Fifth Annual Workshop on Comparative Historical Approaches to Fiscal Sociology, Chicago, 20 Nov 2013
Posted on January 18, 2013 by Robert van Krieken In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have embarked on an innovative wave of multidisciplinary research on the social and historical sources and consequences of taxation. We invite interested...
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Read moreCall for expressions of interest, encyclopedia entries
Posted on January 17, 2013 by Robert van Krieken Dear all, The editorial team for the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Theory is looking for contributors for a number of entries in the Social History section. The length required is...
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Read moreElias and mental health/illness
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Stephen Mennell Recently I joined a community called ResearchGate, which requires one to show one’s academic credentials before being admitted. (Although sometimes one wonders …) The other day I responded to this question:...
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Read moreGroup on Early Childhood
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Stephen Mennell After the recent successful conference in Copenhagen a few of us thought it would be a good idea to find out a little more about who is applying Norbert Elias’s perspective to...
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Read moreMore ‘classic essays’ on the NEF website
Posted on November 21, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Five more essays by Joop Goudsblom have been posted on the Norbert Elias Foundation website, on the page entitled “Some classic essays”. See http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/network/essays.php The aim of providing this page is to...
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Read moreNow hiring: Five Posts in Sociology — University of Amsterdam
Posted on November 4, 2012 by Stephen Mennell The Department of Sociology and Anthropology currently has openings for Five Assistant /Associate Professors in Sociology For 38,0 hours per week (1.0 fte). The new assistant /associate professors are currently expected to...
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Read moreCfP: ‘Civilising Bodies’ – University of Exeter 25-26 April 2013
Posted on October 25, 2012 by Stephen Mennell CALL FOR PAPERS – Civilising Bodies: Literature, rhetoric, and image, 1700 to the present day 25th-26th April 2012 Exeter University The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter is holding...
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Read moreGraz session on national habitus: call from Dieter Reicher
Posted on September 20, 2012 by Stephen Mennell The conference on “Habitus, War and Civilization” (Graz, 25-27 April 2013) now includes a session on “national habitus”. If you are interested in giving a paper on national habitus next April, please...
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Read moreGraz session on national habitus: call from Dieter Reicher
Posted on September 20, 2012 by Stephen Mennell The conference on “Habitus, War and Civilization” (Graz, 25-27 April 2013) now includes a session on “national habitus”. If you are interested in giving a paper on national habitus next April, please...
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Read morePieter Spierenburg, Violence and Punishment
Posted on September 12, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Pieter Spierenburg’s new book, Violence and Punishment, has been published by Polity Press. Pieter has written a short article, “Are we living in a punitive age?”, on the Polity blog. See: http://www.politybooks.com/blog/post.aspx?id=140
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