Group 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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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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