Death of Andy Furlong
It is my great sadness to inform the readers of this blog that Professor Andy Furlong of the University of Glasgow died aged 60 on Monday 30th January. Andy was a student in the Department of Sociology at the University...
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Read moreCall to propose RC/WG/TG SESSIONs, ISA World Congress, Toronto 1018
Dear Colleagues: The Call to propose RC/WG/TG SESSIONs for the world congress in Toronto is online, with the system open for submissions until March 15, 2017: http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-sessions/ RC/WG/TG boards have then about three weeks to finalize their list of proposed...
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Read moreBooking Open: Symposium in Honour of Professor Eric Dunning
I’m pleased to announce that booking is now open for the Symposium in Honour of Professor Eric Dunning on the 4th March 2017. Please click here: http://shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/leicester-conferences/sociology/symposium-in-honour-of-professor-eric-dunning Booking should be pretty straightforward. But please be sure to select the right package....
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Read moreNew Book: Children of the Welfare State
By Laura Gilliam and Eva Gulløv Children of the Welfare State explores the civilizing projects of children’s institutions under the auspices of the welfare state. By combining sociologist Norbert Elias’ concept of civilising with a detailed ethnographic study of everyday...
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Read moreFilm Première: Pioneers of Group Analysis
The première of a new film, Pioneers of Group Analysis will take place in London on Sunday 15 January at 16:00 at: Royal Society of Medicine, Guy Whittle Auditorium, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE. (Nearest tube: Bond Street or...
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Read moreEric Dunning’s 80th birthday: celebratory symposium
4 March, 2017, College Court, Leicester This event is will be a relaxed and informal gathering to celebrate Eric Dunning’s 80th birthday, and also to use it as an event recognising his outstanding contribution to sociology. Sessions will be relatively...
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Read more2016 International Civilising Processes Symposium, Vittoria, Brazil. 21st-25th November, 2016
With the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) – (CAPES/BRA), in 2016 the International Symposium ‘Civilising Processes’ reaches it sixteenth edition with the expectation of guaranteeing the...
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Read moreAmsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift online
Good news in these difficult times: The university library of the State University of Groningen, the Netherlands, has digitalized all articles published in the Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift (AST), from the first issue in 1974 to the last one 2004, and...
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Read moreProcess-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis: Mixing Methods in Longitudinal Analysis and Historical Sociology
Call for Papers for the Session Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis: Mixing Methods in Longitudinal Analysis and Historical Sociology at the 1st RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Conference Date: September 11th – 14th, 2017 Submission Deadline...
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Read moreInvitation to session with De Swaan, ISA Vienna
Dear Colleagues, During this ISA Forum of Sociology we are very pleased to invite you to an Encounter with Abram des Swaan on his sociological monograph: “The Killing Compartments. The Mentality of Mass Murder” (Yale, 2015). ...
Last edited on: 2021-09-30
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