Category Archives: Conferences

15 Jan Deadline: 38th IIS World Congress, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008

A reminder that abstracts for the session Civilising and Decivilising Processes: Key Trends of the Twenty-First Century are due on 15 January 2008.  They should be sent either to Stephen Mennell or Robert van Krieken. Registration and accommodation arrangements are … Continue reading

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Conference: Control or Care of the Self. Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century, 3-5 July 2008, Hamburg University

The aim of the conference is to raise the question, if and if so, to what extent the relationships to oneself (its regulation and governance) and towards the other in (post)modern societies are being transformed. The perspectives of Norbert Elias’s … Continue reading

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Forthcoming conference: Elias and Nietzsche Humboldt University, Berlin, 26–7 September, 2008

Zur Genealogie des Zivilisationsprozesses: Friedrich Nietzsche und Norbert Elias Humboldt University, Berlin, 26–7 September, 2008.This conference is being planned by Friederike Günther (Technische Universität Berlin), Angela Holzer (Princeton University), and Enrico Müller (Berlin). Those interested should contact Angela Holzer. The … Continue reading

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38th IIS World Congress, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008

Call for volunteers! It would be good to run some sessions on Elias and/or figurational or process sociology at the IIS conference in Budapest  in June next year, but we need at least one volunteer to help get the organization … Continue reading

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38th IIS World Congress, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008

To all members of the IIS and all interested scholars, The 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology will take place, as announced, at Central European University in Budapest, Thursday evening, June 26 – Monday noon, June 30, … Continue reading

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Panel “Norbert Elias and International Relations”

Dear All, I am currently considering to propose a panel on “Norbert Elias and international Relations” for the convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco next year. Who is interested to present a paper on this topic or … Continue reading

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ISA World Congress 2010

Dear Elias-I list members We write to you with good news about plans for a “figurational presence” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Göteborg in 2010. Many subscribers to the Elias-I list will have participated in previous ISA … Continue reading

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Elias on laughter

Since no objections were raised and I received three expressions of interest, I’ve scanned and attached the splendid Merkur article by Michael Schröter, in a searchable German-language .pdf. All in the spirit of non-commercial sharing of knowledge, since Merkur makes … Continue reading

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CFP – Norbert Elias and the Civilizing of Laughter

Special Session Panel, Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2007 To what extent does the discipline to which the body and bodily functions are subjected in the civilizing process also effect the phenomenon of laughter? How does the censorship of that … Continue reading

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Two Elias conferences: Calls for Papers

Two important Elias-related conferences are planned for the autumn of 2007, one in Marbach/Neckar to celebrate the completion of the publication of the Elias Gesammelte Schriften by Suhrkamp, and the other in Frankfurt to explore the relevance of Elias’s work … Continue reading

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