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Reinventing Elias: International Postgraduate Workshop

4–5 December 2018, Université Saint-Louis Brussels A postgraduate workshop led by Professors Robert van Krieken (University of Sydney) and Stephen Mennell (University College Dublin) will be held on 4–5 December, immediately before the opening of the conference on ‘Global Interdependencies: What’s...

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Elias Conference, Brussels, 5–8 December 2018

GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCIES: What’s new in the human society of individuals? – The political and academic relevance of Norbert Elias’s work today The full call for papers can be read on the conference website: https://eliasbrussels2018.wordpress.com/a-propos/call-for-sessions/ Please note that abstracts for papers should be...

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New book: Claire Pagès, ed., Norbert Elias et les disciplines

Norbert Elias et les disciplines(dir. Claire Pagès) Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018 PRÉSENTATION Norbert Elias est l’un des plus grands sociologues du XXe siècle. Tout en mettant en oeuvre une collaboration entre sociologie, histoire et psychologie, il a su faire la...

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Civilisation as Deferred Gratification

Stephen Mennell will give a lecture on 'Childhood and Society: Civilisation as Deferred Gratification' at 18:00 on Tuesday 23 January in the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum: Kindheiten, Gesellschaften, of the Fakultät Human- und Sozialwissenschaften at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Gaußstraße 20, 42097 Wuppertal).

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Eros and Thanatos — new book by Hans-Peter Waldhoff

Eros and Thanatos as Driving Forces of Thought: Psychoanalytical and Epistemological Perspectives   In modern, ostensibly enlightened societies, people tend to deny both their destructive passions as well as their own mortality. This book postulates that such repression will resurface in a...

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Elias Conference, Brussels, 5-8 December 2018

Global Interdependencies: What’s new in the human society of individuals? The political and academic relevance of Norbert Elias’s work today  Brussels, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles 5–8 December 2018 The Research Centre in Political Science (CReSPo) and the Institute for European Studies (IEE) of...

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Kilminster conference: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective

Invitation to: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective: A conference in honour of Richard Kilminster Dear Colleague, You are warmly invited to attend a special two-day conference: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective: A conference in honour of...

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Comparative-historical sociology and ‘crackpot realism’

A special issue of the online journal Human Figurations has been published on the theme of ‘Comparative-historical sociology as antidote to the “crackpot realism” of the twenty-first century’. The engaging term ‘crackpot realism’ was coined by C. Wright Mills in...

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Eros und Thanatos — new book by Hans-Peter Waldhoff

(For our valued German readers.)   Hans-Peter Waldhoff Eros und Thanatos als Triebkräfte des Denkens Psychoanalytische und erkenntniskritische Perspektiven   Etwa 120 S. · br. · EUR 19,90 ISBN 978-3-95832-137-3 (erscheint 1.9.2017)   Die Abspaltung des Todestriebs gebiert Ungeheuer. Besonders in modernen,...

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Fashion, beauty and Elias

The journal Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty is looking for contributions to the study of fashion, body, beauty, identity and appearance. This flagship fashion journal of Intellect Books launched 8 years ago, spearheaded a successful series of visual culture...

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