The Bauman Institute

As a part of the Histories of Violence project, directed by Dr Brad Evans (POLIS, University of Leeds), The Guardian newspaper has launched its 10 Years of Terror series: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/10-years-of-terror

Today, a specially commissioned video lecture by Zygmunt Bauman was launched on the Comment is Free website and can be accessed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/01/zygmunt-bauman-terrorism-video

For more information on the Histories of Violence project, see:

http://www.historiesofviolence.com/

http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/bauman/research/

For a recent interview with Zygmunt Bauman, visit: http://www.citsee.eu/interview/past-central-europe-future-europe-interview-zygmunt-bauman

www.citsee.eu<http://www.citsee.eu/> is a website of the CITSEE project (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia) and is focused on the over-arching theme of “Citizenship in Southeast Europe”.

For more on the CITSEE project, see: www.citsee.eu<http://www.citsee.eu/>

Two Interviews with Zygmunt Bauman published in Eurozene in 2004 and 2007, The unwinnable war and A postmodern grid of the worldmap?

Eurozene is a partner in the European Forum International Conference, Holding on to Freedom, in Bratislava on 5 and 6 November 2010 where Zygmunt is speaking.

I very much liked Mark’s ‘thought piece’ published in Compass, the topic of Mark’s last post, Bauman’s compass, and on which I commented. It has made me think that the article I am currently writing on the practical and policy implications of Zygmunt’s thoughts on what sociology is under conditions of liquid modernity and what it can contribute to the formation and development of a new left movement could well be construed as an essay. If so I could offer it to Compass or perhaps this Community could offer a platform for members to contribute think pieces and essays. One or two delegates at the Rethinking Global Society conference suggested this might be a useful development of the Institute’s community site. This has not been discussed with Mark yet but it would interesting to get members’ views. I am supposing that an essay is, as the word suggests, a trial of an idea and that although conforming to certain scholarly standards, would not necessarily have the rigour of argumentation and referencing of a formal peer reviewed article. It is likely to be rather more experimental, suggestive and personal. This is not to say there wouldn’t have to be some sort of editorial process. But this would be a matter for discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

At the University of Leeds on Wednesday 13th May 2009 the ICPS and the AHRC-sponsored ‘Postcolonial Europe’ network co-hosted a spectacularly well-attended public dialogue between Etienne Balibar (Emeritus Professor at Paris X Nanterre and the University of California, Irvine) and Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds).

The lively dialogue, between two of Europe’s foremost public intellectuals, revolved around the current status of Europe in a globalised world, the perceived qualifications for being European, and whether or not Europe could be considered as a post-colonial space.

A video and audio file of the event is available from a page here Europe and the Rest: Bauman and Balibar

The School of Sociology and Social Policy Alumni event at Leeds University on May 6th 2006 was a great success. Approximately 65 ex-students, undergraduates and postgraduates, and a number of past staff were able to attend. The highlight was the talk given by Prof. Zygmunt Bauman, “Liquid Modern Challenges to Education”. As usual his talk was entertaining and challenging in equal degree.

Liquid Modern Challenges to Education – the talk
50 minutes mp3 file 23 Mbytes
Liquid Modern Challenges to Education – the discussion
31 minutes mp3 file 14 Mbytes

“World Social Science Report 2010” – produced by ISSC & UNESCO with contributions from SSRC staff – available at the following link:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report/

http://www.wehavephotoshop.com/PHILOSOPHY%20NOW/PHILOSOPHY/Bauman/Am%20I%20My%20Brother’s%20Keeper.pdf

‘Utopia with no Topos’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www.wehavephotoshop.com/PHILOSOPHY%20NOW/PHILOSOPHY/Bauman/Bauman,.Zygmunt.-.Utopia.With.No.Topos.pdf

‘Wars of the Globalization Era’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://club.fom.ru/books/bauman.pdf

‘Living in Utopia’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/pdf/20051027-Bauman2.pdf

‘The Demons of an Open Society’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicevents/pdf/20051020-bauman1.pdf

‘Has the Future a Left?’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www.iceta.org/zb150507.pdf

‘Consuming Life’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://atgstg01.pineforge.com/mcdonaldizationstudy5/articles/Consumption_Articles%20PDFs/Bauman.pdf

‘As Seen on TV’, by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www.kuleuven.be/ep/viewpic.php?LAN=E&TABLE=EP&ID=135

‘Liquid Modernity and Cultural Analysis’, by Griselda Pollock
http://metaether.org/words/articles/articles/liquid%20modernity%20and%20cultural%20analysis.pdf

Paths in Zygmunt Bauman’s Social Thought by Keith Tester

http://www.wehavephotoshop.com/PHILOSOPHY%20NOW/PHILOSOPHY/Bauman/Bauman’s%20Social%20Thought.pdf