WISERD is pleased to announce that Cultural Sociologist Professor Michèle Lamont of Harvard University will be visiting Cardiff’s School of Social Sciences on the 24-25th March 2025, as part of her Leverhulme Visiting Professorship.
Professor Lamont is internationally recognised and acclaimed for her work on morality, group boundaries, and inequality. She has tackled topics such as dignity, respect, stigma, racism, and how we evaluate social worth across societies. She studied with Pierre Bourdieu and others in Paris in the early eighties, and quickly emerged as a pioneer in the study of cultural and comparative sociology, helping to define these fields as we know them today. More information from her webpage here.
Professor Lamont will be giving a talk on the evening of the 24th March 2025 in the Glamorgan Committee Rooms and a Workshop the following morning of the 25th March, also in the Committee Rooms.
Please use this event page to sign up for the workshop on the 25th March 2025.
Global Dignity and “Seeing Others: Political, Environmental and Work-Based Recognition Compared”
Michèle Lamont will discuss her book “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World” and ongoing collaborative research on whether and how American and British young workers in the “two Manchesters” are searching for recognition through politics; how indigenous people in Canada and Micronesia are seeking recognition through environmental justice and jobs; and the challenge of seeking recognition where it is impossible to obtain.
More information and agenda to follow soon.
Please contact wiserd.events@cardiff.ac.uk for further information.