An international conference to mark Professor Mike Savage’s retirement from LSE's Department of Sociology.
Since his first published writings in 1982, Mike has contributed to the sociological analysis of inequality, both through interventions in classical debates regarding class and stratification, and also through drawing in innovative inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional perspectives ranging across history, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and social policy. He has also sought to bridge academic, campaigning, and public facing activities. Mike retired from the Department of Sociology in September 2024, where he has worked since 2012. He is not retiring from academic research, as he starts a new job as part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute in January 2025.
To mark this transition, the Department of Sociology and the International Inequalities Institute are holding a one day conference, not as a retrospective on Mike’s research, but to stimulate future directions for academic debate and critical investigation. Accordingly, the conference will be organised around four core themes that Mike has engaged with, and which mark energising areas of contemporary discussion. Leading speakers will each introduce their current thinking on these topics, not focusing on Mike’s work per se, but on the broader themes he has worked with.
View the conference programme here
The conference will be followed by a free public event "Inequality in the 21st century" from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Register here.