Author Archives: Stephen Mennell

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: … Continue reading →

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Contents of Human Figurations, vol. 7, no. 1 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0007.1*?rgn=full+text ‘Elias and Popper’      Stephen Mennell ‘Herder and the Idea of a Nation’      Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh ‘One across goes into sociology: A neglected feature of mass culture’       Hugh Ridley ‘Translator’s … Continue reading →

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Abstracts have been flooding in from all over the world for the Brussels conference in December. Technically, today is the deadline for submissions, but abstracts will be accepted until the end of the week – that is, by Sunday 20 … Continue reading →

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At the Brussels conference on 5–8 December 2018 a session will be organized by Profs. Stefan Kramer and Peter Ludes (University of Cologne, Germany). This is a revised call for papers. We call for Abstracts for papers of no more … Continue reading →

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We are glad to say that the Norbert Elias Foundation website (www.norberteliasfoundation.nl) is back online after about two weeks. The interruption was due to the invoice from the site’s hosting service having ended up “floating in the spam filter”, and … Continue reading →

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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 found on the conference website: https://eliasbrussels2018.wordpress.com/a-propos/call-for-sessions/ Please note that abstracts for papers should … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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  There was an unfortunate mistake in issue 48 of Figurations, which we emailed to subscribers a few days ago. The article on “Two photographs from Elias’s Leicester years” was jointly authored by Gordon Fyfe and Adrian Jitschin. Apologies to … Continue reading →

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Richard Kilminster has for over four decades been one of the major advocates for the sociology of Norbert Elias, and an equally major contributor to the ‘figurational’ or ‘process-sociological’ research tradition that flows from it. To mark Richard’s 75th birthday, … Continue reading →

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Stine Karen Nissen is working on Elias’s theory of time (An Essay on Time, Collected Works, vol. 9) in connection with her PhD thesis. She would very much like to make contact with anyone else who is working on, or … Continue reading →

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