Graz 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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Read moreSumming up: Should the ‘figurati’ become public intellectuals?
Posted on August 21, 2012 by Stephen Mennell [I asked John Lever and Matt Clement to sum up the recent discussion about whether the “figurati” should become “public intellectuals”. Ryan Powell also chipped into the summary below.] To some extent,...
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Read moreSociology and International Relations: Human Figurations 2
Posted on July 30, 2012 by Stephen Mennell The second issue of Human Figurations, on “Sociology and International Relations” has just been published online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0001 Contents: Andrew Linklater, Editor’s Introduction: Sociology and International Relations: The Future? Godfried van...
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Read moreNew and enlarged edition of What is Sociology?
Posted on July 18, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Just published! Norbert Elias, What is Sociology?, translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, edited by Artur Bogner, Katie Liston and Stephen Mennell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2012 [Collected Works, vol....
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Read moreExtended deadline for XIV SIPC, Brazil, November
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Stephen Mennell The Coordination Committee of the XIV SIPC (International Symposium on Civilising Processes), Dourados, Brazil, 19–24 November 2012, has announced that the deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended until 23 July...
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Read moreRevised title for Graz Conference
Posted on June 25, 2012 by Stephen Mennell A small change has been made to the title of the conference planned for Graz in April 2013. In order to make clear that contributions will be welcome on a wide range...
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Read moreHabitus, War and Civilisation
Posted on June 20, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Department of Sociology, University of Graz. Graz, Austria, 25–27 April 2013 Call for papers This conference is to honour Helmut Kuzmics on the occasion of his retirement from his chair at Graz...
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Read moreElias’s masterpiece out in the Collected Works – buy online!
Posted on June 17, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, On the Process of Civilisation: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Stephen Mennell, Eric Dunning, Johan Goudsblom and Richard Kilminster (Dublin: UCD Press, 2012 [Collected Works,...
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Read moreWorld Conference on Psychology and Sociology
Posted on June 4, 2012 by Stephen Mennell 28 November– 1 December 2012 Queen Elizabeth Elite Suite Hotel & Spa, Antalya, Turkey This conference may be of interest to readers of the blog. Further details can be found at: www.psysoc.net...
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