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XIII Simpósio Internacional Processo Civilizador

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Stephen Mennell XIII Simpósio Internacional Processo Civilizador 9–12 November 2010 Universidade Nacional da Colômbia (UNAL) Bogotá, Colombia The deadline for abstracts is 19 May 2010. Abstracts should refer to one of the following themes:...

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Vingtième Siècle: Special issue on Elias

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Stephen Mennell Vingtième Siècle: Revue d’histoire vous invite le vendredi 7 mai à 17h30 à l’EHESS (54, bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, salle 524) à une table ronde sur le numéro spécial Norbert Elias et le 20e siècle : le...

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Methodologies for studying figurations

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Stephen Mennell Methodologies for studying figurations: an open question about best practices In What is Sociology? Elias makes the following observation: ‘If sociology has to investigate figurational processes resembling complex games, then statistical aids...

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Latest volume of Collected Works published

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, The Loneliness of the Dying and Humana Conditio (Dublin: UCD Press, 1 April 2010 [Collected Works, vol. 6). 192 pp. ISBN 9781906359065 (hardback) The latest volume of the Collected Works...

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Foucault Studies: on Foucault and Elias

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Stephen Mennell Foucault Studies, Number 8, February 2010 Special section on Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias comprising: Introduction to the Special Section Sam Binkley, Stefanie Ernst Space, Time and the Constitution of Subjectivity: Comparing...

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Beyond dichotomous thinking: Florence 7–8 Oct 2010

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Stephen Mennell CALL FOR PAPERS Beyond dichotomous thinking: the society of individuals The legacy and continuing relevance of Norbert Elias’s sociology Firenze, Polo delle Scienze Sociali Università degli studi di Firenze 7–8 October 2010...

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CfP: Globalisation and Civilisation, Dublin 8–10 April 2010

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Stephen Mennell Call for papers Globalisation and Civilisation in International Relations: Towards New Models of Human Interdependence UCD School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland 9–10 April 2010 It is less possible than ever...

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CfP: ‘Theorising the dynamics of social processes’

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Stephen Mennell Harry Dahms and Lawrence Hazelrigg are editing an issue of Current Perspectives in Social Theory on the topic of “Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes”. That sounds something on which Eliasians might...

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At last! – Elias’s essays on knowledge and sciences

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, Essays I: On the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sciences (Dublin: UCD Press, 2009 [Collected Works, vol. 14]), edited by Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell. xxviii + 316 pp. ISBN:...

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World Congress of Sociology, Göteborg 2010 – Call for Papers

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Stephen Mennell CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 2 November 2009 SOCIOLOGY ON THE MOVE XVII WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY 2010 11–17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden Figurational Sociology Working Group ISA Research Committee 20 Comparative Sociology...

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