The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and European SSSI Lancaster University 4 , 5 and 6 July 2018 ‘Whose side are we on?’ Power, Stigma, Transgression and Exclusion in Everyday Life. Some Notes for: “Whose Side Are We On?” Revisited: On Narrative Power, Inequality and The Struggle for Human…
Annual Symbolic Interaction Conference
Whose side are we on? Power, Stigma, Transgression and Exclusion in Everyday Life 4,5,6 July 2018 University of Lancaster For more info: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sssi2018/ Ken Plummer: “Whose Side Are We On?” Revisited: On Narrative Power, Inequality and Hope ‘To have values or not to have values: the question is always with us’. And so Howard S.…
The Political in the Personal: Families and Sexualities in Times of Social Change in Europe
A Conference to be held at University of Louvain, Louvain-La- Neuve, Belgium, 26-7 April WATCH THIS SPACE OR GO TO https://sites.uclouvain.be/conference-politicalpersonal/
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts Once again it is World AIDS Day. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2016, 1.0 million people died from HIV-related causes globally. There were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the…
50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years
To mark the 50th Anniversary Changes in the law…… a recent little piece written for the British Sociological Association Web site at: British Sociological Association: News: July 27th 50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years On 27th July 1967, the Sexual Offences Act, ‘an act to amend the law of England…
New Article: On the Infinitude of Life Stories – Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years
I have just published a new short article. This is an extract of an article published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQWorldmaking 4.1 (2017) p189-197. FROM: Tony Adams and Derek Bolen eds ‘Queer Auto/ethnographies” Forum for QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. A Story of My Stories Over the years I have told many sexual stories.…
Working: Marvellous Old Musical Reworked
This is a great summer for the musical revivals in London: An American in Paris, 42nd Street, Carousel, On the Town. They have all been wonderful productions. And Oklahoma still to come in August in the Proms. But off centre a bit, a marvellous new production of Working has opened at the Southwark Playhouse (…
New Publication: November 2016
A new article was published in November last year. I have just put a working version on line. See “Narrative Power, sexual stories and the politics of sexual story telling“
Today is the 10th anniversary of my transplant!
Everyday, for the past ten years, I have quietly celebrated the joy of a human life. When, on February 18th 2007, I was wheeled into the operating room at King’s Hospital for a liver transplant, my life was saved. Two years earlier I had been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and had increasingly come…
I am lecturing social psychology for a few weeks
When I started teaching at Essex in 1975, one of my main courses was Social Psychology. This year I am returning ti give four lectures on this course. 40 years on! And the subject has moved on You can find this by clicking here SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SC213-5-FY 2017 SUPPLEMENTARY HANDOUT FOR WEEKS 17-20, LECTURES 12-15…