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Lecture by Dennis Smith

The Department of Historical Sociology cordially invites you to a lecture "What Next?" given by Prof. Dennis Smith (Loughborough University). The lecture takes place in Jinonice on October 30.

The lecture is part of the lecture series Brexit, Britain and the European Union: A Ramble through a Tangled Forest.

Abstract of the lecture:

Between them, the parliament, the commission, the member-states and, in whatever manifestations, the people or peoples of Europe will influence how the EU develops over the next few decades. The Euro currency seems to be intact and global corporations are powerfully present. But how can a democratic, humane, prosperous and generous EU be made (or restored)?

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).