Conference: Social figurations: long-term processes, present concerns and future directions – 4 to 7 December 2024, Prague

A major international conference will be held in Prague from 4 to 7 December on the theme of ‘Social Figures: Long-term Processes, Current Concerns and Future Directions’. This in-person conference is a joint venture between the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, the Norbert Elias Foundation and ISA RC56: Historical Sociology.

Taking inspiration from Elias, the conference will centrally explore the extent to which an understanding of long-term processes can be useful for understanding and addressing pressing contemporary social problems and issues. These include those that relate to developments in gender relations, military conflicts, colonial processes, and the expansion of global capitalism, plus inter-related processes relating to environmental degradation, emerging technologies and artificial forms of ‘intelligence’, shifting challenges to law and juridical practices, the re-ascendancy of ethno-nationalism and the sociology of knowledge and religion.

Full details of the conference, accommodation, registration, etc. are available here. The website now also includes details of our plenary speakers:

Professor Vilnam Bashi, Northwestern University, US;
Professor John Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK;
Professor Helmut Kuzmics, University of Graz, Austria;
Professor Gerda Reith, University of Glasgow, UK.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to praguefigurationsconference@gmail.com by 30 August 2024. More information here.

Please include a maximum of five keywords and institutional affiliations.