The case of Mesut Özil as part of an Established-Outsiders Figuration
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not...
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Read moreReinventing 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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Read moreReinventing 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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Read moreElias 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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Read moreNew 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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Read moreCivilisation 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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Read moreEros 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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Read moreElias 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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Read moreKilminster 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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Read moreComparative-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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