Doing Things Differently: Workshop in Honour of Eric Dunning
On 1-3 July 2019, an interdisciplinary workshop in honour of the life and work of the late Professor Eric Dunning has been organised by Jan Davies, Laurie Parsons and Will Davies, all of the University of Leicester. The workshop will...
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Read moreEric Dunning: An Appreciation
Eric Dunning, b. 27 December 1936; d. 10 February 2019 Professor Eric Dunning of the University of Leicester, distinguished sociologist, prominent advocate of the process-sociological perspective, and founding father of the sociology of sport, has died after a long illness....
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Read moreFuneral of Eric Dunning
Michael Dunning confirms that his father's funeral will take place at 3.30 pm (GMT) on Friday 1st March at Great Glen Crematorium. The address is: London Road Great Glen Leicester LE8 9DJ All are welcome. Stephen Mennell
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Read moreDeath of Eric Dunning
We are very sad to announce that Eric Dunning, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leicester, died early in the morning of Sunday 10 February 2019. Eric was one of the best known – and most loved –...
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Read moreRe-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation
First International Conference of the SFB 1265 February 20-22, 2019 Technische Universität Berlin (We kindly ask you to register by February 10, 2019 on our conference homepage: https://www.sfb1265.de/en/events/first-international-conference/) The collaborative research center “Re-Figuration of Spaces”(SFB 1265) cordially invites to...
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Read moreBook Launch: Farhad Dalal on CBT
Farhad Dalal, CBT - The Cogntive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science (London: Routledge, 2o19) This book, which will be of interest to many followers of Norbert Elias, especially in view of his role in the foundation...
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Read moreNew Collaborative Research Centre on “Re-Figuration of Spaces” in Berlin, Germany
The German Science Foundation (DFG) has just funded a new Collaborative Research Centre on the “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265) for a first funding period of four years (2018–2021). The CRC aims at investigating the comprehensive processes of spatial reorganisation...
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Read moreFrançois Dépelteau (1963–2018)
We are sorry to have to report the death of our friend and colleague François Dépelteau, of Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. François had suffered a recurrence of cancer, and died in Brazil on 3 August. We extend our sympathy to...
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Read moreThe case of Mesut Özil as part of an Established-Outsiders Figuration
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not...
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Read moreReinventing Elias: International Postgraduate Workshop
4–5 December 2018, Université Saint-Louis Brussels A postgraduate workshop led by Professors Robert van Krieken (University of Sydney) and Stephen Mennell (University College Dublin) will be held on 4–5 December, immediately before the opening of the conference on ‘Global Interdependencies: What’s...
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