John Goodwin’s Inaugural Lecture at Leicester
Posted on February 24, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Professor John Goodwin, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, will give his inaugural lecture under the title ‘The Sociogenesis of a Sociologist: Intersections of History and Biography’ on Tuesday 24 March 2015....
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Read moreCivilizing Offensives: special issue of Human Figurations
Posted on February 20, 2015 by Stephen Mennell The special issue of Human Figurations on Civilising Offensives is now published online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0004.1*?rgn=full+text Contents: Introduction to the Special Issue of Human Figurations on Civilising Offensives Flint, John; Kruithof, Bernard; Powell,...
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Read moreWorkshop: Sports, Leisure and Culture in the works of Elias
Posted on January 22, 2015 by Stephen Mennell A workshop ‘Sports, leisure and culture in the works of Norbert Elias: connecting thoughts from unpublished material’ will take place on 9–10 April 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. The idea of the...
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Read moreNew Norbert Elias Essay Prize
Posted on December 16, 2014 by Stephen Mennell With some regret, the Norbert Elias Foundation has decided to discontinue the biennial Norbert Elias Prize for the best first book by a sociological author. Reasons included other prizes being established...
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Read moreTwo new GTA/GRA posts at the Dept of Sociology, University of Leicester
Posted on December 15, 2014 by Jason Hughes The Sociology Department at the University of Leicester is expanding. An integral part of this expansion involves the development and growth of its postgraduate research community. The latest opportunity is for two fully...
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Read moreTwo new GTA/GRA posts at the Dept of Sociology, University of Leicester
Posted on December 15, 2014 by Jason Hughes The Sociology Department at the University of Leicester is expanding. An integral part of this expansion involves the development and growth of its postgraduate research community. The latest opportunity is for two fully...
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Read moreCFP: EASS Sociology of Sport Conference, Dublin
Posted on December 9, 2014 by Paddy Dolan We encourage all figurational researchers with an interest in sport to submit abstracts to the next European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland, next June. Further...
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Read moreNorbert Elias Facebook page
Posted on September 2, 2014 by Stephen Mennell For those who don’t know, there is an official Norbert Elias Face Book Page that has been up and running for some time. Until now it has been used mostly to replicate...
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Read moreTwo GTAs in Sociology
Posted on August 14, 2014 by Jason Hughes Forgive the short notice. As part of the further expansion plans of Leicester’s sociology Department, there are two Graduate Teaching Assistants being advertised for a January 2015 start. The deadline for applications...
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Read moreProfessor John Goodwin and Professor Henrietta O’Connor Join Sociology at Leicester
Posted on August 14, 2014 by Jason Hughes With effect from 1st August, Professor John Goodwin and Professor Henrietta O’Connor have both joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester. Henrietta and John have a long-standing interest in...
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