Norbert Elias Foundation

Beyond Dichotomous Thinking: The Society of Individuals. The Legacy and Continuing Relevance of Norbert Elias’s Sociology.

7–8 October 2010, Polo delle Scienze Sociali, Università degli studi di Firenze,

Call for papers. Cambio is pleased to announce the first Italian conference on Norbert Elias to be held at the Polo delle scienze Sociali, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche ‘C. Alfieri’ in Florence on 7–8 October 2010.

The conference will mark the twentieth anniversary of Norbert Elias’s death on 1 August 1990. 

The central focus of the conference will not be on the most widely known aspect of Elias’s work, the theory of civilizing and decivilizing processes, but rather on his characteristic rejection of polar dichotomies.

Workshops titles include: Individual and Society, Nature and Culture, Global and Local, Order and Change.

Abstracts due before 30 March 2010. See PDF for full details of conference, including workshops and details of how to submit abstracts.

Globalisation and Civilisation in International Relations: Towards New Models of Human Interdependence

9–10 April 2010, UCD School of Sociology, Dublin, Ireland

XVII World Congress of Sociology 2010

11–17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

The Figurational Sociology Working Group will have five sessions at next year’s ISA World Congress in Göteborg. They will be convened by Robert van Krieken (University College Dublin) and Stephen Vertigans (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen).

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 2 November 2009. Please read the call for papers.

For the first time, we shall be organising a business meeting for the group, to be followed by the more customary dinner together. The agenda for the meeting will include a discussion on the possible establishment of an online journal for the group.

We hope that there will be a very large gathering in Göteborg of people with a figurational bent from all parts of the world.

Further details are available in this PDF