Civilising processes: exhibition at Gasworks, London
Posted on July 31, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Gasworks, an arts centre in Vauxhall, London, announces a programme of exhibitions inspired by Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilisation. Curated by Robert Leckie, The Civilising Process is a 14-month programme of exhibitions...
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Read moreEarly deadline for World Congress, Yokohama, 2014
Posted on July 22, 2013 by Stephen Mennell The attention of subscribers to this blog is drawn to the rather early deadline for the online submission of abstracts of papers for presentation at next year’s XVIII ISA World Congress of...
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Read moreHuman Figurations journal – next issue now live online
Posted on July 17, 2013 by admin Issue 2.2 of the Human Figurations journal is now live online at the following location: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0002.2%2a
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Read more2014: Conference to mark completion of Elias Collected Works
Posted on July 15, 2013 by Stephen Mennell From the Past to the Present and towards Possible Futures: The Collected Works of Norbert Elias College Court, University of Leicester, 20th–22nd June 2014 Call for Papers ‘One cannot ignore the fact...
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Read moreRC20 at ISA World Congress Yokohama, 13–19 July 2014
Posted on July 15, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Under the auspices of Research Committee 20, Comparative Sociology, the sessions listed below of particular interest to figurational sociologists are being organised at the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 13–19 July...
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Read moreStudies on the Germans published
Posted on July 3, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, Studies on the Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013 [Collected Works, vol. 11]). xxvi + 529 pp. ISBN:...
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Read moreStefanie Ernst’s Inaugural Lecture
Posted on May 31, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Professor Stefanie Ernst will give her inaugural lecture in the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster on Friday 12 July 2013, at 12 noon in Room SCH5, Scharnhorststraße 121, Münster. Her topic will be: ‘Die...
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Read morePieter Spierenburg’s Farewell Lecture
Posted on March 30, 2013 by Stephen Mennell On Thursday 27 June 2013, Pieter Spierenburg will give his afscheidsrede, or farewell public lecture, upon his retirement as Professor of Historical Criminology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The title of his...
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Read moreSociology and the Global Economic Crisis
Posted on March 5, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Special issue of Sociology (Journal of the British Sociological Association) Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2013 Editorial Team: Ana C. Dinerstein (University of Bath), Gregory Schwartz (University of Bath) and...
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Read more5th International Forum on Civilities: LIVING SPACES
Posted on March 1, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Xalapa, Mexico, 17–19 April, 2013 During the last four years, once a year, we have been gathering here in Xalapa, capital city of the state of Veracruz, on the Mexican coast of...
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