The conference will be held at Wissenschaft Zentrum Berlin [WZB], on 5 December 2011
The aim of this conference is to examine and discuss both interpretations of Elias’s thought and new empirical applications of his ideas – including their application to the financial crisis that started in 2008. Some of the diverse themes that will be discussed by a number of eminent scholars include: Elias and market processes; Elias’s poetry; Studies on the Germans and long-term processes of violence.
Attendance at the conference is free of charge, but places are limited. If you would like to attend please email either Reinhard Blomert at blomert@wzb.eu or Steven Loyal at stevenloyal2002@yahoo.com.
Draft programme
9.30–11.00 General themes
- Jan Haut (Saarbrücken) – Discussion of his research on the Elias papers in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar
- Tabea Dörfelt-Mathey (Jena) – Elias’s poetry
- Marta Bucholc (Warsaw) – Transformation in Eastern Europe
11.00–11.20 Tea & Coffee
11.20-13.00 Figurational perspectives on the economy
- Stephen Mennell (Dublin)
- Reinhard Blomert (Berlin)
- Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam)
13.00–14.15 Lunch
14.15–15.30
- Adrian Gallistl (Trier) – Fromm and Elias
- Johan Goudsblom (Amsterdam) – All sociology is historical sociology
- Steven Loyal (Dublin) – Elias and Marx
15.30–16.00 Tea & Coffee
16.00–17.30 Roundtable – The Germans and long-term violence
- Bernard Lacroix (Nanterre)
- Eric Dunning (Leicester)
- Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam)
19.00 Dinner
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