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Brexit, Britain and the European Union: A Ramble through a Tangled Forest

The Department of Historical Sociology cordially invites you to the lecture series on Brexit given by Prof. Dennis Smith (Loughborough University):

• 21/10/2019: Britain’s Brexits

• 22/10/2019: Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?

• 23/10/2019: New Europe, Crumbling Continent

• 29/10/2019: Reflections on Populism

• 30/10/2019: What Next?

In these presentations Dennis Smith asks why Brexit was set in motion, what it tells us about the dynamics of European society and politics, including Britain, and what may lie before us as Europeans.

Dennis Smith, emeritus professor at Loughborough, was initiated as a historian at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and as a sociologist at LSE and Leicester University. His books include Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power (Routledge),The Rise of Historical Sociology (Polity), Zygmunt Bauman (Polity), Globalization. The Hidden Agenda (Polity), Capitalist Democracy on Trial (Routledge),Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory (Sage), Barrington Moore. Violence, Morality and Political Change (Macmillan), Conflict and Compromise. Class Formation in English Society 1830-1914 (Routledge), and (with Sue Wright) Whose Europe. The Turn Towards Democracy (Blackwell). He has been Vice-President of the European Sociological Association and Managing Editor of Sociological Reviewand Current Sociology (ISA journal).