Posted on October 31, 2011 by admin The School of Social Sciences is providing opportunities for promising academic talent to undertake doctoral study. This is a significant opportunity for those who show academic excellence in our areas of expertise. Successful...
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Read morePosted on October 7, 2011 by Stephen Mennell Papers are invited for a session on “Figurational Studies and Contemporary Social Processes” at the Copenhagen conference, 2-4 April 2012. The session organisers are Matt Clement (UWE, Bristol), John Lever (Jblresearch) and...
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Read morePosted on September 9, 2011 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, The Symbol Theory, edited by Richard Kilminster (Dublin: UCD Press, 2011 [Collected Works, vol. 13]). xxvi + 193 pp. ISBN: 978-1-906359-10-2. €60.00 [for 20 per cent discount, order online direct from...
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Read morePosted on August 16, 2011 by Stephen Mennell The 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) will take place at India Habitat Centre in Delhi on 16–19 February, 2012.The theme of the congress is After Western Hegemony:...
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Read morePosted on August 1, 2011 by Stephen Mennell The British Sociological Association is launching a new Study Group on Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial. The inaugural meeting will be held on 28 October 2011 at Birkbeck College, University of London,...
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Read morePosted on July 4, 2011 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology: Prospects for the Future Copenhagen, 2–4 April 2012 Call for papers Department of Political Science & Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2–4 April, 2012. The focus...
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Read morePosted on July 2, 2011 by Chris Powell Just published: Christopher Powell, Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide. (Montréal, Ithaca, and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011) 368 pp. ISBN: 9780773538566. Why have the largest mass murders in human history...
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Read morePosted on June 14, 2011 by Stephen Mennell Johan Heilbron was invited to give the 29th Uhlenbeck Lecture at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassennaar. The prestigious annual lecture was delivered before an audience of past and present...
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Read morePosted on March 24, 2011 by Stephen Mennell On Wednesday 6 April, registration for the British Sociological Association starts at 8:30 at the Peacock Theatre, LSE, which is on the right-hand side of Kingsway (facing north from Aldwych), on the...
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Read morePosted on March 19, 2011 by Stephen Mennell We have booked a table for lunch after the two sessions on Elias, which will take place on the first morning of the British Sociological Association’s conference. The sessions are from 9.30...
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