About time: Celebrating in hindsight my father’s (Zygmunt Bauman) affair with photography

This speech was delivered by Anna Sfard at the book launch of The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman, hosted by Portico Library, 15 July 2023. The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman was edited by Peter Beilharz and Janet Wolff and published by Manchester University Press.

Jack Palmer on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Strangers’

by Jack Palmer

I first read ‘The Making and Unmaking of Strangers’ where it is republished in Postmodernity and its Discontents, a collection of wide-ranging and loosely connected essays. A form typical of this stage of his work. Some of them are transcripts from lectures delivered at invited and esteemed lectures (the Manchester Annual Peace Lecture, for instance), reflecting perhaps a new-found fame and notoriety. Thesis Eleven was clearly a testing ground, it seems, a collection of the like-minded, alongside Telos, Theory, Culture & Society and The Jewish Quarterly.

Book Review: Culture and Art

Zygmunt Bauman,
Culture and Art: Selected Writings Vol.1 (Polity, 2020)

Reviewed by Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University

Video: Peter Beliharz and Mark Davis discuss ‘Intimacy in post-modern times’

Watch Peter Beliharz and Mark Davis in discussion about Peter’s new book, ‘Intimacy in postmodern times: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman’

Video – The Coronavirus upheaval: Bauman, Beck and Rethinking the Politics of Global Pandemics

In this episode of the the Monnet Conversations, Ingrid Biese, Sven Kesselring and Thesis Eleven founder Peter Beilharz join Anthony Elliott to discuss the contributions of Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck in the context of the global pandemic.

Issue 156, Feb 2020 – Thinking in Dark Times with Zygmunt Bauman

In this special issue of Thesis Eleven, we are marking just over three years since the death of Zygmunt Bauman by bringing together some of the contributions to that programme in order to revisit, elaborate, and crucially to extend his intellectual archive.