Category Archives: Conferences

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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