28 March.

2012           “Advanced Marginality and the Stigmatization of Neighborhoods of Relegation.” Expert debate with Philippe Van Parijs on “Ghettos: The Consequences of the Stigmatization of Problem Neighbourhoods in Cities such as Brussels,” Politeia Conference, Metaforum Leuven and Centre for Economics and Ethic, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Belgium, 28 March.

2012           “Some Questions about the Question of Justice.” Expert debate with Frank Vandenbroucke on “Theories of Justice and Concrete Poverty: Economists, Philosophers and Sociologists on Poverty Policy,” Politeia Conference, Metaforum Leuven and Centre for Economics and Ethic, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Belgium, 28 March.

2012           “Paria’s van de stad: interview with Bert de Vroey,” Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), 14 March (broadcast on 18 March).

2012           “From the Suffering Body to the Penal State: Genealogy of a Research Agenda.” Master class, Workshop on Marginalization, Seclusion and the State, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14 March.

2012           “Polanyi, Schmitt, Bourdieu: Rethinking the Neoliberal State.” Public lecture, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and Program group on the Dynamics of Culture and Citizenship, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15 March.

2012           “The Penalization of Migration as Theater of Sovereignty.” Keynote address to the conference “Access Denied,” Law school, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14 March.

2012           “The Criminal, the Pauper and the Foreigner in the Construction of Citizenship.” Keynote address to the Symposium on Citizenship and its Others, COMPAS, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 12 March.

2012           “Remettre la prison en scène.” Public debate with Stéphane Mercurio et Jean-Marie Delarue, on the movie A l’ombre de la République, L’Étoile theater, La Courneuve, France, 9 March.

2012           Neighborhood Denigration and State Effects as Founts of Urban Inequality.” Conference on “Ethics of the Urban: the City and the Spaces of the Political,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,  2 March.

2012           “Arrêt sur image: un sociologue chez les boxeurs.” Course on “Épistémologie et enquêtes en sciences sociales,” University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 7 February.

2012           “Tools for Rethinking the Transatlantic Politics of Racialization.” Workshop on “Histoire transnationale des pensées raciales XVIII-XXe siècle,” Centre d'histoire du XIXe de Paris1-Paris4 and NewYork University in Paris, Paris, 6 February.

2012           “Que faire de Bourdieu dans tous ses États?” International conference on “Penser l’État avec Pierre Bourdieu,” Collège de France, Paris, France, 23 January.