Seminar: ‘Norbert Elias, Childhood and Education’, Copenhagen 13-14 August 2015
Posted on May 28, 2015 by Stephen Mennell The main part of the seminar will consist of paper presentations in order to give us all a solid knowledge of how each of us draws on Elias’s work in our studies...
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Read moreThe Medieval Housebook and Elias’s ‘Scenes from the Life of a Knight’:
Posted on May 25, 2015 by admin The first e-book offered by the Norbert Elias Foundation is now available to download for free online from the [old] main website: http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/network/essays.php The Medieval Housebook and Elias’s ‘Scenes from the Life of a Knight’: A case...
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Read moreStephen Mennell on Completition of the Collected Works
Stephen Mennell recorded an interview in Moscow with Ruben Flores in 2014 about the completion of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias. The text can be found here: Stephen Mennell Moscow Interview
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Read moreSocial character and historical processes: a conference in honour of Stephen Mennell
Posted on April 29, 2015 by Jason Hughes 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 of sociology. Stephen who is now...
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Read moreProfessorship, Comparative Sociology, Bremen
Posted on March 30, 2015 by Stephen Mennell This post may be of interest to some readers of this blog: The Institute of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, invites applications for the following academic position,...
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Read moreCall for papers: Norbert Elias and Violence
Posted on March 12, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Book project: Norbert Elias and Violence Edited by: Tatiana S. Landini (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and François Dépelteau (Laurentian University, Canada) To be published by Palgrave Macmillan In 2013 and 2014,...
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Read moreLast-minute Reminder: DEADLINE for session proposals, Vienna 2016
Posted on March 11, 2015 by Stephen Mennell The International Sociological Association’s “Forum” will take place in Vienna, 10-14 July 2016. BUT proposals for sessions have to be submitted RIGHT NOW! – by 15 March to be exact. The...
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Read moreHuman Figurations 4 (2): Reflections on Global Power Relations
Posted on March 5, 2015 by Stephen Mennell A special issue of Human Figurations has just been published. Its theme is ‘Reflections on Global Power Relations’. Its contents are: Katie Liston: Editor’s Introduction Stephen Mennell: ‘Explaining American hypocrisy’ Bruce Mazlish:...
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Read moreInternational Social Theory Consortium 18-19 June 2015
Posted on March 1, 2015 by Stephen Mennell This conference may be of interest to subscribers. The theme of “Reconstruction” is welcome. It begins to look as though “social theorists” are rediscovering the real world after some decades of what...
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Read moreWriting workshops with Farhad Dalal
Posted on February 28, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Some subscribers to the blog may be interested in these workshops, taught by Farhad Dalal, the group analyst and Elias enthusiast. Non-Fiction Writing in the Company of Others – one year Supervision...
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