zygmunt bauman to speak at leeds met

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December 2012For immediate release

Zygmunt Bauman to speak at Leeds Met

World-renowned sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman is to give a

guest lecture at Leeds Metropolitan University.

One of the creators of the postmodernism concept and internationally

celebrated as one of the greatest social thinkers of our time Professor

Baumans session is to be held at the Universitys Rose Bowl from 3.30pm on

Wednesday 12 December.

Places for the hour-long event, entitled Living in Times of Interregnum - or on

the Discordance of Tasks and Means, can be booked in advance and are

allocated on a first come first served basis.

Professor Ieuan Ellis, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences,

said: It is a great honour for Leeds Metropolitan University to have Zygmunt

Bauman attend to give this important lecture. As one of the most respected

sociologists and social thinkers in the world he has and continues to be of

huge influence on an international level as a professor, a speaker and an

author. This event really is not to be missed.

Zygmunt Bauman is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of

Leeds where they launched the Bauman Institute in his honour in September

2010.

Since his retirement in 1990, he has published more than 40 books and

continues to lecture across the globe. He was awarded the European Amalfi


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Prize for Sociology in 1992, the Theodor W Adorno Award in 1998 and the

Prince of Asturias Award in 2010. In his lecture at Leeds Metropolitan

University he will discuss his latest books Collateral Casualties, published in

2011 and This is not a Diary published earlier this year.

Best known for his work analysing links between modernity and the

Holocaust, and of postmodern consumerism, globalisation and morality, his

unique contribution of the conceptual framework 'liquid modernity' has

influenced international research.

Before moving to Leeds in 1972, Professor Bauman lived through the great

events of mid-20th-century Europe. Born to non-practising Polish-Jewish

parents in provincial Pozna, he and his parents escaped to the Soviet Union

in 1939 following the Nazi invasion of Poland. He served in the Polish division

of the Red Army, being awarded the Military Cross of Valour in 1945. Still

enlisted, he studied at Warsaw University and married in 1948 he has noted

the irony that he owed both his education and his marriage to the war. Anti-

Semitism impeded his academic progress and led to his discharge from the

Army in 1954. These factors, when added to his disillusionment with

communism in Poland, if not with communism itself, formed his decision to

leave Poland in 1968. He then lived in Israel before moving to the UK.

Professor Malcolm Todd, Head of School for Social, Psychological and

Communications and Sciences, added: Zygmunt Baumans works have had

a great influence on higher education and social thinking across the globe and

Leeds Metropolitans Sociology group is delighted that he is taking the time to

be a part of the Universitys Social Science seminar series.

The lecture will end with an opportunity to ask questions. To book your place

please [email protected].

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For further details please contact Julia Williams in the Communications team

at Leeds Met on 0113 8125978 or [email protected]

Notes for editors:

Leeds Metropolitan University has more than 27,000 students and

around 3,000 staff.

The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor

Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds.

Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and

Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and

Carnegie.

Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding of the

Mechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824.

The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed that

the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work, further

study or both six months after leaving university was 91.87%.

Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was awarded

the CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.

In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People &

Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally friendly

universities, for the sixth consecutive year.
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