ReCSS May Newsletter

Posted on 2 June 2014

Welcome to the May update from the ReCSS for activities across all the Social Sciences

Dear Colleagues

Welcome to the (slightly belated) May update for the Social Sciences at York.

Highlights in coming weeks are the What are universities for? event planned for this Thursday at 4pm in the ARRC/ReCSS Auditorium and the Social justice and the economy playtime meeting on 11^th June.

If you have events or other news that could usefully be broadcast in this bulletin please send them to admin-rcss@york.ac.uk . This is an excellent way of reaching everyone in the social sciences (and often the arts and humanities as well).

Rowland

Events and activities

Full listings: http://www.york.ac.uk/social-science/events/

The next Coffee Morning (tea, coffee and cookies freely available), will be on Friday 27^th June at 11 in the ReCSS training room, as always feel free to come along with colleagues or visitors from outside the university.

Research networks: Inter-departmental opportunities for talk and thinking about future funding opportunities and intellectual activity. Sign-up is simple – click on the related doodle poll and turn up for stimulating conversations and a nice lunch. Location: Board Room, ReCSS building.

· Young people, 12-2, 21^st May - http://doodle.com/c2n3e6vizs22f53k

· Social enterprise and social justice in the economy, 12-2, 11^th June - http://doodle.com/fqm2gv2hz4hpx5ba

· Cities, 12-2, 16^th July - http://doodle.com/4wig9fiqcq64dktp

· Evidence and progress, 12-2, 17^th September - http://doodle.com/a86wpnirx7y2y275

· Austerity, 12-2, 14^th October, https://uniofyork.doodle.com/u7tgcqgwtw8mnx7e

Joint Specialist Seminar(Economics & Related Studies & ReCSS)- The End of the Eurocrisis? - Paul De Grauwe. Wenesday, 11 June, 4pm, ARRC Auditorium.

What are universities for? The problems and opportunities for universities and their publics - A ‘Social Park’ event, organised by the Research Centre for the Social Sciences (ReCSS), 4-6pm, Thursday, 5^th June 2014, ReCSS/ARRC Auditorium, Alcuin College (open public event).

The Dyslexia Debate. Professor Julian Elliott (Durham University), 13^th October, ReCSS Auditorium. Professor Elliott will consider the many and varied understandings of dyslexia and how they often fail to reflect scientific advances in the field.

The Restorative City. A meeting to discuss ideas around a possible research centre or grant application in themes relating to the city as a place of respite, damage, health, vitality and regeneration. A time to think laterally and creatively about the possibilities for a new network that could take-in the interests of many colleagues across the social sciences and beyond. This will be in the ReCSS Training Room, 12.00 - 14.00 on the 8^th September, a light lunch will be served. You can sign-up for a place using this poll - https://uniofyork.doodle.com/3drgxi8fn4rzz34n