Death of Eric Dunning
We are very sad to announce that Eric Dunning, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leicester, died early in the morning of Sunday 10 February 2019. Eric was one of the best known – and most loved –...
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Read moreRe-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation
First International Conference of the SFB 1265 February 20-22, 2019 Technische Universität Berlin (We kindly ask you to register by February 10, 2019 on our conference homepage: https://www.sfb1265.de/en/events/first-international-conference/) The collaborative research center “Re-Figuration of Spaces”(SFB 1265) cordially invites to...
Last edited on: 2019-01-11
Read moreBook Launch: Farhad Dalal on CBT
Farhad Dalal, CBT - The Cogntive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science (London: Routledge, 2o19) This book, which will be of interest to many followers of Norbert Elias, especially in view of his role in the foundation...
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Read moreNew Collaborative Research Centre on “Re-Figuration of Spaces” in Berlin, Germany
The German Science Foundation (DFG) has just funded a new Collaborative Research Centre on the “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265) for a first funding period of four years (2018–2021). The CRC aims at investigating the comprehensive processes of spatial reorganisation...
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Read moreFrançois Dépelteau (1963–2018)
We are sorry to have to report the death of our friend and colleague François Dépelteau, of Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. François had suffered a recurrence of cancer, and died in Brazil on 3 August. We extend our sympathy to...
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Read moreThe 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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