2016 International Civilising Processes Symposium, Vittoria, Brazil. 21st-25th November, 2016
With the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) – (CAPES/BRA), in 2016 the International Symposium ‘Civilising Processes’ reaches it sixteenth edition with the expectation of guaranteeing the...
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Read moreAmsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift online
Good news in these difficult times: The university library of the State University of Groningen, the Netherlands, has digitalized all articles published in the Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift (AST), from the first issue in 1974 to the last one 2004, and...
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Read moreProcess-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis: Mixing Methods in Longitudinal Analysis and Historical Sociology
Call for Papers for the Session Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis: Mixing Methods in Longitudinal Analysis and Historical Sociology at the 1st RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Conference Date: September 11th – 14th, 2017 Submission Deadline...
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Read moreInvitation to session with De Swaan, ISA Vienna
Dear Colleagues, During this ISA Forum of Sociology we are very pleased to invite you to an Encounter with Abram des Swaan on his sociological monograph: “The Killing Compartments. The Mentality of Mass Murder” (Yale, 2015). ...
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Read moreThe Mediated Construction of Reality: Recovering Elias for Media Theory
Lecture by Professor Nick Couldry (LSE) Discussant: Professor Giselinde Kuipers (UvA) Date: Friday, May 27 Time: 15:00-16:30 Location: REC, Room B2.08 In this talk Nick Couldry will outline the project of his recently completed book, The Mediated Construction of Reality...
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Read moreNote on the Brazilian and Latin American unfolding (decivilizing) process
Esteban Castro, writing from Brazil, has posted a highly topical article entitled “The need to preserve the historical memory and defend the democratization process in Brazil and the region” on the ISA’s new “Social Justice and Democratisation Space” – see http://sjdspace.sagepub.com/?p=1372.
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Read moreNow online: Human Figurations, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Human Figurations, volume 5, issue 1, is now online http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0005.1*?rgn=full+text Contents are as follows. Note that they include Arjan Post’s transcription and edition of a previously unpublished 1984 lecture by Norbert Elias. Editor’s Introduction Liston, Katie Civilised Provocations in the Lion’s...
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Read moreFinal reminder: deadline for ISA Vienna Forum 2016
Posted on September 12, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Please remember that 30 September is the absolute deadline by which abstracts have to be submitted for papers to be presented at the ISA Forum in Vienna, 10-14 July 2016. Figurational sociologists...
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Read moreREMINDER: Social character and historical processes: a conference in honour of Stephen Mennell
Posted on September 2, 2015 by Jason Hughes University College Dublin, 7–8 January 2016 On 7–8 January 2016, the School of Sociology, UCD, will hold a conference to honour the major contribution that Stephen Mennell has made to the discipline...
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Read moreElias in the Financial Times!
Posted on July 23, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Eric Jones drew my attention to a favourable mention of Elias in an unexpected place. I wrote the following comment to appear in the Figurations newsletter 43, but there wasn’t space for it,...
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